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 817–864
A Thousand Acres
Jane Smiley
Canonical
All My Sons
Arthur Miller
Canonical
The Friends of Eddie Coyle
George V. Higgins
Established
Arctic Dreams
Barry Lopez
Canonical
The Sisters Brothers
Patrick deWitt
Highly regarded
Get Shorty
Elmore Leonard
Highly regarded
The Crossing
Cormac McCarthy
Canonical
Sweet Thursday
John Steinbeck
Canonical
The Stories of John Cheever
John Cheever
Canonical
Annals of the Former World
John McPhee
Highly regarded
The Member of the Wedding
Carson McCullers
Highly regarded
Half Broke Horses
Jeannette Walls
Highly regarded
Command and Control
Eric Schlosser
Established
Orbital
Samantha Harvey
Highly regarded
The Sea
John Banville
Highly regarded
The Gathering
Anne Enright
Highly regarded
Piecing Me Together
Renée Watson
Highly regarded
The Great Bridge
David McCullough
Canonical
The Path Between the Seas
David McCullough
Canonical
True History of the Kelly Gang
Peter Carey
Canonical
Boy's Life
Robert McCammon
Highly regarded
Vernon God Little
D. B. C. Pierre
Highly regarded
Fat City
Leonard Gardner
Canonical
Arabian Sands
Wilfred Thesiger
Canonical
Arrowsmith
Sinclair Lewis
Canonical
Long Way Down
Jason Reynolds
Highly regarded
Galileo
Bertolt Brecht
Highly regarded
The Control of Nature
John McPhee
Established
Humboldt's Gift
Saul Bellow
Canonical
The Human Stain
Philip Roth
Canonical
Eros the Bittersweet
Anne Carson
Established
House Made of Dawn
N. Scott Momaday
Highly regarded
Eve's Hollywood
Eve Babitz
Highly regarded
The Journalist and the Murderer
Janet Malcolm
Canonical
The Confessions of Nat Turner
William Styron
Canonical
Years of Grace
Margaret Ayer Barnes
Highly regarded
J R
William Gaddis
Canonical
March
Geraldine Brooks
Highly regarded
Hotel Du Lac
Anita Brookner
Canonical
The Unsettling of America
Wendell Berry
Highly regarded
Prophet Song
Paul Lynch
Highly regarded
Nightmare Alley
William Lindsay Gresham
Canonical
Empire Falls
Richard Russo
Highly regarded
Breathing Lessons
Anne Tyler
Canonical
Heat and Dust
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Highly regarded
How Late It Was, How Late
James Kelman
Highly regarded
One of Ours
Willa Cather
Canonical
Augustus
John Williams
Canonical
