Canonical books
Books with canonical literary standing. Each guide explains the recognition and evidence behind its assessment.
457 book guides · Showing 289–336
Twelfth Night
William Shakespeare
Canonical
Twelve Years a Slave
Solomon Northup
Canonical
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
James Joyce
Canonical
The Origins of Totalitarianism
Hannah Arendt
Canonical
The Valley of Fear
Arthur Conan Doyle
Canonical
King Solomon's Mines
H. Rider Haggard
Canonical
Being and Nothingness
Jean-Paul Sartre
Canonical
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Truman Capote
Canonical
The Symposium
Plato
Canonical
A Passage to India
E. M. Forster
Canonical
The Magic Mountain
Thomas Mann
Canonical
Pedro Páramo
Juan Rulfo
Canonical
The Tombs of Atuan
Ursula K. Le Guin
Canonical
Cannery Row
John Steinbeck
Canonical
The Blind Assassin
Margaret Atwood
Canonical
Disgrace
J. M. Coetzee
Canonical
The Talented Mr. Ripley
Patricia Highsmith
Canonical
The Making of the Atomic Bomb
Richard Rhodes
Canonical
Native Son
Richard Wright
Canonical
Black Boy
Richard Wright
Canonical
The Good Earth
Pearl S. Buck
Canonical
The Sound and the Fury
William Faulkner
Canonical
Ethan Frome
Edith Wharton
Canonical
Much Ado About Nothing
William Shakespeare
Canonical
The Taming of the Shrew
William Shakespeare
Canonical
The Poisonwood Bible
Barbara Kingsolver
Canonical
A Doll's House
Henrik Ibsen
Canonical
All the Pretty Horses
Cormac McCarthy
Canonical
Interpreter of Maladies
Jhumpa Lahiri
Canonical
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Thomas Hardy
Canonical
The Mysterious Island
Jules Verne
Canonical
Waiting for Godot
Samuel Beckett
Canonical
The House of Mirth
Edith Wharton
Canonical
Fences
August Wilson
Canonical
Travels with Charley
John Steinbeck
Canonical
Memoirs of Hadrian
Marguerite Yourcenar
Canonical
My Ántonia
Willa Cather
Canonical
The Farthest Shore
Ursula K. Le Guin
Canonical
On the Banks of Plum Creek
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Canonical
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
Carson McCullers
Canonical
Count Zero
William Gibson
Canonical
A Lesson Before Dying
Ernest J. Gaines
Canonical
The Woman Warrior
Maxine Hong Kingston
Canonical
Amerika
Franz Kafka
Canonical
The Pickwick Papers
Charles Dickens
Canonical
The Shipping News
Annie Proulx
Canonical
Mona Lisa Overdrive
William Gibson
Canonical
The Corrections
Jonathan Franzen
Canonical
