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The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as nihilism)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,391,495 ratings — published 1942
Fathers and Sons (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as nihilism)
avg rating 4.00 — 100,930 ratings — published 1862
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as nihilism)
avg rating 4.07 — 175,771 ratings — published 1883
The Conspiracy Against the Human Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as nihilism)
avg rating 4.02 — 9,327 ratings — published 2011
The Trouble With Being Born (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as nihilism)
avg rating 4.08 — 11,055 ratings — published 1973
A Short History of Decay (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as nihilism)
avg rating 4.18 — 5,855 ratings — published 1949
Beyond Good and Evil (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as nihilism)
avg rating 4.03 — 113,698 ratings — published 1886
Journey to the End of the Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as nihilism)
avg rating 4.18 — 47,737 ratings — published 1932
Fight Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as nihilism)
avg rating 4.18 — 641,516 ratings — published 1996
Demons (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as nihilism)
avg rating 4.31 — 62,428 ratings — published 1872
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as nihilism)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,074,381 ratings — published 1866
Notes from Underground (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as nihilism)
avg rating 4.17 — 226,680 ratings — published 1864
In the Dust of This Planet (Horror of Philosophy, #1)
by (shelved 18 times as nihilism)
avg rating 3.68 — 2,881 ratings — published 2011
Nihil Unbound: Enlightenment and Extinction (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as nihilism)
avg rating 3.76 — 339 ratings — published 2007
Being and Nothingness (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as nihilism)
avg rating 3.99 — 35,004 ratings — published 1943
No Longer Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as nihilism)
avg rating 3.94 — 250,587 ratings — published 1948
On the Genealogy of Morals (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as nihilism)
avg rating 4.12 — 35,555 ratings — published 1887
The Myth of Sisyphus (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as nihilism)
avg rating 4.17 — 93,074 ratings — published 1942
Blessed is the Flame: An Introduction to Concentration Camp Resistance and Anarcho-Nihilism (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as nihilism)
avg rating 4.30 — 441 ratings — published 2016
The Will to Power (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as nihilism)
avg rating 4.07 — 11,226 ratings — published 1901
The Thirst for Annihilation: Georges Bataille and Virulent Nihilism (An Essay in Atheistic Religion)
by (shelved 14 times as nihilism)
avg rating 3.98 — 605 ratings — published 1992
On the Heights of Despair (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as nihilism)
avg rating 4.16 — 9,286 ratings — published 1934
The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as nihilism)
avg rating 4.26 — 20,468 ratings — published 1882
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as nihilism)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,416,384 ratings — published 1915
The Fall (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as nihilism)
avg rating 4.03 — 134,576 ratings — published 1956
Nihilism: The Root of the Revolution of the Modern Age (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as nihilism)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,049 ratings — published 1994
Less Than Zero (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as nihilism)
avg rating 3.61 — 99,042 ratings — published 1985
Waiting for Godot (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as nihilism)
avg rating 3.84 — 221,810 ratings — published 1951
Nihilism (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series)
by (shelved 10 times as nihilism)
avg rating 3.80 — 697 ratings — published 2019
The Elementary Particles (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as nihilism)
avg rating 3.80 — 50,429 ratings — published 1998
The Specter of the Absurd: Sources and Criticisms of Modern Nihilism (Philosophy (Dis))
by (shelved 10 times as nihilism)
avg rating 3.97 — 37 ratings — published 1988
Nausea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as nihilism)
avg rating 3.93 — 139,064 ratings — published 1938
The Denial of Death (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as nihilism)
avg rating 4.05 — 15,853 ratings — published 1973
A Clockwork Orange (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as nihilism)
avg rating 4.00 — 767,887 ratings — published 1962
The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as nihilism)
avg rating 4.22 — 65,271 ratings — published 1942
The Birth of Tragedy (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as nihilism)
avg rating 3.98 — 21,192 ratings — published 1871
The Trial (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as nihilism)
avg rating 3.94 — 393,325 ratings — published 1925
The Sunny Nihilist: A Declaration of the Pleasure of Pointlessness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as nihilism)
avg rating 3.61 — 1,459 ratings — published
Being and Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as nihilism)
avg rating 4.05 — 27,772 ratings — published 1927
The Plague (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as nihilism)
avg rating 4.02 — 313,407 ratings — published 1947
Nihilists; Russian Radicals and Revolutionaries in the Reign of Alexander II, 1855-81. (Pageant of History Series)
by (shelved 7 times as nihilism)
avg rating 2.54 — 13 ratings — published 1967
The Ego and Its Own (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as nihilism)
avg rating 4.06 — 3,895 ratings — published 1844
American Psycho (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as nihilism)
avg rating 3.80 — 360,879 ratings — published 1991
Laughing at Nothing: Humor as a Response to Nihilism (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as nihilism)
avg rating 3.91 — 76 ratings — published 2003
المياه كلها بلون الغرق (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as nihilism)
avg rating 3.74 — 4,926 ratings — published 1952
The New Gods (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as nihilism)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,109 ratings — published 1969
The Self-Overcoming of Nihilism (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as nihilism)
avg rating 4.18 — 136 ratings — published 1949
The Gift of Death (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as nihilism)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,093 ratings — published 1992
Twilight of the Idols (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.95 — 14,271 ratings — published 1889
Nihilism Before Nietzsche (Phoenix Poets (Paperback))
by (shelved 6 times as nihilism)
avg rating 3.90 — 48 ratings — published 1994
“But today’s society is characterized by achievement orientation, and consequently it adores people who are successful and happy and, in particular, it adores the young. It virtually ignores the value of all those who are otherwise, and in so doing blurs the decisive difference between being valuable in the sense of dignity and being valuable in the sense of usefulness. If one is not cognizant of this difference and holds that an individual’s value stems only from his present usefulness, then, believe me, one owes it only to personal inconsistency not to plead for euthanasia along the lines of Hitler’s program, that is to say, ‘mercy’ killing of all those who have lost their social usefulness, be it because of old age, incurable illness, mental deterioration, or whatever handicap they may suffer. Confounding the dignity of man with mere usefulness arises from conceptual confusion that in turn may be traced back to the contemporary nihilism transmitted on many an academic campus and many an analytical couch.”
― Man's Search for Meaning
― Man's Search for Meaning
“If we believe in nothing, if nothing has any meaning and if we can affirm no values whatsoever, then everything is possible and nothing has any importance.”
― The Rebel
― The Rebel












