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 625–672
Fences
August Wilson
Canonical
Ghost
Jason Reynolds
Established
Last Night at the Telegraph Club
Malinda Lo
Highly regarded
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Jonathan Safran Foer
Established
There There
Tommy Orange
Highly regarded
Franny and Zooey
J. D. Salinger
Highly regarded
A Separate Peace
John Knowles
Established
Swan Song
Robert R. McCammon
Established
The Fall of Hyperion
Dan Simmons
Highly regarded
Travels with Charley
John Steinbeck
Canonical
Psycho
Robert Bloch
Highly regarded
Memoirs of Hadrian
Marguerite Yourcenar
Canonical
Play It As It Lays
Joan Didion
Highly regarded
My Ántonia
Willa Cather
Canonical
The Farthest Shore
Ursula K. Le Guin
Canonical
On the Banks of Plum Creek
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Canonical
Empire of the Summer Moon
S. C. Gwynne
Highly regarded
The Signal and the Noise
Nate Silver
Established
Out of the Dust
Karen Hesse
Highly regarded
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
Carson McCullers
Canonical
Count Zero
William Gibson
Canonical
The Nickel Boys
Colson Whitehead
Highly regarded
A Lesson Before Dying
Ernest J. Gaines
Canonical
Stranger in a Strange Land
Robert A. Heinlein
Highly regarded
The Woman Warrior
Maxine Hong Kingston
Canonical
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
Marjane Satrapi
Established
The Day of the Jackal
Frederick Forsyth
Highly regarded
Amerika
Franz Kafka
Canonical
The Sympathizer
Viet Thanh Nguyen
Highly regarded
The White Tiger
Aravind Adiga
Highly regarded
A Visit from the Goon Squad
Jennifer Egan
Highly regarded
In the Time of the Butterflies
Julia Alvarez
Established
The Pickwick Papers
Charles Dickens
Canonical
The Shipping News
Annie Proulx
Canonical
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Junot Díaz
Highly regarded
Mona Lisa Overdrive
William Gibson
Canonical
The Corrections
Jonathan Franzen
Canonical
The New York Trilogy: City of Glass / Ghosts / The Locked Room
Paul Auster
Canonical
I, Claudius
Robert Graves
Canonical
The Miracle Worker
William Gibson
Established
The Bonfire of the Vanities
Tom Wolfe
Established
Under the Banner of Heaven
Jon Krakauer
Established
Midnight in Chernobyl
Adam Higginbotham
Highly regarded
Ghost Story
Peter Straub
Highly regarded
A Hat Full of Sky
Terry Pratchett
Established
Grendel
John Gardner
Highly regarded
The House of the Scorpion
Nancy Farmer
Highly regarded
The 57 Bus
Dashka Slater
Established
