Canonical books
Books with canonical literary standing. Each guide explains the recognition and evidence behind its assessment.
457 book guides · Showing 241–288
A Streetcar Named Desire
Tennessee Williams
Canonical
Far from the Madding Crowd
Thomas Hardy
Canonical
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Edward Gibbon
Canonical
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
Victor Hugo
Canonical
Silent Spring
Rachel Carson
Canonical
Infinite Jest
David Foster Wallace
Canonical
Tender Is the Night
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Canonical
The Anti-Christ
Friedrich Nietzsche
Canonical
A Princess of Mars
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Canonical
Leviathan
Thomas Hobbes
Canonical
The Remains of the Day
Kazuo Ishiguro
Canonical
Noli Me Tangere (Touch Me Not)
José Rizal
Canonical
The Tale of Genji
Murasaki Shikibu
Canonical
The Amber Spyglass
Philip Pullman
Canonical
We
Yevgeny Zamyatin
Canonical
The Railway Children
E. Nesbit
Canonical
Blindness
José Saramago
Canonical
Go Tell It on the Mountain
James Baldwin
Canonical
Starship Troopers
Robert A. Heinlein
Canonical
Middlemarch
George Eliot
Canonical
The Book of Disquiet
Fernando Pessoa
Canonical
The Waves
Virginia Woolf
Canonical
Song of Solomon
Toni Morrison
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Gravity's Rainbow
Thomas Pynchon
Canonical
The Discovery of India
Jawaharlal Nehru
Canonical
The Illustrated Man
Ray Bradbury
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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Washington Irving
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Being and Time
Martin Heidegger
Canonical
The Big Sleep
Raymond Chandler
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Wind, Sand and Stars
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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Homage to Catalonia
George Orwell
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The Westing Game
Ellen Raskin
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The Birchbark House
Louise Erdrich
Canonical
Lady Chatterley's Lover
D. H. Lawrence
Canonical
Utopia
Thomas More
Canonical
Skellig
David Almond
Canonical
Demons
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Canonical
Ubik
Philip K. Dick
Canonical
The Power Broker
Robert A. Caro
Canonical
A Murder Is Announced
Agatha Christie
Canonical
The Death of Ivan Ilyich
Leo Tolstoy
Canonical
Tropic of Cancer
Henry Miller
Canonical
The Souls of Black Folk
W. E. B. Du Bois
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Relativity
Albert Einstein
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Antony and Cleopatra
William Shakespeare
Canonical
As You Like It
William Shakespeare
Canonical
Pygmalion
George Bernard Shaw
Canonical
Discourse on Method
René Descartes
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