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Best Classic Books

This is a list of the most renowned classic books. These are pieces of literature that have passed the test of time and have literary merit according to critics for generations.
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Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)
Great Expectations
1
Charles Dickens
The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
The Great Gatsby
2
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Candide (Voltaire)
Candide
3
Voltaire
Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
Jane Eyre
4
Charlotte Bronte
Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)
Wuthering Heights
5
Emily Bronte
100 Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcí­A Márquez)
100 Years of Solitude
6
Gabriel Garcí­A Márquez
Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
Pride and Prejudice
7
Jane Austen
A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens)
A Tale of Two Cities
8
Charles Dickens
Middlemarch (George Eliot)
Middlemarch
9
George Eliot
A Clockwork Orange (Anthony Burgess)
A Clockwork Orange
10
Anthony Burgess
Things Fall Apart (Chinua Achebe)
Things Fall Apart
11
Chinua Achebe
The Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood)
The Handmaid's Tale
12
Margaret Atwood
Waiting for Godot (Samuel Beckett)
Waiting for Godot
13
Samuel Beckett
The Stranger (Albert Camus)
The Stranger
14
Albert Camus
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Robert Louis Stevenson)
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
15
Robert Louis Stevenson
The Fall (Albert Camus)
The Fall
16
Albert Camus
The Plague (Albert Camus)
The Plague
17
Albert Camus
Nausea (Jean-Paul Sartre)
Nausea
18
Jean-Paul Sartre
My Antonia (Willa Cather)
My Antonia
19
Willa Cather
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
20
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)
Heart of Darkness
21
Joseph Conrad
Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
Crime and Punishment
22
Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
The Brothers Karamazov
23
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (Frederick Douglass)
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
24
Frederick Douglass
Medea (Euripides)
Medea
25
Euripides
Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)
Little Women
26
Louisa May Alcott
The Little Prince (Antoine De Saint-Exupéry)
The Little Prince
27
Antoine De Saint-Exupéry
The Prince (Niccolò Machiavelli)
The Prince
28
Niccolò Machiavelli
Barn Burning (William Faulkner)
Barn Burning
29
William Faulkner
The Sound and the Fury (William Faulkner)
The Sound and the Fury
30
William Faulkner
Howards End (E.M. Forster)
Howards End
31
E.M. Forster
Scarlet Letter
Scarlet Letter
32
The Old Man and the Sea (Ernest Hemingway)
The Old Man and the Sea
33
Ernest Hemingway
The Snows of Kilimanjaro (Ernest Hemingway)
The Snows of Kilimanjaro
34
Ernest Hemingway
The Sun Also Rises (Ernest Hemingway)
The Sun Also Rises
35
Ernest Hemingway
Odyssey (Homer)
Odyssey
36
Homer
The Illiad (Homer)
The Illiad
37
Homer
Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
Brave New World
38
Aldous Huxley
Legend of Sleepy Hollow--Headless Horseman (Washington Irving)
Legend of Sleepy Hollow--Headless Horseman
39
Washington Irving
The Trial (Franz Kafka)
The Trial
40
Franz Kafka
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