27 books
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6 voters
Pessimist Books
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The Conspiracy Against the Human Race (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.01 — 9,616 ratings — published 2011
Faust (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.89 — 51,572 ratings — published 1808
Faust, First Part (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as pessimist)
avg rating 3.83 — 86,869 ratings — published 1808
50 days before my suicide (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 1 time as pessimist)
avg rating 3.53 — 1,847 ratings — published 2015
Diary of an Oxygen Thief (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as pessimist)
avg rating 2.71 — 77,281 ratings — published 2006
The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe (Dover Literature: Poetry)
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avg rating 4.18 — 905 ratings — published
Decoding Schopenhauer's Metaphysics: The Key to Understanding How It Solves the Hard Problem of Consciousness and the Paradoxes of Quantum Mechanics (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as pessimist)
avg rating 4.31 — 318 ratings — published 2020
How High We Go in the Dark (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as pessimist)
avg rating 3.81 — 72,053 ratings — published 2022
Phenomenally Me: My Sweet 2016™ (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as pessimist)
avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published
Into That Darkness: An Examination of Conscience (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as pessimist)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,993 ratings — published 1974
The Stand (Audiobook)
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avg rating 4.35 — 844,132 ratings — published 1978
Essays and Aphorisms (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 9,155 ratings — published 1851
No Longer Human (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.93 — 264,948 ratings — published 1948
Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as pessimist)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,307 ratings — published 2006
The Trouble With Being Born (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as pessimist)
avg rating 4.07 — 11,424 ratings — published 1973
My Work is Not Yet Done: Three Tales of Corporate Horror (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as pessimist)
avg rating 3.84 — 3,458 ratings — published 2002
The Age of Catastrophe: Disaster and Humanity in Modern Times (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as pessimist)
avg rating 3.85 — 13 ratings — published 2012
Platform (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as pessimist)
avg rating 3.81 — 26,201 ratings — published 2001
The World Without Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as pessimist)
avg rating 3.81 — 43,570 ratings — published 2007
Journey to the End of the Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as pessimist)
avg rating 4.18 — 48,554 ratings — published 1932
Robinson Jeffers: Selected Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as pessimist)
avg rating 4.26 — 643 ratings — published 1965
Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as pessimist)
avg rating 4.11 — 8,295 ratings — published 1947
Candide (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as pessimist)
avg rating 3.76 — 304,592 ratings — published 1759
Why America Failed: The Roots of Imperial Decline (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as pessimist)
avg rating 3.99 — 302 ratings — published 2002
Studies in Pessimism: The Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as pessimist)
avg rating 3.88 — 2,237 ratings — published 1890
Schopenhauer: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as pessimist)
avg rating 3.79 — 855 ratings — published 1994
The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as pessimist)
avg rating 4.05 — 11,124 ratings — published 1911
Apocalypse Culture II (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as pessimist)
avg rating 4.05 — 604 ratings — published 2000
Apocalypse Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as pessimist)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,527 ratings — published 1987
Industrial Society and Its Future (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as pessimist)
avg rating 3.85 — 12,828 ratings — published 1995
In the Dust of This Planet (Horror of Philosophy, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as pessimist)
avg rating 3.68 — 2,917 ratings — published 2011
The Twilight of American Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as pessimist)
avg rating 3.85 — 703 ratings — published 2000
Soft Apocalypse (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as pessimist)
avg rating 3.53 — 2,787 ratings — published 2011
The Terror (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as pessimist)
avg rating 4.09 — 75,683 ratings — published 2007
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as pessimist)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,440,360 ratings — published 1942
The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as pessimist)
avg rating 4.26 — 154,583 ratings — published 1974
El túnel (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as pessimist)
avg rating 4.02 — 97,198 ratings — published 1948
The Windup Girl (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as pessimist)
avg rating 3.75 — 78,561 ratings — published 2009
The Pessimist's Journal of Very, Very Bad Days (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as pessimist)
avg rating 4.25 — 4 ratings — published
The Sorrows of Young Werther (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as pessimist)
avg rating 3.70 — 158,068 ratings — published 1774
El orden alfabético (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as pessimist)
avg rating 3.62 — 643 ratings — published 1998
The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as pessimist)
avg rating 4.19 — 244,971 ratings — published 1843
Dear Theo (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as pessimist)
avg rating 4.17 — 19,406 ratings — published 1914
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as pessimist)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,332,623 ratings — published 1952
Me Before You (Me Before You, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as pessimist)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,817,457 ratings — published 2012
The World of Yesterday (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as pessimist)
avg rating 4.51 — 30,513 ratings — published 1942
Heart of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as pessimist)
avg rating 3.43 — 564,207 ratings — published 1899
“I don't know much about the world, but I do know one thing for sure. If I'm pessimistic, then the adults in this world who are not pessimistic are a bunch of idiots.”
― The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
― The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
“Are you an optimist or a pessimist? Optimists do more with less while pessimists do less with more.”
― Continuous Improvement By Improving Continuously (CIBIC): Addressing the Human Factors During the Pursuit of Process Excellence
― Continuous Improvement By Improving Continuously (CIBIC): Addressing the Human Factors During the Pursuit of Process Excellence







