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 865–912
So Big
Edna Ferber
Highly regarded
The Getaway
Jim Thompson
Highly regarded
The Tunnel
William H. Gass
Canonical
A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain
Robert Olen Butler
Canonical
The Big Nowhere
James Ellroy
Canonical
The Dog of the South
Charles Portis
Highly regarded
The Ginger Man
J. P. Donleavy
Canonical
The Sundial
Shirley Jackson
Highly regarded
Andersonville
MacKinlay Kantor
Canonical
Encounters with the Archdruid
John McPhee
Highly regarded
Changing Places
David Lodge
Established
The Hot Rock
Donald E. Westlake
Established
The Ghost Road
Pat Barker
Canonical
Mao II
Don DeLillo
Canonical
Coming into the Country
John McPhee
Highly regarded
G.
John Berger
Canonical
Last Orders
Graham Swift
Canonical
The Narrow Road to the Deep North
Richard Flanagan
Highly regarded
The Grifters
Jim Thompson
Highly regarded
In a Free State
V. S. Naipaul
Canonical
Age of Ambition
Evan Osnos
Highly regarded
Speedboat
Renata Adler
Canonical
Foreign Affairs
Alison Lurie
Canonical
London Fields
Martin Amis
Canonical
The Reivers
William Faulkner
Canonical
The Conservationist
Nadine Gordimer
Canonical
The White Album
Joan Didion
Canonical
The Edge of Sadness
Edwin O'Connor
Highly regarded
The Sportswriter
Richard Ford
Established
A Summons to Memphis
Peter Taylor
Canonical
Flesh
David Szalay
Highly regarded
The Magnificent Ambersons
Booth Tarkington
Canonical
Moon Tiger
Penelope Lively
Highly regarded
Warlock
Oakley Hall
Canonical
Oscar and Lucinda
Peter Carey
Canonical
A Bell for Adano
John Hersey
Highly regarded
In Persuasion Nation
George Saunders
Established
The Green Man
Kingsley Amis
Highly regarded
Advise and Consent
Allen Drury
Highly regarded
Laughing Boy
Oliver La Farge
Highly regarded
Martin Dressler
Steven Millhauser
Canonical
The Way West
A. B. Guthrie Jr.
Highly regarded
Rabbit Redux
John Updike
Canonical
Milkman
Anna Burns
Highly regarded
Basin and Range
John McPhee
Established
Alice Adams
Booth Tarkington
Canonical
The Late George Apley
John P. Marquand
Highly regarded
Offshore
Penelope Fitzgerald
Highly regarded
