100 Classic Books is exactly what it sounds like – 100 books in digital format for your DS. Now you can read Wuthering Heights without lugging around a book. If you’re in the market for eBooks but don’t own any of the various e-readers then 100 Classic Books is a decent start.
100 Classic Books requires only the stylus to select a book, turn pages, or place a bookmark. Text is easy to read, and when a book is completed it is marked with a small r on the spine. If you’re not sure what you’d like to read a built-in quiz will examine your interests and recommend you a book. And when you finish reading the 100 included books more are available to download via Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection.
I have a hard time recommending 100 Classic Books despite it being a perfectly serviceable book-reading utility. While new books can be downloaded via Nintendo WFC I can’t see this one DS cart getting the same support as, say, the Kindle store. Granted, the investment is higher with a dedicated device, but you’ll be able to purchase whatever you’d like to read in the future, and you’re not stuck paying for novels that you don’t want. If you’re dead set of buying digital books and like what you see in the following list then save some cash and pick up 100 Classic Books. Everybody else, a dedicated eReader will serve you better in the long run.
Louisa May Alcott
Little Women
Jane Austen
Emma
Mansfield Park
Persuasion
Pride and Prejudice
Sense and Sensibility
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
R.D. Blackmore
Lorna Doone
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Jane Eyre
The Professor
Shirley
Villette
Emily Bronte
Wuthering Heights
John Bunyan
The Pilgrim’s Progress
Frances Burnett
Little Lord Fauntleroy
The Secret Garden
Lewis Carroll
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Through the Looking-Glass
Wilkie Collins
The Moonstone
The Woman in White
Carlo Collodi
Adventures of Pinnocchio
Arthur Conan Doyle
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes
Joseph Conrad
Lord Jim
Susan Coolidge
What Katy Did
James Fenimore Cooper
Last of the Mohicans
Daniel Defoe
Robinson Crusoe
Charles Dickens
Barnaby Rudge
Bleak House
A Christmas Carol
David Copperfield
Dombey and Son
Great Expectations
Hard Times
Martin Chuzzlewit
Nicholas Nickleby
The Old Curiosity Shop
Oliver Twist
The Pickwick Papers
A Tale of Two Cities
Alexandre Dumas
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Three Musketeers
George Eliot
Adam Bede
Middlemarch
The Mill on the Floss
Henry Rider Haggard
King Solomon’s Mines
Thomas Hardy
Far From the Madding Crowd
The Mayor of Casterbridge
Tess of the D’Urbevilles
Under the Greenwood Tree
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Scarlet Letter
Victor Hugo
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Les Miserables
Washington Irving
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon
Charles Kingsley
Westward Ho!
D.H. Lawrence
Sons and Lovers
Gaston Leroux
The Phantom of the Opera
Jack London
The Call of the Wild
White Fang
Herman Melville
Moby Dick
Edgar Allen Poe
Tales of Mystery and Imagination
Sir Walter Scott
Ivanhoe
Rob Roy
Waverley
Anna Sewell
Black Beauty
William Shakespeare
All’s Well That Ends Well
Antony and Cleopatra
As You Like It
The Comedy of Errors
Hamlet
Julius Caesar
King Henry the Fifth
King Lear
King Richard the Third
Love’s Labour’s Lost
Macbeth
The Merchant of Venice
A Midsummer-Night’s Dream
Much Ado About Nothing
Othello, the Moor of Venice
Romeo and Juliet
The Taming of the Shrew
The Tempest
Timon of Athens
Titus Andronicus
Twelfth Night
The Winter’s Tale
Kidnapped
Robert Louis Stevenson
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Treasure Island
Jonathan Swift
Gulliver’s Travels
William Thackeray
Vanity Fair
Anthony Trollope
Barchester Towers
Mark Twain
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Jules Verne
Round the World in Eighty Days
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Oscar Wilde
The Importance of Being Earnest
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Pros: Lots of books to choose from, large easy-to-read text
Cons: Dedicated devices have larger selection and better support
Plays Like: A small Kindle with a limited library
