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 193–240

The Goldfinch
Donna Tartt
Highly regarded

The Republic
Plato
Canonical

The Silence of the Lambs
Thomas Harris
Highly regarded

Cujo
Stephen King
Established

The Haunting of Hill House
Shirley Jackson
Canonical

On the Road
Jack Kerouac
Canonical

The Bluest Eye
Toni Morrison
Highly regarded

American Gods
Neil Gaiman
Highly regarded

Gone with the Wind
Margaret Mitchell
Canonical

Inferno
Dante Alighieri
Canonical

Flatland
Edwin Abbott Abbott
Canonical

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
Oliver Sacks
Canonical

Women in Love
D. H. Lawrence
Canonical

Sula
Toni Morrison
Highly regarded

The Martian Chronicles
Ray Bradbury
Canonical

Inside Out & Back Again
Thanhhà Lại
Highly regarded

The Master and Margarita
Mikhail Bulgakov
Canonical

Americanah
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Highly regarded

The Jungle
Upton Sinclair
Canonical

Why We Sleep
Matthew Walker
Established

The Crucible
Arthur Miller
Canonical

The Idiot
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Canonical

The Wealth of Nations
Adam Smith
Canonical

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Highly regarded

Peter Pan
J. M. Barrie
Canonical

Paper Towns
John Green
Established

Paradise Lost
John Milton
Canonical

2001
Arthur C. Clarke
Highly regarded

Scythe
Neal Shusterman
Established

For Whom the Bell Tolls
Ernest Hemingway
Canonical

Giovanni's Room
James Baldwin
Canonical

A Room of One's Own
Virginia Woolf
Canonical

Carmilla
Sheridan Le Fanu
Highly regarded

The Lovely Bones
Alice Sebold
Established

The Tale of Peter Rabbit
Beatrix Potter
Highly regarded

The Satanic Verses
Salman Rushdie
Highly regarded

Robinson Crusoe
Daniel Defoe
Canonical

Julius Caesar
William Shakespeare
Canonical

Heartstopper: Volume 4
Alice Oseman
Established

Hyperion
Dan Simmons
Highly regarded

Killing Floor
Lee Child
Established

The Graveyard Book
Neil Gaiman
Highly regarded

Watership Down
Richard Adams
Canonical

Mr. Mercedes
Stephen King
Established

Moonwalking with Einstein
Joshua Foer
Established

Night
Elie Wiesel
Highly regarded

The Phantom of the Opera
Gaston Leroux
Canonical

Atonement
Ian McEwan
Canonical