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!
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Serial Reader FAQ
Is Serial Reader free?
Yes, Serial Reader is completely free and it doesn't have any in-app purchases or subscriptions.
Is Serial Reader legit?
✅ The Serial Reader app appears to be high-quality and legitimate. Users are very satisfied.
Achievements, badges, a premium mobile reading experience, large selection of great works to read... A premium app without a subscription, with a generous free option, and honestly underpriced pay-once premium option.
There's so much to appreciate here. I plan to give the dev a tip each time I finish a book, as I'm able. Thank you for making such a great app accessible.
Love this!
I love this option for getting reading done in short time periods such as my lunch break. Looking forward to reading more of the available titles!
Excellent motivation
I really enjoy waking up and having a bite sized piece of good literature to read each day. I also like that there is a meter to measure what kind of a streak I am on, which motivates me to keep it at 100 percent. There is a wide variety of books to choose from, and it helps me get through some of the more difficult reading, such as Dantes Inferno.
I love it
I’m reading classics I’ve been meaning to read my whole life.
Thank You
I want to commend you for the time it takes to make SerialReader available to your subscribers. Even though I have a hard time sticking to goals, SerialReader is always there when I’m focused. I don’t know how long I’ve been a subscriber but I appreciate your time and effort. Whenever I am on the app, I do send a tip from time to time.
Amazing concept
This is really a brilliant concept, executed very well.
I had previously complained about battery drain, but I think it may have been some residual jank from a software update that has since worked itself out. Review updated to five stars, and kudos to the developer for a quick response to my review. Cheers!
Excellent tool! Just what I needed
I have tried many times to read some books on small portions a day. It is cumbersome to calculate and keep track. This app is the perfect way to tackle some classics that I have always wanted to read and never had. The app is simple to use but it has very nice extra features that I didn’t expect. I love the highlighting and how you can download them all together. You can do notes. Fix the type and size of the typeface on the reading screen. It has fun words of encouragement every day and landmark badges. Great app. I am thankful it was recommended to me and gladly paid the for the premium version.
This app is fantastic
Been using it for several years now. Great selection of books, super easy to use. Highly recommend.
Such an absolute joy to have
With the many distractions clambering for our attention nowadays this app is such a pleasure. Free unless you want to show your appreciation with a donation, this work helps amend the lack of literature in daily life, or correct the missing gaps in education. Very very grateful to its creator Michael Schmitt.
One of my favorite apps of all time.
I honestly think this is one of the best things to have ever happened to my phone and/or tablet. Genius.