Top 150 Classic Books List
People are very interested in finding a list of classic books. Each reader probably has a personal opinion as to what should make up a best classic books list. Well, here is our list of the top ~150 classic books. We will have most of these books available to read free on ClassicBooks.com soon.
| Classic Book Title | Book Author |
| 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea | Jules Verne |
| A Christmas Carol | Charles Dickens |
| A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court | Mark Twain |
| A Midsummer Night’s Dream | William Shakespeare |
| A Tale of Two Cities | Charles Dickens |
| A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| Adam Bede | George Eliot |
| Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Mark Twain |
| Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | Arthur Conan Doyle |
| Adventures of Tom Sawyer | Mark Twain |
| Agnes Grey | Anne Bronte |
| Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll |
| Allan Quatermain | Henry Rider Haggard |
| All’s Well That Ends Well | William Shakespeare |
| Anna Karenina | Leo Tolstoy |
| Anthony and Cleopatra | William Shakespeare |
| Around the World in Eighty Days | Jules Verne |
| As You Like It | William Shakespeare |
| Barchester Towers | Anthony Trollope |
| Barnaby Rudge | Charles Dickens |
| Black Beauty | Anna Sewell |
| Bleak House | Charles Dickens |
| Cranford | Elizabeth Gaskell |
| Crime and Punishment | Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
| David Copperfield | Charles Dickens |
| Dombey and Son | Charles Dickens |
| Don Quixote of La Mancha | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra |
| Dracula | Bram Stoker |
| Emma | Jane Austen |
| Far from the Madding Crowd | Thomas Hardy |
| Frankenstein | Mary Shelley |
| Great Expectations | Charles Dickens |
| Gulliver’s Travels | Jonathan Swift |
| Hamlet | William Shakespeare |
| Hard Times | Charles Dickens |
| Heart of Darkness | Joseph Conrad |
| Henry V | William Shakespeare |
| Ivanhoe | Sir Walter Scott |
| Jane Eyre | Charlotte Brontë |
| Journey to the Center of the Earth | Jules Verne |
| Julius Caesar | William Shakespeare |
| Just So Stories | Rudyard Kipling |
| Kidnapped | Robert Louis Stevenson |
| Kim | Rudyard Kipling |
| King Lear | William Shakespeare |
| King Solomon’s Mines | Rider Haggard |
| Last of the Mohicans | James Fenimore Cooper |
| Les Misérables | Victor Hugo |
| Little Lord Fauntleroy | Frances Hodgson Burnett |
| Little Women | Louisa May Alcott |
| Lord Jim | Joseph Conrad |
| Lorna Doone | R D Blackmore |
| Love’s Labours Lost | William Shakespeare |
| Macbeth | William Shakespeare |
| Mansfield Park | Jane Austen |
| Martin Chuzzlewit | Charles Dickens |
| Middlemarch | George Eliot |
| Moby Dick | Herman Melville |
| Much Ado About Nothing | William Shakespeare |
| Nicholas Nickleby | Charles Dickens |
| Northanger Abbey | Jane Austen |
| Oliver Twist | Charles Dickens |
| Othello | William Shakespeare |
| Persuasion | Jane Austen |
| Pilgrim’s Progress | John Bunyan |
| Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen |
| Richard III | William Shakespeare |
| Rights of Man | Thomas Paine |
| Rob Roy | Sir Walter Scott |
| Robinson Crusoe | Daniel Defoe |
| Romeo and Juliet | William Shakespeare |
| Sense and Sensibility | Jane Austen |
| Shirley | Charlotte Bronte |
| Silas Marner | George Eliot |
| Sons and Lovers | D.H. Lawrence |
| Tales from the Arabian Nights | Richard Francis Burton |
| Tales of Mystery and Imagination | Edgar Allan Poe |
| Tanglewood Tales for Girls and Boys | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| Tess of the D’Urbervilles | Thomas Hardy |
| The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Mark Twain |
| The Adventures of Pinocchio | Carlo Collodi |
| The Adventures of Tom Sawyer | Mark Twain |
| The Age of Innocence | Edith Wharton |
| The Aspern Papers | Henry James |
| The Awakening | Kate Chopin |
| The Black Arrow | Robert Louis Stevenson |
| The Brothers Karamazov | Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
| The Call of the Wild | Jack London |
| The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes | Arthur Conan Doyle |
| The Comedy of Errors | William Shakespeare |
| The Count of Monte Cristo | Alexandre Dumas |
| The Deerslayer | James Fenimore Cooper |
| The Diary of a Nobody | George Grossmith and Weedon Grossmith |
| The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders | Daniel Defoe |
| The Four Million | O. Henry |
| The Happy Prince and Other Stories | Oscar Wilde |
| The Hound of the Baskervilles | Arthur Conan Doyle |
| The Hunchback of Notre-Dame | Victor Hugo |
| The Importance of Being Earnest | Oscar Wilde |
| The Jungle Book | Rudyard Kipling |
| The Last of the Mohicans | James Fenimore Cooper |
| The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman | Laurence Sterne |
| The Man in the Iron Mask | Alexandre Dumas |
| The Man Who Was Thursday | G.K. Chesterton |
| The Man Who Would Be King | Rudyard Kipling |
| The Merchant of Venice | William Shakespeare |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | William Shakespeare |
| The Mill on the Floss | George Eliot |
| The Moonstone | Wilkie Collins |
| The Napoleon of Notting Hill | G.K. Chesterton |
| The Odyssey | Homer |
| The Old Curiosity Shop | Charles Dickens |
| The Phantom of the Opera | Gaston Leroux |
| The Pickwick Papers | Charles Dickens |
| The Picture of Dorian Gray | Oscar Wilde |
| The Prince | Niccolò Machiavelli |
| The Prince and the Pauper | Mark Twain |
| The Princess and Curdie | George MacDonald |
| The Princess and the Goblin | George MacDonald |
| The Prisoner of Zenda | Anthony Hope |
| The Professor | Charlotte Bronte |
| The Red Badge of Courage | Stephen Crane |
| The Scarlet Letter | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| The Secret Agent | Joseph Conrad |
| The Secret Garden | Frances Hodgson Burnett |
| The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon | Washington Irving |
| The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde | Robert Louis Stevenson |
| The Taming of the Shrew | William Shakespeare |
| The Tempest | William Shakespeare |
| The Tenant of Wildfell Hall | Anne Bronte |
| The Three Musketeers | Alexandre Dumas |
| The Time Machine | H.G. Wells |
| The Turn of the Screw | Henry James |
| The Water Babies | Charles Kingsley |
| The Winter’s Tale | William Shakespeare |
| The Woman in White | Wilkie Collins |
| The Wonderful Wizard of Oz | L. Frank Baum |
| Through The Looking Glass | Lewis Carroll |
| Timon of Athens | William Shakespeare |
| Treasure Island | Robert Louis Stevenson |
| Twelfth Night | William Shakespeare |
| Uncle Tom’s Cabin | Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| Under the Greenwood Tree | Thomas Hardy |
| Utopia | Thomas More |
| Vanity Fair | William Thackeray |
| Villette | Charlotte Bronte |
| Walden | Henry David Thoreau |
| War and Peace | Leo Tolstoy |
| Waverley | Sir Walter Scott |
| Westward Ho! | Charles Kingsley |
| What Katy Did At School | Susan Coolidge |
| White Fang | Jack London |
| Wuthering Heights | Emily Bronte |