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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 Adventures Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Extended Sample The Crucible by Arthur Miller
Extended Sample Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Extended Sample The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
Extended Sample Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Extended Sample Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Extended Sample Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Extended Sample The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Extended Sample Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Extended Sample Pride And Prejudice by Jane Austen
Extended Sample Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
Extended Sample Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Extended Sample Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
Extended Sample Dracula & Carmilla by Bram Stoker
Extended Sample The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Extended Sample Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Extended Sample The Call of the Wild by Jack London
Extended Sample The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Extended Sample Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
Extended Sample A Room with a View by E. M. Forster
Extended Sample Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery
Extended Sample Grimm's Fairy Tales by Brothers Grimm
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