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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
11,321 members, 221 reviews
4.25 stars (4.25 stars)

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Score: 4

2
Blood Meridian
by Cormac McCarthy
9,359 members, 233 reviews
4.17 stars (4.17 stars)

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Score: 3.36

3
A Scanner Darkly
by Philip K. Dick
6,505 members, 119 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
16,309 members, 423 reviews
3.96 stars (3.96 stars)

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Score: 2.83

5
Nausea
by Jean-Paul Sartre
8,509 members, 66 reviews
3.77 stars (3.77 stars)

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Score: 2.68

6
Steppenwolf
by Hermann Hesse
11,744 members, 159 reviews
4.03 stars (4.03 stars)

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Score: 2.56

7
White Noise
by Don DeLillo
9,520 members, 141 reviews
3.79 stars (3.79 stars)

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Score: 2.46

8
The Man Without Qualities
by Robert Musil
499 members, 7 reviews
4.36 stars (4.36 stars)

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Score: 2.38

9
The Stranger
by Albert Camus
30,385 members, 414 reviews
3.96 stars (3.96 stars)

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Score: 2.31

10
Siddhartha
by Hermann Hesse
24,039 members, 326 reviews
3.96 stars (3.96 stars)

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Score: 2.25

11
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
by Milan Kundera
19,931 members, 231 reviews
4.02 stars (4.02 stars)

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Score: 2.2

12
The Plague
by Albert Camus
15,692 members, 200 reviews
3.95 stars (3.95 stars)

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Score: 2.15

13
War and Peace
by Leo Tolstoy
23,853 members, 378 reviews
4.26 stars (4.26 stars)

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Score: 2.11

14
The Name of the Rose
by Umberto Eco
17,158 members, 272 reviews
4.2 stars (4.2 stars)

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Score: 2.07

15
Slaughterhouse-Five
by Kurt Vonnegut
38,339 members, 601 reviews
4.11 stars (4.11 stars)

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Score: 2.03

16
Dune
by Frank Herbert
32,565 members, 518 reviews
4.28 stars (4.28 stars)

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Score: 2

17
Anathem
by Neal Stephenson
7,241 members, 266 reviews
4.18 stars (4.18 stars)

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Score: 1.97

18
Lincoln in the Bardo
by George Saunders
4,108 members, 272 reviews
3.96 stars (3.96 stars)

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Score: 1.94

19
The Elegance of the Hedgehog
by Muriel Barbery
10,413 members, 611 reviews
3.79 stars (3.79 stars)

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Score: 1.92

20
The Idiot
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
13,713 members, 143 reviews
4.12 stars (4.12 stars)

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Score: 1.89

21
Zorba the Greek
by Nikos Kazantzakis
2,959 members, 58 reviews
3.89 stars (3.89 stars)

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Score: 1.87

22
Einstein's Dreams
by Alan Lightman
4,432 members, 119 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
3,769 members, 57 reviews
3.89 stars (3.89 stars)

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Score: 1.83

24
The Man in the High Castle
by Philip K. Dick
11,415 members, 302 reviews
3.68 stars (3.68 stars)

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Score: 1.81

25
The Sirens of Titan
by Kurt Vonnegut
9,084 members, 104 reviews
4.02 stars (4.02 stars)

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Score: 1.79

26
Jacques the Fatalist
by Denis Diderot
1,565 members, 21 reviews
3.78 stars (3.78 stars)

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Score: 1.77

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Started by: islesx4 (June 2020)

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