Works of fiction in which a significant proportion of the work is devoted to a discussion of the sort of questions normally addressed in discursive philosophy.
- Two Thousand One Hundred Fifty AD
- A Boot Stomping a Human Face Forever
- The Alexandria Quartet
- Atlas Shrugged
- A Symphony of Eternity
- Barriers of a Broken Soul
- The Book of Joan
- The Broom of the System
- The Brothers Karamazov
- Caffeine
- Crime and Punishment
- Decision Of Fate
- Deep River
- The End of Mr. Y
- The Fountainhead
- Filth
- God's Debris
- Gravity's Rainbow
- The Great Divorce
- The Elegance of the Hedgehog
- The Idiot
- If on a winter's night a traveler
- Invisible Cities
- Ishmael
- Island
- The Joy
- How Kazir Won His Wife
- Knowledge Of Angels
- Last and First Men
- Logicomix
- The Eyes Of My Princess
- Magnet Girl Wireless
- The Man Who Was Thursday
- Mass
- Oracle of Tao has the main character involved in questions about the nature of existence, the nature of God, and the afterlife in a post-apocalyptic setting.
- Okuyyuki
- The Plague
- Po-on
- Portnoy's Complaint
- The Pretenders
- The Screwtape Letters
- Sophie's World
- The Stranger
- Starmaker
- Terra Ignota
- Victoria has several philosophical themes, but most prominently, it explores various views of human nature, as well as their consequences when enshrined as part of governing ideologies.
- A Voyage to Arcturus
- Waterland
- Who Needs Men?
- Youth in Sexual Ecstasy
