The Stranger by Albert CamusCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaNausea by Jean-Paul SartreNotes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculo... by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Best Existential Fiction
441 books — 754 voters
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia WoolfUlysses by James JoyceThe Waste Land by T.S. EliotTo the Lighthouse by Virginia WoolfWaiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
Modernist Literature
189 books — 66 voters

Animal Farm by George Orwell1984 by George OrwellThe Trial by Franz KafkaSiddhartha by Hermann HesseLord of the Flies by William Golding
Books Which Provoke Inner Thought
182 books — 146 voters
Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëLittle Women by Louisa May AlcottTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeWuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Best classics
346 books — 330 voters

The Stranger by Albert Camus1984 by George OrwellSiddhartha by Hermann HesseThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Best Philosophical Literature
1,145 books — 2,748 voters

The Society of the Spectacle by Guy DebordThe Seminar of Jacques Lacan by Jacques LacanMythologies by Roland BarthesThe Sublime Object of Ideology (Phronesis by Slavoj ŽižekThe Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction by Walter Benjamin
r/CriticalTheory Recommended Reading
84 books — 20 voters
The Rings of Saturn by W.G. SebaldLabyrinths by Jorge Luis BorgesThe Hour of the Star by Clarice LispectorJourney to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand CélineSatantango by László Krasznahorkai
Best New Directions Books
262 books — 178 voters


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