# The best Albert Camus books

Novels, essays and plays: the Camus books to read, from The Stranger to The First Man.

- 18 votes · 13 items
- Feb 3, 2025 · Damien Gautier
- https://even.best/en/l/3060/the-best-albert-camus-books

## Top 13

1. **The Myth of Sisyphus** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — 1942. The essay on the absurd and a happy Sisyphus.
2. **The Plague** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — 1947. An epidemic in Oran; reread everywhere during Covid.
3. **Betwixt and Between** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — 1937. His first book, about his childhood in Algiers.
4. **The Fall** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 1956. The confession of a former lawyer in an Amsterdam bar.
5. **The Rebel** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 1951. The limits of revolt; the break with Sartre.
6. **The First Man** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 1994. The unfinished autobiographical novel found after his death.
7. **The Just Assassins** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 1949. Russian revolutionaries facing the question of political murder.
8. **Nuptials** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 1939. Luminous essays on Tipasa and Algeria.
9. **Exile and the Kingdom** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 1957. Six stories, including "The Guest".
10. **The Misunderstanding** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 1944. A son returns incognito to his mother's inn.
11. **The Stranger** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — 1942. Meursault and the absurd; one of the most read novels in the world.
12. **Caligula** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1944. The emperor who takes the logic of the absurd to its end.
13. **A Happy Death** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — 1971. A posthumous first novel, a draft of The Stranger.

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