Canonical books
Books with canonical literary standing. Each guide explains the recognition and evidence behind its assessment.
457 book guides · Showing 337–384
The New York Trilogy: City of Glass / Ghosts / The Locked Room
Paul Auster
Canonical
I, Claudius
Robert Graves
Canonical
The Long Winter
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Canonical
Our Man in Havana
Graham Greene
Canonical
Maus II
Art Spiegelman
Canonical
Tortilla Flat
John Steinbeck
Canonical
An American Tragedy
Theodore Dreiser
Canonical
The Red Pony
John Steinbeck
Canonical
The Return of the Native
Thomas Hardy
Canonical
Pale Fire
Vladimir Nabokov
Canonical
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Michael Chabon
Canonical
The English Patient
Michael Ondaatje
Canonical
The Hours
Michael Cunningham
Canonical
Cyrano de Bergerac
Edmond Rostand
Canonical
Possession
A. S. Byatt
Canonical
Antigone
Sophocles
Canonical
A Swiftly Tilting Planet
Madeleine L'Engle
Canonical
Little Town on the Prairie
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Canonical
A Month in the Country
J. L. Carr
Canonical
Portnoy's Complaint
Philip Roth
Canonical
All the King's Men
Robert Penn Warren
Canonical
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Muriel Spark
Canonical
By the Shores of Silver Lake
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Canonical
Jude the Obscure
Thomas Hardy
Canonical
Light in August
William Faulkner
Canonical
Cadillac Desert
Marc Reisner
Canonical
Medea
Euripides
Canonical
These Happy Golden Years
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Canonical
The Waste Land
T. S. Eliot
Canonical
The Moviegoer
Walker Percy
Canonical
The Long Goodbye
Raymond Chandler
Canonical
American Pastoral
Philip Roth
Canonical
Rabbit, Run
John Updike
Canonical
O Pioneers!
Willa Cather
Canonical
Herzog
Saul Bellow
Canonical
King Henry IV Part 1
William Shakespeare
Canonical
The Psychopathology of Everyday Life
Sigmund Freud
Canonical
The Executioner's Song
Norman Mailer
Canonical
The Savage Detectives
Roberto Bolaño
Canonical
The Right Stuff
Tom Wolfe
Canonical
Under the Volcano
Malcolm Lowry
Canonical
The Recognitions
William Gaddis
Canonical
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Thornton Wilder
Canonical
Wise Blood
Flannery O'Connor
Canonical
Our Town
Thornton Wilder
Canonical
The Sea, the Sea
Iris Murdoch
Canonical
Butcher's Crossing
John Williams
Canonical
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
Anne Tyler
Canonical
