The Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathFear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. ThompsonMrs. Dalloway by Virginia WoolfThe Old Man and the Sea by Ernest HemingwayThe Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Writers who committed suicide
538 books — 291 voters
The Shock Doctrine by Naomi KleinA People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn1984 by George OrwellThe Communist Manifesto by Karl MarxManufacturing Consent by Edward S. Herman
Best Left-Texts
680 books — 371 voters

Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo FreireThe Psychopath Test by Jon RonsonManufacturing Consent by Edward S. HermanThe Society of the Spectacle by Guy DebordAsylums by Erving Goffman
Emancipatory Theory and Philosophy
35 books — 23 voters
The Communist Manifesto by Karl MarxDas Kapital by Karl MarxThe State and Revolution by Vladimir LeninReform or Revolution by Rosa LuxemburgSocialism by Friedrich Engels
Socialist Classics
424 books — 337 voters

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerThe Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathJane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë1984 by George OrwellThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Books on Loneliness
516 books — 497 voters
1984 by George OrwellThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Infinite Jest by David Foster WallaceFight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
Postmodern cult classics
89 books — 102 voters

The Stranger by Albert CamusCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyNausea by Jean-Paul SartreThe Trial by Franz KafkaNotes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculo... by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Existential Literature
39 books — 29 voters
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank1984 by George OrwellThe Road by Cormac McCarthyA Story of Yesterday by Sergio CoboNight by Elie Wiesel
Most Depressing Book of All Time
1,229 books — 3,942 voters

The Stranger by Albert CamusCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaThe Trial by Franz KafkaNausea by Jean-Paul Sartre
Best Existential Fiction
458 books — 782 voters
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryLes Misérables by Victor HugoThe Stranger by Albert CamusThe Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre DumasMadame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Best French Literature
828 books — 1,577 voters