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Books Like Nausea

by Jean-Paul Sartre · about this book

Loved Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre? If its classics, philosophy and diary format hooked you, these 20 books hit the same notes — starting with The Stranger, The Buffalo Hunter Hunter and The Left Hand of Darkness. Every pick is matched by what’s actually inside the book, not just its genre, and we skip other books by the same author so you find someone new.

What’s inside Nausea: Classics · Philosophy · Diary Format · First Person Narrator · Male Lead

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   The Stranger

   Albert Camus

   Philosophy · Bleak · Classics · Character-Driven · First Person Narrator

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   The Buffalo Hunter Hunter

   Stephen Graham Jones

   Diary Format · Bleak · Literary Fiction · First Person Narrator · Male Lead

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   The Left Hand of Darkness

   Ursula K. Le Guin

   Classics · Literary Fiction · Slow-Paced · Philosophy · Character-Driven

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   Jane Eyre

   Charlotte Bronte

   Classics · Literary Fiction · Self-Discovery · Character-Driven · Dense Prose

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5. 

   Piranesi

   Susanna Clarke

   Diary Format · Literary Fiction · Self-Discovery · First Person Narrator · Character-Driven

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   I Who Have Never Known Men

   Jacqueline Harpman

   Bleak · Finding Purpose · Philosophy · Literary Fiction · Self-Discovery

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   Frankenstein

   Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

   Classics · Bleak · Literary Fiction · Dense Prose · First Person Narrator

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8. 

   Robinson Crusoe

   Daniel Defoe

   Classics · Diary Format · First Person Narrator · Male Lead · Dense Prose

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9. 

   The Catcher in the Rye

   Jerome David Salinger

   Depression · Classics · Character-Driven · Literary Fiction · Self-Discovery

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10. 

    Great Expectations

    Charles Dickens

    Classics · Self-Discovery · Literary Fiction · Character-Driven · Male Lead

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11. 

    Fight Club

    Chuck Palahniuk

    Classics · Literary Fiction · Depression · Self-Discovery · First Person Narrator

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12. 

    Of Human Bondage

    W. Somerset Maugham

    Classics · Finding Purpose · Slow-Paced · Character-Driven · Self-Discovery

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13. 

    In the Woods

    Tana French

    Bleak · Slow-Paced · First Person Narrator · Character-Driven · Male Lead

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14. 

    On the Calculation of Volume I

    Solvej Balle

    Diary Format · Philosophy · Slow-Paced · Literary Fiction · Character-Driven

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15. 

    Gather

    Kenneth M. Cadow

    Self-Discovery · Finding Purpose · Character-Driven · Male Lead · Slow-Paced

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16. 

    A Short Stay in Hell

    Steven L. Peck

    Bleak · Philosophy · First Person Narrator · Male Lead · Literary Fiction

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17. 

    A Psalm for the Wild-Built

    Becky Chambers

    Philosophy · Character-Driven · Self-Discovery · Depression · Finding Purpose

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18. 

    Lord of the Flies

    William Golding

    Bleak · Classics · Literary Fiction · Philosophy · Male Lead

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19. 

    Parable of the Sower

    Octavia E. Butler

    Diary Format · Bleak · Classics · Literary Fiction · First Person Narrator

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    Anna Karenina

    Leo Tolstoy

    Classics · Character-Driven · Slow-Paced · Literary Fiction · Philosophy

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