Pre-1700 | Author First Name | Author Last Name |
| Aesop’s Fables | Aesopus | Aesopus |
| The Thousand and One Nights | Anonymous | Anonymous |
| The Golden Ass | Lucius | Apuleius |
| Oroonoko | Aphra | Behn |
| The Pilgrim’s Progress | John | Bunyan |
| Chaireas and Kallirhoe | Chariton | Chariton |
| Don Quixote | Miguel | de Cervantes Saavedra |
| Aithiopika | Heliodorus | Heliodorus |
| Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit | John | Lyly |
| The Unfortunate Traveller | Thomas | Nashe |
| Metamorphoses | Ovid | Ovid |
| The Princess of Clèves | Marie-Madelaine | Pioche de Lavergne, Comtesse de La Fayette |
| Gargantua and Pantagruel | Françoise | Rabelais |
1700s | Author First Name | Author Last Name |
Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus | J., J., T., A. & J. | Arbuthnot, Gay, Parnell, Pope & Swift |
Vathek | William | Beckford |
Camilla | Fanny | Burney |
Cecilia | Fanny | Burney |
Evelina | Fanny | Burney |
Fanny Hill | John | Cleland |
Dangerous Liaisons | Pierre Choderlos | de Laclos |
Justine | Marquis | de Sade |
The 120 Days of Sodom | Marquis | de Sade |
Roxana | Daniel | Defoe |
Moll Flanders | Daniel | Defoe |
Robinson Crusoe | Daniel | Defoe |
The Nun | Denis | Diderot |
Rameau’s Nephew | Denis | Diderot |
Jacques the Fatalist | Denis | Diderot |
The Interesting Narrative | Olaudah | Equiano |
Amelia | Henry | Fielding |
Tom Jones | Henry | Fielding |
Joseph Andrews | Henry | Fielding |
The Adventures of Caleb Williams | William | Godwin |
The Vicar of Wakefield | Oliver | Goldsmith |
Love in Excess | Eliza | Haywood |
Hyperion | Friedrich | Hölderlin |
Rasselas | Samuel | Johnson |
The Female Quixote | Charlotte | Lennox |
The Monk | M.G. | Lewis |
The Man of Feeling | Henry | Mackenzie |
The Mysteries of Udolpho | Ann | Radcliffe |
Clarissa | Samuel | Richardson |
Pamela | Samuel | Richardson |
Confessions | Jean-Jacques | Rousseau |
Reveries of a Solitary Walker | Jean-Jacques | Rousseau |
Émile; or, On Education | Jean-Jacques | Rousseau |
Julie; or, the New Eloise | Jean-Jacques | Rousseau |
Humphrey Clinker | Tobias George | Smollett |
Peregrine Pickle | Tobias George | Smollett |
Roderick Random | Tobias George | Smollett |
A Sentimental Journey | Laurence | Sterne |
Tristram Shandy | Laurence | Sterne |
A Modest Proposal | Jonathan | Swift |
Gulliver’s Travels | Jonathan | Swift |
A Tale of a Tub | Jonathan | Swift |
Candide | Voltaire | Voltaire |
Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship | Johann Wolfgang | von Goethe |
The Sorrows of Young Werther | Johann Wolfgang | von Goethe |
The Castle of Otranto | Horace | Walpole |
1800s | Author First Name | Author Last Name |
Little Women | Louisa May | Alcott |
Northanger Abbey | Jane | Austen |
Persuasion | Jane | Austen |
Emma | Jane | Austen |
Mansfield Park | Jane | Austen |
Pride and Prejudice | Jane | Austen |
Sense and Sensibility | Jane | Austen |
Villette | Charlotte | Brontë |
Shirley | Charlotte | Brontë |
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall | Anne | Brontë |
Wuthering Heights | Emily | Brontë |
Agnes Grey | Anne | Brontë |
Jane Eyre | Charlotte | Brontë |
Erewhon | Samuel | Butler |
Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There | Lewis | Carroll |
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis | Carroll |
The Awakening | Kate | Chopin |
The Moonstone | Wilkie | Collins |
The Woman in White | Wilkie | Collins |
Last of the Mohicans | James Fenimore | Cooper |
Lost Illusions | Honoré | de Balzac |
Le Père Goriot | Honoré | de Balzac |
Eugénie Grandet | Honoré | de Balzac |
Maldoror | Comte | de Lautréaumont |
Pierre and Jean | Guy | de Maupassant |
Bel-Ami | Guy | de Maupassant |
A Woman’s Life | Guy | de Maupassant |
Our Mutual Friend | Charles | Dickens |
Great Expectations | Charles | Dickens |
A Tale of Two Cities | Charles | Dickens |
Hard Times | Charles | Dickens |
Bleak House | Charles | Dickens |
David Copperfield | Charles | Dickens |
Martin Chuzzlewit | Charles | Dickens |
A Christmas Carol | Charles | Dickens |
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby | Charles | Dickens |
Oliver Twist | Charles | Dickens |
The Brothers Karamazov | Fyodor | Dostoevsky |
The Devils | Fyodor | Dostoevsky |
The Idiot | Fyodor | Dostoevsky |
Crime and Punishment | Fyodor | Dostoevsky |
Notes from the Underground | Fyodor | Dostoevsky |
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | Sir Arthur Conan | Doyle |
The Count of Monte-Cristo | Alexandre | Dumas |
La Reine Margot | Alexandre | Dumas |
The Three Musketeers | Alexandre | Dumas |
Ormond | Maria | Edgeworth |
The Absentee | Maria | Edgeworth |
Castle Rackrent | Maria | Edgeworth |
Daniel Deronda | George | Eliot |
Middlemarch | George | Eliot |
Silas Marner | George | Eliot |
The Mill on the Floss | George | Eliot |
Adam Bede | George | Eliot |
Bouvard and Pécuchet | Gustave | Flaubert |
The Temptation of Saint Anthony | Gustave | Flaubert |
Sentimental Education | Gustave | Flaubert |
Madame Bovary | Gustave | Flaubert |
The Stechlin | Theodore | Fontane |
Effi Briest | Theodore | Fontane |
Fortunata and Jacinta | Benito Pérez | Galdés |
North and South | Elizabeth | Gaskell |
Cranford | Elizabeth | Gaskell |
Mary Barton | Elizabeth | Gaskell |
Fruits of the Earth | André | Gide |
The Yellow Wallpaper | Charlotte Perkins | Gilman |
Born in Exile | George | Gissing |
New Grub Street | George | Gissing |
Dead Souls | Nikolay | Gogol |
The Nose | Nikolay | Gogol |
Oblomovka | Ivan | Goncharov |
Diary of a Nobody | George & Weedon | Grossmith |
She | H. Rider | Haggard |
King Solomon’s Mines | H. Rider | Haggard |
Hunger | Knut | Hamsun |
Jude the Obscure | Thomas | Hardy |
Tess of the D’Urbervilles | Thomas | Hardy |
The Woodlanders | Thomas | Hardy |
The Mayor of Casterbridge | Thomas | Hardy |
Return of the Native | Thomas | Hardy |
The Hand of Ethelberta | Thomas | Hardy |
Far from the Madding Crowd | Thomas | Hardy |
The Marble Faun | Nathaniel | Hawthorne |
The Blithedale Romance | Nathaniel | Hawthorne |
The House of the Seven Gables | Nathaniel | Hawthorne |
The Scarlet Letter | Nathaniel | Hawthorne |
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner | James | Hogg |
Les Misérables | Victor | Hugo |
The Hunchback of Notre Dame | Victor | Hugo |
The Turn of the Screw | Henry | James |
What Maisie Knew | Henry | James |
The Portrait of a Lady | Henry | James |
Against the Grain | Joris-Karl Huysmans | Joris-Karl Huysmans |
The Water-Babies | Charles | Kingsley |
Gösta Berling’s Saga | Selma | Lagerlöf |
In a Glass Darkly | Sheridan | Le Fanu |
Uncle Silas | Sheridan | Le Fanu |
The Enchanted Wanderer | Nicolai | Leskov |
The Betrothed | Alessandro | Manzoni |
The Albigenses | Charles Robert | Maturin |
Melmoth the Wanderer | Charles Robert | Maturin |
Moby-Dick | Herman | Melville |
News from Nowhere | William | Morris |
Max Havelaar | Multatuli | Multatuli |
Marius the Epicurean | Walter | Pater |
The Purloined Letter | Edgar Allan | Poe |
The Pit and the Pendulum | Edgar Allan | Poe |
The Fall of the House of Usher | Edgar Allan | Poe |
The Monastery | Sir Walter | Scott |
Ivanhoe | Sir Walter | Scott |
Rob Roy | Sir Walter | Scott |
Frankenstein | Mary Wollstonecraft | Shelley |
Quo Vadis | Henryk | Sienkiewicz |
Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. | Somerville and Ross | Somerville and Ross |
The Real Charlotte | Somerville and Ross | Somerville and Ross |
The Charterhouse of Parma | Stendhal | Stendhal |
The Red and the Black | Stendhal | Stendhal |
The Master of Ballantrae | Robert Louis | Stevenson |
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | Robert Louis | Stevenson |
Kidnapped | Robert Louis | Stevenson |
Treasure Island | Robert Louis | Stevenson |
Dracula | Bram | Stoker |
Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lonely | Harriet Beecher | Stowe |
By the Open Sea | August | Strindberg |
The People of Hemsö | August | Strindberg |
The Red Room | August | Strindberg |
Vanity Fair | William Makepeace | Thackeray |
Walden | Henry David | Thoreau |
The Kreutzer Sonata | Leo | Tolstoy |
The Death of Ivan Ilyich | Leo | Tolstoy |
Anna Karenina | Leo | Tolstoy |
War and Peace | Leo | Tolstoy |
He Knew He Was Right | Anthony | Trollope |
Phineas Finn | Anthony | Trollope |
The Last Chronicle of Barset | Anthony | Trollope |
Castle Richmond | Anthony | Trollope |
Virgin Soil | Ivan | Turgenev |
Spring Torrents | Ivan | Turgenev |
King Lear of the Steppes | Ivan | Turgenev |
Fathers and Sons | Ivan | Turgenev |
On the Eve | Ivan | Turgenev |
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Mark | Twain |
The House by the Medlar Tree | Giovanni | Verga |
Around the World in Eighty Days | Jules | Verne |
Journey to the Centre of the Earth | Jules | Verne |
Elective Affinities | Johann Wolfgang | von Goethe |
Ben-Hur | Lew | Wallace |
The War of the Worlds | H.G. | Wells |
The Invisible Man | H.G. | Wells |
The Island of Dr. Moreau | H.G. | Wells |
The Time Machine | H.G. | Wells |
The Picture of Dorian Gray | Oscar | Wilde |
La Bête Humaine | Émile | Zola |
Germinal | Émile | Zola |
Nana | Émile | Zola |
Drunkard | Émile | Zola |
Thérèse Raquin | Émile | Zola |
