Canonical books
Books with canonical literary standing. Each guide explains the recognition and evidence behind its assessment.
457 book guides · Showing 1–48
1984
George Orwell
Canonical
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
Canonical
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee
Canonical
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
J. K. Rowling
Canonical
Animal Farm
George Orwell
Canonical
The Hobbit
J.R.R. Tolkien
Canonical
The Little Prince
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Canonical
Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury
Canonical
Charlotte's Web
E. B. White
Canonical
The Metamorphosis
Franz Kafka
Canonical
Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë
Canonical
Brave New World
Aldous Huxley
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Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov
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The Stranger
Albert Camus
Canonical
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Canonical
Lord of the Flies
William Golding
Canonical
The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood
Canonical
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan Doyle
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Romeo and Juliet
William Shakespeare
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The Catcher in the Rye
J. D. Salinger
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Roald Dahl
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Carrie
Stephen King
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Little Women
Louisa May Alcott
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Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
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Dracula
Bram Stoker
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The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank
Canonical
The Lord of the Rings
J.R.R. Tolkien
Canonical
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
Canonical
The Bell Jar
Sylvia Plath
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The Fellowship of the Ring
J.R.R. Tolkien
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The Old Man and the Sea
Ernest Hemingway
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And Then There Were None
Agatha Christie
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Of Mice and Men
John Steinbeck
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Holes
Louis Sachar
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel García Márquez
Canonical
The Invisible Man
H. G. Wells
Canonical
Hamlet
William Shakespeare
Canonical
Moby-Dick
Herman Melville
Canonical
American Psycho
Bret Easton Ellis
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The Prince
Niccolò Machiavelli
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Things Fall Apart
Chinua Achebe
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Foundation
Isaac Asimov
Canonical
The Color Purple
Alice Walker
Canonical
I, Robot
Isaac Asimov
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The Time Machine
H. G. Wells
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