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Philosophical Fiction

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1
The Stranger
by Albert Camus
31,982 members, 454 reviews
3.95 stars (3.95 stars)

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2
Candide
by Voltaire
18,576 members, 281 reviews
3.81 stars (3.81 stars)

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3
The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings
by Oscar Wilde
2,290 members, 19 reviews
4.12 stars (4.12 stars)

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4
Nausea
by Jean-Paul Sartre
9,012 members, 72 reviews
3.76 stars (3.76 stars)

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5
The Name of the Rose
by Umberto Eco
18,028 members, 284 reviews
4.2 stars (4.2 stars)

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6
The Plague
by Albert Camus
16,642 members, 223 reviews
3.95 stars (3.95 stars)

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7
Crime and Punishment
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
38,980 members, 443 reviews
4.25 stars (4.25 stars)

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8
The Magic Mountain
by Thomas Mann
8,603 members, 152 reviews
4.21 stars (4.21 stars)

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9
Heart of Darkness
by Joseph Conrad
21,145 members, 341 reviews
3.56 stars (3.56 stars)

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10
Siddhartha
by Hermann Hesse
25,217 members, 346 reviews
3.96 stars (3.96 stars)

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11
The Metamorphosis
by Franz Kafka
10,503 members, 172 reviews
3.89 stars (3.89 stars)

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12
Sophie's World
by Jostein Gaarder
17,226 members, 260 reviews
3.77 stars (3.77 stars)

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13
The Man Without Qualities
by Robert Musil
544 members, 8 reviews
4.34 stars (4.34 stars)

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14
Notes from Underground
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
11,073 members, 137 reviews
4.06 stars (4.06 stars)

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15
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
by Milan Kundera
20,760 members, 251 reviews
4.01 stars (4.01 stars)

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16
The Trial
by Franz Kafka
18,200 members, 212 reviews
4.01 stars (4.01 stars)

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18
The Brothers Karamazov
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
26,152 members, 294 reviews
4.37 stars (4.37 stars)

Lists: ehines (1), JuliaMaria (15), alex68 (26), thecoroner (26), roby72 (31)

19
The Immoralist
by André Gide
3,073 members, 38 reviews
3.59 stars (3.59 stars)

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20
Against Nature
by Joris-Karl Huysmans
3,225 members, 70 reviews
3.76 stars (3.76 stars)

Lists: alex68 (5), Insatiable8 (11), mspixieears (20), thecoroner (31), roby72 (44)

21
Under the Net
by Iris Murdoch
1,933 members, 45 reviews
3.63 stars (3.63 stars)

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22
Memoirs of Hadrian
by Marguerite Yourcenar
4,874 members, 114 reviews
4.15 stars (4.15 stars)

Lists: aulsmith (8), roby72 (12), alex68 (13), thecoroner (29)

23
Jacques the Fatalist
by Denis Diderot
1,660 members, 23 reviews
3.81 stars (3.81 stars)

Lists: thorold (4), alex68 (16), roby72 (30), thecoroner (33)

24
Memories of a Butterfly
by Ivan Vlasov
7 members, 2 reviews
3.67 stars (3.67 stars)

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25
War and Peace
by Leo Tolstoy
25,281 members, 399 reviews
4.27 stars (4.27 stars)

Lists: lewbs (8), thecoroner (18), alex68 (27), roby72 (34)

26
Narcissus and Goldmund
by Hermann Hesse
5,857 members, 76 reviews
4.07 stars (4.07 stars)

Lists: Insatiable8 (9), mspixieears (18), thecoroner (24), roby72 (37)

27
The Tartar Steppe
by Dino Buzzati
2,136 members, 49 reviews
4.07 stars (4.07 stars)

Lists: lewbs (9), roby72 (23), alex68 (28), thecoroner (32)

28
The Sea, the Sea
by Iris Murdoch
3,209 members, 87 reviews
3.93 stars (3.93 stars)

Lists: thorold (2), JuliaMaria (9), ahef1963 (28)

29
The Mandarins
by Simone de Beauvoir
1,589 members, 13 reviews
4.11 stars (4.11 stars)

Lists: JuliaMaria (19), thecoroner (28), alex68 (29), roby72 (38)

31
Life of Pi
by Yann Martel
40,532 members, 966 reviews
3.91 stars (3.91 stars)

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32
The Periodic Table
by Primo Levi
3,607 members, 65 reviews
4.15 stars (4.15 stars)

Lists: alex68 (12), mspixieears (19), roby72 (19)

33
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
by Italo Calvino
11,374 members, 235 reviews
4.05 stars (4.05 stars)

Lists: mspixieears (11), ahef1963 (18), roby72 (20), alex68 (30)

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34
The Vatican Cellars
by André Gide
1,248 members, 19 reviews
3.65 stars (3.65 stars)

Lists: alex68 (14), thecoroner (25), roby72 (33)

35
Waiting for the Barbarians
by J. M. Coetzee
3,943 members, 71 reviews
3.95 stars (3.95 stars)

Lists: alex68 (24), roby72 (24), ahef1963 (27)

36
Life and Fate
by Vasily Grossman
2,924 members, 78 reviews
4.37 stars (4.37 stars)

Lists: alex68 (18), thecoroner (21), roby72 (45)

37
Fictions
by Jorge Luis Borges
6,696 members, 99 reviews
4.38 stars (4.38 stars)

Lists: roby72 (5), lewbs (10), thecoroner (17)

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38
That Hideous Strength
by C. S. Lewis
7,345 members, 83 reviews
3.77 stars (3.77 stars)

Lists: inge87 (3), ahef1963 (23)

39
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
by Friedrich Nietzsche
11,875 members, 91 reviews
3.87 stars (3.87 stars)

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40
Malina
by Ingeborg Bachmann
617 members, 10 reviews
3.81 stars (3.81 stars)

Lists: thorold (7), alex68 (22)

41
The Magus
by John Fowles
1,317 members, 27 reviews
3.88 stars (3.88 stars)

Lists: ehines (7), ahef1963 (24)

42
A Tale of Two Cities
by Charles Dickens
32,541 members, 421 reviews
3.93 stars (3.93 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (7), roby72 (26)

43
Man's Fate
by André Malraux
2,310 members, 34 reviews
3.76 stars (3.76 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (10), alex68 (17)

44
One Hundred Years of Solitude
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
40,332 members, 610 reviews
4.18 stars (4.18 stars)

Lists: Insatiable8 (12), ahef1963 (15)

45
Anathem
by Neal Stephenson
7,620 members, 273 reviews
4.18 stars (4.18 stars)

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46
The First Century After Beatrice
by Amin Maalouf
342 members, 18 reviews
3.52 stars (3.52 stars)

Lists: inge87 (1)

47
The Road Trip Dialogues
by Jass Richards
8 members, 1 review
4.5 stars (4.5 stars)

Lists: ptittle (1)

48
Midnight's Children
by Salman Rushdie
12,688 members, 230 reviews
4.05 stars (4.05 stars)

Lists: mspixieears (12), ahef1963 (17), roby72 (21)

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49
The Castle
by Franz Kafka
7,660 members, 81 reviews
3.95 stars (3.95 stars)

Lists: lewbs (11), Insatiable8 (14), roby72 (36)

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50
The Idiot
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
14,462 members, 151 reviews
4.12 stars (4.12 stars)

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51
She Came to Stay
by Simone de Beauvoir
974 members, 9 reviews
3.79 stars (3.79 stars)

Lists: JuliaMaria (11), thecoroner (36)

52
The Black Prince
by Iris Murdoch
1,373 members, 37 reviews
3.78 stars (3.78 stars)

Lists: JuliaMaria (12), ahef1963 (33)

53
Infinite Jest
by David Foster Wallace
11,929 members, 229 reviews
4.24 stars (4.24 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (19), JuliaMaria (20)

54
Herzog
by Saul Bellow
4,779 members, 58 reviews
3.68 stars (3.68 stars)

Lists: roby72 (13), alex68 (31)

55
Steppenwolf
by Hermann Hesse
12,292 members, 168 reviews
4.02 stars (4.02 stars)

Lists: mspixieears (16), roby72 (28)

56
Wilhelm Meister's apprenticeship
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
838 members, 12 reviews
3.68 stars (3.68 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (16), alex68 (32)

57
Slaughterhouse-Five
by Kurt Vonnegut
40,268 members, 644 reviews
4.11 stars (4.11 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (2), mspixieears (9)

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58
The Blasphemy Tour
by Jass Richards
4 members, 0 reviews

Lists: ptittle (2)

59
The Glass Bead Game
by Hermann Hesse
6,282 members, 90 reviews
4.13 stars (4.13 stars)

Lists: elenchus (3), JuliaMaria (14)

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60
License to Do That
by Jass Richards
3 members, 0 reviews

Lists: ptittle (3)

61
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
by Thornton Wilder
4,342 members, 105 reviews
3.79 stars (3.79 stars)

Lists: aulsmith (4)

62
What Happened to Tom
by Peg Tittle
2 members, 0 reviews

Lists: ptittle (4)

63
Lord of Light
by Roger Zelazny
4,695 members, 103 reviews
4.03 stars (4.03 stars)

Lists: aulsmith (5)

64
Mist
by Miguel de Unamuno
1,058 members, 20 reviews
4.05 stars (4.05 stars)

Lists: thorold (5)

65
Der Schimmelreiter [sound recording]
by Theodor Storm
845 members, 17 reviews
3.69 stars (3.69 stars)

Lists: inge87 (6)

66
The Dispossessed
by Ursula K. Le Guin
9,309 members, 234 reviews
4.15 stars (4.15 stars)

Lists: aulsmith (7)

67
Der Ausflug Der Toten Madchen (German Edition)
by Anna Seghers
77 members, 1 review
3.75 stars (3.75 stars)

Lists: inge87 (7)

69
Night Train to Lisbon
by Pascal Mercier
2,869 members, 99 reviews
3.76 stars (3.76 stars)

Lists: thorold (8)

70
The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum
by Heinrich Böll
2,291 members, 40 reviews
3.75 stars (3.75 stars)

Lists: inge87 (8)

71
A Canticle for Leibowitz
by Walter M. Miller Jr.
10,574 members, 290 reviews
3.95 stars (3.95 stars)

Lists: ehines (9)

72
Gilead
by Marilynne Robinson
10,101 members, 355 reviews
3.89 stars (3.89 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (9)

73
The History of the Siege of Lisbon
by José Saramago
1,611 members, 23 reviews
3.8 stars (3.8 stars)

Lists: inge87 (9)

74
In Search of Lost Time
by Marcel Proust
3,487 members, 40 reviews
4.52 stars (4.52 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (5), roby72 (42)

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75
Love in the Time of Cholera
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
25,524 members, 376 reviews
3.96 stars (3.96 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (16)

76
The Satanic Verses
by Salman Rushdie
10,818 members, 128 reviews
3.77 stars (3.77 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (19)

77
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
by John Boyne
12,920 members, 822 reviews
3.97 stars (3.97 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (21)

78
The Metamorphosis [Bantam Classics]
by Franz Kafka
4,880 members, 70 reviews
3.79 stars (3.79 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (25)

79
Labyrinths
by Jorge Luis Borges
6,224 members, 79 reviews
4.43 stars (4.43 stars)

Lists: alex68 (15), roby72 (29)

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80
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
by Philip K. Dick
17,311 members, 444 reviews
3.95 stars (3.95 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (27)

81
Elizabeth Costello
by J. M. Coetzee
2,440 members, 43 reviews
3.4 stars (3.4 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (30)

82
The Double
by José Saramago
2,224 members, 53 reviews
3.79 stars (3.79 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (32)

83
Mantissa
by John Fowles
646 members, 8 reviews
3.18 stars (3.18 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (37)

84
The Master and Margarita
by Mikhail Bulgakov
18,077 members, 429 reviews
4.23 stars (4.23 stars)

Lists: roby72 (39)

85
Far from the Madding Crowd
by Thomas Hardy
10,180 members, 179 reviews
3.97 stars (3.97 stars)

Lists: roby72 (40)

86
The Island of the Day Before
by Umberto Eco
6,619 members, 61 reviews
3.32 stars (3.32 stars)

Lists: roby72 (41)

87
The Age of Reason
by Jean-Paul Sartre
3,097 members, 25 reviews
3.81 stars (3.81 stars)

Lists: roby72 (43)

88
Candide [Norton Critical Edition, 1st ed.]
by Voltaire
141 members, 2 reviews
4.25 stars (4.25 stars)

Lists: mspixieears (21), ahef1963 (36)

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89
Axiomatic
by Greg Egan
923 members, 21 reviews
4.13 stars (4.13 stars)

Lists: aulsmith (6)

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90
The Alchemist
by Paulo Coelho
34,384 members, 952 reviews
3.56 stars (3.56 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (13)

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91
Disgrace
by J. M. Coetzee
10,073 members, 254 reviews
3.85 stars (3.85 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (20)

Thumbs down: Artran

92
The Collector
by John Fowles
4,570 members, 117 reviews
3.95 stars (3.95 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (26)

Thumbs down: Artran

93
Life & Times of Michael K
by J. M. Coetzee
2,592 members, 62 reviews
3.81 stars (3.81 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (31)

Thumbs down: Artran

94
Collected Fictions
by Jorge Luis Borges
4,628 members, 55 reviews
4.6 stars (4.6 stars)

Lists: roby72 (32)

Thumbs down: Artran

95
Small Gods
by Terry Pratchett
10,997 members, 163 reviews
4.18 stars (4.18 stars)

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96
The Metamorphosis [Norton Critical Edition]
by Franz Kafka
797 members, 7 reviews
3.87 stars (3.87 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (35)

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