The Canons are books without boundaries. Some are classics already, the rest will be soon.
Steven Sherrill
An unusual and unforgettable take on what it means to be an outsider, an outcast, a misfit
Darcey Steinke
A neon-lit portrait of danger and desire, unravelling and reinvention
Anthony Bourdain
Legendary chef Anthony Bourdain’s crude culinary noir classic
Eve Babitz
Iconic LA ‘lit girl’ Eve Babitz’s semi-autobiographical novel of sun, excess and success
Charles Bukowski
Bukowski’s take on the bildungsroman, an anti-coming-of-age story and his finest novel
Margaret Drabble
John BergerSusan Sontag
Rana Dasgupta
Annie Dillard
Ursula K. Le Guin
Gavin Francis
Ece Temelkuran
Kevin Sampson
Dorothy Pilley
Maggie Smith
Pádraig Ó Tuama
LeRoi Jones
Art PepperLaurie Pepper
Cookie Mueller
Ruth Ozeki
Louise Welsh
Yevgeny Zamyatin
Nelson Algren
Alasdair Gray
Rebecca West
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Tahmima Anam
James Joyce
Iceberg Slim
Leonard Cohen
Alexander McCall Smith
Gil Scott-Heron
Amy Liptrot
Yann Martel
Virginia Woolf
John Edgar Wideman
David Thomson
David Wojnarowicz
Nan Shepherd
Muriel Spark
Rebecca Solnit
David Eagleman
Richard Brautigan
Michel Faber
Stanley Booth
Ismail Kadare
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