Serial Reader

Read classic books in daily bite-sized bits!

Serial Reader helps you fit more reading into your busy life. Choose from more than 900 books — or add your own! — and the app delivers a new issue from the book every day. Build great reading habits and tackle daunting classic books.

Each daily issue can be read in 20 minutes or less, making it easy to fit reading into your spare time! Picked as one of Apple's Best New Apps and Best New App Updates in 2016, 2018, and 2019.

"This free app will make you ridiculously well-read in 20 minutes a day" — Mashable

"For those who are intimidated by thick, leather-bound tomes, Serial Reader is a good way to break it all down" — The Washington Post

• Read hundreds of popular classic books for free

• Large variety of themes & fonts

• Serialize your own EPUB books

• Sync to Goodreads and Readwise

• Lookup words with quick dictionary & Wikipedia access

• Earn fun badges and track your reading streaks

Plus, with the Serial Premium upgrade:

• Read tomorrow's issue early

• Sync your reading across multiple devices

• Save quotes & notes while reading

• Save books to Read Later

• Pause delivery of new issues

• Pick specific delivery days and hours for new issues

• Custom app icons

"Serial Reader’s subscription format makes it a little bit more fun to crank through the classics" — Lifehacker

"A useful tool that makes it easy in our modern world to make classic books part of your reading diet" — MacStories

More than 900 books available in the app with new titles added each week. Every book is free to read!

A preview of available books:

Most Popular

• Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

• A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens

• The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald

• Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky

• War & Peace - Leo Tolstoy

• Les Misérables - Victor Hugo

• The Time Machine - H.G. Wells

• The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde

• The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway

American Lit

• Moby-Dick - Herman Melville

• Little Women - Louisa May Alcott

• My Antonia - Willa Cather

• Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain

Adventure

• The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas

• Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson

• Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe

• The Odyssey - Homer

• King Solomon's Mines - H. Rider Haggard

Romance

• Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

• Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy

• Romeo and Juliet - William Shakespeare

Science Fiction

• The War of the Worlds - H.G. Wells

• 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea - Jules Verne

• A Princess of Mars - Edgar Rice Burroughs

Horror

• Dracula - Bram Stoker

• The Dunwich Horror - H.P. Lovecraft

• Frankenstein - Mary Shelley

• The Fall of the House of Usher - Edgar Allan Poe

• The King in Yellow - Robert W. Chambers

• The Wendigo - Algernon Blackwood

Mystery

• The Hound of the Baskervilles - Arthur Conan Doyle

• The Mysterious Affair at Styles - Agatha Christie

• The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins

Biography

• The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

• Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

• Twelve Years a Slave - Solomon Northup

Children's

• Peter Pan - J. M. Barrie

• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll

• The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame

• Anne of Green Gables - Lucy Maud Montgomery

Fantasy

• The Well at the World's End - William Morris

• Time and the Gods - Lord Dunsany

• The Wood Beyond the World - William Morris

Philosophy

• The Republic - Plato

• Leviathan - Thomas Hobbes

• Rights of Man - Thomas Paine

Nonfiction

• Vindication of the Rights of Woman - Mary Wollstonecraft

• On the Origin of Species - Charles Darwin

• The Federalist Papers

• The Communist Manifesto - Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels

Westerns

• Riders of the Purple Sage - Zane Grey

• The Virginian - Owen Wister

• Gunman's Reckoning - Max Brand

Religion

• King James Bible

• The Dhammapada

• The Quran

Build great reading habits and finish classic books in days with Serial Reader!