Highly regarded books
Books with highly regarded literary standing. Each guide explains the recognition and evidence behind its assessment.
330 book guides · Showing 289–330
The Names
Don DeLillo
Highly regarded
The Promise
Damon Galgut
Highly regarded
The Masters of Atlantis
Charles Portis
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The Netanyahus
Joshua Cohen
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The Known World
Edward P. Jones
Highly regarded
Pop. 1280
Jim Thompson
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LaBrava
Elmore Leonard
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Lamb in His Bosom
Caroline Miller
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The Finkler Question
Howard Jacobson
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Freaky Deaky
Elmore Leonard
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In This Our Life
Ellen Glasgow
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Something to Answer For
P. H. Newby
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The Restraint of Beasts
Magnus Mills
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Challenger
Adam Higginbotham
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The Able McLaughlins
Margaret Wilson
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The Store
T. S. Stribling
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The Unwinding
George Packer
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Selected Non-Fictions
Jorge Luis Borges
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The Elected Member
Bernice Rubens
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The Town
Conrad Richter
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Dragon's Teeth
Upton Sinclair
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Saville
David Storey
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A Hell of a Woman
Jim Thompson
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Pick-Up
Charles Willeford
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Guard of Honor
James Gould Cozzens
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Holiday
Stanley Middleton
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Pitch Dark
Renata Adler
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Shadow Country
Peter Matthiessen
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Shadows on the Rock
Willa Cather
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Journey in the Dark
Martin Flavin
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After Dark, My Sweet
Jim Thompson
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The War Against Cliché
Martin Amis
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George Mills
Stanley Elkin
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Lives of the Saints
Nancy Lemann
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Masscult and Midcult
Dwight Macdonald
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Mrs. Ted Bliss
Stanley Elkin
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Nothing but the Night
John Williams
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The Collected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick
Elizabeth Hardwick
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The Country Kitchen
Della T. Lutes
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The Lay of the Land
Richard Ford
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The Merchant of Prato
Iris Origo
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The Stammering Century
Gilbert Seldes
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