Canonical books
Books with canonical literary standing. Each guide explains the recognition and evidence behind its assessment.
457 book guides · Showing 97–144
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Agatha Christie
Canonical
The Plague
Albert Camus
Canonical
Les Miserables
Victor Hugo
Canonical
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Philip K. Dick
Canonical
Neuromancer
William Gibson
Canonical
A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens
Canonical
White Nights
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Canonical
A Study in Scarlet
Arthur Conan Doyle
Canonical
Tao Te Ching
Laozi
Canonical
A Midsummer Night's Dream
William Shakespeare
Canonical
The Return of the King
J.R.R. Tolkien
Canonical
Capital: A Critique of Political Economy
Karl Marx
Canonical
Don Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Canonical
Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro
Canonical
The Magician's Nephew
C. S. Lewis
Canonical
The Iliad
Homer
Canonical
The Call of the Wild
Jack London
Canonical
Love in the Time of Cholera
Gabriel García Márquez
Canonical
Gulliver's Travels
Jonathan Swift
Canonical
The Communist Manifesto
Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels
Canonical
Persuasion
Jane Austen
Canonical
Death on the Nile
Agatha Christie
Canonical
The Second Sex
Simone de Beauvoir
Canonical
Beyond Good & Evil
Friedrich Nietzsche
Canonical
All Quiet on the Western Front
Erich Maria Remarque
Canonical
The Republic
Plato
Canonical
The Haunting of Hill House
Shirley Jackson
Canonical
On the Road
Jack Kerouac
Canonical
Gone with the Wind
Margaret Mitchell
Canonical
Inferno
Dante Alighieri
Canonical
Flatland
Edwin Abbott Abbott
Canonical
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
Oliver Sacks
Canonical
Women in Love
D. H. Lawrence
Canonical
The Martian Chronicles
Ray Bradbury
Canonical
The Master and Margarita
Mikhail Bulgakov
Canonical
The Jungle
Upton Sinclair
Canonical
The Crucible
Arthur Miller
Canonical
The Idiot
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Canonical
The Wealth of Nations
Adam Smith
Canonical
Peter Pan
J. M. Barrie
Canonical
Paradise Lost
John Milton
Canonical
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Ernest Hemingway
Canonical
Giovanni's Room
James Baldwin
Canonical
A Room of One's Own
Virginia Woolf
Canonical
Robinson Crusoe
Daniel Defoe
Canonical
Julius Caesar
William Shakespeare
Canonical
Watership Down
Richard Adams
Canonical
The Phantom of the Opera
Gaston Leroux
Canonical
