Established books
Books with established literary standing. Each guide explains the recognition and evidence behind its assessment.
208 book guides · Showing 97–144
I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
Erika L. Sánchez
Established
The Lies of Locke Lamora
Scott Lynch
Established
Dog Man: Grime and Punishment
Dav Pilkey
Established
Hillbilly Elegy
J. D. Vance
Established
Duma Key
Stephen King
Established
The Cricket in Times Square
George Selden
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Old Man's War
John Scalzi
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Madeline
Ludwig Bemelmans
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Stone Butch Blues
Leslie Feinberg
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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Haruki Murakami
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The Body
Bill Bryson
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Unbroken
Laura Hillenbrand
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Poppy
Avi
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The Gene
Siddhartha Mukherjee
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Life 3.0
Max Tegmark
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Heaven
Mieko Kawakami
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for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf
Ntozake Shange
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Death's End
Cixin Liu
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Collapse
Jared Diamond
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Frog and Toad Together
Arnold Lobel
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The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
Kate DiCamillo
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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
Shoshana Zuboff
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One, No One, and One Hundred Thousand
Luigi Pirandello
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The Day the Crayons Quit
Drew Daywalt
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An Abundance of Katherines
John Green
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Sabriel
Garth Nix
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Anansi Boys
Neil Gaiman
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Fangirl
Rainbow Rowell
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Lies My Teacher Told Me
James W. Loewen
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Me Talk Pretty One Day
David Sedaris
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Blindsight
Peter Watts
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Xenocide
Orson Scott Card
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All American Boys
Jason Reynolds, Brendan Kiely
Established
The Mist
Stephen King
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Salt to the Sea
Ruta Sepetys
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The Robots of Dawn
Isaac Asimov
Established
Going Postal
Terry Pratchett
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Making Money
Terry Pratchett
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Z for Zachariah
Robert C. O'Brien
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The Chosen
Chaim Potok
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Nothing but the Truth
Avi
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Hoot
Carl Hiaasen
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Ghost
Jason Reynolds
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Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Jonathan Safran Foer
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A Separate Peace
John Knowles
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Swan Song
Robert R. McCammon
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The Signal and the Noise
Nate Silver
Established
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
Marjane Satrapi
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