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Human Condition Books
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Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as human-condition)
avg rating 4.37 — 884,353 ratings — published 1946
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as human-condition)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,268,973 ratings — published 2011
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as human-condition)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,413,617 ratings — published 1942
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as human-condition)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,440,102 ratings — published 1915
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as human-condition)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,212,070 ratings — published 1954
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as human-condition)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,008,702 ratings — published 1999
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as human-condition)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,496,345 ratings — published 1948
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as human-condition)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,890,347 ratings — published 2005
Siddhartha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as human-condition)
avg rating 4.08 — 881,107 ratings — published 1922
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as human-condition)
avg rating 4.17 — 591,785 ratings — published 2011
Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as human-condition)
avg rating 3.57 — 617,715 ratings — published 1851
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as human-condition)
avg rating 4.11 — 546,616 ratings — published 1984
Heart of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as human-condition)
avg rating 3.43 — 560,243 ratings — published 1899
The Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as human-condition)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,042,157 ratings — published 2006
The Death of Ivan Ilych (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as human-condition)
avg rating 4.14 — 226,664 ratings — published 1886
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as human-condition)
avg rating 4.35 — 283,701 ratings — published 2014
Steppenwolf (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as human-condition)
avg rating 4.13 — 216,576 ratings — published 1927
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as human-condition)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,892,384 ratings — published 1890
When Breath Becomes Air (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as human-condition)
avg rating 4.41 — 811,843 ratings — published 2016
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (Phaedrus, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as human-condition)
avg rating 3.78 — 246,013 ratings — published 1974
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as human-condition)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,912,222 ratings — published 1960
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as human-condition)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,088,837 ratings — published 1866
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as human-condition)
avg rating 3.85 — 860,149 ratings — published 2005
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as human-condition)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,487,823 ratings — published 1969
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as human-condition)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,085,590 ratings — published 1932
The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as human-condition)
avg rating 4.26 — 152,086 ratings — published 1974
The Midnight Library (The Midnight World, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as human-condition)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,481,468 ratings — published 2020
No Longer Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as human-condition)
avg rating 3.94 — 257,310 ratings — published 1948
East of Eden (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as human-condition)
avg rating 4.44 — 644,615 ratings — published 1952
Stoner (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as human-condition)
avg rating 4.35 — 253,371 ratings — published 1965
Olive Kitteridge (Olive Kitteridge, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as human-condition)
avg rating 3.86 — 269,406 ratings — published 2008
Station Eleven (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as human-condition)
avg rating 4.07 — 617,201 ratings — published 2014
The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as human-condition)
avg rating 4.21 — 65,566 ratings — published 1942
The Goldfinch (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as human-condition)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,044,835 ratings — published 2013
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as human-condition)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,231,407 ratings — published 1963
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as human-condition)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,903,836 ratings — published 1818
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as human-condition)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,906,310 ratings — published 1951
Menti tribali. Perché le brave persone si dividono su politica e religione (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as human-condition)
avg rating 4.19 — 66,353 ratings — published 2012
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as human-condition)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,438,572 ratings — published 1985
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as human-condition)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,580,388 ratings — published 1945
Remarkably Bright Creatures (ebook)
by (shelved 4 times as human-condition)
avg rating 4.36 — 1,261,201 ratings — published 2022
Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as human-condition)
avg rating 4.21 — 6,927 ratings — published 1998
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as human-condition)
avg rating 4.10 — 935,499 ratings — published 1878
At the Existentialist Café (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as human-condition)
avg rating 4.24 — 19,338 ratings — published 2016
The Denial of Death (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as human-condition)
avg rating 4.05 — 16,031 ratings — published 1973
Anxious People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as human-condition)
avg rating 4.17 — 813,945 ratings — published 2019
Les Misérables (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as human-condition)
avg rating 4.21 — 845,765 ratings — published 1862
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as human-condition)
avg rating 4.11 — 88,913 ratings — published 1990
Beartown (Beartown, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as human-condition)
avg rating 4.29 — 604,890 ratings — published 2016
Status Anxiety (Vintage International)
by (shelved 4 times as human-condition)
avg rating 3.89 — 21,862 ratings — published 2004
“One third, more or less, of all the sorrow that the person I think I am must endure is unavoidable. It is the sorrow inherent in the human condition, the price we must pay for being sentient and self-conscious organisms, aspirants to liberation, but subject to the laws of nature and under orders to keep on marching, through irreversible time, through a world wholly indifferent to our well-being, toward decrepitude and the certainty of death. The remaining two thirds of all sorrow is homemade and, so far as the universe is concerned, unnecessary.”
― Island
― Island
“Harper: In your experience of the world. How do people change?
Mormon Mother: Well it has something to do with God so it's not very nice.
God splits the skin with a jagged thumbnail from throat to belly and then plunges a huge filthy hand in, he grabs hold of your bloody tubes and they slip to evade his grasp but he squeezes hard, he insists, he pulls and pulls till all your innards are yanked out and the pain! We can't even talk about that. And then he stuffs them back, dirty, tangled and torn. It's up to you to do the stitching.
Harper: And then up you get. And walk around.
Mormon Mother: Just mangled guts pretending.
Harper: That's how people change.”
― Angels in America
Mormon Mother: Well it has something to do with God so it's not very nice.
God splits the skin with a jagged thumbnail from throat to belly and then plunges a huge filthy hand in, he grabs hold of your bloody tubes and they slip to evade his grasp but he squeezes hard, he insists, he pulls and pulls till all your innards are yanked out and the pain! We can't even talk about that. And then he stuffs them back, dirty, tangled and torn. It's up to you to do the stitching.
Harper: And then up you get. And walk around.
Mormon Mother: Just mangled guts pretending.
Harper: That's how people change.”
― Angels in America
