Highly regarded books
Books with highly regarded literary standing. Each guide explains the recognition and evidence behind its assessment.
330 book guides · Showing 97–144
Cloud Atlas
David Mitchell
Highly regarded
Childhood's End
Arthur C. Clarke
Highly regarded
Just Kids
Patti Smith
Highly regarded
A Raisin in the Sun
Lorraine Hansberry
Highly regarded
Foundation's Edge
Isaac Asimov
Highly regarded
Anne of Avonlea
L. M. Montgomery
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Life, the Universe and Everything
Douglas Adams
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Johnny Tremain
Esther Forbes
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Fun Home
Alison Bechdel
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The Night Before Christmas
Clement Clarke Moore
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New Kid
Jerry Craft
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The Invention of Hugo Cabret
Brian Selznick
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Oryx and Crake
Margaret Atwood
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All Systems Red
Martha Wells
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Frog and Toad Are Friends
Arnold Lobel
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The Feminine Mystique
Betty Friedan
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Anthem
Ayn Rand
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Hopscotch
Julio Cortázar
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Invisible Women
Caroline Criado Perez
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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Edward Albee
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Snow Falling on Cedars
David Guterson
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Sleeping Murder
Agatha Christie
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Homegoing
Yaa Gyasi
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Mexican Gothic
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
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The Forever War
Joe Haldeman
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The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
Erving Goffman
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Naked Lunch
William S. Burroughs
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Speaker for the Dead
Orson Scott Card
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The Denial of Death
Ernest Becker
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The Lorax
Dr. Seuss
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The Diamond Age
Neal Stephenson
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Alexander Hamilton
Ron Chernow
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Shiloh
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
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A Monster Calls
Patrick Ness
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The Gods Themselves
Isaac Asimov
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This Side of Paradise
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Red Mars
Kim Stanley Robinson
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I'll Give You the Sun
Jandy Nelson
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Fingersmith
Sarah Waters
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The Wretched of the Earth
Frantz Fanon
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A Fire Upon the Deep
Vernor Vinge
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Madame Curie
Eve Curie
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The Beautiful and Damned
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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The Last Unicorn
Peter S. Beagle
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Killers of the Flower Moon
David Grann
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History of Western Philosophy
Bertrand Russell
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The Bronze Bow
Elizabeth George Speare
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The War that Saved My Life
Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
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