Modern Classics

Enduring novels that still feel immediate.

Modern Classics3.9

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Mark Twain · 1884

Moderate · 356 pp.

Modern Classics3.9

Anna Karenina

Leo Tolstoy · 1877

Moderate · 485 pp.

Modern Classics3.5

Billy Budd

Herman Melville · 1924

Accessible · 590 pp.

Modern Classics4.1

Bleak House

Charles Dickens · 1853

Accessible · 345 pp.

Modern Classics4.2

Cat's Cradle

Kurt Vonnegut · 1963

Moderate · 636 pp.

Modern Classics3.8

Catch-22

Joseph Heller · 1961

Accessible · 354 pp.

Modern Classics4.3

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Roald Dahl · 1964

Challenging · 535 pp.

Modern Classics4.3

Charlotte's Web

E.B. White · 1952

Challenging · 408 pp.

Modern Classics3.5

Crime and Punishment

Fyodor Dostoevsky · 1866

Accessible · 524 pp.

Modern Classics3.7

David Copperfield

Charles Dickens · 1850

Challenging · 567 pp.

Modern Classics3.9

Demian

Hermann Hesse · 1919

Moderate · 564 pp.

Modern Classics3.6

Don Quixote

Miguel de Cervantes · 1605

Moderate · 605 pp.

Modern Classics3.7

Emma

Jane Austen · 1815

Challenging · 668 pp.

Modern Classics3.6

Ethan Frome

Edith Wharton · 1911

Moderate · 432 pp.

Modern Classics3.7

Frankenstein

Mary Shelley · 1818

Challenging · 471 pp.

Modern Classics3.5

Great Expectations

Charles Dickens · 1861

Accessible · 470 pp.

Modern Classics3.7

Heart of Darkness

Joseph Conrad · 1899

Challenging · 588 pp.

Modern Classics4.3

Invisible Man

Ralph Ellison · 1952

Challenging · 394 pp.

Modern Classics4.2

Jane Eyre

Charlotte Brontë · 1847

Moderate · 449 pp.

Modern Classics3.5

Les Misérables

Victor Hugo · 1862

Accessible · 471 pp.

Modern Classics4.1

Little Women

Louisa May Alcott · 1868

Accessible · 357 pp.

Modern Classics3.6

Matilda

Roald Dahl · 1988

Moderate · 458 pp.

Modern Classics3.5

Middlemarch

George Eliot · 1871

Accessible · 609 pp.

Modern Classics3.7

Moby-Dick

Herman Melville · 1851

Challenging · 304 pp.

Modern Classics3.7

Notes from Underground

Fyodor Dostoevsky · 1864

Challenging · 315 pp.

Modern Classics3.9

Persuasion

Jane Austen · 1817

Moderate · 650 pp.

Modern Classics4.2

Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen · 1813

Moderate · 611 pp.

Modern Classics3.7

Sense and Sensibility

Jane Austen · 1811

Challenging · 650 pp.

Modern Classics3.6

Silas Marner

George Eliot · 1861

Moderate · 649 pp.

Modern Classics4.3

Slaughterhouse-Five

Kurt Vonnegut · 1969

Challenging · 601 pp.

Modern Classics3.6

Steppenwolf

Hermann Hesse · 1927

Moderate · 504 pp.

Modern Classics4.2

The Age of Innocence

Edith Wharton · 1920

Moderate · 539 pp.

Modern Classics3.8

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Malcolm X · 1965

Accessible · 619 pp.

Modern Classics4.3

The Brothers Karamazov

Fyodor Dostoevsky · 1880

Challenging · 462 pp.

Modern Classics3.9

The Count of Monte Cristo

Alexandre Dumas · 1844

Moderate · 302 pp.

Modern Classics3.6

The Death of Ivan Ilyich

Leo Tolstoy · 1886

Moderate · 677 pp.

Modern Classics4.1

The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories

Leo Tolstoy · 1886

Accessible · 497 pp.

Modern Classics3.7

The Fall

Albert Camus · 1956

Challenging · 627 pp.

Modern Classics3.8

The Gambler

Fyodor Dostoevsky · 1867

Accessible · 606 pp.

Modern Classics3.8

The House of Mirth

Edith Wharton · 1905

Accessible · 669 pp.

Modern Classics4.1

The Importance of Being Earnest

Oscar Wilde · 1895

Accessible · 560 pp.

Modern Classics3.7

The Master and Margarita

Mikhail Bulgakov · 1967

Challenging · 576 pp.

Modern Classics4.2

The Metamorphosis

Franz Kafka · 1915

Moderate · 519 pp.

Modern Classics4.3

The Outsiders

S.E. Hinton · 1967

Challenging · 531 pp.

Modern Classics4.2

The Pearl

John Steinbeck · 1947

Moderate · 560 pp.

Modern Classics4.2

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde · 1890

Moderate · 520 pp.

Modern Classics3.8

The Plague

Albert Camus · 1947

Accessible · 507 pp.

Modern Classics3.6

The Portrait of a Lady

Henry James · 1881

Moderate · 405 pp.

Modern Classics3.5

The Scarlet Letter

Nathaniel Hawthorne · 1850

Accessible · 336 pp.

Modern Classics3.9

The Scarlet Pimpernel

Baroness Orczy · 1905

Moderate · 531 pp.

Modern Classics3.9

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Robert Louis Stevenson · 1886

Moderate · 464 pp.

Modern Classics4.2

The Stranger

Albert Camus · 1942

Moderate · 522 pp.

Modern Classics4.1

The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings

Edgar Allan Poe · 1843

Accessible · 586 pp.

Modern Classics4.1

The Three Musketeers

Alexandre Dumas · 1844

Accessible · 472 pp.

Modern Classics3.7

The Trial

Franz Kafka · 1925

Challenging · 577 pp.

Modern Classics4.1

The Turn of the Screw

Henry James · 1898

Accessible · 674 pp.

Modern Classics3.6

Treasure Island

Robert Louis Stevenson · 1883

Moderate · 400 pp.

Modern Classics3.7

Villette

Charlotte Brontë · 1853

Challenging · 477 pp.

Modern Classics3.7

War and Peace

Leo Tolstoy · 1869

Challenging · 671 pp.

Modern Classics3.6

White Fang

Jack London · 1906

Moderate · 668 pp.

Modern Classics3.7

Wuthering Heights

Emily Brontë · 1847

Challenging · 566 pp.