Existentialist Works Rankings
Fifty of the most influential existentialist novels, essays, and philosophical works with year of publication.
Art & LiteratureTop 50
🌍 World Ranking
▲ Top 5
#1
The Stranger – Albert Camus (1942)
+5
#2
Beyond Good and Evil – Friedrich Nietzsche (1886)
+4
#3
Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky (1866)
+3
#4
The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoevsky (1880)
+2
#5
No Country for Old Men – Cormac McCarthy (2005)
+1
▼ Bottom 5
#1
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting – Milan Kundera (1979)
-5
#2
Immortality – Milan Kundera (1990)
-4
#3
The Idiot – Fyodor Dostoevsky (1869)
-3
#4
Amerika – Franz Kafka (1927)
-2
#5
The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera (1984)
-1
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The Stranger – Albert Camus (1942)+5
Beyond Good and Evil – Friedrich Nietzsche (1886)+4
Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky (1866)+3
The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoevsky (1880)+2
No Country for Old Men – Cormac McCarthy (2005)+1
Being and Nothingness – Jean-Paul Sartre (1943)—
Nausea – Jean-Paul Sartre (1938)—
No Exit – Jean-Paul Sartre (1944)—
The Age of Reason – Jean-Paul Sartre (1945)—
The Reprieve – Jean-Paul Sartre (1945)—
Iron in the Soul – Jean-Paul Sartre (1949)—
The Plague – Albert Camus (1947)—
The Fall – Albert Camus (1956)—
The Myth of Sisyphus – Albert Camus (1942)—
The Rebel – Albert Camus (1951)—
Fear and Trembling – Søren Kierkegaard (1843)—
Either/Or – Søren Kierkegaard (1843)—
The Sickness Unto Death – Søren Kierkegaard (1849)—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra – Friedrich Nietzsche (1883)—
The Gay Science – Friedrich Nietzsche (1882)—
Ecce Homo – Friedrich Nietzsche (1908)—
The Trial – Franz Kafka (1925)—
The Castle – Franz Kafka (1926)—
The Metamorphosis – Franz Kafka (1915)—
Notes from Underground – Fyodor Dostoevsky (1864)—
Steppenwolf – Hermann Hesse (1927)—
The Glass Bead Game – Hermann Hesse (1943)—
Narcissus and Goldmund – Hermann Hesse (1930)—
Waiting for Godot – Samuel Beckett (1953)—
Molloy – Samuel Beckett (1951)—
Malone Dies – Samuel Beckett (1951)—
The Unnamable – Samuel Beckett (1953)—
The Outsider – Colin Wilson (1956)—
Man’s Search for Meaning – Viktor Frankl (1946)—
The Ethics of Ambiguity – Simone de Beauvoir (1947)—
The Second Sex – Simone de Beauvoir (1949)—
All Men Are Mortal – Simone de Beauvoir (1946)—
She Came to Stay – Simone de Beauvoir (1943)—
The Mandarins – Simone de Beauvoir (1954)—
The Plague Dogs – Richard Adams (1977)—
The Road – Cormac McCarthy (2006)—
Blood Meridian – Cormac McCarthy (1985)—
The Moviegoer – Walker Percy (1961)—
Lancelot – Walker Percy (1977)—
The Thanatos Syndrome – Walker Percy (1987)—
The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera (1984)-1
Amerika – Franz Kafka (1927)-2
The Idiot – Fyodor Dostoevsky (1869)-3
Immortality – Milan Kundera (1990)-4
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting – Milan Kundera (1979)-5