Canonical books
Books with canonical literary standing. Each guide explains the recognition and evidence behind its assessment.
457 book guides · Showing 193–240

The Merchant of Venice
William Shakespeare
Canonical

The Jungle Book
Rudyard Kipling
Canonical

The Sign of Four
Arthur Conan Doyle
Canonical

Second Foundation
Isaac Asimov
Canonical

Survival in Auschwitz
Primo Levi
Canonical

A Little Princess
Frances Hodgson Burnett
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The Island of Dr Moreau
H. G. Wells
Canonical

Steppenwolf
Hermann Hesse
Canonical

Midnight's Children
Salman Rushdie
Canonical

The Murders in the Rue Morgue
Edgar Allan Poe
Canonical

The Subtle Knife
Philip Pullman
Canonical

The Nicomachean Ethics
Aristotle
Canonical

The Politics
Aristotle
Canonical

Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison
Canonical

Northanger Abbey
Jane Austen
Canonical

The Interpretation of Dreams
Sigmund Freud
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Metamorphoses
Ovid
Canonical

Pinocchio
Carlo Collodi
Canonical

Angela's Ashes
Frank McCourt
Canonical

Monster
Walter Dean Myers
Canonical

The Canterbury Tales
Geoffrey Chaucer
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Orlando
Virginia Woolf
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The Importance of Being Earnest
Oscar Wilde
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Ficciones
Jorge Luis Borges
Canonical

Into Thin Air
Jon Krakauer
Canonical

Leaves of Grass
Walt Whitman
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Bhagavad Gita
Vyasa
Canonical

Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Faust: Part 1
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Canonical

Solaris
Stanisław Lem
Canonical

Stoner
John Williams
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The Ugly Duckling
Hans Christian Andersen
Canonical

The Plot Against America
Philip Roth
Canonical

David Copperfield (Tor Classics)
Charles Dickens
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The Secret Agent
Joseph Conrad
Canonical

Island of the Blue Dolphins
Scott O’Dell
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A Confederacy of Dunces
John Kennedy Toole
Canonical

Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
Pablo Neruda
Canonical

Roots
Alex Haley
Canonical

The Dispossessed
Ursula K. Le Guin
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King Lear
William Shakespeare
Canonical

The Moonstone
Wilkie Collins
Canonical

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Harriet A. Jacobs
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The Woman in White
Wilkie Collins
Canonical

The Tell-Tale Heart
Edgar Allan Poe
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The Prince and the Pauper
Mark Twain
Canonical

The Turn of the Screw
Henry James
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The Glass Menagerie
Tennessee Williams
Canonical