The 50 Best Classics Books of 2024

Top 50 Free Classics Books - April 2024

Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë (1847)

The Novel Wuthering Heights tears off, roughly enough, the tinsel from passion. We have Heathcliff, harsh, pitiless, wolfish, with...

The Complete Works of Shakespeare William Shakespeare (2017)

The complete works of Shakespeare have to be considered among the greatest works in all of English literature. This ebook contains...

The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne (1850)

An Apple Books Classic edition. Hester Prynne lives in infamy. After committing adultery and bearing a child with a man whose name...

The Mysterious Island Jules Verne (1920)

In this classic tale by French science fiction writer Jules Verne, a group of Americans escape the American Civil War by flying in...

A Murder is Announced Agatha Christie (2023)

"A Murder is Announced" is a detective novel written by Agatha Christie, first published in 1950. The story is part of h...

On Our Selection Steele Rudd (1899)

An Apple Books Classic edition. The Rudds are having a tough go of things. Pioneering in the Australian outback is no easy task. W...

House of the Seven Gables Nathaniel Hawthorne (1850)

The curse of Mathew Maule descends on seven generations of the inhabitants of an old New England house.

Jude the Obscure Thomas Hardy (1894)

Jude Fawley is a rural stone mason with intellectual aspirations. Frustrated by poverty and the indifference of the academic insti...

A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens (2000)

The novel depicts the plight of the French peasantry demoralised by the French aristocracy in the years leading up to the revoluti...

Such Is Life Joseph Furphy (1903)

An Apple Books Classic edition. Set in the Australian outback in the 19th century, Such Is Life is the fictional diary of Tom Coll...

The Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoevsky (2020)

Dmitri Karamazov and his father Fyodor are at war over both Dmitri’s inheritance and the affections of the beautiful Grushenka. In...

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Explore «100 Greatest Books,» a curated anthology featuring classics and modern treasures. This collection is will your gateway to...

Oedipus King of Thebes Sophocles & Gilbert Murray (1910)

A 1917 translation of the classic Greek tragedy of murder and incest. Gilbert Murray, a British Classical scholar, wrote explanato...

The Whisperer in Darkness H. P. Lovecraft (2020)

An unspeakable horror lurks in the secluded hills of rural Vermont, and after the historic floods of 1917, mixed in with news stor...

Winnie the Pooh A. A. Milne (1926)

During an ordinary day in Hundred Acre Wood, Winnie the Pooh sets out to find some honey. Misinterpreting a note from Christopher ...

A Study in Scarlet Arthur Conan Doyle (2019)

A Study in Scarlet was the career-starting, first Sherlock Holmes story published by Arthur Conan Doyle. Set in 19th-century Londo...

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Mark Twain (1910)

In this classic 1876 novel by Mark Twain, pseudonym of American writer Samuel Langhorne Clemens, young Tom Sawyer and his friend H...

We Yevgeny Zamyatin (2021)

An Apple Books Classic edition. What happens when feelings get in the way of order? What is the price of perfecting society? Yevge...

Siddhartha Hermann Hesse (2020)

Hermann Hesse wrote Siddhartha during a period in his life in which he suffered what he described as a “sickness with life.” He cl...

A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens (2013)

Celebrate the spirit of the season with this complimentary edition of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol –the perfect companion fo...

Great Expectations Charles Dickens (1861)

An Apple Books Classic edition. Charles Dickens’ classic explores potent themes like good versus evil, crime, repentance, love and...

Dracula Bram Stoker (2019)

Dracula is a Gothic horror novel by Bram Stoker, considered to be one of the most enduring and skillful examples of the modern vam...

The Old Curiosity Shop Charles Dickens (1839)

The sensational bestselling story of Little Nell, the beautiful child thrown into a shadowy, terrifying world, seems to belong les...

Death on the Nile Agatha Christie (2023)

Agatha Christie's most daring travel mystery. The tranquility of a lovely cruise along the Nile is shattered by the discovery...

Little Women Louisa May Alcott (1868)

An Apple Books Classic edition. Meet the Marches! Louisa May Alcott’s classic introduces us to four unforgettable sisters: beautif...

Dracula Bram Stoker (2020)

Dracula is one of the most famous public-domain horror novels in existence, responsible not just for introducing the eponymous Cou...

The Iliad of Homer Homer (2006)

The Iliad (sometimes referred to as the Song of Ilion or Song of Ilium) is an ancient Greek epic poem in dactylic hexameter, tradi...

The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne (2019)

The Scarlet Letter is generally considered to be Nathaniel Hawthorne’s masterpiece. Set in 17th century Boston, it follows the pli...

Cannery Row John Steinbeck (2022)

Cannery Row is a book without much of a plot. Rather, it is an attempt to capture the feeling and people of a place, the cannery d...

The Prophet Khalil Gibran (2020)

The Prophet is Lebanese-American writer Khalil Gibran’s best known work. In the book, the prophet Almustafa is returning home afte...

The Time Machine H.G. Wells (2019)

The Time Machine cemented author H.G. Wells as the father of modern science fiction. In it, the Time Traveller embarks on a stagge...

The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway (2023)

A poignant look at the disillusionment and angst of the post-World War I generation, the novel introduces two of Hemingway’s most ...

The Idiot Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1868)

Prince Myshkin returns to Russia from an asylum in Switzerland. As he becomes embroiled in the frantic amatory and financial intri...

The Invisible Man H.G. Wells (1897)

An Apple Books Classic edition. “Alone-it is wonderful how little a man can do alone! To rob a little, to hurt a little, and there...

My Brilliant Career Miles Franklin (1901)

An Apple Books Classic edition. This Australian classic explores what happens when a young woman’s professional ambitions-to build...

Rebecca Daphne du Maurier (2023)

The classic Gothic suspense novel by Daphne du Maurier -- winner of the Anthony Award for Best Novel of the Century -- is now a Ne...

Reflections on War and Death Sigmund Freud (1939)

It is a Fiction Classic Story Book. The Book Says that Caught in the whirlwind of these war times, without any real information or...

Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë (1847)

An Apple Books Classic edition. If you’ve only ever seen Wuthering Heights on screen, you may have an image of Catherine and Heath...

Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoevsky (2020)

Crime and Punishment tells the story of Rodion Raskolnikov, an ex-student who plans to murder a pawnbroker to test his theory of p...

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain (2019)

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is an American classic, a book that has inspired troves of writers in its wake, and that has sparke...

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Embark on a literary journey through the ages with the 250 Greatest Books Collection a meticulously curated anthology that brings ...

Tales of Old Japan Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford Redesdale (1870)

This work is a part of the Lit2Go collection, a collaboration between the Florida Department of Education and the University of So...

Oliver Twist Charles Dickens (2021)

Charles John Huffam Dickens was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional char...

Notes from Underground Fyodor Dostoevsky (2020)

Notes from Underground is a fictional collection of memoirs written by a civil servant living alone in St. Petersburg. The man is ...

Poor Folk Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1880)

This novel brought its 24-year-old author critical and public acclaim nearly overnight. Written in the form of letters, it recount...

David Copperfield Charles Dickens (1934)

The novel traces the life of David Copperfield from the time of his birth to his mature manhood, when he is married and familiar w...

The Getting of Wisdom Henry Handel Richardson (1910)

An Apple Books Classic edition. Writing as Henry Handel Richardson, Ethel Richardson drew on her personal experience to tell the s...

The Night Before Christmas Clement C. Moore (2014)

First published anonymously in 1823—and later attributed to Clemente C. Moore— The Night Before Christmas is arguably one of the m...

Candide Voltaire (2020)

Candide is the picaresque tale of the titular character’s fantastical journey from an insular, idealized life in a picturesque cas...

The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath (2023)

"The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath is a haunting exploration of the human psyche. Set against the backdrop of 1950s America,...

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