Highly regarded books
Books with highly regarded literary standing. Each guide explains the recognition and evidence behind its assessment.
330 book guides · Showing 49–96
The Satanic Verses
Salman Rushdie
Highly regarded
Hyperion
Dan Simmons
Highly regarded
The Graveyard Book
Neil Gaiman
Highly regarded
Night
Elie Wiesel
Highly regarded
Purple Hibiscus
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Highly regarded
Guts
Raina Telgemeier
Highly regarded
The Girl Who Drank the Moon
Kelly Barnhill
Highly regarded
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Robert M. Pirsig
Highly regarded
The Screwtape Letters
C. S. Lewis
Highly regarded
Abraham Lincoln
Carl Sandburg
Highly regarded
The One and Only Ivan
Katherine Applegate
Highly regarded
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Rebecca Skloot
Highly regarded
Just Mercy
Bryan Stevenson
Highly regarded
Half of a Yellow Sun
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Highly regarded
Annihilation
Jeff VanderMeer
Highly regarded
The Price of Salt, or Carol
Patricia Highsmith
Highly regarded
The Tale of Despereaux
Kate DiCamillo
Highly regarded
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
William L. Shirer
Highly regarded
Rendezvous with Rama
Arthur C. Clarke
Highly regarded
The Devil in the White City
Erik Larson
Highly regarded
The Giving Tree
Shel Silverstein
Highly regarded
Educated
Tara Westover
Highly regarded
A Canticle for Leibowitz
Walter M. Miller Jr.
Highly regarded
Babel
R. F. Kuang
Highly regarded
The Stepford Wives
Ira Levin
Highly regarded
Piranesi
Susanna Clarke
Highly regarded
Shōgun
James Clavell
Highly regarded
This Is How You Lose the Time War
Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone
Highly regarded
Pachinko
Min Jin Lee
Highly regarded
Little House in the Big Woods
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Highly regarded
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Sherman Alexie
Highly regarded
The Tunnel
Ernesto Sabato
Highly regarded
Something Wicked This Way Comes
Ray Bradbury
Highly regarded
Station Eleven
Emily St. John Mandel
Highly regarded
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
Robert A. Heinlein
Highly regarded
The Vegetarian
Han Kang
Highly regarded
Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Highly regarded
Hard Times
Charles Dickens
Highly regarded
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Hunter S. Thompson
Highly regarded
Ringworld
Larry Niven
Highly regarded
The Testaments
Margaret Atwood
Highly regarded
Danny the Champion of the World
Roald Dahl
Highly regarded
The Crossover
Kwame Alexander
Highly regarded
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Douglas Adams
Highly regarded
The King in Yellow
Robert W. Chambers
Highly regarded
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
John le Carré
Highly regarded
Wolf Hall
Hilary Mantel
Highly regarded
The Things They Carried
Tim O'Brien
Highly regarded
