Canonical books
Books with canonical literary standing. Each guide explains the recognition and evidence behind its assessment.
457 book guides · Showing 385–432
The Caine Mutiny
Herman Wouk
Canonical
Scoop
Evelyn Waugh
Canonical
Life and Times of Michael K
J. M. Coetzee
Canonical
A Death in the Family
James Agee
Canonical
Angle of Repose
Wallace Stegner
Canonical
The Other Wind
Ursula K. Le Guin
Canonical
The Accidental Tourist
Anne Tyler
Canonical
The Fixer
Bernard Malamud
Canonical
Winesburg, Ohio
Sherwood Anderson
Canonical
Twelve Angry Men
Reginald Rose
Canonical
A Peace to End All Peace
David Fromkin
Canonical
The Stone Diaries
Carol Shields
Canonical
Sabbath's Theater
Philip Roth
Canonical
Essays and Aphorisms
Arthur Schopenhauer
Canonical
The Famished Road
Ben Okri
Canonical
Billy Budd, Sailor
Herman Melville
Canonical
The Optimist's Daughter
Eudora Welty
Canonical
A Thousand Acres
Jane Smiley
Canonical
All My Sons
Arthur Miller
Canonical
Arctic Dreams
Barry Lopez
Canonical
The Crossing
Cormac McCarthy
Canonical
Sweet Thursday
John Steinbeck
Canonical
The Stories of John Cheever
John Cheever
Canonical
The Great Bridge
David McCullough
Canonical
The Path Between the Seas
David McCullough
Canonical
True History of the Kelly Gang
Peter Carey
Canonical
Fat City
Leonard Gardner
Canonical
Arabian Sands
Wilfred Thesiger
Canonical
Arrowsmith
Sinclair Lewis
Canonical
Humboldt's Gift
Saul Bellow
Canonical
The Human Stain
Philip Roth
Canonical
The Journalist and the Murderer
Janet Malcolm
Canonical
The Confessions of Nat Turner
William Styron
Canonical
J R
William Gaddis
Canonical
Hotel Du Lac
Anita Brookner
Canonical
Nightmare Alley
William Lindsay Gresham
Canonical
Breathing Lessons
Anne Tyler
Canonical
One of Ours
Willa Cather
Canonical
Augustus
John Williams
Canonical
The Tunnel
William H. Gass
Canonical
A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain
Robert Olen Butler
Canonical
The Big Nowhere
James Ellroy
Canonical
The Ginger Man
J. P. Donleavy
Canonical
Andersonville
MacKinlay Kantor
Canonical
The Ghost Road
Pat Barker
Canonical
Mao II
Don DeLillo
Canonical
G.
John Berger
Canonical
Last Orders
Graham Swift
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