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 49–96
The Fellowship of the Ring
J.R.R. Tolkien
Canonical
The Old Man and the Sea
Ernest Hemingway
Canonical
And Then There Were None
Agatha Christie
Canonical
Of Mice and Men
John Steinbeck
Canonical
Holes
Louis Sachar
Canonical
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll
Canonical
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde
Canonical
The Outsiders
S. E. Hinton
Highly regarded
Hatchet
Gary Paulsen
Established
Dog Man
Dav Pilkey
Established
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel García Márquez
Canonical
The Invisible Man
H. G. Wells
Canonical
Hamlet
William Shakespeare
Canonical
Moby-Dick
Herman Melville
Canonical
American Psycho
Bret Easton Ellis
Canonical
The Prince
Niccolò Machiavelli
Canonical
Things Fall Apart
Chinua Achebe
Canonical
Foundation
Isaac Asimov
Canonical
The Color Purple
Alice Walker
Canonical
I, Robot
Isaac Asimov
Canonical
Normal People
Sally Rooney
Highly regarded
The Time Machine
H. G. Wells
Canonical
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
C. S. Lewis
Canonical
Mein Kampf
Adolf Hitler
Canonical
Murder on the Orient Express
Agatha Christie
Canonical
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
Jack Thorne, John Tiffany, J. K. Rowling
Highly regarded
Ender's Game
Orson Scott Card
Highly regarded
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë
Canonical
The Green Mile
Stephen King
Established
Looking for Alaska
John Green
Highly regarded
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Mark Haddon
Highly regarded
'Salem's Lot
Stephen King
Canonical
Beloved
Toni Morrison
Canonical
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle
Highly regarded
The BFG
Roald Dahl
Canonical
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson
Canonical
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
John Boyne
Established
The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas
Canonical
A Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens
Canonical
The Three-Body Problem
Cixin Liu
Highly regarded
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
L. Frank Baum
Canonical
A Wrinkle in Time
Madeleine L'Engle
Canonical
Autobiography of a Yogi
Paramahansa Yogananda
Highly regarded
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain
Canonical
Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut
Canonical
The Cat in the Hat
Dr. Seuss
Canonical
The Secret Garden
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Canonical
The Stand
Stephen King
Established
