📚 Existentialism

Books with existentialism on their catalogue record, first published between 1924 and 2014, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject existentialism in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 4,109 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	... Trotzdem Ja zum Leben sagen	Viktor Emil Frankl	1946	111
	L'être et le néant	Jean-Paul Sartre	1943	86
	L'Homme révolté	Albert Camus	1951	82
	The New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy	Burt Hopkins	2014	56
	Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are dead	Tom Stoppard	1967	55
	Ärztliche Seelsorge	Viktor Emil Frankl	1947	30
	The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays	Albert Camus	1955	30
	Pour une morale de l'ambiguite	Simone de Beauvoir	1947	28
	Text-book of pathology	Muir, Robert Sir	1924	26
	La transcendance de l'ego	Jean-Paul Sartre	1957	24
	A Kierkegaard anthology	Søren Kierkegaard	1936	21
	Reason & violence	R. D. Laing	1964	21
	Irrational man	William Barrett	1958	17
	Was ist das -- die Philosophie	Martin Heidegger	1956	16
	Zur Seinsfrage	Martin Heidegger	1956	16
	Being-in-the-world	Ludwig Binswanger	1963	14
	Existentialist Thought	Ronald Grimsley	1955	12
	Art nouveau	Robert Schmutzler	1962	11
	Worlds of Existentialism	Maurice S. Friedman	1964	11
	Wherever You Go, There You Are	Jon Kabat-Zinn	1994	11
	At the Existentialist Café	Sarah Bakewell	2012	11
	Court traité de l'existence et de l'existant	Jacques Maritain	1947	10
	Pour une Morale de l'Ambiguite Pyrrhus et Cineas	Simone de Beauvoir	1947	9
	What is existentialism?	William Barrett	1947	8
	Introduction aux existentialismes	Emmanuel Mounier	1947	8
	Four existentialist theologians	Will Herberg	1958	8
	The journals of Søren Kierkegaard	Søren Kierkegaard	1938	7
	Existential psychology	Rollo May	1961	7
	Everyday mysteries	Emmy van Deurzen	1997	7
	The Discovery of Being	Rollo May	1983	6

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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