Category
page 1Existentialist novels

Crime and Punishment
1866 Russian-language novel by Dostoyevsky
The Brothers Karamazov
1879 novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Idiot
novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Plague
French novel by Albert Camus

Lord of the Flies
Lord of the Flies is the 1954 debut novel of British author William Golding. The plot concerns a group of prepubescent British boys who are stranded on an uninhabited island and their disastrous attempts to govern themselves that lead to a descent into savagery. The novel's themes include morality, leadership, and the tension between civility and chaos.

Heart of Darkness
1899 novella by Joseph Conrad

Steppenwolf
1927 novel by Hermann Hesse

The Unbearable Lightness of Being
1984 Czech novel by Milan Kundera

Notes from Underground
1864 novella by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Gambler
1866 novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Castle
novel by Franz Kafka

Nausea
novel by Jean-Paul Sartre

Kafka on the Shore
2002 novel by Haruki Murakami

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
science fiction novel by Philip K. Dick

Zorba the Greek
novel by Nikos Kazantzakis

The Adolescent
novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Double
1846 book by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

American Psycho
1991 novel by Bret Easton Ellis
Tropic of Cancer
1934 novel by Henry Miller

The Bell Jar
1963 novel by Sylvia Plath
Lost in America
unfinished novel by Franz Kafka
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Ubik
Ubik ( ) is a 1969 science fiction novel by American writer Philip K. Dick. The story is set in a future 1992 where psychic powers are utilized in corporate espionage, while cryonic technology allows recently deceased people to be maintained in a lengthy state of hibernation. It follows Joe Chip, a technician at a psychic agency who begins to experience strange alterations in reality that can be temporarily reversed by a mysterious store-bought substance called Ubik. This work expands upon characters and concepts previously introduced in the vignette "What the Dead Men Say".

As I Lay Dying
novel by William Faulkner
The Woman in the Dunes
1962 novel by Kobo Abe

Looking for Alaska
2005 novel by John Green

Invisible Man
1952 novel by Ralph Ellison

Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
1974 novel by Philip K. Dick

Tropic of Capricorn
novel by Henry Miller

El Túnel
novel by Ernesto Sabato

The Lathe of Heaven
1971 novel by Ursula K. Le Guin

Ferdydurke
Ferdydurke is a novel by the Polish writer Witold Gombrowicz, published in 1937. It was his first and most controversial novel.

Nada
1945 novel by Carmen Laforet

The Pigeon
novella by Patrick Süskind

Orbital
2023 novel by Samantha Harvey, winner of the Booker Prize
The Smiling, Proud Wanderer
1967 wuxia novel by Jin Yong (Louis Cha)

The Age of Reason
novel by Jean-Paul Sartre

The Sheltering Sky
novel by Paul Bowles

She Came to Stay
1943 novel by Simone de Beauvoir

In the Miso Soup
1997 novel by Ryu Murakami

Behold the Man
1969 novel by Michael Moorcock

Sartor Resartus
book by Thomas Carlyle

We Can Build You
1972 novel by Philip K. Dick
The Judge and His Hangman
1952 crime novel by Friedrich Dürrenmatt

Coin Locker Babies
1980 novel by Ryū Murakami

The Penultimate Truth
1964 novel by Philip K. Dick
Mr. Vertigo
novel by Paul Auster

Almost Transparent Blue
novel by Ryū Murakami

The Shockwave Rider
1975 novel by John Brunner

The History of Mr Polly
1910 novel by H. G. Wells

The Foundation Pit
novel by Andrei Platonov
The City beyond the River
1947 novel by Hermann Kasack

Nothing
novel by Janne Teller
The Royal Way
1930 novel by André Malraux

Pincher Martin
novel by William Golding
The Return of Philip Latinowicz
book

The Ice Storm
1994 novel by Rick Moody

The Snake's Skin
1926 novel by Grigol Robakidze

The Disconnected
Tutunamayanlar () is the first novel of Oğuz Atay, one of the most prominent Turkish authors of the twentieth century. It was written in 1970-71 and published in 1972. Although it was never reprinted in his lifetime and was controversial among critics, it has become a best-seller since a new edition came out in 1984.