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 577–624
Blindsight
Peter Watts
Established
Disgrace
J. M. Coetzee
Canonical
The Talented Mr. Ripley
Patricia Highsmith
Canonical
The Overstory
Richard Powers
Highly regarded
Dandelion Wine
Ray Bradbury
Highly regarded
The Making of the Atomic Bomb
Richard Rhodes
Canonical
Native Son
Richard Wright
Canonical
Black Boy
Richard Wright
Canonical
The Good Earth
Pearl S. Buck
Canonical
The Sound and the Fury
William Faulkner
Canonical
Ethan Frome
Edith Wharton
Canonical
Middlesex
Jeffrey Eugenides
Highly regarded
Much Ado About Nothing
William Shakespeare
Canonical
Xenocide
Orson Scott Card
Established
The Taming of the Shrew
William Shakespeare
Canonical
The Poisonwood Bible
Barbara Kingsolver
Canonical
Hiroshima
John Hersey
Highly regarded
The Lottery
Shirley Jackson
Highly regarded
Post Office
Charles Bukowski
Highly regarded
The Underground Railroad
Colson Whitehead
Highly regarded
Walk Two Moons
Sharon Creech
Highly regarded
A Doll's House
Henrik Ibsen
Canonical
The Poet X
Elizabeth Acevedo
Highly regarded
All American Boys
Jason Reynolds, Brendan Kiely
Established
Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver
Highly regarded
A Wind in the Door
Madeleine L'Engle
Highly regarded
The Mist
Stephen King
Established
American Born Chinese
Gene Luen Yang
Highly regarded
Farmer Boy
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Highly regarded
Salt to the Sea
Ruta Sepetys
Established
All the Pretty Horses
Cormac McCarthy
Canonical
Interpreter of Maladies
Jhumpa Lahiri
Canonical
The Robots of Dawn
Isaac Asimov
Established
Another Country
James Baldwin
Highly regarded
Going Postal
Terry Pratchett
Established
Nimona
ND Stevenson
Highly regarded
Making Money
Terry Pratchett
Established
Z for Zachariah
Robert C. O'Brien
Established
Parable of the Talents
Octavia E. Butler
Highly regarded
The Chosen
Chaim Potok
Established
Brown Girl Dreaming
Jacqueline Woodson
Highly regarded
Network Effect
Martha Wells
Highly regarded
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Thomas Hardy
Canonical
Nothing but the Truth
Avi
Established
The Mysterious Island
Jules Verne
Canonical
Hoot
Carl Hiaasen
Established
Waiting for Godot
Samuel Beckett
Canonical
The House of Mirth
Edith Wharton
Canonical
