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 Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery
Extended Sample The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
Extended Sample The Great Gatsby (abridged) by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Extended Sample Middlemarch (abridged) by George Eliot
Extended Sample Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Extended Sample A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
Extended Sample Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Extended Sample The Adventures Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Extended Sample The Secret Garden (abridged) by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Extended Sample The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
Extended Sample Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
Extended Sample Frankenstein (abridged) by Mary Shelley
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