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Existentialist

A framework focused on individual freedom and choice, forcing characters to confront the absurdity of an indifferent universe and construct their own authenticity.

The dizzying freedom of creating oneself from nothing. The terror and exhilaration of absolute choice in a universe that offers no inherent purpose. The weight of forging your own values and identity against the void.

Books

The Midnight LibraryMatt Haig
The Five People You Meet in HeavenMitch Albom
The People in the TreesHanya Yanagihara
Waiting for the BarbariansJ. M. Coetzee
Even Cowgirls Get the BluesTom Robbins
The UnconsoledKazuo Ishiguro
Blue TicketSophie Mackintosh
The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel ChristPhilip Pullman
Autobiography of redAnne Carson
TritonSamuel R. Delany
Jane, UnlimitedKristin Cashore
The gold bug variationsRichard Powers
The Winter GhostsKate Mosse
The blizzardVladimir Sorokin
All About EmilyConnie Willis
ConsumedDavid Cronenberg
The panopticonJenni Fagan
AmatkaKarin Tidbeck
The walls of the universePaul Melko
The Invisible HourAlice Hoffman
City of OrangeDavid Yoon
The Thing ItselfAdam Roberts
NogRudolph Wurlitzer
Out in the openJesús Carrasco
The Multiplex ManJames P. Hogan
Einstein's DreamsAlan Lightman
Albina and the dog-menAlejandro Jodorowsky
WavesM. A. Foster
The Freedom ArtistBen Okri
The circus of the earth and the airBrooke Stevens
Mr. BreakfastJonathan Carroll
The Clay Machine-GunVictor Pelevin
CruxAlbert E. Cowdrey
The Ghost in LoveJonathan Carroll
Time and chanceAlan Brennert
Sunrise westWilliam K. Carlson
The Way InnWill Wiles
KleinzeitRussell Hoban
Alicia IIRobert Thurston
the trialFranz Kafka
SolenoidMircea Cartarescu
AminadabMaurice Blanchot
Lost HorizonJames Hilton
IslandAldous Huxley
The Great DivorceC. S. Lewis
TomorrowChris Beckett
Slaughtered GodsThilde Kold Holdt
The museum of loveSteve Weiner
Our Tragic UniverseScarlett Thomas
The third policemanFlann O'Brien
Wrong side of the moonFrancis Leslie Ashton
The Inside Out ManFred Strydom
Concrete OperationalRichard Galbraith
Jonathan Livingston SeagullRichard Bach
Nineteen Eighty-FourGeorge Orwell
Belka, Why Don't You Bark?Hideo Furukawa
Ruin's WakePatrick Edwards
The WanderingIntan Paramaditha
The Higher SpaceJamil Nasir
Degree XIILeonard Daventry

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