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Gary Cox. How to Be an Existentialist. or How to Get Real, Get a Grip and Stop Making Excuses.
It's short and well written with humor and lightness. Sartre is the focus. He's an expert on Sartre. It covers the basic concepts from Sartre's Being and Time along with a little Heidegger, Nietzsche, De Beauvoir and others; with many real world examples. He says that people can be existentialist while believing in god. The God issue is not addressed in any detail.
>Gary Cox has a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Birmingham, UK, where he is also an Honorary Research Fellow. He is author of The Sartre Dictionary, Sartre and Fiction, Sartre: A Guide for the Perplexed, How to Be an Existentialist, The Existentialist's Guide, How to Be a Philosopher, The God Confusion, Deep Thought and a biography of Sartre, Existentialism and Excess– all published by Bloomsbury.
His other popular book on this subject is also good, but it's slightly bigger and denser because it is a "guide" to everything in life with chapters on marriage, children, sex, death and god etc. It covers everything in the first book, but that material is condensed and then it moves on to various subjects. The subtitle is "To Death, the Universe, and Nothingness" so... It's a little darker in tone. That might be alienating to some.
Gary Cox. The Existentialist's Guide.