The best Albert Camus books
The top 3 according to 18 votes from people: The Myth of Sisyphus · The Plague · Betwixt and Between. (Updated Feb 3, 2025.)
Novels, essays and plays: the Camus books to read, from The Stranger to The First Man.
Automatically translated (original in Français). See the original
Top 13
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The Myth of Sisyphus
1942. The essay on the absurd and a happy Sisyphus.
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The Plague
1947. An epidemic in Oran; reread everywhere during Covid.
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Betwixt and Between
1937. His first book, about his childhood in Algiers.
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The Fall
1956. The confession of a former lawyer in an Amsterdam bar.
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The Rebel
1951. The limits of revolt; the break with Sartre.
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The First Man
1994. The unfinished autobiographical novel found after his death.
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The Just Assassins
1949. Russian revolutionaries facing the question of political murder.
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Nuptials
1939. Luminous essays on Tipasa and Algeria.
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Exile and the Kingdom
1957. Six stories, including "The Guest".
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The Misunderstanding
1944. A son returns incognito to his mother's inn.
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The Stranger
1942. Meursault and the absurd; one of the most read novels in the world.
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Caligula
1944. The emperor who takes the logic of the absurd to its end.
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A Happy Death
1971. A posthumous first novel, a draft of The Stranger.
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Comments (1)
Le Mythe de Sisyphe avant L'Étranger, choix audacieux mais je valide