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A classic stands the test of time. The work is usually considered to be a representation of the period in which it was written; and the work merits lasting recognition. In other words, if the book was published in the recent past, the work is not a classic.
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popular classics books (showing 1-50 of 13,363)
Pride and Prejudice (Paperback)
by Jane Austen (shelved 3500 times as classics)
avg rating 5.00 — 4 ratings — published 1813
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To Kill A Mocking Bird
by Harper Lee (shelved 3409 times as classics)
avg rating 4.31 — 33 ratings — published 1960
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The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by F. Scott Fitzgerald (shelved 2935 times as classics)
avg rating 3.75 — 259,742 ratings — published 1922
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Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics)
by Charlotte Brontë (shelved 2850 times as classics)
avg rating 4.06 — 137,005 ratings — published 1847
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The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by J.D. Salinger (shelved 2515 times as classics)
avg rating 3.83 — 264,234 ratings — published 1945
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Little Women (Paperback)
by Louisa May Alcott (shelved 2298 times as classics)
avg rating 4.00 — 166,894 ratings — published 1867
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Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by Emily Brontë (shelved 2229 times as classics)
avg rating 3.69 — 53,608 ratings — published 1847
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1984 (Paperback)
by George Orwell (shelved 2144 times as classics)
avg rating 4.02 — 212,542 ratings — published 1949
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Paperback)
by Mark Twain (shelved 2136 times as classics)
avg rating 3.79 — 188,258 ratings — published 1884
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Of Mice and Men (Centennial Edition)
by John Steinbeck (shelved 2123 times as classics)
avg rating 3.75 — 204,513 ratings — published 1937
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Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by William Golding (shelved 2094 times as classics)
avg rating 3.58 — 209,450 ratings — published 1954
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Animal Farm (Paperback)
by George Orwell (shelved 2047 times as classics)
avg rating 3.72 — 209,642 ratings — published 1945
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The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet: A Facing-Pages Translation into Contemporary English (Access to Shakespeare)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 1999 times as classics)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 1595
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Sense and Sensibility (Paperback)
by Jane Austen (shelved 1976 times as classics)
avg rating 4.08 — 102,240 ratings — published 1811
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The Scarlet Letter (Paperback)
by Nathaniel Hawthorne (shelved 1928 times as classics)
avg rating 3.29 — 52,529 ratings — published 1850
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Emma (Hardcover)
by Jane Austen (shelved 1654 times as classics)
avg rating 4.53 — 29 ratings — published 1815
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Great Expectations (Paperback)
by Charles Dickens (shelved 1623 times as classics)
avg rating 3.61 — 39,547 ratings — published 1861
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Frankenstein (Paperback)
by Mary Shelley (shelved 1573 times as classics)
avg rating 3.66 — 96,200 ratings — published 1818
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A Tale of Two Cities (Paperback)
by Charles Dickens (shelved 1561 times as classics)
avg rating 3.71 — 104,155 ratings — published 1859
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The Odyssey (Penguin Classics)
by Homer (shelved 1470 times as classics)
avg rating 3.65 — 99,741 ratings — published -750
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Persuasion (Oxford World's Classics)
by Jane Austen (shelved 1410 times as classics)
avg rating 4.14 — 32,842 ratings — published 1818
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The Count of Monte Cristo (Paperback)
by Alexandre Dumas (shelved 1367 times as classics)
avg rating 4.10 — 92,102 ratings — published 1844
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Hamlet (Paperback)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 1292 times as classics)
avg rating 4.05 — 38,882 ratings — published 1386
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The Grapes of Wrath (Paperback)
by John Steinbeck (shelved 1268 times as classics)
avg rating 3.88 — 57,364 ratings — published 1939
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Brave New World (Paperback)
by Aldous Huxley (shelved 1231 times as classics)
avg rating 3.87 — 135,947 ratings — published 1932
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The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by J.R.R. Tolkien (shelved 1173 times as classics)
avg rating 4.06 — 188,578 ratings — published 1937
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Fahrenheit 451 (Paperback)
by Ray Bradbury (shelved 1152 times as classics)
avg rating 3.89 — 102,765 ratings — published 1953
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Dracula (Critical Edition)
by Bram Stoker (shelved 1140 times as classics)
avg rating 3.86 — 24,594 ratings — published 1897
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Macbeth (Paperback)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 1121 times as classics)
avg rating 3.88 — 38,422 ratings — published 2003
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Mansfield Park (Audio CD)
by Jane Austen (shelved 1111 times as classics)
avg rating 2.50 — 6 ratings — published 1814
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The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by Oscar Wilde (shelved 1104 times as classics)
avg rating 3.95 — 33,003 ratings — published 1890
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Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl (Paperback)
by Anne Frank (shelved 1052 times as classics)
avg rating 4.06 — 152,481 ratings — published 1947
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Anna Karenina (Mass Market Paperback)
by Leo Tolstoy (shelved 1047 times as classics)
avg rating 4.00 — 33,411 ratings — published 1873
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Crime and Punishment (Abridged)
by Fyodor Dostoevsky (shelved 1039 times as classics)
avg rating 4.10 — 33,868 ratings — published 1866
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The Secret Garden (Hardcover)
by Frances Hodgson Burnett (shelved 1022 times as classics)
avg rating 4.13 — 34,762 ratings — published 1911
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Northanger Abbey (Paperback)
by Jane Austen (shelved 1010 times as classics)
avg rating 3.65 — 20,949 ratings — published 1818
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De avonturen van Tom Sawyer (Salamander Klassiek)
by Mark Twain (shelved 981 times as classics)
avg rating 0.0 — 1 rating — published 1876
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Les Misérables (Mass Market Paperback)
by Victor Hugo (shelved 979 times as classics)
avg rating 4.03 — 78,068 ratings — published 1862
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The Old Man and the Sea (Scribner Classics)
by Ernest Hemingway (shelved 951 times as classics)
avg rating 3.50 — 39,120 ratings — published 1950
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A Midsummer Night's Dream (Paperback)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 946 times as classics)
avg rating 3.93 — 30,266 ratings — published 1596
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A Christmas Carol (Great Stories)
by Charles Dickens (shelved 892 times as classics)
avg rating 3.94 — 19,201 ratings — published 1843
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The Iliad (Paperback)
by Homer (shelved 882 times as classics)
avg rating 3.73 — 19,862 ratings — published -750
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Gone With The Wind (Paperback)
by Margaret Mitchell (shelved 853 times as classics)
avg rating 4.19 — 88,279 ratings — published 1936
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Lolita (Penguin Modern Classics)
by Vladimir Nabokov (shelved 836 times as classics)
avg rating 3.88 — 91,346 ratings — published 1958
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Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by Kurt Vonnegut (shelved 791 times as classics)
avg rating 4.00 — 147,274 ratings — published 1969
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The Canterbury Tales (Paperback)
by Geoffrey Chaucer (shelved 780 times as classics)
avg rating 3.45 — 20,064 ratings — published 1400
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Moby-Dick: or, The Whale (Penguin Classics)
by Herman Melville (shelved 769 times as classics)
avg rating 3.33 — 58,181 ratings — published 1851
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Catch-22 (Paperback)
by Joseph Heller (shelved 758 times as classics)
avg rating 4.01 — 53,675 ratings — published 1955
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Oliver Twist (Penguin Classics)
by Charles Dickens (shelved 748 times as classics)
avg rating 3.70 — 17,500 ratings — published 1837
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
by Lewis Carroll (shelved 748 times as classics)
avg rating 4.10 — 25,763 ratings — published 1865
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"how wearisom
Eternity so spent in worship paid
To whom we hate. Let us not then pursue
By force impossible, by leave obtain'd
Unacceptable, though in Heav'n, our state
Of splendid vassalage, but rather seek
Our own good from our selves, and from our own
Live to our selves, though in this vast recess,
Free, and to none accountable, preferring
Hard liberty before the easie yoke
Of servile Pomp"
— John Milton
Eternity so spent in worship paid
To whom we hate. Let us not then pursue
By force impossible, by leave obtain'd
Unacceptable, though in Heav'n, our state
Of splendid vassalage, but rather seek
Our own good from our selves, and from our own
Live to our selves, though in this vast recess,
Free, and to none accountable, preferring
Hard liberty before the easie yoke
Of servile Pomp"
— John Milton
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"Ah! Vanitas Vanitatum! Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? Or, having it, is satisfied? Come, children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out."
— William Makepeace Thackeray
— William Makepeace Thackeray
