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Most popular classics

Ranked by Wikipedia pageviews over the last 30 days (original-language plus English Wikipedia), 2026-10-05–2026-11-04. Public, verifiable numbers, not reading counts on this site.

  1. Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen249,773 views
  2. Dracula Bram Stoker171,240 views
  3. Frankenstein Mary Shelley136,394 views
  4. Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë131,481 views
  5. Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen120,710 views
  6. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Washington Irving97,506 views
  7. Moby-Dick Herman Melville89,997 views
  8. The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald81,357 views
  9. The Metamorphosis Franz Kafka81,294 views
  10. The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde72,639 views
  11. Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson72,461 views
  12. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Lewis Carroll71,458 views
  13. Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë69,253 views
  14. Treasure Island Robert Louis Stevenson58,464 views
  15. A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens53,391 views
  16. Little Women Louisa May Alcott51,869 views
  17. Journey to the West · Chapter 1 Wu Cheng’en51,188 views
  18. Anne of Green Gables L. M. Montgomery51,009 views
  19. The War of the Worlds H. G. Wells49,343 views
  20. Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad49,130 views
  21. Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift44,428 views
  22. Great Expectations Charles Dickens41,374 views
  23. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz L. Frank Baum39,216 views
  24. Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe34,777 views
  25. Emma Jane Austen33,290 views
  26. Oliver Twist Charles Dickens32,911 views
  27. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain32,346 views
  28. The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne31,304 views
  29. The Jungle Book Rudyard Kipling30,524 views
  30. The Yellow Wallpaper Charlotte Perkins Gilman29,613 views
  31. The Time Machine H. G. Wells27,530 views
  32. The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame26,964 views
  33. The Hound of the Baskervilles Arthur Conan Doyle26,184 views
  34. Around the World in Eighty Days Jules Verne25,411 views
  35. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Mark Twain24,838 views
  36. The Secret Garden Frances Hodgson Burnett23,837 views
  37. Through the Looking-Glass Lewis Carroll21,100 views
  38. A Study in Scarlet Arthur Conan Doyle19,422 views
  39. The Invisible Man H. G. Wells18,603 views
  40. The Call of the Wild Jack London18,386 views
  41. Peter Pan J. M. Barrie18,160 views
  42. Rashōmon Ryūnosuke Akutagawa16,041 views
  43. The Gift of the Magi O. Henry14,321 views
  44. Dubliners James Joyce13,982 views
  45. I Am a Cat Natsume Sōseki11,180 views
  46. The Crab Cannery Ship Takiji Kobayashi10,472 views
  47. White Fang Jack London9,380 views
  48. Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio · The Taoist Priest of Lao-shan Pu Songling9,191 views
  49. The Tortoise and the Hare Aesop9,172 views
  50. Black Beauty Anna Sewell9,015 views