The 50 Best Classic Novels

"It's such a classic."

Those words are thrown around an awful lot amongst avid readers, authors, critics, and those in the publishing industry. Many are left to wonder, though, what really makes a book a true classic? Is it simply that it's old or written by a well-known author? Or, is there something else to it?

Truth be told, there's a lot more to it. Classic novels meet certain criteria that earn them the right to be called classic, to be revered by readers and scholars alike, and to be passed down from generation to generation.

What standards must be met, and what books are considered must-read classic novels?

Want to know what makes these audiobooks classics? Head over to the blog to read: 4 Criteria Required to Make a Novel a True Classic.

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To Kill a Mockingbird Audibook, by Harper Lee

Don Quixote Audibook, by Miguel de Cervantes

The Hobbit: or, There and Back Again Audibook, by J. R. R. Tolkien

East of Eden Audibook, by John Steinbeck

A Wrinkle in Time Audibook, by Madeleine L’Engle

Gone With the Wind Audibook, by Margaret Mitchell

The Old Man and the Sea Audibook, by Ernest Hemingway

And Then There Were None Audibook, by Agatha Christie

The Three Musketeers Audibook, by Alexandre Dumas

Little Women Audibook, by Louisa May Alcott

The Adventures Huckleberry Finn Audibook, by Mark Twain

Mrs. Dalloway Audibook, by Virginia Woolf

The Sound and the Fury: The Corrected Text with Faulkner's Appendix Audibook, by William Faulkner

Crime and Punishment Audibook, by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Audibook, by Roald Dahl

Pride And Prejudice Audibook, by Jane Austen

Gulliver’s Travels Audibook, by Jonathan Swift

Moby Dick: Or, the Whale Audibook, by Herman Melville

Romeo and Juliet Audibook, by William Shakespeare

Dracula & Carmilla Audibook, by Bram Stoker

The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka Audibook, by Franz Kafka

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne Audibook, by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Picture of Dorian Gray Audibook, by Oscar Wilde

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The 50 Best Classic Novels

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