Silent Spring by Rachel CarsonRosalind Franklin by Brenda MaddoxLab Girl by Hope JahrenIn the Shadow of Man by Jane GoodallNobel Prize Women in Science by Sharon Bertsch McGrayne
Female Scientists
170 books — 105 voters
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
466 books — 287 voters

Dracula by Bram StokerFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëHeart of Darkness by Joseph ConradThe Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
Norton Critical Editions
345 books — 61 voters
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezThe Stranger by Albert CamusThe Old Man and the Sea by Ernest HemingwaySiddhartha by Hermann HesseLord of the Flies by William Golding
Nobel Laureates
659 books — 563 voters