# 100 Best Books of All Time

> A collection of 100 classic books with reading, listening, and supplementary content. (iPhone/iPad app by himalaya-soft.)

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- Developer: [himalaya-soft](https://appshunter.io/developer/464715011)
- Category: Books
- Price: Free
- Rating: 4.00/5 from 4 App Store ratings
- Age rating: 12+
- Requires: iOS 8.0 · 23 MB
- Languages: American English, Chinese (Simplified, China), Japanese
- Released: 2013-06-03
- Data updated: 2026-08-22
- Monetization: free
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/100-best-books-of-all-time/id635777454/reviews.md

## What is 100 Best Books of All Time?

Take these 100 best books of all time with you. Read or listen anywhere, anytime. 

You can read each book in its entirety, listen to human-read audiobook, watch video related to the book, and explore an in-depth Wikipedia article about the author or the book, 


Don Quixote (v.1) 
Don Quixote (v.2) 
Fairy tales by H. C. Andersen 
Pride and prejudice by Jane Austen 
Father Goriot by Honoré de Balzac  
Decameron (English) by Giovanni Boccaccio 
Decameron (Dutch) by Giovanni Boccaccio 
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë 
Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer 
Nostromo by Joseph Conrad  
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri 
Great expectations by Charles Dickens 
Crime and punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky 
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky 
The Possessed by Fyodor Dostoyevsky 
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky 
Middlemarch by George Eliot 
Medea by Euripides 
Madame Bovary (English) by Gustave Flaubert 
Madame Bovary (French) by Gustave Flaubert 
A Sentimental education Vol. I (English) by Gustave Flaubert 
A Sentimental education Vol. II (English) by Gustave Flaubert 
The Epic of Gilgamesh 
Faust (English) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 
Faust (German) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 
Dead souls by Nikolai Gogol 
Hunger by Knut Hamsun 
The Iliad by Homer 
The Odyssey by Homer 
A Doll's house by Henrik Ibsen 
The Book Of Job 
Ulysses by James Joyce 
The Trial Franz Kafka 
The Recognition of Sakuntala by Kalidasa 
Sons and lovers by D H Lawrence 
Complete poems by Giacomo Leopardi 
狂人日記(Chinese) by Lu Xun 
Mahabharata 
Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann 
Moby Dick by Herman Melville 
Essays by Michel de Montaigne 
The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu 
Njal's saga 
Metamorphoses by Ovid 
The Works of Edgar Allan (Vol 2) 
Gargantua and Pantagruel by François_Rabelais 
The Mathnawi (vol 1) by Jalalu'l-Din Rumi 
Hamlet (English) by William Shakespeare 
King Lear by William Shakespeare 
Othello by William Shakespeare 
Oedipus the King by Sophocles 
The Red and the black (English) by Stendhal 
The Red and the black (French) by Stendhal 
Gulliver's travels by Jonathan Swift 
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy 
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy 
The Death of Ivan Ilyich and other stories by Leo Tolstoy 
The Thousand and One Nights 
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 
Ramayana by Valmiki 
The Aeneid (English) by Virgil 
Leaves of grass by Walt Whitman

## Key features

- Read full books
- Listen to audiobooks
- Watch related videos
- Explore author/book Wikipedia articles
- Offline access
- Curated classic collection


## Frequently asked questions about 100 Best Books of All Time

### What books are included in 100 Best Books of All Time?

The collection features 100 classic books, including titles like Don Quixote, Pride and Prejudice, The Iliad, Hamlet, and War and Peace. The app provides the full text for each book.

### Can I listen to the books in 100 Best Books of All Time?

Yes, you can listen to human-read audiobooks for each of the 100 classic titles included in the app. This allows for an alternative way to enjoy the literature.

### Does 100 Best Books of All Time offer offline access?

Yes, the app allows you to read or listen to the books anywhere, anytime, implying offline access is available for the content once downloaded or accessed.

### What additional content is available for each book?

Beyond reading and listening, the app provides related videos and in-depth Wikipedia articles about the authors and the books themselves, enriching the user's understanding.

### Is 100 Best Books of All Time free to use?

Yes, 100 Best Books of All Time is available for free. It does not have in-app purchases or advertisements, offering a completely free experience.

### What devices support 100 Best Books of All Time?

The app is supported on iPhone, iPad, and iPod devices, making it accessible to a wide range of Apple users who enjoy classic literature.

### How often is 100 Best Books of All Time updated?

The app was last updated on December 14, 2019, with its latest version being 6.0. While not frequently updated, the core content remains a stable collection of classics.

### What is the age rating for 100 Best Books of All Time?

The app has an age rating of 12+, making it suitable for teenagers and adults interested in classic literature. This rating suggests content appropriate for this age group.

## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 6.0 — 2019-12-14

This release substantially improves both functionality and usability.  Specifically
(1) full support of dark mode;
(2) allows both page turning and scrolling;
(3) precise control of font style, size, background color, and contrast;
(4) improved TTS reading of all books;

### 5.2 — 2017-05-25

Landscape display enabled:  Now read your books leisurely,  hands free! 

In-between readings, for a break, enjoy a beautiful video to enrich your reading experience.

### 5.1 — 2016-12-15

(1) Beautiful images, elegant formatting, and graceful page turning.
(2) much faster page formatting and presentation.
(3) Fixed some bugs.

### 5.0 — 2016-03-09

1. Enhanced read-along. Most audio books now allow read-along.
2. Optionally allow download of 128kb or 64kb audio.
3. Fixed some bugs related to resume audio playback.

### 4.7 — 2015-09-17

Added a slider for fast forwarding and fast backwarding audio tracks.

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