Best Mark Twain Books

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Twain's Tom and Huck • Book 2

by Mark Twain

Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc

by Mark Twain

Twain abandoned his trademark humor to chronicle Joan of Arc's life through the eyes of a fictional childhood friend. His sincere admiration for his subject creates an unexpectedly solemn masterpiece.

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Twain abandoned his trademark humor to chronicle Joan of Arc's life through the eyes of a fictional childhood friend. His sincere admiration for his subject creates an unexpectedly solemn masterpiece.

Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. 2

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

by Mark Twain, Grover Gardner

Twain's unfiltered memoir reveals his private feuds, financial disasters, and caustic observations about American society. Published a century after his death, it's his most honest work.

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Twain's unfiltered memoir reveals his private feuds, financial disasters, and caustic observations about American society. Published a century after his death, it's his most honest work.

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

Tom tricks his friends into whitewashing Aunt Polly's fence, then witnesses a murder in a graveyard at midnight. Twain's sharp wit and authentic dialogue capture both childhood wonder and small-town darkness.

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Tom tricks his friends into whitewashing Aunt Polly's fence, then witnesses a murder in a graveyard at midnight. Twain's sharp wit and authentic dialogue capture both childhood wonder and small-town darkness.

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

The great satirist's uncensored final reflections provide intimate access to his mind during America's Gilded Age. Twain holds nothing back in these posthumous confessions.

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The great satirist's uncensored final reflections provide intimate access to his mind during America's Gilded Age. Twain holds nothing back in these posthumous confessions.

The Prince and The Pauper

by Mark Twain

Identical boys from opposite ends of 16th-century London's social hierarchy swap places and discover how circumstances shape identity. Twain uses mistaken identity to skewer class assumptions and royal privilege.

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Identical boys from opposite ends of 16th-century London's social hierarchy swap places and discover how circumstances shape identity. Twain uses mistaken identity to skewer class assumptions and royal privilege.

The Diaries of Adam & Eve: Translated

by Mark Twain, Michael Mojher, Don Roberts

Mark Twain imagines the biblical first couple's conflicting diary entries, from Adam's complaints about his chatty companion to Eve's discoveries that reshape their world.

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Mark Twain imagines the biblical first couple's conflicting diary entries, from Adam's complaints about his chatty companion to Eve's discoveries that reshape their world.

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

Twain's final work, dictated in his last years, meanders through memories with the same wit and wisdom that defined his fiction.

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Twain's final work, dictated in his last years, meanders through memories with the same wit and wisdom that defined his fiction.