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.
- 2150 A.D.
- The Alexandria Quartet
- Alien in a Small Town
- The Arts of Dark and Light
- Atlas Shrugged
- A Symphony of Eternity
- Banaag at Sikat
- Barriers of a Broken Soul
- The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
- Bel Canto
- Blue Avenger (mostly the first book)
- The Book of Joan
- A Boot Stomping a Human Face Forever
- The Broom of the System
- The Brothers Karamazov
- Caffeine
- Crime and Punishment
- Decision of Fate
- Deep River
- Division by Zero has the protagonist, Kohana, confront God, who created the multiverse out of nothingness, and its creations, who create nothingness out of the multiverse. Division by Zero has many philosophical themes, existentialism, humanism, and philosophical theology at the forefront.
- The Elegance of the Hedgehog
- The End of Mr. Y
- Flatland
- The Fountainhead
- Filth
- Girl: "Who are you?" Alien: "Er, I'm an alien."
- God's Debris
- Gravity's Rainbow
- The Great Divorce
- Hayy ibn Yaqzan
- 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
- Okuyyuki
- La Oveja de Nathán
- The Plague
- The Planiverse
- Po-on
- Portnoy's Complaint
- The Pretenders
- The Screwtape Letters
- Siddhartha
- Sophie's World
- The Stranger
- Starmaker
- Terra Ignota
- The Tuning Station
- Upon This Pale Hill
- Victoria: A Novel of 4th Generation War
- A Voyage to Arcturus
- Waterland
- Who Needs Men?
- Youth in Sexual Ecstasy
- Xanthippic Dialogues
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance