The definitive list of the best Kindle Books - Fiction - of all time. Includes free and paid for books.
Available on Kindle. Also available on iPad, iPhone, Blackberry, Android phone, PC or Mac by downloading the free Kindle E-reader app
We took six authoritative listings of the 100 greatest works of fiction (BBC Big Read, Modern Library, The Guardian/Observer, Great Books Guide, Best 100 Lists, The Greatest Books) and produced this ultimate listing of the 100 greatest books available on Kindle.(How we did it+)
The List:
Items marked * are available in free editions. Not always easy to find on amazon's Kindle pages.
1.
George Orwell - 1984 Kindle US2*.
Leo Tolstoy – War and Peace Kindle US3*.
Jane Austen – Pride and Prejudice Kindle US4*.
Charlotte Bronte – Jane Eyre Kindle US5.
Joseph Heller – Catch-22 Rumored to be on Kindle but can it be found?6.
Emily Bronte – Wuthering Heights Kindle US7.
J D Salinger - The Catcher In The Rye Not available on Kindle8.
Miguel De Cervantes - Don Quixote Kindle US9*.
James Joyce – Ulysses Kindle US Free but some text may be missing.10.
F Scott Fitzgerald – The Great Gatsby Kindle US11.
Vladimir Nabokov – Lolita Kindle US12*.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky – The Brothers Karamazov Kindle US13.
John Steinbeck – The Grapes Of Wrath Kindle US14.
J R R Tolkien – The Lord Of The Rings Kindle US15.
Harper Lee – To Kill A Mocking Bird Currently not available on Kindle16*.
Henry Fielding – Tom Jones Kindle US17*.
Mark Twain – The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn Kindle US18.
Aldous Huxley – Brave New World Kindle US19*.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky – Crime And Punishment Kindle US20.
William Faulkner - The Sound and the Fury Currently not available on Kindle21*.
Leo Tolstoy – Anna Karenina Kindle US22*.
Jonathan Swift – Gulliver's Travels Kindle US23.
Gabriel García Márquez - One Hundred Years of Solitude Currently not available on Kindle24*.
Alexandre Dumas – The Count of Monte Cristo Kindle US25*.
Charles Dickens – Great Expectations Kindle US26.
Virginia Woolf – To The Lighthouse Kindle US27.
Ralph Ellison – Invisible Man Kindle US28*.
John Bunyan – The Pilgrim's Progress Kindle US29*.
Marcel Proust – Remembrance of Things Past Kindle US30.
Philip Pullman – His Dark Materials Not currently available on Kindle31*.
Daniel Defoe – The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe Kindle US32*.
James Joyce – A Portrait of the Artist As A Young Man Kindle US33.
Thomas Mann The Magic Mountain Not currently available on Kindle34.
Douglas Adams – A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Kindle US35*.
Henry James – The Ambassodors Kindle US36.
J K Rowling – Harry Potter series Currently not available on Kindle37.
William Faulkner - The Sound and the Fury Currently not available on Kindle38*.
Herman Melville – Moby Dick Kindle US39*.
Lawrence Sterne – Tristram Shandy Kindle US40.
A A Milne – Winnie The Pooh Kindle US41.
William Faulkner – Absolom! Absolom! Currently not available on Kindle42.
Choderlos de Laclos – Dangerous Liaisons Kindle US43.
Arthur Koestler – Darkness At Noon Kindle US44.
C S Lewis – The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe Kindle US45*.
D H Lawrence – Sons and Lovers Kindle US46.
George Orwell – Animal Farm Kindle US47*.
Mary Shelley – Frankenstein Kindle US48*.
Gustave Flaubert – Madame Bovary Kindle US49*.
Thomas Love Peacock – Nightmare Abbey Kindle US50.
Malcolm Lowry – Under The Volcano Kindle US51.
Honore de Balzac – The Black Sheep Kindle US52*.
Samuel Butler – The Way Of All Flesh Kindle US53.
Henry James – The Wings of the Dove Kindle US54*.
George Elliot – Middlemarch Kindle US55.
Sebastian Faulks – Birdsong Kindle US56.
Stendhal – The Charterhouse of Parma Kindle US57.
Daphne Du Maurier – Rebecca Not currently available on Kindle58.
Robert Graves – I Claudius Kindle US59*.
Victor Hugo – Les Miserables Kindle US60.
Kenneth Graham – The Wind In The Willows Kindle USOf the Top 60, 25 are available in free Kindle editions
+ How we did it - We took the Top 20 from each list and counted the number of times each book appeared in the six listings. Where there was a tie, we then looked at the position of each book in the lists. So, for example George Orwell 1984 and Leo Tolstoy War and Peace both appeared 4 times but 1984 had more higher positions than War and Peace and so came 1st while War and Peace came 2nd. We then looked at the books that appeared three times in the Top 20s from the six listings. Numbers 3 – 13 all appeared three times. This part of the list was then ranked in terms of relative position in the lists and placed in order. The same was done for those books that appeared twice and then once, again prioritising each in terms of overall ranking in that section. Finally, the list was made up to 100 by taking in order those books that appeared once outside of the Top 20s in the six lists in rank order.
Just a note on the difficulty of finding some books: The Kindle free classics editions are often out there on amazon Kindle Books but are often suspiciously difficult to find while paid for versions seem to pop up all over the place. So, as an example, searching for Herman Melville 'Moby Dick' reveals many paid for versions but no free version, even when searching Kindle Popular Classics or the amazon Herman Melville author page. The free version linked to here was eventually found as a customer recommendation at the foot of one of the pages! This revealed that the full title is 'Moby Dick, or, The Whale'. Searching Kindle Popular Classics with this title immediately brought up the free edition of the book. It seems the amazon search engine is very particular about full titles.
"100 Greatest Kindle Books..." - Should have added "Many not available on Kindle".
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