Canonical books
Books with canonical literary standing. Each guide explains the recognition and evidence behind its assessment.
457 book guides · Showing 49–96
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
C. S. Lewis
Canonical
Mein Kampf
Adolf Hitler
Canonical
Murder on the Orient Express
Agatha Christie
Canonical
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë
Canonical
'Salem's Lot
Stephen King
Canonical
Beloved
Toni Morrison
Canonical
The BFG
Roald Dahl
Canonical
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson
Canonical
The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas
Canonical
A Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens
Canonical
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
L. Frank Baum
Canonical
A Wrinkle in Time
Madeleine L'Engle
Canonical
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain
Canonical
Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut
Canonical
The Cat in the Hat
Dr. Seuss
Canonical
The Secret Garden
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Canonical
Anne of Green Gables
L. M. Montgomery
Canonical
Macbeth
William Shakespeare
Canonical
The Two Towers
J.R.R. Tolkien
Canonical
The War of the Worlds
H. G. Wells
Canonical
In Cold Blood
Truman Capote
Canonical
The Odyssey
Homer
Canonical
Speak
Laurie Halse Anderson
Canonical
Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy
Canonical
Siddhartha
Hermann Hesse
Canonical
Emma
Jane Austen
Canonical
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Mark Twain
Canonical
Catch-22
Joseph Heller
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Flowers for Algernon
Daniel Keyes
Canonical
East of Eden
John Steinbeck
Canonical
The ABC Murders
Agatha Christie
Canonical
The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck
Canonical
Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad
Canonical
The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Canonical
Treasure Island
Robert Louis Stevenson
Canonical
Number the Stars
Lois Lowry
Canonical
A Clockwork Orange
Anthony Burgess
Canonical
Great Expectations
Charles Dickens
Canonical
Sense and Sensibility
Jane Austen
Canonical
The Golden Compass
Philip Pullman
Canonical
Notes from Underground
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Canonical
Guns, Germs, and Steel
Jared Diamond
Canonical
Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens
Canonical
The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Canonical
Blood Meridian
Cormac McCarthy
Canonical
A Wizard of Earthsea
Ursula K. Le Guin
Canonical
The Trial
Franz Kafka
Canonical
The Godfather
Mario Puzo
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