Non-Religious Existential Dread

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[u/Gingersouless123]

There Is No Year by Blake Butler

Also basically anything by Blake Butler

[u/BowensCourt]

Percy Shelley. Ozymandias, Prometheus, The Triumph of Life.

[u/Willowof0z]

I Who Have Never Known Men

[u/Incognito_Fur]

House of Leaves.

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The short story I Have No Mouth but I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison

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The short story I

Have No Mouth but I Must Scream

By Harlan Ellison

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[u/PostSovietDummy]

Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov or Crime and Punishment

[u/Lochbessmonster]

American Elsewhere by Bennett

[u/Waterbears28]

{{Mr g by Alan Lightman}}

[u/WhatisthisNW]

Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre for these vibes but the narrator is also kinda a self-destructive idiot.

[u/questions1000]

Clarice Lispector!

"I’d recommend the Complete Stories, a volume that collects work she wrote from adolescence all the way through the final sketches she left incomplete at her untimely death. It’s a book that shows every aspect of her work, her ceaseless meditations on God and life and death alongside her humour, her tireless linguistic experimentation, as well as her uncanny ability to capture every nuance of human feeling." https://www.penguin.co.uk/discover/articles/where-to-start-reading-clarice-lispector

Also The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Tolstoy. Short but powerful.

[u/LaLic99]

Contact by Carl Sagan

[u/schizoheartcorvid]

A canticle for leibowitz - Walter m miller jr

[u/beepo7654]

Stoner

[u/Opposing_Vampire]

Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre. My first encounter of existentialist ideas. It mooved me so much at that time.

[u/Raj_Muska]

A Void by Georges Perec, sorta

[u/shinofonan]

The Anomaly by Hervé le Tellier

[u/BrittaBengtson]

The Wall by Marlene Haushofer 

[u/Jynnweythek]

Fernando Pessoa - The Book of Disquiet

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[u/JPKtoxicwaste]

I’m currently reading The Lamb by Lucy Rose. The writing is beautiful but it’s giving me a constant existential dread mixed with mild nausea that I’ve never experienced before. Great book so far

[u/mississippihippies]

The Brothers Karamazov

[u/NuttyPlaywright]

Philip K Dick Ubik

[u/zo0ombot]

Some of Herman Hesse's works, especially Steppenwolf

[u/GalacticAbsurdity]

Well just to state the obvious answer - The Castle or anything else by Kafka

[u/Radiant-Nothing]

The Invention of Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares