Stiff by Mary RoachSmoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin DoughtyHamlet by William ShakespeareFrom Here to Eternity by Caitlin DoughtyThe Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Thanatopsis: Death, Dying, and Mortality
583 books — 264 voters
The Stranger by Albert Camus1984 by George OrwellSiddhartha by Hermann HesseThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Best Philosophical Literature
1,170 books — 2,727 voters

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel SparkTrainspotting by Irvine WelshDr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis StevensonKnots and Crosses by Ian RankinMary Queen of Scots by Antonia Fraser
Books set in Edinburgh
135 books — 72 voters
Embers by Sándor MáraiJourney by Moonlight by Antal SzerbThe Door by Magda SzabóFatelessness by Imre KertészThe Paul Street Boys by Ferenc Molnár
20th Century Hungarian Literature
146 books — 189 voters