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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Gone With the Wind Audiobook, by Margaret Mitchell

To Kill a Mockingbird Audiobook, by Harper Lee

The Count of Monte Cristo Audiobook, by Alexandre Dumas

East of Eden Audiobook, by John Steinbeck

Invisible Man: A Novel Audiobook, by Ralph Ellison

The Sound and the Fury: The Corrected Text with Faulkners Appendix Audiobook, by William Faulkner

The Grapes of Wrath Audiobook, by John Steinbeck

Great Expectations Audiobook, by Charles Dickens

The Adventures Huckleberry Finn Audiobook, by Mark Twain

The Old Man and the Sea Audiobook, by Ernest Hemingway

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

And Then There Were None Audiobook, by Agatha Christie

Dracula & Carmilla Audiobook, by Bram Stoker

The Picture of Dorian Gray Audiobook, by Oscar Wilde

A Study in Scarlet Audiobook, by Arthur Conan Doyle

Wuthering Heights Audiobook, by Emily Brontë

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne Audiobook, by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka Audiobook, by Franz Kafka

Romeo and Juliet Audiobook, by William Shakespeare

Gulliver’s Travels Audiobook, by Jonathan Swift

Grimms Fairy Tales Audiobook, by Brothers Grimm

Pride And Prejudice Audiobook, by Jane Austen

The Three Musketeers Audiobook, by Alexandre Dumas

The Great Gatsby Audiobook, by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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The 50 Best Classic Novels

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