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Existentialist Books
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The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,458,139 ratings — published 1942
Nausea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as existentialist)
avg rating 3.93 — 143,029 ratings — published 1938
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as existentialist)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,483,556 ratings — published 1915
The Plague (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.02 — 323,087 ratings — published 1947
The Fall (Vintage International)
by (shelved 22 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.03 — 140,213 ratings — published 1956
Waiting for Godot (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as existentialist)
avg rating 3.84 — 225,690 ratings — published 1951
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,117,218 ratings — published 1866
The Trial (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as existentialist)
avg rating 3.94 — 407,933 ratings — published 1925
The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.21 — 66,207 ratings — published 1942
Notes from Underground (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.16 — 243,246 ratings — published 1864
The Brothers Karamazov (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.39 — 400,180 ratings — published 1880
Being and Nothingness (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as existentialist)
avg rating 3.99 — 35,503 ratings — published 1943
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.10 — 555,589 ratings — published 1984
Existentialism is a Humanism (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as existentialist)
avg rating 3.98 — 47,922 ratings — published 1946
Fear and Trembling (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.00 — 32,432 ratings — published 1843
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.07 — 180,363 ratings — published 1883
Steppenwolf (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.13 — 220,625 ratings — published 1927
The Myth of Sisyphus (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.16 — 100,917 ratings — published 1942
The Rebel (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.13 — 19,392 ratings — published 1951
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.37 — 904,430 ratings — published 1946
No Exit (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.11 — 47,809 ratings — published 1944
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as existentialist)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,950,535 ratings — published 1951
Siddhartha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.09 — 894,979 ratings — published 1922
El túnel (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.02 — 98,437 ratings — published 1948
Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.19 — 78,789 ratings — published 1864
The Death of Ivan Ilych (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.14 — 237,461 ratings — published 1886
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.04 — 93,755 ratings — published 1967
On the Genealogy of Morals (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.12 — 36,831 ratings — published 1887
The Woman in the Dunes (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as existentialist)
avg rating 3.88 — 40,639 ratings — published 1962
Either/Or: A Fragment of Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.17 — 10,566 ratings — published 1843
Being and Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.05 — 28,288 ratings — published 1927
A Happy Death (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as existentialist)
avg rating 3.80 — 26,518 ratings — published 1971
Exile and the Kingdom (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as existentialist)
avg rating 3.83 — 16,236 ratings — published 1957
Beyond Good and Evil (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.03 — 117,035 ratings — published 1886
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,608,316 ratings — published 1948
Existentialism and Human Emotions (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as existentialist)
avg rating 3.81 — 5,002 ratings — published 1957
At the Existentialist Café (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.24 — 19,705 ratings — published 2016
The Book of Disquiet (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.39 — 38,860 ratings — published 1982
The Idiot (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.21 — 224,348 ratings — published 1869
The Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as existentialist)
avg rating 3.91 — 77,773 ratings — published 1926
Phenomenology of Perception (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.18 — 6,511 ratings — published 1945
Demons (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.30 — 65,057 ratings — published 1872
The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.26 — 20,974 ratings — published 1882
The Second Sex (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.18 — 48,321 ratings — published 1949
Invisible Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as existentialist)
avg rating 3.92 — 204,492 ratings — published 1952
The Age of Reason (Roads to Freedom, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as existentialist)
avg rating 3.98 — 16,354 ratings — published 1945
The Master and Margarita (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.28 — 434,307 ratings — published 1967
The Wall (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.07 — 27,433 ratings — published 1939
The Ethics of Ambiguity (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.17 — 8,295 ratings — published 1947
Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as existentialist)
avg rating 4.10 — 2,689 ratings — published 1958
“Often, being in awareness and being in despair coincide.”
― Memoir: The Cathartic Night
― Memoir: The Cathartic Night
“I’m talking about the individual US citizen’s deep fear, the same basic fear that you and I have and that everybody has except nobody ever talks about it except existentialists in convoluted French prose. Or Pascal. Our smallness, our insignificance and mortality, yours and mine, the thing that we all spend all our time not thinking about directly, that we are tiny and at the mercy of large forces and that time is always passing and that every day we’ve lost one more day that will never come back and our childhoods are over and our adolescence and the vigor of youth and soon our adulthood, that everything we see around us all the time is decaying and passing, it’s all passing away, and so are we, so am I, and given how fast the first forty-two years have shot by it’s not going to be long before I too pass away, whoever imagined that there was a more truthful way to put it than “die,” “pass away,” the very sound of it makes me feel the way I feel at dusk on a wintry Sunday.”
― The Pale King
― The Pale King
