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Existentialism

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by Albert Camus

35,689 members

510 reviews

3.9

5 Members: thorold, roby72, thecoroner, ahef1963, kara.shamy

2

Crime and Punishment

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

44,459 members

496 reviews

4.2

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, ahef1963

3

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

by Milan Kundera

22,562 members

276 reviews

4

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, Arisjdh

4

by Albert Camus

18,605 members

249 reviews

4

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, AlexPijanowski

5

by José Saramago

13,107 members

391 reviews

4.1

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, ahef1963

6

Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts

by Samuel Beckett

13,013 members

161 reviews

3.9

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, ahef1963

7

The Metamorphosis

12,610 members

222 reviews

3.9

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, ahef1963

8

by Jean-Paul Sartre

10,005 members

83 reviews

3.8

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, ahef1963

9

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

by Tom Stoppard

8,047 members

91 reviews

4.2

3 Members: roby72, ahef1963, kara.shamy

10

The French Lieutenant's Woman

6,565 members

108 reviews

3.8

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, ahef1963

11

The Second Sex [abridged English translation by H. M. Parshley]

by Simone de Beauvoir

4,551 members

32 reviews

4

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, kara.shamy

12

Baltasar and Blimunda

by José Saramago

2,476 members

49 reviews

3.9

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, ahef1963

13

by Simone de Beauvoir

2,411 members

17 reviews

4.1

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, kara.shamy

14

The Catcher in the Rye

by J. D. Salinger

69,854 members

1,086 reviews

3.8

2 Members: roby72, ahef1963

15

Slaughterhouse-Five

by Kurt Vonnegut

44,234 members

709 reviews

4.1

2 Members: roby72, ahef1963

16

The Brothers Karamazov

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

29,695 members

332 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: roby72, thecoroner

17

by Jack Kerouac

28,027 members

387 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: roby72, ahef1963

18

20,002 members

238 reviews

4

2 Members: roby72, thecoroner

19

by Chuck Palahniuk

19,371 members

325 reviews

4.1

2 Members: roby72, ahef1963

20

by Ralph Ellison

16,271 members

212 reviews

4

2 Members: roby72, kara.shamy

21

Notes from Underground

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

12,628 members

156 reviews

4.1

2 Members: roby72, thecoroner

22

Journey to the End of the Night

by Louis-Ferdinand Céline

6,043 members

83 reviews

4.2

2 Members: roby72, thecoroner

23

The Metamorphosis [Bantam Classics]

5,157 members

72 reviews

3.8

2 Members: roby72, ahef1963

24

No Exit / Dirty Hands / The Flies / The Respectful Prostitute

by Jean-Paul Sartre

4,975 members

19 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, kara.shamy

25

Death with Interruptions

by José Saramago

3,119 members

108 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: roby72, ajipatz

26

The Tartar Steppe

by Dino Buzzati

2,535 members

58 reviews

4.1

2 Members: roby72, thecoroner

27

The Myth of Sisyphus [essay]

by Albert Camus

2,313 members

21 reviews

3.9

2 Members: aulsmith, kara.shamy

28

No Exit / The Flies

by Jean-Paul Sartre

1,394 members

14 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, kara.shamy

29

The Ethics Of Ambiguity

by Simone de Beauvoir

1,215 members

3 reviews

3.9

2 Members: roby72, kara.shamy

30

by Jean-Paul Sartre

1,103 members

18 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, kara.shamy

31

by Herman Melville

35,679 members

545 reviews

3.8

Member: kara.shamy

32

by William Shakespeare

33,057 members

308 reviews

4.2

Member: kara.shamy

33

by Hermann Hesse

27,973 members

381 reviews

4

Member: roby72

34

by Virginia Woolf

20,806 members

332 reviews

3.9

Member: thecoroner

35

20,673 members

310 reviews

3.8

Member: kara.shamy

36

The Sound and the Fury

by William Faulkner

17,372 members

226 reviews

4

Member: kara.shamy

37

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

16,308 members

163 reviews

4.1

Member: roby72

38

Man's Search for Meaning

by Viktor Frankl

15,886 members

314 reviews

4.2

Member: roby72

39

by Hermann Hesse

13,612 members

195 reviews

4

Member: roby72

40

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

by Friedrich Nietzsche

13,450 members

108 reviews

3.9

Member: roby72

41

Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future

by Friedrich Nietzsche

10,054 members

78 reviews

3.8

Member: roby72

42

8,294 members

93 reviews

3.9

Member: roby72

43

The Sorrows of Young Werther

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

8,108 members

127 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: thecoroner

44

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

7,925 members

73 reviews

4.2

Member: roby72

45

by Toni Morrison

7,725 members

98 reviews

3.8

Member: kara.shamy

46

by Hermann Hesse

7,396 members

107 reviews

3.9

Member: roby72

47

Narcissus and Goldmund

by Hermann Hesse

6,385 members

79 reviews

4.1

Member: roby72

48

by John Gardner

6,070 members

108 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

49

The Complete Stories

5,788 members

27 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: roby72

50

The Elementary Particles

by Michel Houellebecq

5,525 members

86 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: roby72

51

Being and Nothingness: An Essay on Phenomenological Ontology

by Jean-Paul Sartre

4,970 members

19 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: roby72

52

The Waste Land and Other Poems

4,584 members

33 reviews

4.2

Member: kara.shamy

53

The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt

by Albert Camus

4,203 members

27 reviews

4

Member: roby72

54

Fear and Trembling

by Søren Kierkegaard

4,132 members

37 reviews

3.8

Member: roby72

55

The Age of Reason

by Jean-Paul Sartre

3,413 members

26 reviews

3.8

Member: roby72

56

3,354 members

46 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ahef1963

57

Endgame / Act Without Words

by Samuel Beckett

3,106 members

24 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

58

The Woman in the Dunes

3,103 members

66 reviews

3.8

Member: roby72

59

The House of the Dead

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

3,061 members

34 reviews

3.9

Member: roby72

60

Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable

by Samuel Beckett

3,055 members

28 reviews

4.2

Member: roby72

61

Exile and the Kingdom

by Albert Camus

2,824 members

28 reviews

3.8

Member: roby72

62

2,546 members

29 reviews

3.8

Member: thecoroner

63

by André Malraux

2,540 members

37 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: roby72

64

The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge

by Rainer Maria Rilke

2,504 members

26 reviews

3.9

Member: roby72

65

2,371 members

14 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: roby72

66

The Sickness Unto Death

by Søren Kierkegaard

2,286 members

16 reviews

4

Member: roby72

67

Essays: First Series and Second Series

by Ralph Waldo Emerson

1,938 members

7 reviews

4.2

Member: roby72

68

Either/Or: A Fragment of Life

by Søren Kierkegaard

1,937 members

16 reviews

3.9

Member: roby72

69

by Simone de Beauvoir

1,739 members

16 reviews

4.1

Member: roby72

70

Iron in the Soul

by Jean-Paul Sartre

1,532 members

4 reviews

3.9

Member: roby72

71

Fear and Trembling/Repetition : Kierkegaard's Writings, Vol. 6

by Søren Kierkegaard

1,507 members

2 reviews

4.1

Member: roby72

72

by William Gaddis

1,387 members

19 reviews

4.2

Member: thecoroner

73

by Miguel de Unamuno

1,252 members

23 reviews

4

Member: thorold

74

by Martin Heidegger

1,136 members

10 reviews

3.9

Member: roby72

75

A Kierkegaard Anthology

by Søren Kierkegaard

1,087 members

3 reviews

4.2

Member: roby72

76

The Time of Indifference

by Alberto Moravia

1,015 members

14 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: roby72

77

Rhinoceros / The Leader / The Future Is in Eggs

by Eugène Ionesco

939 members

4 reviews

3.8

Member: roby72

78

by Alberto Moravia

896 members

15 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: roby72

79

by Alberto Moravia

755 members

14 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: roby72

80

by Alberto Moravia

704 members

9 reviews

3.9

Member: roby72

81

Existentialism and Human Emotions

by Jean-Paul Sartre

635 members

4 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: roby72

82

Essays In Existentialism

by Jean-Paul Sartre

530 members

3 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: roby72

83

Existentialism is a Humanism

by Jean-Paul Sartre

454 members

3 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: roby72

84

by Carlo Cassola

430 members

13 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: roby72

85

by Carlo Cassola

38 members

2 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: roby72

86

Paura e tristezza

by Carlo Cassola

33 members

5

Member: roby72

87

The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

by Albert Camus

6,941 members

42 reviews

4

88

4,536 members

124 reviews

4

89

The Wall: Stories

by Jean-Paul Sartre

2,720 members

22 reviews

3.9

Member: roby72,

90

The Courage to Be

by Paul Tillich

1,997 members

15 reviews

4.1

91

by Albert Camus

7,930 members

88 reviews

3.9

92

Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre

by Walter Kaufmann

2,097 members

19 reviews

3.8

93

Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy

by William Barrett

1,257 members

13 reviews

3.8

94

At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails with Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Others

by Sarah Bakewell

1,568 members

42 reviews

4.2

95

by Jean-Paul Sartre

2,330 members

18 reviews

3.8

96

by Martin Buber

4,107 members

33 reviews

4

97

by Martin Heidegger

3,303 members

40 reviews

4.2

98

The Portable Nietzsche

by Friedrich Nietzsche

3,400 members

7 reviews

4.1

99

by Albert Camus

1,809 members

19 reviews

½ 3.6

100

by Jean-Paul Sartre

1,563 members

10 reviews

3.9

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