There are various advantages to reading novels ranging from having something to give you a little entertainment when you are bored to opening you to a world of imagination and creativity while also building your diction.

If you are looking for a book to delve into, you can’t do much better than a classic. Apart from their literary significance, and the fact that they have withstood the test of time and remained popular decades after their publication, classic novels hold an extra appeal to readers. While you’re reclining on your couch or lying in your bed poring into the text, there is the excitement that you are climbing onto a wagon that has carried a wide audience of diverse people over the decades.

Here are 20 classic novels recommended for you:

1. Ulysses by James Joyce
2. The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
3. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
4. Middlemarch by George Eliot
5. The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope
6. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
7. Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
8. Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K Jerome
9. The Sign of Four by Arthur Conan Doyle
10. Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner
11. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
12. The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
13. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
14. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
15. Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
16. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald’s
17. A Passage to India by Edward Forster
18. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
19. In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
20. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Have a happy reading time.