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 97–144
Anne of Green Gables
L. M. Montgomery
Canonical
Tender Is the Flesh
Agustina Bazterrica
Established
Macbeth
William Shakespeare
Canonical
All the Light We Cannot See
Anthony Doerr
Highly regarded
The Two Towers
J.R.R. Tolkien
Canonical
Gone Girl
Gillian Flynn
Established
The War of the Worlds
H. G. Wells
Canonical
The God of Small Things
Arundhati Roy
Highly regarded
Call Me by Your Name
André Aciman
Established
In Cold Blood
Truman Capote
Canonical
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou
Highly regarded
The Odyssey
Homer
Canonical
The Hired Girl
Laura Amy Schlitz
Established
Howl's Moving Castle
Diana Wynne Jones
Highly regarded
Speak
Laurie Halse Anderson
Canonical
Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy
Canonical
Siddhartha
Hermann Hesse
Canonical
Emma
Jane Austen
Canonical
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Mark Twain
Canonical
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Bill Bryson
Highly regarded
Catch-22
Joseph Heller
Canonical
Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir
Established
Flowers for Algernon
Daniel Keyes
Canonical
East of Eden
John Steinbeck
Canonical
Outlander
Diana Gabaldon
Established
The ABC Murders
Agatha Christie
Canonical
The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck
Canonical
Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad
Canonical
The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Canonical
Treasure Island
Robert Louis Stevenson
Canonical
Green Eggs and Ham
Dr. Seuss
Highly regarded
The Road
Cormac McCarthy
Highly regarded
Because of Winn-Dixie
Kate DiCamillo
Established
Number the Stars
Lois Lowry
Canonical
Smile
Raina Telgemeier
Established
Interview with the Vampire
Anne Rice
Highly regarded
The Book of Five Rings
Miyamoto Musashi
Highly regarded
A Clockwork Orange
Anthony Burgess
Canonical
Great Expectations
Charles Dickens
Canonical
Sense and Sensibility
Jane Austen
Canonical
The Golden Compass
Philip Pullman
Canonical
Life of Pi
Yann Martel
Highly regarded
Notes from Underground
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Canonical
Circe
Madeline Miller
Highly regarded
Where the Wild Things Are
Maurice Sendak
Highly regarded
Maus I
Art Spiegelman
Established
The Witches
Roald Dahl
Established
Guns, Germs, and Steel
Jared Diamond
Canonical
