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 145–192
I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream
Harlan Ellison
Highly regarded
Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens
Canonical
The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Canonical
Blood Meridian
Cormac McCarthy
Canonical
Kafka on the Shore
Haruki Murakami
Highly regarded
When Breath Becomes Air
Paul Kalanithi
Established
A Wizard of Earthsea
Ursula K. Le Guin
Canonical
The Trial
Franz Kafka
Canonical
Quiet
Susan Cain
Established
Rebecca
Daphne du Maurier
Highly regarded
The Godfather
Mario Puzo
Canonical
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Agatha Christie
Canonical
The Plague
Albert Camus
Canonical
Les Miserables
Victor Hugo
Canonical
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Philip K. Dick
Canonical
Neuromancer
William Gibson
Canonical
A Gentleman in Moscow
Amor Towles
Established
Perfume
Patrick Süskind
Established
On Writing
Stephen King
Established
A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens
Canonical
White Nights
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Canonical
A Study in Scarlet
Arthur Conan Doyle
Canonical
Tao Te Ching
Laozi
Canonical
Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!
Mo Willems
Established
A Midsummer Night's Dream
William Shakespeare
Canonical
The Return of the King
J.R.R. Tolkien
Canonical
Esperanza Rising
Pam Muñoz Ryan
Established
11/22/63
Stephen King
Highly regarded
Capital: A Critique of Political Economy
Karl Marx
Canonical
Don Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Canonical
Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro
Canonical
The Magician's Nephew
C. S. Lewis
Canonical
The Iliad
Homer
Canonical
The Call of the Wild
Jack London
Canonical
Sophie's World
Jostein Gaarder
Established
A Clash of Kings
George R. R. Martin
Established
Mere Christianity
C. S. Lewis
Highly regarded
Love in the Time of Cholera
Gabriel García Márquez
Canonical
Born a Crime
Trevor Noah
Established
Gulliver's Travels
Jonathan Swift
Canonical
The Communist Manifesto
Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels
Canonical
Parable of the Sower
Octavia E. Butler
Established
Persuasion
Jane Austen
Canonical
Eleanor & Park
Rainbow Rowell
Highly regarded
Death on the Nile
Agatha Christie
Canonical
The Second Sex
Simone de Beauvoir
Canonical
Beyond Good & Evil
Friedrich Nietzsche
Canonical
All Quiet on the Western Front
Erich Maria Remarque
Canonical
