having an existential crisis...

[wokeem]

I've developed an interest in existentialism as of late. I'm not a philosophy major, and as a whole the field is one that I am very unfamiliar with. I was introduced to existentialism in a class that I was enrolled in last semester and since that time I've taken the opportunity to read up on some of what seems to considered the good starting point texts that address existentialism such as Notes From the Underground, Nausea, Genealogy of Morality, and have just recently started The Stranger.

I'm looking to pick up Sartre's Being and Nothingness soon, but was wondering as to what may be some other note worthy titles, or existentialist philosophers, to look into?

[illiades]

If you are unfamiliar with philosophy then avoid Sartre's rigorous works, like being and nothingness, for now.
They will put you off philosophy for a while.
Sartre's own philosophy was consciously illogical and this clearly tormented him.
He believed in one thing and something else at the same time, 'existentialism is a humanism', but could never bring the two together coherently. Nevertheless, his points were masterful.

Stay with Camus, he has a number of works of interest.

If you want the best of existential literature then go to Dostoevsky.
Notes from the Underground is the best starting point for existentialism. It is, as it were, the launchpad.
From there you have Crime and Punishment, Brothers Karamazov and The Idiot. Others too.

Once your done with those head back to Sartre, but not for 'being and nothingness'. It is very much an academic piece of literature. Check Nausea.
Sartre never really wrote a great novel, his ideas were beautiful but often poorly explained.

Just to add.
If you don't want existential fiction but philosophy in its academic form, check Heidegger.
Dont jump right in, you will probably be lost and confused between Dasein and dasein.

[Sebas. Melmoth]

Pray consider Kierkegaard's The Sickness Unto Death.