Existential Books

Thanks man, I'll check it out. The book I'm reading now, Henderson the Rain King by Saul Bellow, is absolutely awesome! From the first line of the book it grasps you and doesnt let go. If you pick this book up you wont put it down.

 

check out kierkegaard, sartre, nietzsche (although i don't consider him an existentialist), heidegger. i might be able to hook u up with some more later. or just go to amazon and type in introduction to existentialism.

 

Nausea is one of my all-time favourite books! Another two no one's mentioned yet are de Beauvoir's The Blood of Others (short) and The Mandarins (long.) Both pretty similar. And also Sartre's Road to Freedom trilogy (The Age of Reason, Troubled Sleep and...um...I forget the third.)

 

The fourth:

"Robert Eggleton is a gifted storyteller of boundless imagination and masterful skill. *Rarity from the Hollow* is a dark, humorous and suspenseful science-fantasy story that showcases Eggleton's expert characterization, description and dialogue. His frank and honest portrayal of poverty in rural Appalachia is reminiscent of Stephen King's use of "everyday horrors" to create a convincing sense of dread. Eggleton counters the story's dark mood with touches of warmth and humor, à la Ray Bradbury. I look forward to reading more from this rare, original author."

J. D. Nelson

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Simone de Beauvoir's autobiographies are good existential reading, even though they're not fiction of course, they show what it was like for her growing up and getting into this world.

Albert Camus' "The Fall" was good from memory, it was easy to read too, unlike some Sartre. "Nausea" is good also, as SJD said and it's pleasant in terms of ease of reading, but "Being and Nothingness" is well-known as being a very hard book to follow and be able to read easily.