Highly regarded books
Books with highly regarded literary standing. Each guide explains the recognition and evidence behind its assessment.
330 book guides · Showing 241–288
Annals of the Former World
John McPhee
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The Member of the Wedding
Carson McCullers
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Half Broke Horses
Jeannette Walls
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Orbital
Samantha Harvey
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The Sea
John Banville
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The Gathering
Anne Enright
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Piecing Me Together
Renée Watson
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Boy's Life
Robert McCammon
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Vernon God Little
D. B. C. Pierre
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Long Way Down
Jason Reynolds
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Galileo
Bertolt Brecht
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House Made of Dawn
N. Scott Momaday
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Eve's Hollywood
Eve Babitz
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Years of Grace
Margaret Ayer Barnes
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March
Geraldine Brooks
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The Unsettling of America
Wendell Berry
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Prophet Song
Paul Lynch
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Empire Falls
Richard Russo
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Heat and Dust
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
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How Late It Was, How Late
James Kelman
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So Big
Edna Ferber
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The Getaway
Jim Thompson
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The Dog of the South
Charles Portis
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The Sundial
Shirley Jackson
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Encounters with the Archdruid
John McPhee
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Coming into the Country
John McPhee
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The Narrow Road to the Deep North
Richard Flanagan
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The Grifters
Jim Thompson
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Age of Ambition
Evan Osnos
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The Edge of Sadness
Edwin O'Connor
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Flesh
David Szalay
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Moon Tiger
Penelope Lively
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A Bell for Adano
John Hersey
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The Green Man
Kingsley Amis
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Advise and Consent
Allen Drury
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Laughing Boy
Oliver La Farge
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The Way West
A. B. Guthrie Jr.
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Milkman
Anna Burns
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The Late George Apley
John P. Marquand
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Offshore
Penelope Fitzgerald
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Honey in the Horn
H. L. Davis
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Scarlet Sister Mary
Julia Peterkin
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Staying On
Paul Scott
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Sacred Hunger
Barry Unsworth
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The Pine Barrens
John McPhee
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The Quick and the Dead
Joy Williams
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Tinkers
Paul Harding
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Now in November
Josephine Johnson
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