Favorite existential novels/fiction?

[mlzplayer111]

A while ago I finished "A roadside picnic" by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky and I was blown away at how good the book was, I would highly recommend. Anyways the book felt like a culmination of a lot of my own thinking albeit in a more poetic way than I could put into words, and im hungry for similar books that also tickle that same contemplation of existence in a fiction setting.

Any recommendations/similar reads?

[Anodos]

When I first read "Roadside Picnic" The discussion which explains the picnic analogy was mind-blowing for me when I first read it. Thinking about the wild and fantastical artifacts left behind during the visitation, and how we humans are simply fumbling blindly with mundane objects we simply do not comprehend. Easily the best work of Science Fiction I have ever read.

If you are looking for books in a similar vein I also recommend "The Doomed City" by the same authors. Not as good as Roadside, but still really strange and enjoyable. The Strugatsky Brothers understand well that the most satisfying mysteries are never answered. It leaves the reader contemplating the what the truth could possibly have been, long after they finished the book.

Glad you found this title. I think I have loaned it out to almost all of my friends at this point.

[mlzplayer111]

>Glad you found this title. I think I have loaned it out to almost all of my friends at this point

I bought it digitally but am seriously considering getting a copy only to loan out