The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
American novelist, 1835–1910.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is an 1884 novel by Mark Twain.
On 5 of the 12 lists it was eligible for.
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At a glance
- Author
- Mark Twain
- First published
- 1884
- Length
- 352 pages (UK paperback)
- Genre
- Literary fiction, Adventure, Coming of age, Political
Is The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn worth reading?
5 of the 12 best-of lists it could have made include it, among them 100 novels everyone should read (The Telegraph) and Readers' top 100 novels (The Guardian).
| List | Place | Original |
|---|---|---|
| 100 novels everyone should read (The Telegraph, 2009) | No. 42 | See the list |
| Bokklubben World Library (Norwegian Book Clubs, 2002) | Listed | See the list |
| Readers' top 100 novels (The Guardian, 2026) | No. 29 | See the list |
| The 100 best novels written in English (The Guardian / Observer, 2015) | Listed | See the list |
| The 100 greatest novels of all time (The Observer, 2003) | Listed | See the list |
Best edition of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The edition we link to is the OUP Oxford paperback (2008), 352 pages.
- Publisher
- OUP Oxford (paperback, 2008)
- Pages
- 352
- ISBN
- 9780199536559
How critics and readers rate The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Critics rate it most highly: it earned 57% of the points available on critics' lists, against 18% on readers' and booksellers' lists.
Share of the available points it earned on each kind of list it was eligible for. How the scores work
Books like The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
If you liked The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, try Middlemarch, Jane Eyre or Great Expectations.
