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No Longer Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as nihilistic)
avg rating 3.92 — 287,118 ratings — published 1948
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as nihilistic)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,521,122 ratings — published 1942
Notes from Underground (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as nihilistic)
avg rating 4.16 — 258,722 ratings — published 1864
Blame!, Vol. 1 (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as nihilistic)
avg rating 4.14 — 5,814 ratings — published 1998
I Who Have Never Known Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as nihilistic)
avg rating 4.04 — 694,782 ratings — published 1995
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as nihilistic)
avg rating 4.14 — 244,557 ratings — published 1985
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as nihilistic)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,401,501 ratings — published 1956
Yol (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as nihilistic)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,086,110 ratings — published 2006
On the Heights of Despair (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as nihilistic)
avg rating 4.16 — 9,795 ratings — published 1934
The Trouble With Being Born (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as nihilistic)
avg rating 4.07 — 12,004 ratings — published 1973
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as nihilistic)
avg rating 4.21 — 5,752,689 ratings — published 1949
Journey to the End of the Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as nihilistic)
avg rating 4.18 — 49,957 ratings — published 1932
Fight Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as nihilistic)
avg rating 4.18 — 663,556 ratings — published 1996
Less Than Zero (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as nihilistic)
avg rating 3.62 — 106,558 ratings — published 1985
The Only Words That Are Worth Remembering (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as nihilistic)
avg rating 3.03 — 171 ratings — published 2015
The Thirteenth Floor Anthology (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as nihilistic)
avg rating 4.22 — 9 ratings — published
The Blind Owl (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as nihilistic)
avg rating 3.94 — 37,136 ratings — published 1937
روزگار دوزخی آقای ایاز (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as nihilistic)
avg rating 4.27 — 604 ratings — published 1970
Demian (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as nihilistic)
avg rating 4.14 — 145,083 ratings — published 1919
The Loser (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as nihilistic)
avg rating 4.01 — 14,224 ratings — published 1983
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as nihilistic)
avg rating 3.80 — 4,008,121 ratings — published 1951
Barabbas (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as nihilistic)
avg rating 3.87 — 6,548 ratings — published 1950
Everybody Loses: The Tumultuous Rise of American Sports Gambling (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as nihilistic)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,119 ratings — published
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as nihilistic)
avg rating 4.06 — 388,464 ratings — published 1971
Frozen Hell (ebook)
by (shelved 1 time as nihilistic)
avg rating 3.72 — 2,189 ratings — published 2019
Hellmouth (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as nihilistic)
avg rating 3.90 — 4,831 ratings — published 2021
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as nihilistic)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,998,420 ratings — published 1818
Grave of the Fireflies (Library Binding)
by (shelved 1 time as nihilistic)
avg rating 4.08 — 3,735 ratings — published 1967
The Virgin Suicides (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as nihilistic)
avg rating 3.78 — 440,101 ratings — published 1993
Lapvona (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as nihilistic)
avg rating 3.54 — 111,150 ratings — published 2022
Incidents Around the House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as nihilistic)
avg rating 3.55 — 117,092 ratings — published 2024
It (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as nihilistic)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,318,794 ratings — published 1986
The Institute (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as nihilistic)
avg rating 4.19 — 359,575 ratings — published 2019
Broken Worlds: Dystopian Stories (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as nihilistic)
avg rating 3.64 — 50 ratings — published 2014
Misery (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as nihilistic)
avg rating 4.22 — 857,906 ratings — published 1987
Potty Mouth, Potty Mouth (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as nihilistic)
avg rating 3.89 — 9 ratings — published
The Vegetarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as nihilistic)
avg rating 3.65 — 454,567 ratings — published 2007
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as nihilistic)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,134,296 ratings — published 1925
Prophet Song (ebook)
by (shelved 1 time as nihilistic)
avg rating 4.02 — 93,966 ratings — published 2023
The Gone World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as nihilistic)
avg rating 3.90 — 33,334 ratings — published 2018
Black Star Black Sun (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as nihilistic)
avg rating 3.78 — 158 ratings — published 2015
The Deep (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as nihilistic)
avg rating 3.41 — 46,504 ratings — published 2015
Crooked Little Vein (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as nihilistic)
avg rating 3.81 — 9,857 ratings — published 2007
The Immaculate Void (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as nihilistic)
avg rating 3.89 — 878 ratings — published 2018
No Country for Old Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as nihilistic)
avg rating 4.17 — 268,071 ratings — published 2005
Roadside Picnic (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as nihilistic)
avg rating 4.11 — 95,201 ratings — published 1972
Only Monsters Remain (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as nihilistic)
avg rating 4.52 — 48 ratings — published
Permutation City (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as nihilistic)
avg rating 4.04 — 13,912 ratings — published 1994
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as nihilistic)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,526,091 ratings — published 1969
A Short Stay in Hell (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as nihilistic)
avg rating 4.13 — 111,534 ratings — published 2011
“Perhaps after all not to have been born is best. How near the human soul must be to nothingness if it can be so tossed.”
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“When it occurs to a man that nature does not regard him as important,
and that she feels she would not maim the universe by disposing of him,
he at first wishes to throw bricks at the temple, and he hates deeply
the fact that there are no brick and no temples. Any visible expression
of nature would surely be pelleted with his jeers.
Then, if there be no tangible thing to hoot he feels, perhaps, the
desire to confront a personification and indulge in pleas, bowed to one
knee, and with hands supplicant, saying: "Yes, but I love myself.”
― Open Boat
and that she feels she would not maim the universe by disposing of him,
he at first wishes to throw bricks at the temple, and he hates deeply
the fact that there are no brick and no temples. Any visible expression
of nature would surely be pelleted with his jeers.
Then, if there be no tangible thing to hoot he feels, perhaps, the
desire to confront a personification and indulge in pleas, bowed to one
knee, and with hands supplicant, saying: "Yes, but I love myself.”
― Open Boat
