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 721–768
Jude the Obscure
Thomas Hardy
Canonical
Light in August
William Faulkner
Canonical
The Line of Beauty
Alan Hollinghurst
Highly regarded
The Sense of an Ending
Julian Barnes
Highly regarded
The Black Echo
Michael Connelly
Established
The Devotion of Suspect X
Keigo Higashino
Established
Lucky Jim
Kingsley Amis
Highly regarded
Cadillac Desert
Marc Reisner
Canonical
Medea
Euripides
Canonical
These Happy Golden Years
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Canonical
The Waste Land
T. S. Eliot
Canonical
James
Percival Everett
Highly regarded
Jo's Boys
Louisa May Alcott
Highly regarded
Homeless Bird
Gloria Whelan
Highly regarded
Tales from Earthsea
Ursula K. Le Guin
Highly regarded
The Moviegoer
Walker Percy
Canonical
The Yearling
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Highly regarded
The Long Goodbye
Raymond Chandler
Canonical
American Pastoral
Philip Roth
Canonical
Bless Me, Ultima
Rudolfo Anaya
Highly regarded
The Inheritance of Loss
Kiran Desai
Highly regarded
The Orphan Master's Son
Adam Johnson
Highly regarded
Rabbit, Run
John Updike
Canonical
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
Avi
Highly regarded
O Pioneers!
Willa Cather
Canonical
Calvin and Hobbes
Bill Watterson
Established
Rubicon
Tom Holland
Established
The Luminaries
Eleanor Catton
Highly regarded
Herzog
Saul Bellow
Canonical
Out of Darkness
Ashley Hope Pérez
Established
King Henry IV Part 1
William Shakespeare
Canonical
The Psychopathology of Everyday Life
Sigmund Freud
Canonical
The World Without Us
Alan Weisman
Established
Deathwatch
Robb White
Established
The Executioner's Song
Norman Mailer
Canonical
The Savage Detectives
Roberto Bolaño
Canonical
Slow Days, Fast Company
Eve Babitz
Highly regarded
The Right Stuff
Tom Wolfe
Canonical
A Night in the Lonesome October
Roger Zelazny
Established
The Bone People
Keri Hulme
Highly regarded
Under the Volcano
Malcolm Lowry
Canonical
The Recognitions
William Gaddis
Canonical
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Thornton Wilder
Canonical
Wise Blood
Flannery O'Connor
Canonical
Melissa
Alex Gino
Established
Our Town
Thornton Wilder
Canonical
True Grit
Charles Portis
Highly regarded
The Great Crash, 1929
John Kenneth Galbraith
Highly regarded
