Canonical books
Books with canonical literary standing. Each guide explains the recognition and evidence behind its assessment.
457 book guides · Showing 145–192
Atonement
Ian McEwan
Canonical
Prince Caspian
C. S. Lewis
Canonical
Death of a Salesman
Arthur Miller
Canonical
The Tempest
William Shakespeare
Canonical
The Fall
Albert Camus
Canonical
The Left Hand of Darkness
Ursula K. Le Guin
Canonical
The Selfish Gene
Richard Dawkins
Canonical
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan Doyle
Canonical
The Age of Innocence
Edith Wharton
Canonical
Around the World in Eighty Days
Jules Verne
Canonical
Gödel, Escher, Bach
Douglas R. Hofstadter
Canonical
Demian
Hermann Hesse
Canonical
The Lost World
Arthur Conan Doyle
Canonical
The Man in the High Castle
Philip K. Dick
Canonical
Journey to the Centre of the Earth
Jules Verne
Canonical
Bridge to Terabithia
Katherine Paterson
Canonical
Kindred
Octavia E. Butler
Canonical
The Fountainhead
Ayn Rand
Canonical
Mrs. Dalloway
Virginia Woolf
Canonical
Through the Looking-Glass
Lewis Carroll
Canonical
The House of the Spirits
Isabel Allende
Canonical
The House on Mango Street
Sandra Cisneros
Canonical
The Castle
Franz Kafka
Canonical
A Farewell to Arms
Ernest Hemingway
Canonical
The Awakening
Kate Chopin
Canonical
Candide
Voltaire
Canonical
Physics
Aristotle
Canonical
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Jules Verne
Canonical
The Divine Comedy
Dante Alighieri
Canonical
The Prophet
Kahlil Gibran
Canonical
White Fang
Jack London
Canonical
The Joy Luck Club
Amy Tan
Canonical
Passing
Nella Larsen
Canonical
Lonesome Dove
Larry McMurtry
Canonical
Heidi
Johanna Spyri
Canonical
The Origin of Species
Charles Darwin
Canonical
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston
Canonical
Foundation and Empire
Isaac Asimov
Canonical
The Confessions
Augustine of Hippo
Canonical
Othello
William Shakespeare
Canonical
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Ken Kesey
Canonical
The Pearl
John Steinbeck
Canonical
The Raven
Edgar Allan Poe
Canonical
To the Lighthouse
Virginia Woolf
Canonical
Maurice
E. M. Forster
Canonical
Dubliners
James Joyce
Canonical
Madame Bovary
Gustave Flaubert
Canonical
The Fire Next Time
James Baldwin
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