We are showcasing Classic Books this month. Find displays of classic reads throughout the library.
- Did you know that we have a Classics Collection in our Adult Services area featuring multiple copies of our most requested classic literature?
- Be sure to visit Libby/OverDrive and hoopla digital to find downloadable ebook and audiobook copies of many classic titles.
- Want to explore the classics further? Check out these databases for critical analysis, author biographies, and scholarly essays.
- CliffNotes provides free access to thousands of reading guides on classic titles.
Not sure what to start with?
- College Board Recommended Reading List for College-Bound Students
- Reedsy.com’s Best Books to Read in a Lifetime
- Business Insiders’s 100 Books Everyone Should Read Before They Die (Ranked)
Librarian-suggested titles
Use the links to discover other formats—ebook, audiobooks and large print—if available in our collections.
Persuasion by Jane Austen
Human Comedy by Honoré de Balzac
Ravelstein by Saul Bellow
Victim by Saul Bellow
Clown by Heinrich Böll
Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges
Farewell Summer by Ray Bradbury
Jayne Eyre by Charlotte, Brontë
The Fall by Albert Camus
Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote
My Antonia by Willa Cather
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
City of God by E.L. Doctorow
Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell
Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
The Tin Drum by Günter Grass
A Time to Kill John Grisham
Life and Fate by Vasili Grossman
Far from the Maddening Crowd by Thomas Hardy
House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemmingway
Complete Works by James Henry
Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse
Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Cider House Rules by John Irving
Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
Ulysses by James Joyce
Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
Poisonwood Bible by Barbra Kingsolver
Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence
Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis
Call of the Wild by Jack London
Death in Venice by Thomas Mann
Collected Stories by W. Somerset Maugham
Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littell
Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu
Carried Away by Alice Munro
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
House for Mr. Biswas by V.S. Naipaul
McTeague : a Story of San Francisco by Frank Norris
A Rage to Live by John O’Hara
1984 by George Orwell
My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk
Doctor Zhivago by Boris Leonidovich Pasternak
Selected Tales by Edgar Allen Poe
My Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok
Fountain Head by Ayn Rand
Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
American Pastoral by Philip Roth
Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
Crown of Feathers and Other Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackery.
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
Rabbit, Run by John Updike
War of the End of the World by Llosa Vargas
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren
Scoop by Evelyn Waugh
Complete Novels by Eudora Welty
Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Collected Stories by Tennessee Williams
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
War and Remembrance by Herman Wouk
Book Thief by Markus Zusak