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What should I read of Heidegger & Husserl to help me understand Being and Nothingness?

I know nothing about philosophy. I've read *The Stranger* & *The Plague* and really liked them. When I Googled Camus to learn more about him, it said "People also search for Jean-Paul Sartre" and *Being and Nothingness* came up when I clicked on it so I ordered it.

Now I've started trying to reading it and it's difficult to understand.

From searching around on this sub I've figured out that some things I could read first to help would be:

* *Existentialism Is a Humanism* - Sartre
* *The Transcendence of the Ego* - Sartre
* *Meditations on First Philosophy* - Descartes

And then I saw several suggestions to read Heidegger & Husserl, but there weren't many specific suggestions. I wrote down *Being and Time* and *The Paris Lectures*, but I'm not sure if those are the right ones to read. Any suggestions?
gpt
Trying to read Hiedegger to understand Satre as an amauter is like learning to be a helicopter pilot in order to get to the grocery store faster. Incredibly difficult and unlikely to help you very much. *Being and Time* is probably one of the most difficult Philosophy books out there, and Husserl isn't know for being an easy read. 

Just read Satre.