The Second Sex

Existentialism Is a Humanism

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Either/Or A Fragment of Life

The Unexamined Life: Books That Force Self-Reflection

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The Second Sex

The Second Sex

Simone De Beauvoir

Existentialism Is a Humanism

Existentialism Is a Humanism

Jean-Paul Sartre

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Milan Kundera

Either/Or A Fragment of Life

Either/Or A Fragment of Life

Soren Kierkegaard

The Consolation of Philosophy

The Consolation of Philosophy

Boethius

Man's Search for Meaning

Man's Search for Meaning

Viktor E. Frankl

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Friedrich Nietzsche

Being and Nothingness

Being and Nothingness

Jean-Paul Sartre

The Myth of Sisyphus

The Myth of Sisyphus

Albert Camus

Nausea

Nausea

Jean-Paul Sartre

The Sickness Unto Death

The Sickness Unto Death

Soren Kierkegaard, Søren Kierkegaard

Fear and Trembling

Fear and Trembling

Soren Kierkegaard

Walden

Walden

Henry David Thoreau

The White Album: Essays

The White Album: Essays

Joan Didion

Confessions

Confessions

Saint Augustine (of Hippo)

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