The Best Classic Books to Have on Your Bookshelf

"The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" ($4)

While Ernest Hemingway might have exaggerated a tad when he said "all modern American literature stems from this one book," there's no denying the influence and reach of Mark Twain's Huck Finn. Read in classrooms from coast to coast, "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" is, at its core, an adventure novel and an exploration of boyhood, race, class, and humanity along the mighty Mississippi River.