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The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway The Complete Short Stories of...

Ernest Hemingway
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Assassin's Quest Assassin's Quest

Robin Hobb
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Island Island

Aldous Huxley
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If on a winter's night a traveler If on a winter's night a...

Italo Calvino
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Casino Royale: A James Bond Novel Casino Royale: A James Bond...

Ian Fleming
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Gravity's Rainbow Gravity's Rainbow

Thomas Pynchon
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The Man in the High Castle The Man in the High Castle

Philip K Dick
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The Count of Monte Cristo: Deluxe Hardbound Edition The Count of Monte Cristo:...

Alexandre Dumas
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Dracula Dracula

Bram Stoker
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Little Women (150th Anniversary Edition): With Foreword and 200 Original Illustrations Little Women (150th...

Louisa M Alcott, Frank Merrill (Illustrator)
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The Hobbit: 75th Anniversary Edition The Hobbit: 75th Anniversary...

J R R Tolkien, J R R Tolkien (Illustrator)
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Contact Contact

Carl Sagan
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The Brothers Karamazov The Brothers Karamazov

Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Foundation Foundation

Isaac Asimov
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Siddhartha Siddhartha

Hermann Hesse
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Middlemarch Middlemarch

George Eliot
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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: Illustrated First Edition The Wonderful Wizard of Oz:...

L Frank Baum, W W Denslow (Illustrator)
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Show Boat Show Boat

Edna Ferber
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Jane Austen: The Complete Works 7-Book Boxed Set: Sense and Sensibility; Pride and Prejudice; Mansfield Park; Emma; Northanger Abbey; Persuasion; Love and Freindship (Penguin Classics Hardcover Boxed Set) Jane Austen: The Complete...

Jane Austen, Coralie Bickford-Smith (Illustrator)
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being The Unbearable Lightness of...

Milan Kundera
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The Book of Laughter and Forgetting The Book of Laughter and...

Milan Kundera
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Once and Future King Once and Future King

T H White
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Carmilla Carmilla

Carmen Maria Machado (Editor), Joseph Sheridan Lefanu
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Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel; 50th Anniversary Edition Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel;...

Kurt Vonnegut, Kevin Powers (Foreword by)
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To become a "classic," a book usually needs to meet some key criteria. First and foremost, it must be well-known and revered for its literary genius or impact on culture. Classic books were written many years ago but still hold a place of importance in the academic world. A book that's considered a classic will be read and appreciated by generation after generation. Classic books in fiction can span a variety of genres, from sci-fi novels to horror.

Hundreds of classic fiction book titles remain popular among readers and continue to educate, entertain and delight for decades and even centuries.

Some of the most popular classic fiction books of all time are:

  • The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, published in 1925
  • Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, published in 1813
  • Little Women by Louisa May Alcott, published in 1868
  • To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, published in 1960
  • The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, published in 1951

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Yes! Some classic fiction books enjoyed by all ages include:

  • The Great Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
  • A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
  • Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
  • Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
  • Heidi by Johanna Spyri
  • Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
  • The Sword In The Stone by T.H. White
  • Peter Pan by J.M Barrie

And that's just to name a few.

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