Best Mark Twain Books

The best books by Mark Twain — 8 titles spanning Historical Fiction, Literature & Fiction, Biography & Memoir, averaging 3.92 BLT stars.

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Mark Twain is the original American voice — sardonic, vernacular, and more dangerous than he appears. Huckleberry Finn looks like a boys' adventure on the surface and turns out to be one of the most damning indictments of racism and moral cowardice in the American canon. His prose is deceptively plain, built from the rhythms of spoken American English, and it reads as naturally today as it did when he wrote it. Tom Sawyer is sunlit and nostalgic where Huck is shadowed and subversive — together they form the most complete portrait of 19th-century American boyhood in fiction. The Autobiography, published in full only after his death, reveals a man as funny and bitter and clear-eyed in private as he was in print. Readers who love wit with teeth, or who want to understand where American literature came from, start here.

Mark Twain's highest-rated book in our collection is Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc (4.11 BLT stars). Browse the full list below.

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    Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc

    by Mark Twain

    ★ 4.11 BLT Score (10.3K ratings)
    ★ 4.13 Goodreads (10.3K)
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    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

    Twain's Tom and Huck • Book 2

    by Mark Twain

    ★ 4.10 BLT Score (43.3K ratings)
    ★ 4.1 Goodreads (43.3K)
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    The Prince and The Pauper

    by Mark Twain

    ★ 4.08 BLT Score (126.0K ratings)
    ★ 3.87 Goodreads (126.0K)
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    Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. 2

    Autobiography of Mark Twain: The Complete and Authorized Edition • Book 2

    by Mark Twain, Grover Gardner

    ★ 3.95 BLT Score (608 ratings)
    ★ 4.29 Goodreads (608)
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    Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. 3

    Autobiography of Mark Twain: The Complete and Authorized Edition • Book 3

    by Mark Twain, Benjamin Griffin, Harriet Elinor Smith

    ★ 3.92 BLT Score (277 ratings)
    ★ 4.32 Goodreads (277)
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    The Adventures of Tom Sawyer(Mark Twain Library)

    Adventures of Tom and Huck • Book 1

    by Mark Twain, Paul Bænder, John C. Gerber, True W. Williams

    ★ 3.89 BLT Score (1.0M ratings)
    ★ 3.92 Goodreads (1.0M)
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    The Diaries of Adam & Eve: Translated

    by Mark Twain, Michael Mojher, Don Roberts

    ★ 3.83 BLT Score (19.8K ratings)
    ★ 3.84 Goodreads (19.8K)
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    Autobiography of Mark Twain

    Autobiography of Mark Twain: The Complete and Authorized Edition • Book 1

    by Mark Twain, Harriet E. Smith, Benjamin Griffin, Victor Fischer, Michael B. Frank, Sharon K. Goetz, Leslie Diane Myrick

    ★ 3.44 BLT Score (8.8K ratings)
    ★ 3.8 Goodreads (8.8K)
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