Highly regarded books
Books with highly regarded literary standing. Each guide explains the recognition and evidence behind its assessment.
330 book guides · Showing 193–240
The First Four Years
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Highly regarded
Lincoln in the Bardo
George Saunders
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Feed
M. T. Anderson
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The October Country
Ray Bradbury
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The Cyberiad
Stanisław Lem
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Bring Up the Bodies
Hilary Mantel
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A Sand County Almanac
Aldo Leopold
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Chains
Laurie Halse Anderson
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Less
Andrew Sean Greer
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Sing, Unburied, Sing
Jesmyn Ward
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Shuggie Bain
Douglas Stuart
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The Sellout
Paul Beatty
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The Line of Beauty
Alan Hollinghurst
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The Sense of an Ending
Julian Barnes
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Lucky Jim
Kingsley Amis
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James
Percival Everett
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Jo's Boys
Louisa May Alcott
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Homeless Bird
Gloria Whelan
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Tales from Earthsea
Ursula K. Le Guin
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The Yearling
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
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Bless Me, Ultima
Rudolfo Anaya
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The Inheritance of Loss
Kiran Desai
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The Orphan Master's Son
Adam Johnson
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The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
Avi
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The Luminaries
Eleanor Catton
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Slow Days, Fast Company
Eve Babitz
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The Bone People
Keri Hulme
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True Grit
Charles Portis
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The Great Crash, 1929
John Kenneth Galbraith
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Sounder
William H. Armstrong
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When Zachary Beaver Came to Town
Kimberly Willis Holt
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The View from Saturday
E. L. Konigsburg
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The Round House
Louise Erdrich
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The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
Shehan Karunatilaka
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Olive Kitteridge
Elizabeth Strout
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The Killer Inside Me
Jim Thompson
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Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
Roddy Doyle
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The Night Watchman
Louise Erdrich
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Trust
Hernan Diaz
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Slouching Towards Bethlehem
Joan Didion
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Bomb
Steve Sheinkin
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The Witches of Eastwick
John Updike
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A Brief History of Seven Killings
Marlon James
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Couples
John Updike
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Amsterdam
Ian McEwan
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The Piano Lesson
August Wilson
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The Sisters Brothers
Patrick deWitt
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Get Shorty
Elmore Leonard
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