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 529–576
Life 3.0
Max Tegmark
Established
Twelfth Night
William Shakespeare
Canonical
Heaven
Mieko Kawakami
Established
The Gods Themselves
Isaac Asimov
Highly regarded
for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf
Ntozake Shange
Established
Death's End
Cixin Liu
Established
Twelve Years a Slave
Solomon Northup
Canonical
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
James Joyce
Canonical
Collapse
Jared Diamond
Established
This Side of Paradise
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Highly regarded
Red Mars
Kim Stanley Robinson
Highly regarded
I'll Give You the Sun
Jandy Nelson
Highly regarded
The Origins of Totalitarianism
Hannah Arendt
Canonical
The Valley of Fear
Arthur Conan Doyle
Canonical
Fingersmith
Sarah Waters
Highly regarded
King Solomon's Mines
H. Rider Haggard
Canonical
Being and Nothingness
Jean-Paul Sartre
Canonical
The Wretched of the Earth
Frantz Fanon
Highly regarded
Frog and Toad Together
Arnold Lobel
Established
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
Kate DiCamillo
Established
A Fire Upon the Deep
Vernor Vinge
Highly regarded
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Truman Capote
Canonical
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
Shoshana Zuboff
Established
Madame Curie
Eve Curie
Highly regarded
The Symposium
Plato
Canonical
The Beautiful and Damned
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Highly regarded
A Passage to India
E. M. Forster
Canonical
One, No One, and One Hundred Thousand
Luigi Pirandello
Established
The Last Unicorn
Peter S. Beagle
Highly regarded
The Magic Mountain
Thomas Mann
Canonical
Killers of the Flower Moon
David Grann
Highly regarded
History of Western Philosophy
Bertrand Russell
Highly regarded
Pedro Páramo
Juan Rulfo
Canonical
The Bronze Bow
Elizabeth George Speare
Highly regarded
The Day the Crayons Quit
Drew Daywalt
Established
An Abundance of Katherines
John Green
Established
Sabriel
Garth Nix
Established
The War that Saved My Life
Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
Highly regarded
The Devil's Dictionary
Ambrose Bierce
Highly regarded
The Tombs of Atuan
Ursula K. Le Guin
Canonical
The Fifth Season
N. K. Jemisin
Highly regarded
Papillon
Henri Charrière
Highly regarded
Anansi Boys
Neil Gaiman
Established
Fangirl
Rainbow Rowell
Established
Lies My Teacher Told Me
James W. Loewen
Established
Cannery Row
John Steinbeck
Canonical
Me Talk Pretty One Day
David Sedaris
Established
The Blind Assassin
Margaret Atwood
Canonical
