Best Classic Book Recommendations

Get to know this underappreciated form of storytelling from the best it has to offer.

Meet the woman who inspired Virginia Woolf's most fanciful novel.

See which of his books belong on your TBR list.

Step into a world of lavish estates and dark secrets.

Find a new, magical read.

Step into the Middle Ages.

Some books stay with you—and some don't.

Here's how to choose your next read.

Check out the cinematic classics that started out as novels.

Nobody wrote whodunits like the Queen.

Revisit the books that started it all.

Class is in session. 

Have you read these foundational classics?

Steinbeck showed that migrant farmworkers were "citizens of the highest type."

They're not bad—they're just written that way.

Celebrate black authors’ fiction, nonfiction and poetry.

Learn more about the woman behind influential pieces of literature such as The Color Purple.

The Jazz Age literary icon who couldn't resist living to excess.

Harrowing tales from Florida to Kentucky.

A “Modern Prometheus” that left a timeless mark.