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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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Extended Sample The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
Extended Sample A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
Extended Sample East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Extended Sample Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
Extended Sample Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Extended Sample To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Extended Sample The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Extended Sample Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Extended Sample Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
Extended Sample The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Extended Sample Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Extended Sample Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Extended Sample Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
Extended Sample The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
Extended Sample Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Extended Sample Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
Extended Sample The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
Extended Sample A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle
Extended Sample The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Extended Sample Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
Extended Sample Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Extended Sample The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
Extended Sample And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
Extended Sample The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Extended Sample David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Extended Sample The Iliad by Homer
Extended Sample Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Extended Sample The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
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