Must Read Classics

Classic books stand the test of time by capturing readers’ attention generation after generation. They focus on themes that people across continents, religious backgrounds, socioeconomic circumstances and education levels can all relate to, such as love and loss. Many classic novels explore familial relationships and how life circumstances can change on a dime. The best classic literature endures because it is well-written and appeals to a wide swath of readers who want to travel to far-away locations, laugh at the improbable, or feel heart-pumping excitement—all vicariously. A list of the best classic novels should transport the reader to times in the past, future or present that give them new things to aspire to and ponder.

The best classic novels remain relevant and accessible decade after decade. Classic literature is not a genre—it encompasses romance, science fiction, humor and any other type of book. Instead, what makes a book a classic is expressing something fundamental about the human condition. These novels are relatable.

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  • War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
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    War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

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    Tolstoy's epic masterpiece intertwines the lives of private and public individuals during the time of the Napoleonic wars and the French invasion of Russia. The fortunes of the Rostovs and the Bolkonskys, of Pierre, Natasha, and Andrei, are intimately...
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  • Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
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    Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

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    Introduction and Notes by Gene M. Moore, Universiteit van Amsterdam. Generally regarded as the pre-eminent work of Conrad's shorter fiction, Heart of Darkness is a chilling tale of horror which, as the author intended, is capable of many interpretations...
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  • Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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    Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

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    One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World'Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful,...
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  • Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
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    Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy

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    Introduction and Notes by Michael Irwin, Professor of English Literature, University of Kent at Canterbury. Set in Hardy's Wessex, Tess is a moving novel of hypocrisy and double standards. Its challenging sub-title, A Pure Woman, infuriated critics when...
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  • The Chrysalids by John Wyndham
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    The Chrysalids by John Wyndham

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    The disturbing post-apocalyptic novel The Chrysalids by John Wyndham, author of The Day of the Triffids and The Kraken Wakes and dramatised on BBC Radio 4. David Strorm's father doesn't approve of Angus Morton's unusually large horses, calling them...
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  • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
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    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

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    The Penguin English Library Edition of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain'I'm unfavorable to killin' a man as long as you can git around it; it ain't good sense, it ain't good morals. Ain't I right?'The original Great American Novel, an...
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  • A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
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    A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

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    A Tale of Two Cities (1859), Dickens' greatest historical novel, traces the private lives of a group of people caught up in the cataclysm of the French Revolution and the Terror. Dickens based his historical detail on Carlyle's great work - The French...
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  • The Code of the Woosters: (Jeeves & Wooster) by P.G. Wodehouse
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    The Code of the Woosters: (Jeeves & Wooster) by P.G. Wodehouse

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    'The prose . . . is so gloriously funny you can relish the book over and over again.' -- The Times (five best comic novels)'If you haven't read PG Wodehouse in a hot bath with a snifter of whiskey and ideally a rubber duck for company, you haven't lived...
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  • The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
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    The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

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    Widely regarded as one of Edith Wharton's greatest achievements, The Age of Innocence is not only subtly satirical, but also a sometimes dark and disturbing comedy of manners in its exploration of the 'eternal triangle' of love.Set against the backdrop...
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  • Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
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    Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

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    The Penguin English Library Edition of Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray'Vanitas Vanitatum! Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?'No one is better equipped in the struggle for wealth and...
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  • O Pioneers! - Penguin Modern Classics by Willa Cather
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    O Pioneers! - Penguin Modern Classics by Willa Cather

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    Set on the Nebraska prairie where Willa Cather (1873–1947) grew up, this powerful early novel tells the story of the young Alexandra Bergson, whose dying father leaves her in charge of the family and of the lands they have struggled to farm. In...
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  • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Oxford World's Classics by Mark Twain
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    The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Oxford World's Classics by Mark Twain

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    'Tom was a glittering hero once more - the pet of the old, and the envy of the young...There were some that believed he would be President yet, if he escaped hanging.'In this enduring and internationally popular novel, Mark ogaincombines social satire...
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  • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Collins Classics by Mark Twain
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    The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Collins Classics by Mark Twain

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    HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.'Now he found out a new thing - namely, that to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.'An idyllic...
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  • The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn - Collins Classics by Mark Twain
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    The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn - Collins Classics by Mark Twain

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    HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'We said there warn't no home like a raft, after all. Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft don't. You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a...
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  • Pride and Prejudice - Collins Classics by Jane Austen
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    Pride and Prejudice - Collins Classics by Jane Austen

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    HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. 'It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.' Austen's best-loved tale of love, marriage and society...
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  • A Confederacy of Dunces - Penguin Essentials by John Kennedy Toole
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    A Confederacy of Dunces - Penguin Essentials by John Kennedy Toole

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    This city is famous for its gamblers, prostitutes, exhibitionists, anti-Christs, alcoholics, sodomites, drug addicts, fetishists, onanists, pornographers, frauds, jades, litterbugs, and lesbians... don't make the mistake of bothering me. Meet the fat,...
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  • Nineteen Eighty-Four: 1984 - Macmillan Collector's Library by George Orwell
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    Nineteen Eighty-Four: 1984 - Macmillan Collector's Library by George Orwell

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    (Available after 3-20 days)One the greatest literary dystopias ever written, Orwell’s brilliantly bleak future vision of totalitarianism remains eerily relevant to our day.   George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four is one of the most famous and...
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  • Anna Karenina - Macmillan Collector's Library by Leo Tolstoy
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    Anna Karenina - Macmillan Collector's Library by Leo Tolstoy

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    (Available after 3-20 days)Trapped in a stifling marriage, Anna Karenina is swept off her feet by dashing Count Vronsky. Rejected by society, the two lovers flee to Italy, where Anna finds herself isolated from all except the man she loves, and who loves...
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  • Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
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    Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

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    With an Introduction by Dr Pamela Knights, Department of English Studies, Durham University. With this intensely moving short novel, Edith Wharton set out 'to draw life as it really was' in the lonely villages and desolate farms of the harsh New England...
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  • Ethan Frome - The Penguin English Library by Edith Wharton
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    Ethan Frome - The Penguin English Library by Edith Wharton

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    The Penguin English Library Edition of Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton'He seemed a part of the mute melancholy landscape, an incarnation of its frozen woe, with all that was warm and sentient in him fast bound below the surface'Ethan Frome works his...
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