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 289–336
Half of a Yellow Sun
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Highly regarded
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Jules Verne
Canonical
The Divine Comedy
Dante Alighieri
Canonical
The Prophet
Kahlil Gibran
Canonical
White Fang
Jack London
Canonical
The Joy Luck Club
Amy Tan
Canonical
Bag of Bones
Stephen King
Established
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Milan Kundera
Established
Stardust
Neil Gaiman
Established
The Time Traveler's Wife
Audrey Niffenegger
Established
Passing
Nella Larsen
Canonical
Lonesome Dove
Larry McMurtry
Canonical
Annihilation
Jeff VanderMeer
Highly regarded
Cosmos
Carl Sagan
Established
Heidi
Johanna Spyri
Canonical
The Origin of Species
Charles Darwin
Canonical
The Vampire Lestat
Anne Rice
Established
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston
Canonical
Foundation and Empire
Isaac Asimov
Canonical
The Price of Salt, or Carol
Patricia Highsmith
Highly regarded
The Confessions
Augustine of Hippo
Canonical
Othello
William Shakespeare
Canonical
Refugee
Alan Gratz
Established
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Ken Kesey
Canonical
The Pearl
John Steinbeck
Canonical
The Tale of Despereaux
Kate DiCamillo
Highly regarded
The Raven
Edgar Allan Poe
Canonical
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
William L. Shirer
Highly regarded
To the Lighthouse
Virginia Woolf
Canonical
The Horse and His Boy
C. S. Lewis
Established
Like Water for Chocolate
Laura Esquivel
Established
Maurice
E. M. Forster
Canonical
Dubliners
James Joyce
Canonical
Madame Bovary
Gustave Flaubert
Canonical
The Fire Next Time
James Baldwin
Canonical
The Merchant of Venice
William Shakespeare
Canonical
Rendezvous with Rama
Arthur C. Clarke
Highly regarded
The Devil in the White City
Erik Larson
Highly regarded
The Jungle Book
Rudyard Kipling
Canonical
The Sign of Four
Arthur Conan Doyle
Canonical
The Giving Tree
Shel Silverstein
Highly regarded
Educated
Tara Westover
Highly regarded
Second Foundation
Isaac Asimov
Canonical
A Long Way Gone
Ishmael Beah
Established
The Last Battle
C. S. Lewis
Established
Artemis Fowl
Eoin Colfer
Established
A Canticle for Leibowitz
Walter M. Miller Jr.
Highly regarded
Survival in Auschwitz
Primo Levi
Canonical
