Classic Books
Books that have endured for generations and continue to shape the readers and writers who come after them.
155 books
2001: A Space Odyssey
Arthur C. Clarke
Comedy
A Confederacy of Dunces
John Kennedy Toole
A Confederacy of Dunces
A Lesson Before Dying
Ernest J. Gaines
Historical Fiction
A Little Princess
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Literary Fiction
A Month in the Country
Non-Fiction
A Scanner Darkly
Philip K. Dick
A Separate Peace
Literary Fiction
A Tale of Two Cities
Contemporary Fiction
Agnes Grey
Anne Bronte
Science Fiction
Alas, Babylon
Fantasy
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll
Romance
All the Pretty Horses
Cormac McCarthy
Literary Fiction
An Artist of the Floating World
Kazuo Ishiguro
Anna Karenina
Annabel
Edgar Allan Poe
Non-Fiction
Babel
Samuel R. Delany
Beauty
Historical Fiction
Beowulf
Seamus Heaney
Literary Fiction
Bleak House
Charles Dickens
Non-Fiction
Bridge to Terabithia
Young Adult
Bunny
Margaret Wise Brown
Burnt Offerings
Robert Marasco
Literary Fiction
Butcher's Crossing
John Williams
Historical Fiction
Captain Blood
Rafael Sabatini
Horror
Carmilla
Sheridan Le Fanu
Comedy
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Roald Dahl
Non-Fiction
Childhood's End
Arthur C. Clarke
Memoir
Confess
Augustine of Hippo
Romance
Cranford
Elizabeth Gaskell
Crime and Punishment
Non-Fiction
Cry, the Beloved Country
Alan Paton
Contemporary Fiction
David Copperfield
Charles Dickens
Fantasy
Dawn
C. S. Lewis
Dead Souls
Nikolai Gogol
Demian
Hermann Hesse
Non-Fiction
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Philip K. Dick
Literary Fiction
Doctor Zhivago
Boris Pasternak
Horror
Dracula
Bram Stoker
Non-Fiction
Earth Abides
George Rippey Stewart
Literary Fiction
East of Eden
John Steinbeck
Romance
Forever Amber
Kathleen Winsor
Non-Fiction
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
Crime
Franny and Zooey
J. D. Salinger
Mystery
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
E. L. Konigsburg
Horror
Ghost Story
Algernon Blackwood
Non-Fiction
Giovanni's Room
James Baldwin
Go Tell It on the Mountain
James Baldwin
Comedy
Gulliver's Travels
Jonathan Swift
Fantasy
Happy
Oscar Wilde
Harriet the Spy
Young Adult
Hatchet
Gary Paulsen
Horror
Hell House
Richard Matheson
How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
Dale Carnegie
Non-Fiction
I Am Legend
Richard Matheson
Comedy
I Capture the Castle
Dodie Smith
Non-Fiction
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Comedy
In Cold Blood
Truman Capote
Invisible Man
Young Adult
Island of the Blue Dolphins
Scott O'Dell
Comedy
James and the Giant Peach
Roald Dahl
Romance
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë
Historical Fiction
Jazz
Toni Morrison
Young Adult
Julie of the Wolves
Jean Craighead George
Romance
Le Morte d'Arthur
Thomas Malory
Les Miserables
Less Than Zero
Bret Easton Ellis
Philosophy
Letters from a Stoic
Seneca the Younger
Little Fish
Bernadine Cook
Love in the Time of Cholera
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Non-Fiction
Lucifer's Hammer
Larry Niven
Fantasy
Lud-in-the-Mist
Hope Mirrlees
MASH
Paul Groves
Romance
Madame Bovary
Gustave Flaubert
Young Adult
Maniac Magee
Jerry Spinelli
Comedy
Matilda
Roald Dahl
Melmoth the Wanderer
Contemporary Fiction
Middlemarch
George Eliot
Moby Dick
Romance
Mort
Thomas Malory
Contemporary Fiction
Mrs Dalloway
Virginia Woolf
Mystery
Murder on the Orient Express
Agatha Christie
Romance
My Cousin Rachel
Daphne du Maurier
Narcissus and Goldmund
Hermann Hesse
Literary Fiction
Native Son
Nausea
Jean-Paul. Satre
Non-Fiction
Nevada
Zane Grey
Literary Fiction
No Longer Human
太宰 治
North and South
Elizabeth Gaskell
Romance
Northanger Abbey
Jane Austen
Non-Fiction
Notes from Underground
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fantasy
Of Mice and Men
John Steinbeck
Literary Fiction
Oliver Twist
Non-Fiction
On the Beach
Nevil Shute
Literary Fiction
Pale Fire
Vladimir Nabokov
Literary Fiction
Passing
Nella Larsen
Pedro Paramo
Juan Rulfo
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
Romance
Persuasion
Jane Austen
Fantasy
Peter Pan
J. M. Barrie
Horror
Power
Edith Nesbit
Fantasy
The Return of the King
J.R.R. Tolkien
Historical Fiction
The Scarlet Pimpernel
Emma Orczy
Literary Fiction
The Secret Garden
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Horror
The Shining
Stephen King
Horror
The Silence
Thomas Harris
Horror
The Silence of the Lambs
Thomas Harris
Non-Fiction
The Sirens of Titan
Kurt Vonnegut
Memoir
The Souls of Black Folk
W. E. B. Du Bois
Non-Fiction
The Stars My Destination
Alfred Bester
Fantasy
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson
Historical Fiction
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson
Literary Fiction
The Stranger
Albert Camus
The Tale of Genji
Murasaki Shikibu
Mystery
The Talented Mr. Ripley
Patricia Highsmith
Non-Fiction
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Anne Brontë
Literary Fiction
The Things They Carried
The Tombs of Atuan
Literary Fiction
The Trial
Franz Kafka
Fantasy
The Trumpet of the Swan
E. B. White
Romance
The Turn of the Screw
Henry James
Fantasy
The Two Towers
J.R.R. Tolkien
Literary Fiction
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Milan Kundera
Philosophy
The Wind in the Willows
Kenneth Grahame
Mystery
The Woman in White
Non-Fiction
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
L. Frank Baum
Comedy
The World According to Garp
Jeffrey Eugenides
Literary Fiction
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston
Thriller
There There
Agatha Christie
Literary Fiction
Things Fall Apart
Chinua Achebe
Self-Help
Think and Grow Rich
Non-Fiction
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman
Fantasy
Till We Have Faces
C.S. Lewis
Literary Fiction
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee
Non-Fiction
Tribe
Godbey, Allen Howard
Comedy
True Grit
Charles Portis
Fantasy
Trumpet
E. B. White
Fantasy
Tuck Everlasting
Natalie Babbitt
Non-Fiction
Ubik
Philip K. Dick
Vanity Fair
Literary Fiction
Villette
Charlotte Bronte
Literary Fiction
Walden
Henry David Thoreau
Horror
Wanderers
Charles Robert Maturin
Literary Fiction
War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy
Fantasy
Watership Down
Richard Adams
Young Adult
We
Michael Rosen
Horror
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Shirley Jackson
Mystery
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Fantasy
When
H. G. Wells
White Noise
Historical Fiction
Wide Sargasso Sea
Jean Rhys
Worry
Literary Fiction
Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë
You
Wu Cheng'en
Memoir
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Robert M. Pirsig
