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 241–288

Purple Hibiscus
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Highly regarded

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Stieg Larsson
Established

Prince Caspian
C. S. Lewis
Canonical

Guts
Raina Telgemeier
Highly regarded

Death of a Salesman
Arthur Miller
Canonical

The Girl Who Drank the Moon
Kelly Barnhill
Highly regarded

The Tempest
William Shakespeare
Canonical

The Fall
Albert Camus
Canonical

The Left Hand of Darkness
Ursula K. Le Guin
Canonical

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Robert M. Pirsig
Highly regarded

The Selfish Gene
Richard Dawkins
Canonical

My Side of the Mountain
Jean Craighead George
Established

The Screwtape Letters
C. S. Lewis
Highly regarded

Abraham Lincoln
Carl Sandburg
Highly regarded

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan Doyle
Canonical

The Age of Innocence
Edith Wharton
Canonical

Around the World in Eighty Days
Jules Verne
Canonical

Gödel, Escher, Bach
Douglas R. Hofstadter
Canonical

The One and Only Ivan
Katherine Applegate
Highly regarded

Snow Crash
Neal Stephenson
Established

Demian
Hermann Hesse
Canonical

My Year of Rest and Relaxation
Ottessa Moshfegh
Established

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Rebecca Skloot
Highly regarded

The Lost World
Arthur Conan Doyle
Canonical

The Man in the High Castle
Philip K. Dick
Canonical

Journey to the Centre of the Earth
Jules Verne
Canonical

Bridge to Terabithia
Katherine Paterson
Canonical

Kindred
Octavia E. Butler
Canonical

The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Neil Gaiman
Established

Behave
Robert M. Sapolsky
Established

The Fountainhead
Ayn Rand
Canonical

A People's History of the United States
Howard Zinn
Established

The Bazaar of Bad Dreams
Stephen King
Established

Mrs. Dalloway
Virginia Woolf
Canonical

A Feast for Crows
George R. R. Martin
Established

Through the Looking-Glass
Lewis Carroll
Canonical

A Dance with Dragons
George R. R. Martin
Established

The House of the Spirits
Isabel Allende
Canonical

Full Dark, No Stars
Stephen King
Established

Just Mercy
Bryan Stevenson
Highly regarded

The House on Mango Street
Sandra Cisneros
Canonical

The Poppy War
R. F. Kuang
Established

The Castle
Franz Kafka
Canonical

A Storm of Swords
George R. R. Martin
Established

A Farewell to Arms
Ernest Hemingway
Canonical

The Awakening
Kate Chopin
Canonical

Candide
Voltaire
Canonical

Physics
Aristotle
Canonical