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 385–432
Stoner
John Williams
Canonical
The Ugly Duckling
Hans Christian Andersen
Canonical
Tuck Everlasting
Natalie Babbitt
Established
The Vegetarian
Han Kang
Highly regarded
The Plot Against America
Philip Roth
Canonical
David Copperfield (Tor Classics)
Charles Dickens
Canonical
The Secret Agent
Joseph Conrad
Canonical
Island of the Blue Dolphins
Scott O’Dell
Canonical
No Country for Old Men
Cormac McCarthy
Established
A Confederacy of Dunces
John Kennedy Toole
Canonical
Just After Sunset
Stephen King
Established
Children of Blood and Bone
Tomi Adeyemi
Established
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
Pablo Neruda
Canonical
Children of Dune
Frank Herbert
Established
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
Becky Chambers
Established
Monday's Not Coming
Tiffany D. Jackson
Established
Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Highly regarded
Roots
Alex Haley
Canonical
Hard Times
Charles Dickens
Highly regarded
The Dispossessed
Ursula K. Le Guin
Canonical
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Hunter S. Thompson
Highly regarded
King Lear
William Shakespeare
Canonical
Ringworld
Larry Niven
Highly regarded
The Testaments
Margaret Atwood
Highly regarded
The Moonstone
Wilkie Collins
Canonical
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Harriet A. Jacobs
Canonical
The Woman in White
Wilkie Collins
Canonical
Danny the Champion of the World
Roald Dahl
Highly regarded
The Tell-Tale Heart
Edgar Allan Poe
Canonical
The Crossover
Kwame Alexander
Highly regarded
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Douglas Adams
Highly regarded
The King in Yellow
Robert W. Chambers
Highly regarded
The Prince and the Pauper
Mark Twain
Canonical
The Turn of the Screw
Henry James
Canonical
The Glass Menagerie
Tennessee Williams
Canonical
Awkward
Svetlana Chmakova
Established
A Streetcar Named Desire
Tennessee Williams
Canonical
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
John le Carré
Highly regarded
Far from the Madding Crowd
Thomas Hardy
Canonical
The Thursday Murder Club
Richard Osman
Established
Wolf Hall
Hilary Mantel
Highly regarded
We Need to Talk About Kevin
Lionel Shriver
Established
The Things They Carried
Tim O'Brien
Highly regarded
Cloud Atlas
David Mitchell
Highly regarded
Childhood's End
Arthur C. Clarke
Highly regarded
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Edward Gibbon
Canonical
Just Kids
Patti Smith
Highly regarded
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
Victor Hugo
Canonical
