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Recommended Philosophic Novels

Description: What are the philosophic novels that spoke to you or simply made you read again because you did not get it the first time but you wanted to.

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1
Infinite Jest
by David Foster Wallace
11,999 members, 231 reviews
4.24 stars (4.24 stars)

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Score: 4

2
Blood Meridian
by Cormac McCarthy
10,021 members, 240 reviews
4.16 stars (4.16 stars)

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Score: 3.36

3
A Scanner Darkly
by Philip K. Dick
6,881 members, 129 reviews
3.97 stars (3.97 stars)

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Score: 3.04

4
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
by Philip K. Dick
17,402 members, 445 reviews
3.95 stars (3.95 stars)

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Score: 2.83

5
Nausea
by Jean-Paul Sartre
9,063 members, 75 reviews
3.76 stars (3.76 stars)

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Score: 2.68

6
Steppenwolf
by Hermann Hesse
12,361 members, 169 reviews
4.02 stars (4.02 stars)

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Score: 2.56

7
White Noise
by Don DeLillo
10,008 members, 146 reviews
3.78 stars (3.78 stars)

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Score: 2.46

8
The Man Without Qualities
by Robert Musil
552 members, 8 reviews
4.34 stars (4.34 stars)

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Score: 2.38

9
The Stranger
by Albert Camus
32,105 members, 457 reviews
3.95 stars (3.95 stars)

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Score: 2.31

10
Siddhartha
by Hermann Hesse
25,371 members, 347 reviews
3.96 stars (3.96 stars)

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Score: 2.25

11
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
by Milan Kundera
20,854 members, 251 reviews
4.01 stars (4.01 stars)

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Score: 2.2

12
The Plague
by Albert Camus
16,703 members, 224 reviews
3.95 stars (3.95 stars)

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Score: 2.15

13
War and Peace
by Leo Tolstoy
25,444 members, 402 reviews
4.27 stars (4.27 stars)

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Score: 2.11

14
The Name of the Rose
by Umberto Eco
18,142 members, 284 reviews
4.2 stars (4.2 stars)

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Score: 2.07

15
Slaughterhouse-Five
by Kurt Vonnegut
40,502 members, 644 reviews
4.11 stars (4.11 stars)

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Score: 2.03

16
Dune
by Frank Herbert
36,190 members, 599 reviews
4.27 stars (4.27 stars)

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Score: 2

17
Anathem
by Neal Stephenson
7,674 members, 274 reviews
4.18 stars (4.18 stars)

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Score: 1.97

18
Lincoln in the Bardo
by George Saunders
4,795 members, 297 reviews
3.96 stars (3.96 stars)

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Score: 1.94

19
The Elegance of the Hedgehog
by Muriel Barbery
10,923 members, 628 reviews
3.79 stars (3.79 stars)

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Score: 1.92

20
The Idiot
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
14,551 members, 154 reviews
4.12 stars (4.12 stars)

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Score: 1.89

21
Zorba the Greek
by Nikos Kazantzakis
3,153 members, 65 reviews
3.91 stars (3.91 stars)

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Score: 1.87

22
Einstein's Dreams
by Alan Lightman
4,655 members, 125 reviews
4.01 stars (4.01 stars)

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Score: 1.85

23
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
by Philip K. Dick
3,975 members, 65 reviews
3.9 stars (3.9 stars)

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Score: 1.83

24
The Man in the High Castle
by Philip K. Dick
12,255 members, 322 reviews
3.68 stars (3.68 stars)

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Score: 1.81

25
The Sirens of Titan
by Kurt Vonnegut
9,551 members, 114 reviews
4.01 stars (4.01 stars)

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Score: 1.79

26
Jacques the Fatalist
by Denis Diderot
1,667 members, 23 reviews
3.81 stars (3.81 stars)

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Score: 1.77

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Started by: islesx4 (June 2020)

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