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31 Best Classic Books of All Time


Our goal: Find the best Classic books according to the internet (not just one random person's opinion).

    Here's what we did:
  1. Type "best classic books" into our search engine and study the top 5+ pages.
  2. Add only the books mentioned 2+ times.
  3. Rank the results neatly for you here! 😊
    (It was a lot of work. But hey! That's why we're here, right?)

(Updated 2024)

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Last Updated: Monday 1 Jan, 2024

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  1. 1
    Little Women
  2. 2
    Pride and Prejudice
  3. MOST RECOMMENDED!
    3
    1984

    1984

    George Orwell

  4. 4
    The Great Gatsby

    The Great Gatsby

    F. Scott Fitzgerald

  5. 5
    To Kill a Mockingbird
  6. 6
    The Catcher in the Rye
  7. 7
    The Color Purple

    The Color Purple

    Alice Walker

  8. 8
    Wuthering Heights

    Wuthering Heights

    Emily Brontë

  9. 9
    Beloved

    Beloved

    Toni Morrison

  10. 10
    Frankenstein

    Frankenstein

    Mary Shelley

  11. 11
    Anna Karenina

    Anna Karenina

    Leo Tolstoy

  12. 12
    Brave New World

    Brave New World

    Aldous Huxley

  13. 13
    One Hundred Years of Solitude

    One Hundred Years of Solitude

    Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  14. 15
    Lord of the Flies

    Lord of the Flies

    William Golding

  15. 16
    Catch-22

    Catch-22

    Joseph Heller

  16. 17
    Things Fall Apart
  17. 18
    The Handmaid's Tale

    The Handmaid's Tale

    Margaret Atwood

  18. 19
    In Cold Blood

    In Cold Blood

    Truman Capote

  19. 20
    Jane Eyre

    Jane Eyre

    Charlotte Bronte

  20. 21
    Of Mice and Men

    Of Mice and Men

    John Steinbeck

  21. 22
    The Bell Jar
  22. 23
    Their Eyes Were Watching God
  23. 24
    The Time Machine
  24. 25
    Great Expectations

    Great Expectations

    Charles Dickens

  25. 26
    Dracula

    Dracula

    Bram Stoker

  26. 27
    Persuasion

    Persuasion

    Jane Austen

  27. 28
    Orlando

    Orlando

    A Biography

    Virginia Woolf

  28. 29
    Vanity Fair

    Vanity Fair

    William Makepeace Thackeray

  29. 30
    The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
  30. 31
    No-No Boy

    No-No Boy

    John Okada

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