If you had to buy only one ebook…

If you had to buy only one ebook, I would recommend this one: 50 Masterpieces You Have to Read Before You Die. Coming in at just over forty thousand pages, it has the following:

1. Alcott, Louisa May: Little Women
2. Austen, Jane: Pride and Prejudice
3. Austen, Jane: Emma
4. Balzac, Honoré de: Father Goriot
5. Barbusse, Henri: The Inferno
6. Brontë, Anne: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
7. Brontë, Charlotte: Jane Eyre
8. Brontë, Emily: Wuthering Heights
9. Burroughs, Edgar Rice: Tarzan of the Apes
10. Butler, Samuel: The Way of All Flesh
11. Carroll, Lewis: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
12. Cather, Willa: My Ántonia
13. Cervantes, Miguel de: Don Quixote
14. Chopin, Kate: The Awakening
15. Cleland, John: Fanny Hill
16. Collins, Wilkie: The Moonstone
17. Conrad, Joseph: Heart of Darkness
18. Conrad, Joseph: Nostromo
19. Cooper, James Fenimore: The Last of the Mohicans
20. Crane, Stephen: The Red Badge of Courage
21. Cummings, E. E.: The Enormous Room
22. Defoe, Daniel: Robinson Crusoe
23. Defoe, Daniel: Moll Flanders
24. Dickens, Charles: Bleak House
25. Dickens, Charles: Great Expectations
26. Dostoyevsky, Fyodor: Crime and Punishment
27. Dostoyevsky, Fyodor: The Idiot
28. Doyle, Arthur Conan: The Hound of the Baskervilles
29. Dreiser, Theodore: Sister Carrie
30. Dumas, Alexandre: The Three Musketeers
31. Dumas, Alexandre: The Count of Monte Cristo
32. Eliot, George: Middlemarch
33. Fielding, Henry: Tom Jones
34. Flaubert, Gustave: Madame Bovary
35. Flaubert, Gustave: Sentimental Education
36. Ford, Ford Madox: The Good Soldier
37. Forster, E. M.: A Room With a View
38. Forster, E. M.: Howards End
39. Gaskell, Elizabeth: North and South
40. Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von: The Sorrows of Young Werther
41. Gogol, Nikolai: Dead Souls
42. Gorky, Maxim: The Mother
43. Haggard, H. Rider: King Solomon’s Mines
44. Hardy, Thomas: Tess of the D’Urbervilles
45. Hawthorne, Nathaniel: The Scarlet Letter
46. Homer: The Odyssey
47. Hugo, Victor: The Hunchback of Notre Dame
48. Hugo, Victor: Les Misérables
49. Huxley, Aldous: Crome Yellow
50. James, Henry: The Portrait of a Lady

And it’s not just for Apple ebook readers: there’s a Kindle version too.

Best of all, it costs less than three bucks!