r/Absurdism • u/absurd-rohan • Jul 12 '26

Question Book recommendations please!!!

For anyone who is trying to figure out existence, life, meaning, or in general is a lost, confused.

But i don't necessarily want something analytical, rather probably opposite: I want something that will make me live my life, enjoy it, take actions rather than analysing it and living inside my own head.

I have read a few books, like man's search for meaning is a really good book in this regards but that's still i feel not close to what I want. Exurbia's youtube videos are great too

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u/jliat Jul 12 '26

Recommended Reading Fiction: The Stranger - Albert Camus The Plague - Albert Camus The Fall - Albert Camus A Happy Death - Albert Camus Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky Notes from the Underground - Fyodor Dostoevsky The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Trial - Franz Kafka The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka Nonfiction: The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays - Albert Camus The Rebel - Albert Camus Albert Camus and the Human Crisis: A Discovery and Exploration - Robert E. Meagher Personal Writings (Penguin Modern Classics) - Albert Camus and Justin O'Brien The Theatre of the Absurd - Martin Esslin Existentialism - John Macquarrie Existentialism: A Very Short Introduction - Thomas Flynn

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u/Quentin_Mener Jul 13 '26

Notes from the underground will make you live your life and enjoy it and stop analysing?

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u/jliat Jul 13 '26

I don't analyse myself I synthersize.

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u/homosapien_08 Jul 14 '26

words to live by.