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 481–528
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Washington Irving
Canonical
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Edward Albee
Highly regarded
Hillbilly Elegy
J. D. Vance
Established
Duma Key
Stephen King
Established
Snow Falling on Cedars
David Guterson
Highly regarded
Sleeping Murder
Agatha Christie
Highly regarded
Homegoing
Yaa Gyasi
Highly regarded
The Cricket in Times Square
George Selden
Established
Being and Time
Martin Heidegger
Canonical
The Big Sleep
Raymond Chandler
Canonical
Mexican Gothic
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Highly regarded
Wind, Sand and Stars
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Canonical
The Forever War
Joe Haldeman
Highly regarded
Homage to Catalonia
George Orwell
Canonical
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
Erving Goffman
Highly regarded
The Westing Game
Ellen Raskin
Canonical
The Birchbark House
Louise Erdrich
Canonical
Old Man's War
John Scalzi
Established
Madeline
Ludwig Bemelmans
Established
Lady Chatterley's Lover
D. H. Lawrence
Canonical
Utopia
Thomas More
Canonical
Naked Lunch
William S. Burroughs
Highly regarded
Skellig
David Almond
Canonical
Demons
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Canonical
Ubik
Philip K. Dick
Canonical
The Power Broker
Robert A. Caro
Canonical
A Murder Is Announced
Agatha Christie
Canonical
Speaker for the Dead
Orson Scott Card
Highly regarded
Stone Butch Blues
Leslie Feinberg
Established
The Denial of Death
Ernest Becker
Highly regarded
The Lorax
Dr. Seuss
Highly regarded
The Death of Ivan Ilyich
Leo Tolstoy
Canonical
The Diamond Age
Neal Stephenson
Highly regarded
Tropic of Cancer
Henry Miller
Canonical
The Souls of Black Folk
W. E. B. Du Bois
Canonical
Alexander Hamilton
Ron Chernow
Highly regarded
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Haruki Murakami
Established
Relativity
Albert Einstein
Canonical
The Body
Bill Bryson
Established
Unbroken
Laura Hillenbrand
Established
Antony and Cleopatra
William Shakespeare
Canonical
As You Like It
William Shakespeare
Canonical
Shiloh
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Highly regarded
Poppy
Avi
Established
A Monster Calls
Patrick Ness
Highly regarded
The Gene
Siddhartha Mukherjee
Established
Pygmalion
George Bernard Shaw
Canonical
Discourse on Method
René Descartes
Canonical
