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Boredom
Novel by Italian author Alberto Moravia, published in 1960, using a painter's obsessive and ultimately futile pursuit of a young model to explore existential alienation and the impossibility of authentic feeling.
apps Top Boredom Alternatives
The top alternative to Boredom in 2026 is Austerlitz with a score of 9.47/10, followed by In Search of Lost Time (9.20) and The Man Without Qualities (9.18).
Austerlitz
Austerlitz is a 2001 novel by W. G. Sebald, written in German and narrated through the recollections of Jacques Austerli...
In Search of Lost Time
Published in seven volumes between 1913 and 1927, Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time follows a narrator through Fren...
The Man Without Qualities
Robert Musil's unfinished novel The Man Without Qualities began appearing in 1930 and follows life in Vienna and the Aus...
The Passion According to G.H.
The Passion According to G.H. is a novel by Brazilian author Clarice Lispector, published in 1964. The narrative consist...
Molloy
Molloy is a novel by Samuel Beckett, originally written in French and published in 1951. It is the first volume of a tri...
The Hour of the Star
The Hour of the Star is the final novel by Brazilian author Clarice Lispector, published posthumously in 1977. The narra...
Mist (Niebla)
Mist, published in Spanish as Niebla, is a 1914 novel by Miguel de Unamuno. Its protagonist, Augusto Pérez, becomes awar...
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World is a 1985 novel by Japanese writer Haruki Murakami. It alternates betwee...
The Tartar Steppe
The Tartar Steppe is a 1940 novel by Italian author Dino Buzzati. The story follows Giovanni Drogo, a young officer who...
Man's Fate
*Man's Fate* (*La Condition Humaine*) is a 1933 novel by André Malraux that explores the psychological and existential d...
The Moviegoer
*The Moviegoer* is the debut novel of American author Walker Percy, published in 1961. It follows Binx Bolling, a young...
A Personal Matter
Kenzaburō Ōe's 1964 Japanese novel following a man who contemplates abandoning his brain-damaged newborn, a work of exis...
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
'The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge' is the only novel written by the Bohemian-Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke, publ...
The Opposing Shore
"The Opposing Shore" is a novel penned by French author Julien Gracq and published in 1951. It is a masterful work of ph...
Pincher Martin
Pincher Martin is a 1956 philosophical novel by British author William Golding that explores themes of survival, isolati...
Death with Interruptions
Death with Interruptions is a novel by the Portuguese Nobel laureate José Saramago, originally published in 2005. The na...
Thomas the Obscure
Thomas the Obscure is a philosophical novel by the French author Maurice Blanchot, originally published in 1941 and late...
The Blood of Others
The Blood of Others, originally published in French as Le Sang des autres, is a 1945 novel by Simone de Beauvoir. Set in...
The Vatican Cellars
"The Vatican Cellars" (original French title: *Les Caves du Vatican*) is a satirical novel published in 1914 by the Fren...
Dangling Man
Dangling Man is Saul Bellow's first novel, published in 1944. Written in the form of a journal, it follows Joseph, a Chi...
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