The Best British Novels Of All-Time
“What are the best British Literature Books Of All-Time?” We looked at 831 of the top books, aggregating and ranking them so we could answer that very question!
The top 44 titles, all appearing on 4 or more “Best British Fiction” book lists, are ranked below by how many times they appear. The remaining 775+ titles, as well as the lists we used are in alphabetical order at the bottom of the page.
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Top 44 British Fiction Books
44 .) A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Lists It Appears On:
- BBC
- Goodreads
- Perfection Learning
- The Telegraph
A vicious fifteen-year-old droog is the central character of this 1963 classic. In Anthony Burgess’s nightmare vision of the future, where the criminals take over after dark, the story is told by the central character, Alex, who talks in a brutal invented slang that brilliantly renders his and his friends’ social pathology. A Clockwork Orange is a frightening fable about good and evil, and the meaning of human freedom. When the state undertakes to reform Alex to “redeem” him, the novel asks, “At what cost?”
43 .) A Room with a View by E.M. Forster
Lists It Appears On:
- BBC
- Goodreads
- Perfection Learning
- Windham Schools
“Written in 1908, A Room with a View is a social comedy set in Florence, Italy, and Surrey, England. Its heroine, Lucy Honeychurch, struggling against straitlaced Victorian attitudes of arrogance, narrow-mindedness and snobbery, falls in love-while on holiday in Italy-with the socially unsuitable George Emerson.
Caught up in a claustrophobic world of pretentiousness and rigidity, Lucy ultimately rejects her fiancé, Cecil Vyse, and chooses, instead, to wed her true love, the young man whose sense of freedom and lack of artificiality became apparent to her in the Italian pensione where they first met. “
42 .) Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll
Lists It Appears On:
- BBC
- Flavorwire 2
- Goodreads
- Windham Schools
When Alice tumbles down a rabbit hole one summer afternoon in pursuit of a White Rabbit, she finds herself in Wonderland. And here begin the adventures that have made Alice the stuff of legend and ensured that Lewis Carroll’s book is the best loved and most widely read in children’s literature.
41 .) Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope
Lists It Appears On:
- BBC
- The Telegraph
- Wikipedia
- Windham Schools
This 1857 sequel to The Warden wryly chronicles the struggle for control of the English diocese of Barchester. It opens with the Bishop of Barchester lying on his death bed; soon a battle begins over who will take over power, with key players including the rather incompetent Dr Proudie, his fiendishly unpleasant wife and his slippery curate, Slope. This is a wonderfully rich novel, in which men and women are too shy to tell each other of their love; misunderstandings abound; and Church of England officials are only too willing to undermine each other in the battle for power. It is a dazzlingly real portrayal of 19th-century provincial England peppered with humor, wisdom and extraordinary characters.
40 .) Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
Lists It Appears On:
- Goodreads
- Goodreads 2
- Huffington Post
- Qwiklit
“A postmodern visionary and one of the leading voices in twenty-first-century fiction, David Mitchell combines flat-out adventure, a Nabokovian love of puzzles, a keen eye for character, and a taste for mind-bending, philosophical and scientific speculation in the tradition of Umberto Eco, Haruki Murakami, and Philip K. Dick. The result is brilliantly original fiction as profound as it is playful. In this groundbreaking novel, an influential favorite among a new generation of writers, Mitchell explores with daring artistry fundamental questions of reality and identity.
Cloud Atlas begins in 1850 with Adam Ewing, an American notary voyaging from the Chatham Isles to his home in California. Along the way, Ewing is befriended by a physician, Dr. Goose, who begins to treat him for a rare species of brain parasite. . . . Abruptly, the action jumps to Belgium in 1931, where Robert Frobisher, a disinherited bisexual composer, contrives his way into the household of an infirm maestro who has a beguiling wife and a nubile daughter. . . . From there we jump to the West Coast in the 1970s and a troubled reporter named Luisa Rey, who stumbles upon a web of corporate greed and murder that threatens to claim her life. . . . And onward, with dazzling virtuosity, to an inglorious present-day England; to a Korean superstate of the near future where neocapitalism has run amok; and, finally, to a postapocalyptic Iron Age Hawaii in the last days of history.
But the story doesn’t end even there. The narrative then boomerangs back through centuries and space, returning by the same route, in reverse, to its starting point. Along the way, Mitchell reveals how his disparate characters connect, how their fates intertwine, and how their souls drift across time like clouds across the sky.”
39 .) David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Lists It Appears On:
- BBC
- Flavorwire 2
- Goodreads
- Windham Schools
David Copperfield is the story of a young man’s adventures on his journey from an unhappy and impoverished childhood to the discovery of his vocation as a successful novelist. Among the gloriously vivid cast of characters he encounters are his tyrannical stepfather, Mr Murdstone; his brilliant, but ultimately unworthy school-friend James Steerforth; his formidable aunt, Betsey Trotwood; the eternally humble, yet treacherous Uriah Heep; frivolous, enchanting Dora Spenlow; and the magnificently impecunious Wilkins Micawber, one of literature’s great comic creations. In David Copperfield – the novel he described as his ‘favourite child’ – Dickens drew revealingly on his own experiences to create one of the most exuberant and enduringly popular works, filled with tragedy and comedy in equal measure. This edition uses the text of the first volume publication of 1850, and includes updated suggestions for further reading, original illustrations by ‘Phiz’, a revised chronology and expanded notes. In his new introduction, Jeremy Tambling discusses the novel’s autobiographical elements, and its central themes of memory and identity.
38 .) Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Lists It Appears On:
- BBC
- Flavorwire 2
- Goodreads
- Perfection Learning
“Few creatures of horror have seized readers’ imaginations and held them for so long as the anguished monster of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. The story of Victor Frankenstein’s terrible creation and the havoc it caused has enthralled generations of readers and inspired countless writers of horror and suspense. Considering the novel’s enduring success, it is remarkable that it began merely as a whim of Lord Byron’s.
“”We will each write a story,”” Byron announced to his next-door neighbors, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin and her lover Percy Bysshe Shelley. The friends were summering on the shores of Lake Geneva in Switzerland in 1816, Shelley still unknown as a poet and Byron writing the third canto of Childe Harold. When continued rains kept them confined indoors, all agreed to Byron’s proposal.”
37 .) Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
Lists It Appears On:
- Goodreads
- Windham Schools
- BBC
- Perfection Learning
Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships, better known simply as Gulliver’s Travels (1726, amended 1735), is a novel by Anglo-Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift, that is both a satire on human nature and a parody of the “travellers’ tales” literary subgenre. It is Swift’s best known full-length work, and a classic of English literature.
36 .) Howard’s End by E. M. Forster
Lists It Appears On:
- BBC
- Goodreads 2
- The Telegraph
- Windham Schools
Regarded by numerous critics as Forster’s masterpiece, Howards End is a novel that explores the many intricacies of class relations in English society during the turn of the century. Centering around three families representing England’s working class and wealthy elite, the novel weaves a complicated tapestry of misunderstandings, careless impulses, and, ultimately, tragedy. Like many of Foster’s works, Howards End concerns the nature of class and social status and how they affect one’s relationships and well-being, for better or for worse.
35 .) Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Lists It Appears On:
- BBC
- Goodreads
- Perfection Learning
- Windham Schools
At the dawn of the next world war, a plane crashes on an uncharted island, stranding a group of schoolboys. At first, with no adult supervision, their freedom is something to celebrate. This far from civilization they can do anything they want. Anything. But as order collapses, as strange howls echo in the night, as terror begins its reign, the hope of adventure seems as far removed from reality as the hope of being rescued.
34 .) Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Lists It Appears On:
- BBC
- Goodreads
- Goodreads 2
- Perfection Learning
As children Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy were students at Hailsham, an exclusive boarding school secluded in the English countryside. It was a place of mercurial cliques and mysterious rules where teachers were constantly reminding their charges of how special they were. Now, years later, Kathy is a young woman. Ruth and Tommy have reentered her life. And for the first time she is beginning to look back at their shared past and understand just what it is that makes them special—and how that gift will shape the rest of their time together. Suspenseful, moving, beautifully atmospheric, Never Let Me Go is modern classic.
33 .) Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
Lists It Appears On:
- BBC
- Goodreads
- The Telegraph
- Windham Schools
Of Human Bondage is a 1915 novel by W. Somerset Maugham. Is is generally agreed to be his masterpiece and to be strongly autobiographical in nature, although Maugham stated, “This is a novel, not an autobiography, though much in it is autobiographical, more is pure invention.” The book begins with the death of the mother of the nine-year-old protagonist, Philip Carey. Philip’s father had already died a few months before, and the orphan Philip is sent to live with his aunt and uncle. His uncle is a vicar of Blackstable, a small village in Kent. Philip inherits a small fortune but the money is held in custody by his uncle until he is 21, giving his uncle a great deal of power over him until he reaches his maturity. Early chapters relate Philip’s experience at the vicarage. His aunt tries to be a mother to Philip, but she is herself childish and unsure of how to behave, whereas his uncle takes a cold disposition towards him. Philip’s uncle has an eclectic collection of books, and in reading Philip finds a way to escape his mundane existence and experience fascinating worlds of fiction. Less than a year later, Philip is sent to a boarding school.
32 .) Possession by A.S. Byatt
Lists It Appears On:
- BBC
- Goodreads
- Goodreads 2
- Qwiklit
“Winner of England’s Booker Prize and the literary sensation of the year, Possession is an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, at once an intellectual mystery and triumphant love story. It is the tale of a pair of young scholars researching the lives of two Victorian poets. As they uncover their letters, journals, and poems, and track their movements from London to Yorkshire—from spiritualist séances to the fairy-haunted far west of Brittany—what emerges is an extraordinary counterpoint of passions and ideas.
An exhilarating novel of wit and romance, an intellectual mystery, and a triumphant love story. This tale of a pair of young scholars researching the lives of two Victorian poets became a huge bookseller favorite, and then on to national bestellerdom.”
31 .) Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Lists It Appears On:
- Goodreads
- Oxford Royale Academy
- Perfection Learning
- Windham Schools
With these words, the reader is ushered into an isolated gray stone mansion on the windswept Cornish coast, as the second Mrs. Maxim de Winter recalls the chilling events that transpired as she began her new life as the young bride of a husband she barely knew. For in every corner of every room were phantoms of a time dead but not forgotten—a past devotedly preserved by the sinister housekeeper, Mrs. Danvers: a suite immaculate and untouched, clothing laid out and ready to be worn, but not by any of the great house’s current occupants. With an eerie presentiment of evil tightening her heart, the second Mrs. de Winter walked in the shadow of her mysterious predecessor, determined to uncover the darkest secrets and shattering truths about Maxim’s first wife—the late and hauntingly beautiful Rebecca.
30 .) Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
Lists It Appears On:
- BBC
- Goodreads
- The Telegraph
- Windham Schools
Robinson Crusoe is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published on 25 April 1719. This first edition credited the work’s fictional protagonist Robinson Crusoe as its author, leading many readers to believe he was a real person and the book a travelogue of true incidents. It was published under the considerably longer original title The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, Of York, Mariner: Who lived Eight and Twenty Years, all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, wherein all the Men perished but himself.
29 .) The History of Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
Lists It Appears On:
- BBC
- Goodreads
- Wikipedia
- Windham Schools
A foundling of mysterious parentage brought up by Mr. Allworthy on his country estate, Tom Jones is deeply in love with the seemingly unattainable Sophia Western, the beautiful daughter of the neighboring squire—though he sometimes succumbs to the charms of the local girls. When Tom is banished to make his own fortune and Sophia follows him to London to escape an arranged marriage, the adventure begins. A vivid Hogarthian panorama of eighteenth-century life, spiced with danger and intrigue, bawdy exuberance and good-natured authorial interjections, Tom Jones is one of the greatest and most ambitious comic novels in English literature.
28 .) The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
Lists It Appears On:
- BBC
- Goodreads
- Oxford Royale Academy
- Wikipedia
“One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
In ancient times the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elven-smiths, and Sauron, the Dark Lord, forged the One Ring, filling it with his own power so that he could rule all others. But the One Ring was taken from him, and though he sought it throughout Middle-earth, it remained lost to him. After many ages it fell into the hands of Bilbo Baggins, as told in The Hobbit. In a sleepy village in the Shire, young Frodo Baggins finds himself faced with an immense task, as his elderly cousin Bilbo entrusts the Ring to his care. Frodo must leave his home and make a perilous journey across Middle-earth to the Cracks of Doom, there to destroy the Ring and foil the Dark Lord in his evil purpose.”
27 .) The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
Lists It Appears On:
- BBC
- Perfection Learning
- Wikipedia
- Windham Schools
“In a fit of drunken anger, Michael Henchard sells his wife and baby daughter for five guineas at a country fair. Over the course of the following years, he manages to establish himself as a respected and prosperous pillar of the community of Casterbridge, but behind his success there always lurk the shameful secret of his past and a personality prone to self-destructive pride and temper. Subtitled “”A Story of a Man of Character,”” Hardy’s powerful and sympathetic study of the heroic but deeply flawed Henchard is also an intensely dramatic work, tragically played out against the vivid backdrop of a close-knit Dorsetshire town.
This edition includes an introduction, chronology of Hardy’s life and works, the illustrations for the original serial issue, place names, maps, glossary, full explanatory notes as well as Hardy’s prefaces to the 1895 and 1912 editions.”
26 .) The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Lists It Appears On:
- Flavorwire 2
- Goodreads
- Perfection Learning
- Windham Schools
The Picture of Dorian Gray is an 1891 philosophical novel by Irish writer and playwright Oscar Wilde. First published as a serial story in the July 1890 issue of Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine, the editors feared the story was indecent, and without Wilde’s knowledge, deleted five hundred words before publication. Despite that censorship, The Picture of Dorian Gray offended the moral sensibilities of British book reviewers, some of whom said that Oscar Wilde merited prosecution for violating the laws guarding the public morality. In response, Wilde aggressively defended his novel and art in correspondence with the British press. Wilde revised and expanded the magazine edition of The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890) for publication as a novel; the book edition (1891) featured an aphoristic preface — an apologia about the art of the novel and the reader.
25 .) The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
Lists It Appears On:
- BBC
- Goodreads
- Goodreads 2
- Perfection Learning
At the staid Marcia Blaine School for Girls, in Edinburgh, Scotland, teacher extraordinaire Miss Jean Brodie is unmistakably, and outspokenly, in her prime. She is passionate in the application of her unorthodox teaching methods, in her attraction to the married art master, Teddy Lloyd, in her affair with the bachelor music master, Gordon Lowther, and—most important—in her dedication to “her girls,” the students she selects to be her crème de la crème. Fanatically devoted, each member of the Brodie set—Eunice, Jenny, Mary, Monica, Rose, and Sandy—is “famous for something,” and Miss Brodie strives to bring out the best in each one.
24 .) The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
Lists It Appears On:
- BBC
- Goodreads 2
- Huffington Post
- Wikipedia
“A novel so compelling that it begs to be read in a single setting, The Sense of an Ending has the psychological and emotional depth and sophistication of Henry James at his best, and is a stunning achievement in Julian Barnes’s oeuvre.
This intense novel follows Tony Webster, a middle-aged man, as he contends with a past he never thought much about—until his closest childhood friends return with a vengeance: one of them from the grave, another maddeningly present. Tony thought he left this all behind as he built a life for himself, and his career has provided him with a secure retirement and an amicable relationship with his ex-wife and daughter, who now has a family of her own. But when he is presented with a mysterious legacy, he is forced to revise his estimation of his own nature and place in the world.”
23 .) Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson, adapted by Lisa Norby
Lists It Appears On:
- Flavorwire 2
- Goodreads
- Perfection Learning
- Windham Schools
The lure of hidden treasure draws young Jim Hawkins from his secure surroundings to seek an exotic life of travel and adventure. Yet as he comes to a realization of his perilous situation, he finds he must rely on his wits and luck to survive, and that to become a man, he must answer the calls of competing loyalties. Robert Louis Stevenson’s most endearing novel, Treasure Island is a gripping tale of greed, danger, and adventure on the high seas.
22 .) Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
Lists It Appears On:
- BBC
- Huffington Post
- Qwiklit
- The Telegraph
England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the king dies without a male heir, the country could be destroyed by civil war. Henry VIII wants to annul his marriage of twenty years and marry Anne Boleyn. The pope and most of Europe opposes him. Into this impasse steps Thomas Cromwell: a wholly original man, a charmer and a bully, both idealist and opportunist, astute in reading people, and implacable in his ambition. But Henry is volatile: one day tender, one day murderous. Cromwell helps him break the opposition, but what will be the price of his triumph?
21 .) Animal Farm by George Orwell
Lists It Appears On:
- BBC
- Goodreads
- Perfection Learning
- Wikipedia
- Windham Schools
A farm is taken over by its overworked, mistreated animals. With flaming idealism and stirring slogans, they set out to create a paradise of progress, justice, and equality. Thus the stage is set for one of the most telling satiric fables ever penned—a razor-edged fairy tale for grown-ups that records the evolution from revolution against tyranny to a totalitarianism just as terrible.
20 .) Atonement by Ian McEwan
Lists It Appears On:
- BBC
- Goodreads
- Goodreads 2
- Huffington Post
- Qwiklit
“Ian McEwan’s symphonic novel of love and war, childhood and class, guilt and forgiveness provides all the satisfaction of a brilliant narrative and the provocation we have come to expect from this master of English prose.
On a hot summer day in 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis witnesses a moment’s flirtation between her older sister, Cecilia, and Robbie Turner, the son of a servant and Cecilia’s childhood friend. But Briony’ s incomplete grasp of adult motives–together with her precocious literary gifts–brings about a crime that will change all their lives. As it follows that crime’s repercussions through the chaos and carnage of World War II and into the close of the twentieth century, Atonement engages the reader on every conceivable level, with an ease and authority that mark it as a genuine masterpiece.”
19 .) Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
Lists It Appears On:
- Goodreads
- Goodreads 2
- Oxford Royale Academy
- Wikipedia
- Windham Schools
“The wellsprings of desire and the impediments to love come brilliantly into focus in Evelyn Waugh’s masterpiece-a novel that immerses us in the glittering and seductive world of English aristocracy in the waning days of the empire.
Through the story of Charles Ryder’s entanglement with the Flytes, a great Catholic family, Evelyn Waugh charts the passing of the privileged world he knew in his own youth and vividly recalls the sensuous pleasures denied him by wartime austerities. At once romantic, sensuous, comic, and somber, Brideshead Revisited transcends Waugh’s early satiric explorations and reveals him to be an elegiac, lyrical novelist of the utmost feeling and lucidity.”
18 .) Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
Lists It Appears On:
- Goodreads
- Oxford Royale Academy
- Perfection Learning
- Wikipedia
- Windham Schools
“In Thomas Hardy’s first major literary success, independent and spirited Bathsheba Everdene has come to Weatherbury to take up her position as a farmer on the largest estate in the area. Her bold presence draws three very different suitors: the gentleman-farmer Boldwood, the soldier-seducer Sergeant Troy, and the devoted shepherd Gabriel Oak. Each, in contrasting ways, unsettles her decisions and complicates her life, and tragedy ensues, threatening the stability of the whole community. One of his first works set in the semi-fictional region of Wessex, Hardy’s novel of swift passion and slow courtship is imbued with his evocative descriptions of rural life and landscapes, and with unflinching honesty about sexual relationships.
This edition, based on Hardy’s original 1874 manuscript, is the complete novel he never saw published, and restores its full candor and innovation. Rosemarie Morgan’s introduction discusses the history of its publication, as well as the biblical and classical allusions that permeate the novel.”
17 .) Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Lists It Appears On:
- Flavorwire 2
- Goodreads
- Perfection Learning
- Wikipedia
- Windham Schools
The story of Oliver Twist – orphaned, and set upon by evil and adversity from his first breath – shocked readers when it was published. After running away from the workhouse and pompous beadle Mr Bumble, Oliver finds himself lured into a den of thieves peopled by vivid and memorable characters – the Artful Dodger, vicious burglar Bill Sikes, his dog Bull’s Eye, and prostitute Nancy, all watched over by cunning master-thief Fagin. Combining elements of Gothic Romance, the Newgate Novel and popular melodrama, Dickens created an entirely new kind of fiction, scathing in its indictment of a cruel society, and pervaded by an unforgettable sense of threat and mystery.
16 .) Persuasion by Jane Austen
Lists It Appears On:
- BBC
- Flavorwire 2
- Goodreads
- Perfection Learning
- Windham Schools
At twenty-seven, Anne Elliot is no longer young and has few romantic prospects. Eight years earlier, she had been persuaded by her friend Lady Russell to break off her engagement to Frederick Wentworth, a handsome naval captain with neither fortune nor rank. What happens when they encounter each other again is movingly told in Jane Austen’s last completed novel. Set in the fashionable societies of Lyme Regis and Bath, Persuasion is a brilliant satire of vanity and pretension, but, above all, it is a love story tinged with the heartache of missed opportunities.
15 .) Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Lists It Appears On:
- BBC
- Flavorwire 2
- Goodreads
- Perfection Learning
- Windham Schools
Few have failed to be charmed by the witty and independent spirit of Elizabeth Bennet in Austen’s beloved classic Pride and Prejudice. When Elizabeth Bennet first meets eligible bachelor Fitzwilliam Darcy, she thinks him arrogant and conceited; he is indifferent to her good looks and lively mind. When she later discovers that Darcy has involved himself in the troubled relationship between his friend Bingley and her beloved sister Jane, she is determined to dislike him more than ever. In the sparkling comedy of manners that follows, Jane Austen shows us the folly of judging by first impressions and superbly evokes the friendships, gossip and snobberies of provincial middle-class life. This Penguin Classics edition, based on Austen’s first edition, contains the original Penguin Classics introduction by Tony Tanner and an updated introduction and notes by Viven Jones.
14 .) Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
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- BBC
- Flavorwire 2
- Goodreads
- Perfection Learning
- Windham Schools
Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve, and when she falls in love with the dashing but unsuitable John Willoughby she ignores her sister Elinor’s warning that her impulsive behaviour leaves her open to gossip and innuendo. Meanwhile Elinor, always sensitive to social convention, is struggling to conceal her own romantic disappointment, even from those closest to her. Through their parallel experience of love – and its threatened loss – the sisters learn that sense must mix with sensibility if they are to find personal happiness in a society where status and money govern the rules of love.
13 .) To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
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- BBC
- Goodreads
- Goodreads 2
- Perfection Learning
- Windham Schools
The serene and maternal Mrs. Ramsay, the tragic yet absurd Mr. Ramsay, and their children and assorted guests are on holiday on the Isle of Skye. From the seemingly trivial postponement of a visit to a nearby lighthouse, Woolf constructs a remarkable, moving examination of the complex tensions and allegiances of family life and the conflict between men and women.
12 .) Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
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- BBC
- Flavorwire 2
- Goodreads
- The Telegraph
- Windham Schools
With an Introduction and Notes by Owen Knowles, University of Hull Thackeray’s upper-class Regency world is a noisy and jostling commercial fairground, predominantly driven by acquisitive greed and soulless materialism, in which the narrator himself plays a brilliantly versatile role as a serio-comic observer. Although subtitled ‘A Novel without a Hero’, Vanity Fair follows the fortunes of two contrasting but inter-linked lives: through the retiring Amelia Sedley and the brilliant Becky Sharp, Thackeray examines the position of women in an intensely exploitative male world.
11 .) Bleak House by Charles Dickens
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- BBC
- Flavorwire 2
- Goodreads
- The Telegraph
- Wikipedia
- Windham Schools
As the interminable case of ‘Jarndyce and Jarndyce’ grinds its way through the Court of Chancery, it draws together a disparate group of people: Ada and Richard Clare, whose inheritance is gradually being devoured by legal costs; Esther Summerson, a ward of court, whose parentage is a source of deepening mystery; the menacing lawyer Tulkinghorn; the determined sleuth Inspector Bucket; and even Jo, the destitute little crossing-sweeper. A savage, but often comic, indictment of a society that is rotten to the core, Bleak House is one of Dickens’s most ambitious novels, with a range that extends from the drawing rooms of the aristocracy to the poorest of London slums. This edition follows the first book edition of 1853, and includes all the original illustrations by ‘Phiz’, as well as appendices on the Chancery and spontaneous combustion. In his preface, Terry Eagleton examines characterisation and considers Bleak House as an early work of detective fiction.
10 .) Emma by Jane Austen
Lists It Appears On:
- BBC
- Flavorwire 2
- Goodreads
- Perfection Learning
- The Telegraph
- Windham Schools
“The culmination of Jane Austen’s genius, a sparkling comedy of love and marriage
Beautiful, clever, rich—and single—Emma Woodhouse is perfectly content with her life and sees no need for either love or marriage. Nothing, however, delights her more than interfering in the romantic lives of others. But when she ignores the warnings of her good friend Mr. Knightley and attempts to arrange a suitable match for her protegee Harriet Smith, her carefully laid plans soon unravel and have consequences that she never expected. With its imperfect but charming heroine and its witty and subtle exploration of relationships, Emma is often seen as Jane Austen’s most flawless work.”
9 .) Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
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- BBC
- Flavorwire 2
- Goodreads
- Goodreads 2
- Perfection Learning
- Windham Schools
Heart of Darkness (1899) is a short novel by Polish novelist Joseph Conrad, written as a frame narrative, about Charles Marlow’s experience as an ivory transporter down the Congo River in Central Africa. The river is “a mighty big river, that you could see on the map, resembling an immense snake uncoiled, with its head in the sea, its body at rest curving afar over a vast country, and its tail lost in the depths of the land”. In the course of his travel in central Africa, Marlow becomes obsessed with Mr. Kurtz.
8 .) Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
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- BBC
- Flavorwire 2
- Goodreads
- Oxford Royale Academy
- Perfection Learning
- Windham Schools
Jane Eyre follows the emotions and experiences of its title character, including her growth to adulthood, and her love for Mr. Rochester, the byronic master of fictitious Thornfield Hall. In its internalisation of the action — the focus is on the gradual unfolding of Jane’s moral and spiritual sensibility and all the events are coloured by a heightened intensity that was previously the domain of poetry — Jane Eyre revolutionised the art of fiction. Charlotte Brontë has been called the ‘first historian of the private consciousness’ and the literary ancestor of writers like Joyce and Proust.
7 .) Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
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- BBC
- Flavorwire 2
- Goodreads 2
- Perfection Learning
- Wikipedia
- Windham Schools
Jude Fawley’s hopes of a university education are lost when he is trapped into marrying the earthy Arabella, who later abandons him. Moving to the town of Christminster where he finds work as a stonemason, Jude meets and falls in love with his cousin Sue Bridehead, a sensitive, freethinking “New Woman.” Refusing to marry merely for the sake of religious convention, Jude and Sue decide instead to live together, but they are shunned by society and poverty soon threatens to ruin them. Jude the Obscure, Hardy’s last novel, caused a public furor when it was first published, with its fearless and challenging exploration of class and sexual relationships.
6 .) Middlemarch by George Eliot
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- BBC
- Flavorwire 2
- Goodreads
- Oxford Royale Academy
- The Telegraph
- Windham Schools
George Eliot’s novel, Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life, explores a fictional nineteenth-century Midlands town in the midst of modern changes. The proposed Reform Bill promises political change; the building of railroads alters both the physical and cultural landscape; new scientific approaches to medicine incite public division; and scandal lurks behind respectability. The quiet drama of ordinary lives and flawed choices are played out in the complexly portrayed central characters of the novel—the idealistic Dorothea Brooke; the ambitious Dr. Lydgate; the spendthrift Fred Vincy; and the steadfast Mary Garth. The appearance of two outsiders further disrupts the town’s equilibrium—Will Ladislaw, the spirited nephew of Dorothea’s husband, the Rev. Edward Casaubon, and the sinister John Raffles, who threatens to expose the hidden past of one of the town’s elite. Middlemarch displays George Eliot’s clear-eyed yet humane understanding of characters caught up in the mysterious unfolding of self-knowledge. This Penguin Classics edition uses the second edition of 1874 and features an introduction and notes by Eliot-biographer Rosemary Ashton. In her introduction, Ashton discusses themes of social change in Middlemarch, and examines the novel as an imaginative embodiment of Eliot’s humanist beliefs.
5 .) Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
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- Goodreads 2
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- The Telegraph
- Windham Schools
In Mrs. Dalloway, the novel on which the movie The Hours was based, Virginia Woolf details Clarissa Dalloway’s preparations for a party of which she is to be hostess, exploring the hidden springs of thought and action in one day of a woman’s life.
4 .) Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
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- Goodreads
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- Windham Schools
Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented is a novel by Thomas Hardy. It initially appeared in a censored and serialised version, published by the British illustrated newspaper The Graphic in 1891 and in book form in 1892. Though now considered a major nineteenth century English novel, Tess of the d’Ubervilles received mixed reviews when it first appeared, in part because it challenged the sexual mores of late Victorian England.
3 .) White Teeth by Zadie Smith
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- BBC
- Goodreads 2
- Huffington Post
- Perfection Learning
- Qwiklit
- The Telegraph
At the center of this invigorating novel are two unlikely friends, Archie Jones and Samad Iqbal. Hapless veterans of World War II, Archie and Samad and their families become agents of England’s irrevocable transformation. A second marriage to Clara Bowden, a beautiful, albeit tooth-challenged, Jamaican half his age, quite literally gives Archie a second lease on life, and produces Irie, a knowing child whose personality doesn’t quite match her name (Jamaican for “no problem”). Samad’s late-in-life arranged marriage (he had to wait for his bride to be born), produces twin sons whose separate paths confound Iqbal’s every effort to direct them, and a renewed, if selective, submission to his Islamic faith. Set against London’ s racial and cultural tapestry, venturing across the former empire and into the past as it barrels toward the future, White Teeth revels in the ecstatic hodgepodge of modern life, flirting with disaster, confounding expectations, and embracing the comedy of daily existence.
2 .) Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
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- BBC
- Flavorwire 2
- Goodreads
- Oxford Royale Academy
- Perfection Learning
- Windham Schools
“Emily Brontë’s only novel endures as a work of tremendous and far-reaching influence. The Penguin Classics edition is the definitive version of the text, edited with an introduction by Pauline Nestor.
Lockwood, the new tenant of Thrushcross Grange, situated on the bleak Yorkshire moors, is forced to seek shelter one night at Wuthering Heights, the home of his landlord. There he discovers the history of the tempestuous events that took place years before. What unfolds is the tale of the intense love between the gypsy foundling Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw. Catherine, forced to choose between passionate, tortured Heathcliff and gentle, well-bred Edgar Linton, surrendered to the expectations of her class. As Heathcliff’s bitterness and vengeance at his betrayal is visited upon the next generation, their innocent heirs must struggle to escape the legacy of the past.”
1 .) Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
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- BBC
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- Goodreads
- Oxford Royale Academy
- Perfection Learning
- The Telegraph
- Windham Schools
Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations charts the course of orphan Pip Pirrip’s life as it is transformed by a vast, mysterious inheritance. A terrifying encounter with the escaped convict Abel Magwitch in a graveyard on the wild Kent marshes; a summons to meet the bitter, decrepit Miss Havisham and her beautiful, cold-hearted ward Estella at Satis House; the sudden generosity of a mysterious benefactor – these form a series of events that change the orphaned Pip’s life forever, and he eagerly abandons his humble station as an apprentice to blacksmith Joe Gargery, beginning a new life as a gentleman. Charles Dickens’s haunting late novel depicts Pip’s education and development through adversity as he discovers the true nature of his identity, and his ‘great expectations’. This definitive version uses the text from the first published edition of 1861. It includes a map of Kent in the early nineteenth century, and appendices on Dickens’s original ending and his working notes, giving readers an illuminating glimpse into the mind of a great novelist at work.
The 750+ Additional Best British Literature Books
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| 45 | 1984 | George Orwell | Goodreads |
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| 46 | A Passage to India | E.M. Forster | BBC |
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| 47 | A Tale of Two Cities | Charles Dickens | Flavorwire 2 |
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| 48 | Brave New World | Aldous Huxley | Goodreads |
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| 49 | Clarissa | Samuel Richardson | BBC |
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| 50 | Dracula | Bram Stoker | Flavorwire 2 |
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| 51 | Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (Harry Potter, #1) | J.K. Rowling | Goodreads |
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| 52 | Ivanhoe | Sir Walter Scott | Flavorwire 2 |
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| 53 | Kidnapped | Robert Louis Stevenson | Flavorwire 2 |
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| 54 | Lord Jim | Joseph Conrad | Flavorwire 2 |
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| 55 | Mansfield Park | Jane Austen | Flavorwire 2 |
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| 56 | Money | Martin Amis | Goodreads 2 |
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| 57 | Nicholas Nickleby | Charles Dickens | Flavorwire 2 |
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| 58 | Nineteen Eighty-Four | George Orwell | BBC |
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| 59 | Pygamlion | George Bernard Shaw | Windham Schools |
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| 60 | Small Island | Andrea Levy | BBC |
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| 61 | The Buddha of Suburbia | Hanif Kureishi | BBC |
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| 62 | The Curious Incident of the Dog of The Night Time | Mark Haddon | Goodreads |
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| 63 | The End of the Affair | Graham Greene | BBC |
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| 64 | The Forsyte Saga | John Galsworthy | BBC |
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| 65 | The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, #1) | Douglas Adams | Goodreads |
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| 66 | The Importance of Being Earnest | Oscar Wilde | Goodreads |
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| 67 | The Remains of the Day | Kazuo Ishiguro | Goodreads |
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| 68 | The Time Machine | H.G. Welles | Flavorwire 2 |
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| 69 | The Woman in White | Wilkie Collins | BBC |
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| 70 | Ulysses | James Joyce | Goodreads 2 |
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| 71 | Wide Sargasso Sea | Jean Rhys | BBC |
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| 72 | Women in Love | D. H. Lawrence | BBC |
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| 73 | 2001: A Space Odyssey | Arthur C. Clarke | Perfection Learning |
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| 74 | A Christmas Carol | Charles Dickens | Goodreads |
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| 75 | A Dance to the Music of Time | Anthony Powell | BBC |
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| 76 | A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | James Joyce | Goodreads 2 |
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| 77 | A Study in Scarlet | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | Flavorwire 2 |
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| 78 | After the Fire, A Still Small Voice | Evie Wyld | Flavorwire |
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| 79 | Agnes Grey | Anne Brontë | Flavorwire 2 |
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| 80 | Amelia | Henry Fielding | Wikipedia |
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| 81 | Amsterdam | Ian McEwan | Goodreads 2 |
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| 82 | And Then There Were None | Agatha Christie | Goodreads |
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| 83 | Being Dead | Jim Crace | Flavorwire |
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| 84 | Beowulf | Unknown | Goodreads |
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| 85 | Bring Up the Bodies | Hilary Mantel | Goodreads 2 |
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| 86 | Captain Corelli’s Mandolin | Louis de Bernières | Wikipedia |
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| 87 | Cold Comfort Farm | Stella Gibbons | BBC |
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| 88 | Cranford | Elizabeth Gaskell | Flavorwire 2 |
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| 89 | Crash | J.G. Ballard | BBC |
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| 90 | Daniel Deronda | George Eliot | BBC |
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| 91 | Decline and Fall | Evelyn Waugh | BBC |
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| 92 | Dombey and Son | Charles Dickens | BBC |
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| 93 | Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | Robert Louis Stevenson | Perfection Learning |
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| 94 | Fatherland | Robert Harris | Goodreads 2 |
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| 95 | Goodbye, Mr. Chips | James Hilton | Wikipedia |
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| 96 | Hamlet | William Shakespeare | Goodreads |
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| 97 | Hard Times | Charles Dickens | Wikipedia |
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| 98 | His Dark Materials | Philip Pullman | BBC |
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| 99 | I, Claudius | Robert Graves | The Telegraph |
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| 100 | Joseph Andrews | Henry Fielding | Wikipedia |
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| 101 | Kim | Rudyard Kipling | Perfection Learning |
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| 102 | Lanark: A Life in Four Books | Alasdair Gray | Qwiklit |
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| 103 | Le Morte d’Arthur: King Arthur and the Legends of the Round Table | Thomas Malory | Goodreads |
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| 104 | Lucky Jim | Kingsley Amis | BBC |
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| 105 | Macbeth | William Shakespeare | Goodreads |
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| 106 | Mary Barton | Elizabeth Gaskell | Flavorwire 2 |
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| 107 | Moll Flanders | Daniel Defoe | BBC |
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| 108 | Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot, #10) | Agatha Christie | Goodreads |
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| 109 | New Grub Street | George Gissing | BBC |
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| 110 | North and South | Elizabeth Gaskell | Goodreads |
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| 111 | Nostromo | Joseph Conrad | BBC |
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| 112 | NW | Zadie Smith | BBC |
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| 113 | On the Beach | Nevil Shute | Perfection Learning |
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| 114 | Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit | Jeanette Winterson | BBC |
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| 115 | Our Mutual Friend | Charles Dickens | Wikipedia |
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| 116 | Pamela | Samuel Richardson | Wikipedia |
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| 117 | Parade’s End | Ford Madox Ford | Wikipedia |
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| 118 | Paradise Lost | John Milton | Goodreads |
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| 119 | Romeo and Juliet | William Shakespeare | Goodreads |
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| 120 | Silas Marner | George Eliot | Perfection Learning |
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| 121 | Sons and Lovers | D. H. Lawrence | BBC |
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| 122 | The Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green | Cuthbert M. Bede | Flavorwire 2 |
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| 123 | The Canterbury Tales | Geoffrey Chaucer | Goodreads |
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| 124 | The Chronicles of Narnia (Chronicles of Narnia, #1-7) | C.S. Lewis | BBC |
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| 125 | The Code of the Woosters | P.G. Wodehouse | BBC |
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| 126 | The Egoist | George Meredith | Wikipedia |
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| 127 | The French Lieutenant’s Woman | John Fowles | Windham Schools |
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| 128 | The Heart of the Matter | Graham Greene | BBC |
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| 129 | The Hobbit | J.R.R. Tolkien | Goodreads |
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| 130 | The Horse’s Mouth | Joyce Cary | Windham Schools |
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| 131 | The Light That Failed | Rudyard Kipling | Flavorwire 2 |
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| 132 | The Little Stranger | Sarah Waters | BBC |
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| 133 | The Mill on the Floss | George Eliot | Flavorwire 2 |
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| 134 | The Once and Future King (The Once and Future King #1-4) | T.H. White | Goodreads |
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| 135 | The Patrick Melrose Novels | Edward St Aubyn | BBC |
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| 136 | The Paying Guests | Sarah Waters | Huffington Post |
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| 137 | The Pickwick Papers | Charles Dickens | Goodreads |
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| 138 | The Pilgrim’s Progress | John Bunyan | The Telegraph |
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| 139 | The Return of the Native | Thomas Hardy | Flavorwire 2 |
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| 140 | The Sea, The Sea | Iris Murdoch | BBC |
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| 141 | The Swimming Pool Library | Alan Hollinghurst | BBC |
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| 142 | The Tenant of Wildfell Hall | Anne Brontë | Flavorwire 2 |
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| 143 | The Trumpet Major | Thomas Hardy | Windham Schools |
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| 144 | The Virgin in the Garden | A.S. Byatt | Goodreads 2 |
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| 145 | The Wanderer | Fanny Burney | Flavorwire 2 |
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| 146 | The War of the Worlds | H.G. Wells | Flavorwire 2 |
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| 147 | The Waves | Virginia Woolf | BBC |
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| 148 | There but for the | Ali Smith | BBC |
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| 149 | Under the Volcano | Malcolm Lowry | BBC |
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| 150 | Utopia | Sir Thomas More | Goodreads |
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| 151 | Villette | Charlotte Brontë | BBC |
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| 152 | Volpone | Ben Johnson | Windham Schools |
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| 153 | Waiting For Godot | Samuel Beckett | Perfection Learning |
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| 154 | Watership Down | Richard Adams | Goodreads |
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| 155 | Wives and Daughters | Elizabeth Gaskell | Flavorwire 2 |
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| (Titles Appear On 1 Lists Each) | |||
| 156 | Forsyte Saga | John Galsworthy | Windham Schools |
| 157 | 24 for 3 | Wikipedia | |
| 158 | A Change of Climate | Wikipedia | |
| 159 | A Cruel Bird Came to the Nest and Looked In | Wikipedia | |
| 160 | A Day in Summer | Wikipedia | |
| 161 | A Distant Shore | Wikipedia | |
| 162 | A Ghost in the Machine | Wikipedia | |
| 163 | A Good Year | Wikipedia | |
| 164 | A Handful of Dust | Evelyn Waugh | Goodreads 2 |
| 165 | A Horseman Riding By | Wikipedia | |
| 166 | A House for Mr Biswas | VS Naipaul | BBC |
| 167 | A Kid for Two Farthings | Wikipedia | |
| 168 | A Kind of Loving | Wikipedia | |
| 169 | A Laodicean | Wikipedia | |
| 170 | A Legacy | Sybille Bedford | BBC |
| 171 | A Little Princess | Frances Hodgson Burnett | Goodreads |
| 172 | A Man for All Seasons | Robert Bolt | Windham Schools |
| 173 | A Midsummer Night’s Dream | William Shakespeare | Perfection Learning |
| 174 | A Moment in Time | Wikipedia | |
| 175 | A Month in the Country | Wikipedia | |
| 176 | A Night in a Moorish Harem | Wikipedia | |
| 177 | A Note in Music | Wikipedia | |
| 178 | A Piece of the Night | Wikipedia | |
| 179 | A Place of Safety | Wikipedia | |
| 180 | A Prefect’s Uncle | Wikipedia | |
| 181 | A Presumption of Death | Wikipedia | |
| 182 | A Question of Upbringing | Wikipedia | |
| 183 | A Rather English Marriage | Wikipedia | |
| 184 | A Season in Sinji | Wikipedia | |
| 185 | A Secret History of Pandora’s Box | Wikipedia | |
| 186 | A Shabby Genteel Story | Wikipedia | |
| 187 | A Sicilian Romance | Wikipedia | |
| 188 | A Simple Story | Wikipedia | |
| 189 | A Start in Life | Wikipedia | |
| 190 | A Summer Bird-Cage | Wikipedia | |
| 191 | A Very British Coup | Wikipedia | |
| 192 | A Walk in Wolf Wood | Wikipedia | |
| 193 | A Wanted Man | Wikipedia | |
| 194 | Absolute Beginners | Wikipedia | |
| 195 | Adam Bede | George Eliot | Windham Schools |
| 196 | Airs Above the Ground | Wikipedia | |
| 197 | Albert Angelo | Wikipedia | |
| 198 | Alice in Wonderland | Jane Carruth | Goodreads |
| 199 | Alice Lorraine | Wikipedia | |
| 200 | All Creatures Great and Small | Perfection Learning | |
| 201 | All Quiet on the Orient Express | Wikipedia | |
| 202 | All Works | Agatha Christie | Windham Schools |
| 203 | All Works | J.R. R. Tolkien | Windham Schools |
| 204 | All Works | William Shakespeare | Windham Schools |
| 205 | Almost English | Charlotte Mendelson | Flavorwire |
| 206 | Alton Locke | Wikipedia | |
| 207 | An Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews | Wikipedia | |
| 208 | An Experiment in Love | Hilary Mantel | Flavorwire |
| 209 | An Instance of the Fingerpost | Wikipedia | |
| 210 | An Officer and a Spy | Wikipedia | |
| 211 | Androcles and the Lion | George Bernard Shaw | Windham Schools |
| 212 | Angela’s Ashes | Frank McCourt | Perfection Learning |
| 213 | Any Jane Austen novel | Oxford Royale Academy | |
| 214 | Arms and the Man | George Bernard Shaw | Windham Schools |
| 215 | As It Happened | Wikipedia | |
| 216 | At Swim-Two-Birds | Flann O’Brien | The Telegraph |
| 217 | Bad Luck and Trouble | Wikipedia | |
| 218 | Bageye at the Wheel | Wikipedia | |
| 219 | Barchester Pilgrimage | Wikipedia | |
| 220 | Bearing an Hourglass | Wikipedia | |
| 221 | Beauty | Wikipedia | |
| 222 | Between the Acts | Virginia Woolf | Perfection Learning |
| 223 | Beware the Cat | Wikipedia | |
| 224 | Big Money | Wikipedia | |
| 225 | Billy the Kid | Wikipedia | |
| 226 | Black Beauty | Wikipedia | |
| 227 | Black Hearts in Battersea | Wikipedia | |
| 228 | Blackberry Wine | Wikipedia | |
| 229 | Brick Lane | Monica Ali | BBC |
| 230 | Bridget Jones’s Diary | Helen Fielding | Goodreads 2 |
| 231 | Brighton Rock | Graham Greene | BBC |
| 232 | Bulldog Drummond at Bay | Wikipedia | |
| 233 | Bungay Castle | Wikipedia | |
| 234 | Called Back | Wikipedia | |
| 235 | Candida | George Bernard Shaw | Windham Schools |
| 236 | Canterbury Tales | Geoffrey Chaucer | Windham Schools |
| 237 | Capital | John Lanchester | Goodreads 2 |
| 238 | Captain Courageous | Rudyard Kipling | Windham Schools |
| 239 | Catastrophea | Wikipedia | |
| 240 | Challenge | Wikipedia | |
| 241 | Changing Places: A Tale of Two Campuses | David Lodge | Goodreads 2 |
| 242 | Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Charlie Bucket, #1) | Roald Dahl | Goodreads |
| 243 | Charlie Madigan series | Wikipedia | |
| 244 | Chekago | Wikipedia | |
| 245 | Childhood’s End | Arthur Clarke | Windham Schools |
| 246 | Christie Johnstone | Wikipedia | |
| 247 | Christie Malry’s Own Double-Entry | Wikipedia | |
| 248 | Clara Vaughan | Wikipedia | |
| 249 | Clermont | Wikipedia | |
| 250 | Come Rack! Come Rope! | Wikipedia | |
| 251 | Company for Henry | Wikipedia | |
| 252 | Coningsby | Benjamin Disraeli | Flavorwire 2 |
| 253 | Corelli’s Mandolin | Louis de Bernières | Goodreads 2 |
| 254 | Corridors of Power | Wikipedia | |
| 255 | Count Belisarius | Wikipedia | |
| 256 | Countess | Wikipedia | |
| 257 | Crotchet Castle | Wikipedia | |
| 258 | Daisy Miller | Henry James | Windham Schools |
| 259 | Damage | Wikipedia | |
| 260 | Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem | Wikipedia | |
| 261 | Darkmans | Nicola Barker | Flavorwire |
| 262 | David Blaize | Wikipedia | |
| 263 | Days of Our Wives | Wikipedia | |
| 264 | Death in Berlin | Wikipedia | |
| 265 | Death in Cyprus | Wikipedia | |
| 266 | Death in Disguise | Wikipedia | |
| 267 | Death of a Hollow Man | Wikipedia | |
| 268 | Descent: An Irresistible Tragicomedy of Everyday Life | Wikipedia | |
| 269 | Diary of a Nobody | George and Weedon Grossmith | Oxford Royale Academy |
| 270 | Do Butlers Burgle Banks? | Wikipedia | |
| 271 | Doctor Faustus | Christopher Marlowe | Windham Schools |
| 272 | Doctor Sally | Wikipedia | |
| 273 | Dubliners | James Joyce | Windham Schools |
| 274 | Duncton Wood | Wikipedia | |
| 275 | Dusty Answer | Wikipedia | |
| 276 | East Lynne | Wikipedia | |
| 277 | East of Wimbledon | Wikipedia | |
| 278 | Edward Bulwer-Lytton | The Last Days of Pompeii | Flavorwire 2 |
| 279 | Edwin Mullhouse | Wikipedia | |
| 280 | Elfsorrow | Wikipedia | |
| 281 | Emerald Star | Wikipedia | |
| 282 | Empress Bianca | Wikipedia | |
| 283 | Enduring Love | Ian McEwan | Goodreads 2 |
| 284 | Enigma | Wikipedia | |
| 285 | Erewhon | Wikipedia | |
| 286 | Eugene Aram | Wikipedia | |
| 287 | Euphues | Wikipedia | |
| 288 | Eureka Street | Wikipedia | |
| 289 | Every Day is Mother’s Day | Wikipedia | |
| 290 | Excellent Women | Barbara Pym | BBC |
| 291 | Expecting Someone Taller | Wikipedia | |
| 292 | Fabiola | Wikipedia | |
| 293 | Fair Stood the Wind for France | Wikipedia | |
| 294 | Faithful unto Death | Wikipedia | |
| 295 | Fanny by Gaslight | Wikipedia | |
| 296 | Figures in a Landscape | Wikipedia | |
| 297 | Finding the Fox | Wikipedia | |
| 298 | Finnegan’s Wake | James Joyce | Windham Schools |
| 299 | Five Children and It | Wikipedia | |
| 300 | Flaubert’s Parrot | Julian Barnes | Qwiklit |
| 301 | Floating Down to Camelot | Wikipedia | |
| 302 | Fludd | Wikipedia | |
| 303 | Foul Play | Wikipedia | |
| 304 | Frenchman’s Creek | Daphne DuMaurier | Windham Schools |
| 305 | Fugue for a Darkening Island | Wikipedia | |
| 306 | George Passant | Wikipedia | |
| 307 | God on the Rocks | Wikipedia | |
| 308 | Golden Notebooks | Doris Lessing | Windham Schools |
| 309 | Gone Tomorrow | Wikipedia | |
| 310 | Gorse Trilogy | Wikipedia | |
| 311 | Granta 123: The Best of Young British Novelists 4 | John Freeman | Goodreads 2 |
| 312 | Green Mansions | W. D. Hudson | Windham Schools |
| 313 | Grendel | John Gardner | Perfection Learning |
| 314 | Gryll Grange | Wikipedia | |
| 315 | Guanya Pau: A Story of an African Princess | Wikipedia | |
| 316 | Hadrian the Seventh | Wikipedia | |
| 317 | Harpole & Foxberrow General Publishers | Wikipedia | |
| 318 | Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2) | J.K. Rowling | Goodreads |
| 319 | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7) | J.K. Rowling | Goodreads |
| 320 | Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4) | J.K. Rowling | Goodreads |
| 321 | Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6) | J.K. Rowling | Goodreads |
| 322 | Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3) | J.K. Rowling | Goodreads |
| 323 | Heart of Darkness and the Secret Sharer | Joseph Conrad | Windham Schools |
| 324 | Henry Esmond | William Thackeray | Windham Schools |
| 325 | Hetty Feather | Wikipedia | |
| 326 | Hideous Kinky | Wikipedia | |
| 327 | His Bloody Project: Documents relating to the case of Roderick Macrae | Graeme Macrae Burnet | Goodreads 2 |
| 328 | Hot Milk | Deborah Levy | Goodreads 2 |
| 329 | Hot Water | Wikipedia | |
| 330 | Hotel du Lac | Wikipedia | |
| 331 | Hound of the Baskervilles | Arthur C. Doyle | Windham Schools |
| 332 | House Mother Normal | Wikipedia | |
| 333 | How Green Was My Valley | Richard Llewellyn | Windham Schools |
| 334 | How I Left The National Grid | Wikipedia | |
| 335 | Howl’s Moving Castle (Howl’s Moving Castle, #1) | Diana Wynne Jones | Goodreads |
| 336 | I Am Pilgrim | Wikipedia | |
| 337 | I Capture the Castle | Dodie Smith | Goodreads |
| 338 | I’m a Teacher, Get Me Out of Here | Wikipedia | |
| 339 | Ice in the Bedroom | Wikipedia | |
| 340 | Idylls of the King and a Selection of Poems | Alfred Lord Tennyson | Perfection Learning |
| 341 | In a Dark, Dark Wood | Ruth Ware | Huffington Post |
| 342 | In the Kitchen | Wikipedia | |
| 343 | In the Place of Fallen Leaves | Wikipedia | |
| 344 | In This House of Brede | Wikipedia | |
| 345 | Indiscretions of Archie | Wikipedia | |
| 346 | Into the Light from the Darkness | Wikipedia | |
| 347 | Inverted World | Wikipedia | |
| 348 | Invisible Man | H. G. Wells | Windham Schools |
| 349 | Island | Aldous Huxley | Windham Schools |
| 350 | It Is Never Too Late to Mend | Wikipedia | |
| 351 | Jamaica Inn | Wikipedia | |
| 352 | Jedi Apprentice: The Followers | Wikipedia | |
| 353 | Jerusalem the Golden | Wikipedia | |
| 354 | John Thomas and Lady Jane | Wikipedia | |
| 355 | Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell | Susanna Clarke | Goodreads |
| 356 | Joy in the Morning | Wikipedia | |
| 357 | Jungle Book | Rudyard Kipling | Windham Schools |
| 358 | Kangaroo | Wikipedia | |
| 359 | Keepers of the House | Wikipedia | |
| 360 | Kenilworth | Sir Walter Scott | Windham Schools |
| 361 | King Jesus | Wikipedia | |
| 362 | King Lear | William Shakespeare | Goodreads |
| 363 | King’s General | Daphne DuMaurier | Windham Schools |
| 364 | Kingdom Swann | Wikipedia | |
| 365 | Knock-Out | Wikipedia | |
| 366 | Lady Chatterley’s Lover | D H Lawrence | The Telegraph |
| 367 | Land of Marvels | Wikipedia | |
| 368 | Lascar | Wikipedia | |
| 369 | Last Days of Pompeii | Edward Bulwer-Lytton | Windham Schools |
| 370 | Last Letters from Hav | Jan Morris | Qwiklit |
| 371 | Last Orders | Wikipedia | |
| 372 | Lavengro | Wikipedia | |
| 373 | Letters from Yelena | Wikipedia | |
| 374 | Letters of an Indian Judge to an English Gentlewoman | Wikipedia | |
| 375 | Life After Life | Kate Atkinson | Huffington Post |
| 376 | Life and Death of Harriett Frean | Wikipedia | |
| 377 | Life’s Lottery | Wikipedia | |
| 378 | Lilies In December | Wikipedia | |
| 379 | Little Bee | Chris Cleave | Huffington Post |
| 380 | Little Dorrit | Wikipedia | |
| 381 | Living | Henry Green | The Telegraph |
| 382 | London Blues | Wikipedia | |
| 383 | Looking Glass | Lewis Carroll | Windham Schools |
| 384 | Lord Idylls of the King | Alfred Tennyson | Windham Schools |
| 385 | Lorna Doone | R.D. Blackmore | Windham Schools |
| 386 | Losing Nelson | Wikipedia | |
| 387 | Love and Madness | Wikipedia | |
| 388 | Love on the Dole | Wikipedia | |
| 389 | Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister | Wikipedia | |
| 390 | Loving | Henry Green | BBC |
| 391 | Madam, Will You Talk? | Wikipedia | |
| 392 | Magpie Murders | Anthony Horowitz | Goodreads 2 |
| 393 | Magyk | Wikipedia | |
| 394 | Maid Marian | Wikipedia | |
| 395 | Major Barbara | George Bernard Shaw | Windham Schools |
| 396 | Make Me | Wikipedia | |
| 397 | Making History | Wikipedia | |
| 398 | Man and Superman | George Bernard Shaw | Windham Schools |
| 399 | Manchester Slingback | Wikipedia | |
| 400 | Maps for Lost Lovers | Wikipedia | |
| 401 | Martin Chuzzlewit | Wikipedia | |
| 402 | Me Before You | JoJo Moyes | Huffington Post |
| 403 | Me, Cheeta | James Lever | Qwiklit |
| 404 | Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man | Wikipedia | |
| 405 | Memoirs of a Magdalen | Wikipedia | |
| 406 | Memoirs of a Survivor | Doris Lessing | BBC |
| 407 | Midnight’s Children | Salman Rushdie | BBC |
| 408 | Midwinter Break | Bernard MacLaverty | Goodreads 2 |
| 409 | Mill on the Floss | George Eliot | Windham Schools |
| 410 | Modern Comedy | John Galsworthy | Windham Schools |
| 411 | Money for Nothing | Wikipedia | |
| 412 | Money in the Bank | Wikipedia | |
| 413 | Monk Dawson | Wikipedia | |
| 414 | Montezuma’s Daughter | Wikipedia | |
| 415 | Moon Tiger | Penelope Lively | Goodreads 2 |
| 416 | Morality Play | Wikipedia | |
| 417 | More Than Friendship | Wikipedia | |
| 418 | Mother Country | Wikipedia | |
| 419 | Mr Noon | Wikipedia | |
| 420 | Mr Olim | Wikipedia | |
| 421 | Mr. Weston’s Good Wine | Wikipedia | |
| 422 | Much Ado About Nothing | Perfection Learning | |
| 423 | Murder at School | Wikipedia | |
| 424 | Murder in the Cathedral | T. S. Eliot | Windham Schools |
| 425 | Music on the Bamboo Radio | Wikipedia | |
| 426 | Mutiny on the Bounty | Charles Nordhoff | Windham Schools |
| 427 | My Bollywood Wedding | Wikipedia | |
| 428 | My Brother Michael | Wikipedia | |
| 429 | Natalie Natalia | Wikipedia | |
| 430 | Nature and Art | Wikipedia | |
| 431 | Never Go Back | Wikipedia | |
| 432 | Next of Kin | Wikipedia | |
| 433 | Nigger of “Narcissus” | Joseph Conrad | Windham Schools |
| 434 | Night School | Wikipedia | |
| 435 | Nightbirds on Nantucket | Wikipedia | |
| 436 | Nights at the Circus | Angela Carter | Qwiklit |
| 437 | No Thoroughfare | Wikipedia | |
| 438 | Northanger Abbey | Jane Austen | Goodreads |
| 439 | Not So Quiet: Stepdaughters of War | Wikipedia | |
| 440 | Notes from Underground | Wikipedia | |
| 441 | Nothing Natural | Wikipedia | |
| 442 | Nothing to Lose | Wikipedia | |
| 443 | October Ferry to Gabriola | Wikipedia | |
| 444 | Oh My Darling Daughter | Wikipedia | |
| 445 | Old Filth | Jane Gardam | BBC |
| 446 | Old Pybus | Wikipedia | |
| 447 | On Chesil Beach | Ian McEwan | Goodreads 2 |
| 448 | Orlando | Virginia Woolf | BBC |
| 449 | Oroonoko | Wikipedia | |
| 450 | Othello | William Shakespeare | Perfection Learning |
| 451 | Our Spoons Came from Woolworths | Wikipedia | |
| 452 | Paleri Manikyam: Oru Pathirakolapathakathinte Katha | Wikipedia | |
| 453 | Pascali’s Island | Wikipedia | |
| 454 | Pasmore | Wikipedia | |
| 455 | Passage to India | E. M. Forster | Windham Schools |
| 456 | Peaches for Monsieur le Curé | Wikipedia | |
| 457 | Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin | Wikipedia | |
| 458 | Personal | Wikipedia | |
| 459 | Physik | Wikipedia | |
| 460 | Pickwick Papers | Charles Dickens | Windham Schools |
| 461 | Pigeon English | Wikipedia | |
| 462 | Pilgrim’s Progress | John Bunyon | Windham Schools |
| 463 | Plague 99 | Wikipedia | |
| 464 | Plan for Chaos | Wikipedia | |
| 465 | Play to the End | Wikipedia | |
| 466 | Pollard | Wikipedia | |
| 467 | Poor Jack | Wikipedia | |
| 468 | Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | James Joyce | Windham Schools |
| 469 | Power and the Glory | Graham Greene | Windham Schools |
| 470 | Pryamid | William Golding | Windham Schools |
| 471 | Quarantine | Wikipedia | |
| 472 | Quartet in Autumn | Barbara Pym | The Telegraph |
| 473 | Quentin Durwrd | Sir Walter Scott | Windham Schools |
| 474 | Quick Service | Wikipedia | |
| 475 | Rainforest | Wikipedia | |
| 476 | Random Harvest | Wikipedia | |
| 477 | Rape of the Lock | Alexander Pope | Windham Schools |
| 478 | Red Pottage | Wikipedia | |
| 479 | Regeneration Trilogy | Pat Barker | BBC |
| 480 | Remainder | Tom McCarthy | BBC |
| 481 | Remains of the Day | Kazuo Ishiguro | BBC |
| 482 | Return of the Native | Thomas Hardy | Windham Schools |
| 483 | Richard: A Novel | Wikipedia | |
| 484 | Riders | Jilly Cooper | The Telegraph |
| 485 | Ripley Bogle | Wikipedia | |
| 486 | Rites of Passage | William Golding | Qwiklit |
| 487 | Rivals | Wikipedia | |
| 488 | Rob Roy | Sir Walter Scott | Flavorwire 2 |
| 489 | Romance | Wikipedia | |
| 490 | Ronan the Barbarian | Wikipedia | |
| 491 | Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead | Tom Stoppard | Goodreads |
| 492 | Roxy’s Baby | Wikipedia | |
| 493 | Rupert of Hentzau | Wikipedia | |
| 494 | Ruth | Wikipedia | |
| 495 | Sacred Country | Wikipedia | |
| 496 | Sacred Hunger | Wikipedia | |
| 497 | Saint Joan | George Bernard Shaw | Windham Schools |
| 498 | Saris and the City | Wikipedia | |
| 499 | Saturday | Ian McEwan | Goodreads 2 |
| 500 | Scoop | Evelyn Waugh | BBC |
| 501 | Screwtape Letters | C.S. Lewis | Windham Schools |
| 502 | Sea Lord | Wikipedia | |
| 503 | Secret Sharer | Joseph Conrad | Windham Schools |
| 504 | Seesaw | Wikipedia | |
| 505 | Self Help | Wikipedia | |
| 506 | September | Wikipedia | |
| 507 | Seven Days in New Crete | Wikipedia | |
| 508 | Silver Screen | Wikipedia | |
| 509 | Sir Gawain and the Green Knight | Perfection Learning | |
| 510 | Slade House | David Mitchell | Goodreads 2 |
| 511 | Snobs | Wikipedia | |
| 512 | Some Kind of Fairy Tale | Wikipedia | |
| 513 | Something Fishy | Wikipedia | |
| 514 | Something to Answer For | Wikipedia | |
| 515 | South Riding | Wikipedia | |
| 516 | Spies | Wikipedia | |
| 517 | St. Leon | Wikipedia | |
| 518 | Star Wars Republic Commando: Hard Contact | Wikipedia | |
| 519 | Star Wars Republic Commando: Order 66 | Wikipedia | |
| 520 | Star Wars Republic Commando: Triple Zero | Wikipedia | |
| 521 | Star Wars Republic Commando: True Colors | Wikipedia | |
| 522 | Started Early, Took My Dog | Wikipedia | |
| 523 | Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves | Wikipedia | |
| 524 | Stowaway to Mars | Wikipedia | |
| 525 | Strandloper | Wikipedia | |
| 526 | Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | Robert Louis Stevenson | Flavorwire 2 |
| 527 | Stray | Wikipedia | |
| 528 | Submarine | Wikipedia | |
| 529 | Summer Before the Dark | Doris Lessing | Windham Schools |
| 530 | Summer Moonshine | Wikipedia | |
| 531 | Sunset at Blandings | Wikipedia | |
| 532 | Sunset Over Chocolate Mountains | Wikipedia | |
| 533 | Swastika Night | Wikipedia | |
| 534 | Sweet Tooth | Ian McEwan | Goodreads 2 |
| 535 | Swimming Home | Deborah Levy | Flavorwire |
| 536 | Sybil, or The Two Nations | Benjamin Disraeli | Flavorwire 2 |
| 537 | Sylvia’s Lovers | Wikipedia | |
| 538 | Tale of Two Cities | Charles Dickens | Windham Schools |
| 539 | Talisman | Sir Walter Scott | Windham Schools |
| 540 | Tell England | Wikipedia | |
| 541 | Temple Tower | Wikipedia | |
| 542 | Tender | Belinda McKeon | Goodreads 2 |
| 543 | Terminal | Wikipedia | |
| 544 | The A-Z Guide to Arranged Marriage | Wikipedia | |
| 545 | The Abbess | Wikipedia | |
| 546 | The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | Arthur Conan Doyle | Goodreads |
| 547 | The Affair | Wikipedia | |
| 548 | The Amber Spyglass (His Dark Materials, #3) | Philip Pullman | Goodreads |
| 549 | The Anti-Pamela; or Feign’d Innocence Detected | Wikipedia | |
| 550 | The Antiquary | Sir Walter Scott | Windham Schools |
| 551 | The Attenbury Emeralds | Wikipedia | |
| 552 | The Autograph Man | Wikipedia | |
| 553 | The Ballad and the Source | Wikipedia | |
| 554 | The Battle of Life | Wikipedia | |
| 555 | The Battle of Pollocks Crossing | Wikipedia | |
| 556 | The Biographer’s Tale | A.S. Byatt | Flavorwire |
| 557 | The Birds on the Trees | Wikipedia | |
| 558 | The Birth of Venus | Wikipedia | |
| 559 | The Bitch | Wikipedia | |
| 560 | The Black Gang | Wikipedia | |
| 561 | The Blue Flower | Penelope Fitzgerald | BBC |
| 562 | The Boy in the Bush | Wikipedia | |
| 563 | The Call to Vengeance | Wikipedia | |
| 564 | The Captive Temple | Wikipedia | |
| 565 | The Castle of Otranto | Wikipedia | |
| 566 | The Cater Street Hangman | Wikipedia | |
| 567 | The Channings | Wikipedia | |
| 568 | The Charge of the Light Brigade | Alfred Tennyson | Windham Schools |
| 569 | The Child in Time | Ian MacEwan | Flavorwire |
| 570 | The Chimes | Wikipedia | |
| 571 | The Clerkenwell Tales | Wikipedia | |
| 572 | The Coma | Wikipedia | |
| 573 | The Comedians | Graham Greene | Windham Schools |
| 574 | The Coming of Bill | Wikipedia | |
| 575 | The Complete Works | William Shakespeare | Goodreads |
| 576 | The Conscience of the Rich | Wikipedia | |
| 577 | The Coroner’s Lunch | Wikipedia | |
| 578 | The Cruiser | Wikipedia | |
| 579 | The Cuckoo Tree | Wikipedia | |
| 580 | The Dark Rival | Wikipedia | |
| 581 | The Dark Volume | Wikipedia | |
| 582 | The Darling Buds of May | Wikipedia | |
| 583 | The Day of Reckoning | Wikipedia | |
| 584 | The Deadly Hunter | Wikipedia | |
| 585 | The Death of Hope | Wikipedia | |
| 586 | The Death of the Heart | Elizabeth Bowen | BBC |
| 587 | The Defenders of the Dead | Wikipedia | |
| 588 | The Diary of a Nobody | Wikipedia | |
| 589 | The Disappeared | Wikipedia | |
| 590 | The Dream of Scipio | Wikipedia | |
| 591 | The Element of Water | Wikipedia | |
| 592 | The Elephant Man | Christine Sparks | Windham Schools |
| 593 | The Enchanted Castle | Wikipedia | |
| 594 | The End of Mr. Y. | Scarlett Thomas | Flavorwire |
| 595 | The Escaped Cock | Wikipedia | |
| 596 | The Evil Experiment | Wikipedia | |
| 597 | The Expedition of Hulmphrey Clinker | Tobias Smollett | Windham Schools |
| 598 | The Far Pavilions | Wikipedia | |
| 599 | The Fear | Wikipedia | |
| 600 | The Female of the Species | Wikipedia | |
| 601 | The Fifth Child | Doris Lessing | Windham Schools |
| 602 | The Fight for Truth | Wikipedia | |
| 603 | The Final Count | Wikipedia | |
| 604 | The Fox | Wikipedia | |
| 605 | The Fudge Family in England | Wikipedia | |
| 606 | The Fudge Family in Paris | Wikipedia | |
| 607 | The Giant, O’Brien | Wikipedia | |
| 608 | The Gift of Stones | Wikipedia | |
| 609 | The Girl in Blue | Wikipedia | |
| 610 | The Girl Next Door | Ruth Rendell | Huffington Post |
| 611 | The Girl on the Boat | Wikipedia | |
| 612 | The Girls of Slender Means | Muriel Spark | The Telegraph |
| 613 | The Glass Room | Wikipedia | |
| 614 | The Go-Between | Wikipedia | |
| 615 | The Golden Bough | Sir James Frazer | Windham Schools |
| 616 | The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, #1) | Philip Pullman | Goodreads |
| 617 | The Golden Notebook | Doris Lessing | BBC |
| 618 | The Good Soldier | Ford Madox Ford | BBC |
| 619 | The Great Explosion | Wikipedia | |
| 620 | The Great Lover | Wikipedia | |
| 621 | The Greeks Have a Word For It | Wikipedia | |
| 622 | The Green Carnation | Wikipedia | |
| 623 | The Green Child | Wikipedia | |
| 624 | The Greenhouse | Wikipedia | |
| 625 | The Hand of Ethelberta | Wikipedia | |
| 626 | The Hard Way | Wikipedia | |
| 627 | The Harmony Silk Factory | Wikipedia | |
| 628 | The Harpole Report | Wikipedia | |
| 629 | The Haunted Man and the Ghost’s Bargain | Wikipedia | |
| 630 | The Heart of Princess Osra | Wikipedia | |
| 631 | The Heralds | Wikipedia | |
| 632 | The Hidden Past | Wikipedia | |
| 633 | The History Man | Wikipedia | |
| 634 | The History of Richard Raynal, Solitary | Wikipedia | |
| 635 | The Honours Board | Wikipedia | |
| 636 | The Hound of the Baskervilles | Perfection Learning | |
| 637 | The House of Arden | Wikipedia | |
| 638 | The Hundred and One Dalmatians | Wikipedia | |
| 639 | The Imperial German Dinner Service | Wikipedia | |
| 640 | The Inheritors | William Golding | Windham Schools |
| 641 | The Innocent | Ian McEwan | Goodreads 2 |
| 642 | The Invisible Man | HW Wells | Perfection Learning |
| 643 | The Islands of Unwisdom | Wikipedia | |
| 644 | The Italian | Wikipedia | |
| 645 | The Jewel in the Crown | Paul Scott | BBC |
| 646 | The Judas Pair | Wikipedia | |
| 647 | The Killing | Wikipedia | |
| 648 | The Killings at Badger’s Drift | Wikipedia | |
| 649 | The King Must Die | Mary Renault | Windham Schools |
| 650 | The King’s General | Wikipedia | |
| 651 | The Lady of Shalott | Alfred Tennyson | Windham Schools |
| 652 | The Land Leviathan | Wikipedia | |
| 653 | The Last English King | Wikipedia | |
| 654 | The Last Parable | Wikipedia | |
| 655 | The Late Breakfasters | Wikipedia | |
| 656 | The Late Scholar | Wikipedia | |
| 657 | The Liar | Stephen Fry | Goodreads 2 |
| 658 | The Libertine | Wikipedia | |
| 659 | The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman | Laurence Sterne | BBC |
| 660 | The Life of Samuel Johnson | James Boswell | Windham Schools |
| 661 | The Light and the Dark | Wikipedia | |
| 662 | The Lighthouse | Wikipedia | |
| 663 | The Line of Beauty | Alan Hollinghurst | BBC |
| 664 | The Little Book | Wikipedia | |
| 665 | The Little Lame Prince and his Travelling Cloak | Wikipedia | |
| 666 | The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul | Wikipedia | |
| 667 | The Long Way Home | Wikipedia | |
| 668 | The Lost Stradivarius | Wikipedia | |
| 669 | The Luck of the Bodkins | Wikipedia | |
| 670 | The Luck Stone | Wikipedia | |
| 671 | The Magic City | Wikipedia | |
| 672 | The Magus | John Fowles | Goodreads |
| 673 | The Man in the Moone | Wikipedia | |
| 674 | The Man Who Made Husbands Jealous | Wikipedia | |
| 675 | The Mark of the Crown | Wikipedia | |
| 676 | The Mask From Apollo | Mary Renault | Windham Schools |
| 677 | The Masters | Wikipedia | |
| 678 | The Mating Season | Wikipedia | |
| 679 | The Midnight Line | Wikipedia | |
| 680 | The Millstone | Wikipedia | |
| 681 | The Misfortunes of Elphin | Wikipedia | |
| 682 | The Moon and Sixpence | Somerest Maugham | Windham Schools |
| 683 | The Mysteries of Udolpho | Wikipedia | |
| 684 | The Nanny | Wikipedia | |
| 685 | The Napoleon of Notting Hill | Wikipedia | |
| 686 | The Nature of a Crime | Wikipedia | |
| 687 | The Naughtiest Girl Helps a Friend | Wikipedia | |
| 688 | The Naughtiest Girl Keeps a Secret | Wikipedia | |
| 689 | The Nebuly Coat | Wikipedia | |
| 690 | The New Confessions | William Boyd | The Telegraph |
| 691 | The New Epicurean | Wikipedia | |
| 692 | The Newcomes | Wikipedia | |
| 693 | The Night Watch | Wikipedia | |
| 694 | The Noise of Time | Wikipedia | |
| 695 | The Northern Clemency | Philip Hensher | Flavorwire |
| 696 | The Ocean at the End of the Lane | Neil Gaiman | Huffington Post |
| 697 | The Old Curiosity Shop | Wikipedia | |
| 698 | The Old Reliable | Wikipedia | |
| 699 | The Old Wives’ Tale | Arnold Bennett | BBC |
| 700 | The Only Story | Wikipedia | |
| 701 | The Other Side of the Sky | Arthur Clarke | Windham Schools |
| 702 | The Panopticon | Jenni Fagan | Flavorwire |
| 703 | The Party | Elizabeth Day | Goodreads 2 |
| 704 | The Passion | Jeanette Winterson | BBC |
| 705 | The People of Forever Are Not Afraid | Wikipedia | |
| 706 | The Plumed Serpent | Wikipedia | |
| 707 | The Poor Man and the Lady | Wikipedia | |
| 708 | The Pork Butcher | Wikipedia | |
| 709 | The Portrait of a Lady | Henry James | Windham Schools |
| 710 | The Prestige | Wikipedia | |
| 711 | The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner | James Hogg | BBC |
| 712 | The Professor | Wikipedia | |
| 713 | The Queen of the Tambourine | Wikipedia | |
| 714 | The Quickening Maze | Adam Foulds | Flavorwire |
| 715 | The Quiet American | Graham Greene | Windham Schools |
| 716 | The Railway Children | Wikipedia | |
| 717 | The Razor’s Edge | Somerest Maugham | Windham Schools |
| 718 | The Return of Bulldog Drummond | Wikipedia | |
| 719 | The Rising Force | Wikipedia | |
| 720 | The Road Home | Wikipedia | |
| 721 | The Romance of Lust | Wikipedia | |
| 722 | The Romance of the Forest | Wikipedia | |
| 723 | The Romany Rye | Wikipedia | |
| 724 | The Ruby in her Navel | Wikipedia | |
| 725 | The Russia House | John le Carré | Goodreads 2 |
| 726 | The Sacrifice | Wikipedia | |
| 727 | The Sea | John Banville | The Telegraph |
| 728 | The Secret Garden | Frances Hodgson Burnett | Goodreads |
| 729 | The Secret of the League | Wikipedia | |
| 730 | The Sheik | Wikipedia | |
| 731 | The Shell Seekers | Wikipedia | |
| 732 | The Shooting Party | Wikipedia | |
| 733 | The Silent Room | Mari Hannah | Goodreads 2 |
| 734 | The Small Bachelor | Wikipedia | |
| 735 | The Space Machine | Wikipedia | |
| 736 | The Stolen Lake | Wikipedia | |
| 737 | The Story of Marie Powell: Wife to Mr. Milton | Wikipedia | |
| 738 | The Story of the Amulet | Wikipedia | |
| 739 | The Story of the Treasure Seekers | Wikipedia | |
| 740 | The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | Robert Louis Stevenson | Goodreads |
| 741 | The Stud | Wikipedia | |
| 742 | The Subtle Knife (His Dark Materials, #2) | Philip Pullman | Goodreads |
| 743 | The Tale of Chloe | Wikipedia | |
| 744 | The Teleportation Accident | Ned Beauman | Flavorwire |
| 745 | The Tesseract | Wikipedia | |
| 746 | The Third Round | Wikipedia | |
| 747 | The Thirteenth Tale | Wikipedia | |
| 748 | The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet | David Mitchell | Goodreads 2 |
| 749 | The Towers of Trebizond | Wikipedia | |
| 750 | The Triple Echo | Wikipedia | |
| 751 | The Tumbled House | Wikipedia | |
| 752 | The Twilight of Briareus | Wikipedia | |
| 753 | The Two Pound Tram | Wikipedia | |
| 754 | The Two Sisters | Wikipedia | |
| 755 | The Unconsoled | Kazuo Ishiguro | Flavorwire |
| 756 | The Unfortunate Traveller | Wikipedia | |
| 757 | The Unfortunates | Wikipedia | |
| 758 | The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry | Wikipedia | |
| 759 | The Untouchable | John Banville | Goodreads 2 |
| 760 | The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox | Maggie O’Farrell | Flavorwire |
| 761 | The Very Thought of You | Wikipedia | |
| 762 | The Vet’s Daughter | Wikipedia | |
| 763 | The Victorian Chaise-Longue | Wikipedia | |
| 764 | The Warden | Wikipedia | |
| 765 | The Wasp Factory | Iain Banks | Qwiklit |
| 766 | The Waste Land and Other Writings | T.S. Eliot | Goodreads |
| 767 | The Way of a Man with a Maid | Wikipedia | |
| 768 | The Way of All Flesh | Wikipedia | |
| 769 | The Way of the World | William Congreve | Windham Schools |
| 770 | The Way We Live Now | Anthony Trollope | BBC |
| 771 | The Weather in the Streets | Wikipedia | |
| 772 | The Well-Beloved | Wikipedia | |
| 773 | The White Feather | Wikipedia | |
| 774 | The Wimbledon Poisoner | Wikipedia | |
| 775 | The Wind Blows Away Our Works | Doris Lessing | Windham Schools |
| 776 | The Wind in the Willows | Kenneth Grahame | BBC |
| 777 | The Wind Off the Small Isles | Wikipedia | |
| 778 | The Wolves of Willoughby Chase | Wikipedia | |
| 779 | The World Is Full of Divorced Women | Wikipedia | |
| 780 | They Came from SW19 | Wikipedia | |
| 781 | Things as They Are; or, The Adventures of Caleb Williams | Wikipedia | |
| 782 | Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About | Wikipedia | |
| 783 | This Is What Happened | Mick Herron | Goodreads 2 |
| 784 | This Rough Magic | Wikipedia | |
| 785 | This Sporting Life | Wikipedia | |
| 786 | Three Great Tales | Joseph Conrad | Windham Schools |
| 787 | Three Men in a Boat (Three Men, #1) | Jerome K. Jerome | Goodreads |
| 788 | Thrones, Dominations | Wikipedia | |
| 789 | Time of Hope | Wikipedia | |
| 790 | To Hell in a Handcart | Wikipedia | |
| 791 | Tom Brown at Oxford | Wikipedia | |
| 792 | Tom Brown’s School Days | Wikipedia | |
| 793 | Tom Jones | Henry Fielding | The Telegraph |
| 794 | Tomorrow | Wikipedia | |
| 795 | Trainspotting | Irvine Welsh | Qwiklit |
| 796 | Tristram Shanty | Lawrence Sterne | Windham Schools |
| 797 | Tunnels | Wikipedia | |
| 798 | Turn of the Screw | Henry James | Windham Schools |
| 799 | Two on a Tower | Wikipedia | |
| 800 | Uncle Dynamite | Wikipedia | |
| 801 | Under the Hill | Wikipedia | |
| 802 | Under the Net | Iris Murdoch | Qwiklit |
| 803 | Uneasy Money | Wikipedia | |
| 804 | Vacant Possession | Wikipedia | |
| 805 | Verdict of Twelve | Wikipedia | |
| 806 | Vicar of Wakefield | William Goldsmith | Windham Schools |
| 807 | Vice Versa | Wikipedia | |
| 808 | Victory | Joseph Conrad | Windham Schools |
| 809 | Vivian Grey | Benjamin Disraeli | Flavorwire 2 |
| 810 | War of the World | H. G. Wells | Windham Schools |
| 811 | Washington Square | Henry James | Windham Schools |
| 812 | Wasp | Wikipedia | |
| 813 | Watchmen | Alan Moore | Goodreads |
| 814 | Waterland | Graham Swift | Qwiklit |
| 815 | Way of All Flesh | Samuel Butler | Windham Schools |
| 816 | What a Carve Up! | Jonathan Coe | Goodreads 2 |
| 817 | What Hetty Did | Wikipedia | |
| 818 | What Maisie Knew | Henry James | The Telegraph |
| 819 | When God Was a Rabbit | Wikipedia | |
| 820 | White Is for Witching | Helen Oyeyemi | Flavorwire |
| 821 | White Mischief | Wikipedia | |
| 822 | Who’s Afraid of Beowulf? | Wikipedia | |
| 823 | Windsor Castle | William Harrison Ainsworth | Flavorwire 2 |
| 824 | Winnie-the-Pooh (Winnie-the-Pooh, #1) | A.A. Milne | Goodreads |
| 825 | Witches’ Sabbath | Wikipedia | |
| 826 | Woman’s World | Wikipedia | |
| 827 | Worth Dying For | Wikipedia | |
| 828 | Written in Blood | Wikipedia | |
| 829 | Yeast | Wikipedia | |
| 830 | Zofloya | Wikipedia | |
| 831 | Zuleika Dobson | Wikipedia | |
13 Best British Novel Book Sources/Lists
| Source | Article |
| BBC | The 100 Greatest British Novels |
| Flavorwire | 19 Contemporary British Novels You Need to Read Now |
| Flavorwire 2 | The 50 Greatest British Novels of the 19th Century |
| Goodreads | Best British and Irish Literature |
| Goodreads 2 | Popular British Novels Books |
| Goodreads 2 | Popular Modern British Fiction Books |
| Huffington Post | 12 Contemporary British Novels We Can’t Live Without |
| Oxford Royale Academy | 12 Essential English Novels Everyone Should Read |
| Perfection Learning | Top 75 British Literature Titles |
| Qwiklit | 25 CONTEMPORARY BRITISH NOVELS YOU SHOULD READ RIGHT NOW |
| The Telegraph | 20 best British and Irish novels of all time |
| Wikipedia | Category:British novels |
| Windham Schools | British Literature Reading List |
