Classics and prize winners
Explore Canonical, Highly regarded and Established books. Their guides explain the awards, recognition and other evidence behind each standing assessment.
995 book guides · Showing 433–480

Silent Spring
Rachel Carson
Canonical

Infinite Jest
David Foster Wallace
Canonical

Tender Is the Night
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Canonical

The House in the Cerulean Sea
T. J. Klune
Established

The Anti-Christ
Friedrich Nietzsche
Canonical

A Princess of Mars
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Canonical

Leviathan
Thomas Hobbes
Canonical

A Raisin in the Sun
Lorraine Hansberry
Highly regarded

The Remains of the Day
Kazuo Ishiguro
Canonical

Foundation's Edge
Isaac Asimov
Highly regarded

Anne of Avonlea
L. M. Montgomery
Highly regarded

Noli Me Tangere (Touch Me Not)
José Rizal
Canonical

Gardens of the Moon
Steven Erikson
Established

Life, the Universe and Everything
Douglas Adams
Highly regarded

The Tale of Genji
Murasaki Shikibu
Canonical

The Code Book
Simon Singh
Established

The Amber Spyglass
Philip Pullman
Canonical

Johnny Tremain
Esther Forbes
Highly regarded

We
Yevgeny Zamyatin
Canonical

The Railway Children
E. Nesbit
Canonical

Blindness
José Saramago
Canonical

Go Tell It on the Mountain
James Baldwin
Canonical

Inkheart
Cornelia Funke
Established

Starship Troopers
Robert A. Heinlein
Canonical

Fun Home
Alison Bechdel
Highly regarded

The Night Before Christmas
Clement Clarke Moore
Highly regarded

Middlemarch
George Eliot
Canonical

New Kid
Jerry Craft
Highly regarded

The Invention of Hugo Cabret
Brian Selznick
Highly regarded

The Book of Disquiet
Fernando Pessoa
Canonical

Oryx and Crake
Margaret Atwood
Highly regarded

All Systems Red
Martha Wells
Highly regarded

The Waves
Virginia Woolf
Canonical

Frog and Toad Are Friends
Arnold Lobel
Highly regarded

The Feminine Mystique
Betty Friedan
Highly regarded

The End of Eternity
Isaac Asimov
Established

Anthem
Ayn Rand
Highly regarded

There Is a Bird On Your Head!
Mo Willems
Established

Song of Solomon
Toni Morrison
Canonical

Hopscotch
Julio Cortázar
Highly regarded

Kensuke's Kingdom
Michael Morpurgo
Established

I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
Erika L. Sánchez
Established

The Lies of Locke Lamora
Scott Lynch
Established

Gravity's Rainbow
Thomas Pynchon
Canonical

Dog Man: Grime and Punishment
Dav Pilkey
Established

The Discovery of India
Jawaharlal Nehru
Canonical

The Illustrated Man
Ray Bradbury
Canonical

Invisible Women
Caroline Criado Perez
Highly regarded