🎩 British Classics: 116-Book Reading List Paginepagineapp.com Tick off each book as you read it. 41 of these 116 British classics are free to read online at pagineapp.com/classics/british , with author guides and links to the rest.
Medieval & Renaissance ☐ 1. Beowulf — Anonymous (1000)
☐ 2. The Canterbury Tales — Geoffrey Chaucer (1400) · free on Pagine
☐ 3. Le Morte d’Arthur — Thomas Malory (1485)
☐ 4. Utopia — Thomas More (1516)
☐ 5. The Faerie Queene — Edmund Spenser (1590)
☐ 6. Doctor Faustus — Christopher Marlowe (1604)
☐ 7. Paradise Lost — John Milton (1667) · free on Pagine
☐ 8. The Pilgrim’s Progress — John Bunyan (1678)
William Shakespeare ☐ 9. Romeo and Juliet — William Shakespeare (1597) · free on Pagine
☐ 10. A Midsummer Night’s Dream — William Shakespeare (1600) · free on Pagine
☐ 11. Hamlet — William Shakespeare (1603) · free on Pagine
☐ 12. King Lear — William Shakespeare (1608)
☐ 13. Shakespeare’s Sonnets — William Shakespeare (1609)
☐ 14. Othello — William Shakespeare (1622)
☐ 15. Macbeth — William Shakespeare (1623) · free on Pagine
☐ 16. Twelfth Night — William Shakespeare (1623)
☐ 17. The Tempest — William Shakespeare (1623)
The 18th century: the novel is born ☐ 18. Robinson Crusoe — Daniel Defoe (1719) · free on Pagine
☐ 19. Moll Flanders — Daniel Defoe (1722)
☐ 20. Pamela — Samuel Richardson (1740)
☐ 21. Tom Jones — Henry Fielding (1749)
☐ 22. Tristram Shandy — Laurence Sterne (1759)
☐ 23. The Castle of Otranto — Horace Walpole (1764)
☐ 24. Evelina — Frances Burney (1778)
Romantics & Jane Austen ☐ 25. Songs of Innocence and of Experience — William Blake (1794)
☐ 26. Lyrical Ballads — William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1798)
☐ 27. Sense and Sensibility — Jane Austen (1811) · free on Pagine
☐ 28. Pride and Prejudice — Jane Austen (1813) · free on Pagine
☐ 29. Mansfield Park — Jane Austen (1814)
☐ 30. Emma — Jane Austen (1815) · free on Pagine
☐ 31. Northanger Abbey — Jane Austen (1817)
☐ 32. Persuasion — Jane Austen (1817) · free on Pagine
☐ 33. Frankenstein — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1818) · free on Pagine
☐ 34. Ivanhoe — Walter Scott (1819)
Victorian novels ☐ 35. Oliver Twist — Charles Dickens (1838) · free on Pagine
☐ 36. A Christmas Carol — Charles Dickens (1843) · free on Pagine
☐ 37. Jane Eyre — Charlotte Brontë (1847) · free on Pagine
☐ 38. Wuthering Heights — Emily Brontë (1847) · free on Pagine
☐ 39. Agnes Grey — Anne Brontë (1847)
☐ 40. Vanity Fair — William Makepeace Thackeray (1848)
☐ 41. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall — Anne Brontë (1848)
☐ 42. David Copperfield — Charles Dickens (1850) · free on Pagine
☐ 43. Bleak House — Charles Dickens (1853) · free on Pagine
☐ 44. Cranford — Elizabeth Gaskell (1853)
☐ 45. Villette — Charlotte Brontë (1853)
☐ 46. Hard Times — Charles Dickens (1854)
☐ 47. North and South — Elizabeth Gaskell (1855)
☐ 48. Barchester Towers — Anthony Trollope (1857)
☐ 49. Adam Bede — George Eliot (1859)
☐ 50. A Tale of Two Cities — Charles Dickens (1859) · free on Pagine
☐ 51. The Woman in White — Wilkie Collins (1860)
☐ 52. The Mill on the Floss — George Eliot (1860)
☐ 53. Great Expectations — Charles Dickens (1861) · free on Pagine
☐ 54. Silas Marner — George Eliot (1861)
☐ 55. Our Mutual Friend — Charles Dickens (1865)
☐ 56. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland — Lewis Carroll (1865) · free on Pagine
☐ 57. The Moonstone — Wilkie Collins (1868)
☐ 58. Middlemarch — George Eliot (1872) · free on Pagine
☐ 59. Far from the Madding Crowd — Thomas Hardy (1874) · free on Pagine
☐ 60. The Return of the Native — Thomas Hardy (1878)
☐ 61. Treasure Island — Robert Louis Stevenson (1883) · free on Pagine
☐ 62. King Solomon’s Mines — H. Rider Haggard (1885)
☐ 63. The Mayor of Casterbridge — Thomas Hardy (1886)
☐ 64. Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde — Robert Louis Stevenson (1886) · free on Pagine
☐ 65. Kidnapped — Robert Louis Stevenson (1886) · free on Pagine
☐ 66. A Study in Scarlet — Arthur Conan Doyle (1887)
☐ 67. Tess of the d’Urbervilles — Thomas Hardy (1891) · free on Pagine
☐ 68. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes — Arthur Conan Doyle (1892) · free on Pagine
☐ 69. The Jungle Book — Rudyard Kipling (1894) · free on Pagine
☐ 70. Jude the Obscure — Thomas Hardy (1895)
☐ 71. The Time Machine — H. G. Wells (1895) · free on Pagine
☐ 72. The War of the Worlds — H. G. Wells (1898) · free on Pagine
Edwardian & modernist classics (1899–1930s) ☐ 73. Heart of Darkness — Joseph Conrad (1899) · free on Pagine
☐ 74. Lord Jim — Joseph Conrad (1900)
☐ 75. Kim — Rudyard Kipling (1901) · free on Pagine
☐ 76. The Hound of the Baskervilles — Arthur Conan Doyle (1902) · free on Pagine
☐ 77. Nostromo — Joseph Conrad (1904)
☐ 78. The Secret Agent — Joseph Conrad (1907)
☐ 79. A Room with a View — E. M. Forster (1908)
☐ 80. The Wind in the Willows — Kenneth Grahame (1908) · free on Pagine
☐ 81. Howards End — E. M. Forster (1910)
☐ 82. The Secret Garden — Frances Hodgson Burnett (1911) · free on Pagine
☐ 83. The Lost World — Arthur Conan Doyle (1912)
☐ 84. Sons and Lovers — D. H. Lawrence (1913)
☐ 85. Of Human Bondage — W. Somerset Maugham (1915)
☐ 86. The Thirty-Nine Steps — John Buchan (1915)
☐ 87. The Waste Land — T. S. Eliot (1922)
☐ 88. A Passage to India — E. M. Forster (1924)
☐ 89. Mrs Dalloway — Virginia Woolf (1925)
☐ 90. To the Lighthouse — Virginia Woolf (1927)
☐ 91. Orlando — Virginia Woolf (1928)
☐ 92. Decline and Fall — Evelyn Waugh (1928)
☐ 93. A Room of One’s Own — Virginia Woolf (1929)
Modern British classics ☐ 94. Brave New World — Aldous Huxley (1932)
☐ 95. Rebecca — Daphne du Maurier (1938)
☐ 96. Animal Farm — George Orwell (1945)
☐ 97. Brideshead Revisited — Evelyn Waugh (1945)
☐ 98. Nineteen Eighty-Four — George Orwell (1949)
☐ 99. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe — C. S. Lewis (1950)
☐ 100. Lord of the Flies — William Golding (1954)
☐ 101. The Lord of the Rings — J. R. R. Tolkien (1954)
☐ 102. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie — Muriel Spark (1961)
☐ 103. Wide Sargasso Sea — Jean Rhys (1966)
☐ 104. Midnight’s Children — Salman Rushdie (1981)
☐ 105. The Remains of the Day — Kazuo Ishiguro (1989)
☐ 106. White Teeth — Zadie Smith (2000)
Irish writers of English literature ☐ 107. Gulliver’s Travels — Jonathan Swift (1726) · free on Pagine
☐ 108. The Vicar of Wakefield — Oliver Goldsmith (1766)
☐ 109. Castle Rackrent — Maria Edgeworth (1800)
☐ 110. The Picture of Dorian Gray — Oscar Wilde (1890) · free on Pagine
☐ 111. The Importance of Being Earnest — Oscar Wilde (1895)
☐ 112. Dracula — Bram Stoker (1897) · free on Pagine
☐ 113. Pygmalion — George Bernard Shaw (1913)
☐ 114. Dubliners — James Joyce (1914) · free on Pagine
☐ 115. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man — James Joyce (1916)
☐ 116. Ulysses — James Joyce (1922) · free on Pagine
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