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Books About The Meaning of Life

Below is a list of books about the meaning of life. Please click the link below to read our review of the book and to find out how the book touches upon the topic of meaning. If you want to submit a book for review to be added to this list, scroll to the bottom of the page to enter the information. Also be sure to check out our Book MOL Index for a visual overview.

endev42 contributor - Samson Tonauac has also published two fictional books which touch on the topic of meaning and is working on a third book. More information can be found on his website

Reviewed

1 The Meaning of Life Proved and Explained
Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
Happiness - Essays On The Meaning Of Life
If It Bleeds - Life of Chuck by Stephen King
Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life by Héctor García and Francesc Miralles
Life Revisited: Finding Meaning and Purpose in an Age of Nihilism by Luke R.H. Schiller
Man's Search For Meaning In Spirituality by Dan Matzke
Man's Search For Ultimate Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
Meaning in Life and Why it Matters by Susan Wolf
Meaning of Life by Swami Nikhilananda
Midlife: A Philosophical Guide by Kieran Setiya
Mortalism: Readings on the Meaning of Life by Peter Heinegg
Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut
On Purpose: How We Create the Meaning of Life by Paul Froese
On the Meaning of Life by Will Durant
Permutation City by Greg Egan
Questions of Perspective by Daniel Maunz
Self and Meaning in the Lives of Older People by Peter G. Coleman et al
Sex, Murder, and the Meaning of Life by Douglas T. Kenrick
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
The Brain and the Meaning of Life by Paul Thagard
The Eskimo Invasion by Hayden Howard
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Logical Meaning of Life by David Chang
The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
The Meaning Of Life According To A Cancer Survivor by Mark James
The Meaning of Human Existence by Edward O. Wilson
The Meaning of Life Book by Rev. Grand Master Stephen Barham
The Meaning of Life by Bradley Trevor Greive
The Meaning of Life by Darrell Schweitzer
The Meaning of Life by Mae Louis
The Meaning of Life by Marshall Brain
The Meaning of Life by Steve Pavlina
The Meaning of Life by Vimal Sehgal
The Meaning of Life: The Reciprocal Theory of Analysis by Marilyn Haley
The Moaning of Life: The Worldly Wisdom of Karl Pilkington by Karl Pilkington
The Puzzler: One Man's Quest to Solve the Most Baffling Puzzles Ever, from Crosswords to Jigsaws to the Meaning of Life
The Real, True Meaning of Life: The Real Meaning of Life, the Universe, and the Afterlife by Ray Ouellette
The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut
The meaning of life & The rules by Jonathon Murray
Visitors from Lanulos by Woodrow Derenberger
What Is The Meaning Of Life? by Vern Lovic
What Is the Meaning of Life?: One Question. Many Perspectives. edited by Scott Hoops
What's It All About?: Philosophy And The Meaning Of Life by Julian Baggini
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
Wittgenstein and Meaning in Life: In Search of the Human Voice by R. Hosseini
Your Origin and Destiny: Explore the Meaning of Life, Time and Creation by Ivan Rudolph

Not Reviewed

Debates on the Meaning of Life, Evolution and Spiritualism by Frank Harris
Esquire The Meaning of Life: Wisdom, Humor, and Damn Good Advice from 64 Extraordinary Lives
Exploring the Meaning of Life: An Anthology and Guide
Finding Meaning in Life, at Midlife and Beyond by David Guttmann
Life and Meaning: A Philosophical Reader (Historical Association Studies)
Life, Death, and Meaning: Key Philosophical Readings on the Big Questions
Man Made God: The Meaning of Life by Luc Ferry
Meanings of Life by Roy F. Baumeister
Movies and the Meaning of Life: Philosophers Take on Hollywood by Kimberly A. Blessing
Movies and the Meaning of Life: The Most Profound Films in Cinematic History by Wayne Omura
Nothingness and the Meaning of Life by Nicholas Waghorn
On the Meaning of Life by Garrett Thomson
On the Meaning of Life by John Cottingham
Philosophy in a Meaningless Life by James Tartaglia
Real Answers to The Meaning of Life and Finding Happiness by Timothy Tang
Search for the Meaning of Life by by Bruce Bickel and Stan Jantz
Soon You Will Understand... The Meaning of Life by William Blank
The Death of God and the Meaning of Life by Julian Young
The Meaning Of Life by Mark Morris
The Meaning of Life and the Great Philosophers
The Meaning of Life by Aaron E. Freeman
The Meaning of Life by Dean Gualco
The Meaning of Life by E D Klemke
The Meaning of Life by Hugh Moorhead
The Meaning of Life by Reid S James
The Meaning of Life in Hinduism and Buddhism by Floyd H Ross
The Meaning of Life in the World Religion by Joseph Runzo
The Meaning of Life: A Very Short Introduction by Terry Eagleton
The Meaning of Life: According to the Great and the Good by Richard Kinnier
The Meaning of Life: And Other Lectures on Fundamental Issues by Rudolf Steiner
The Meaning of Life: Buddhist Perspectives on Cause and Effect by the Dalai Lamai
The Meaning of Life: Religious, Philosophical, Transhumanist, and Scientific Perspectives by John G. Messerly
The Moaning of Life: The Worldly Wisdom of Karl Pilkington
The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays by Albert Camus
The Purpose of Life: An Investigation of the Meaning of Life Based on Reason by Shrihas Shah
The Real Meaning of Life by David Seaman
The Ultimate Meaning of Life: And Answers to Other Really Big Questions by Guy McKanna
Tracking the Meaning of Life: A Philosophical Journey by Yuval Lurie

Comics and Graphic Novels

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