100 must-read classic novels
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT (1832–88)
- LITTLE WOMEN (1868)
JANE AUSTEN (1775–1817) UK
- EMMA (1816)
- PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (1813)
HONORÉ DE BALZAC (1799–1850) France
- EUGÉNIE GRANDET (1833)
ARNOLD BENNETT (1867–1931) UK
- THE OLD WIVES’ TALE (1908)
ELIZABETH BOWEN (1899–1973) Ireland
- THE DEATH OF THE HEART (1938)
CHARLOTTE BRONTË (1816–55) UK
- JANE EYRE (1847)
EMILY BRONTË (1818–48) UK
- WUTHERING HEIGHTS (1847)
SAMUEL BUTLER (1835–1902) UK
- THE WAY OF ALL FLESH (1903)
ALBERT CAMUS (1913–60) Algeria/France
- THE OUTSIDER (1942)
LEWIS CARROLL (1832–98) UK
- ALICE’S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND (1865)
WILLA CATHER (1876–1947) USA
- MY ÁNTONIA (1918)
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES (1547–1616) Spain
- DON QUIXOTE (1605 and 1615)
ANTON CHEKHOV (1860–1904) Russia
- COLLECTED STORIES
KATE CHOPIN (1851–1904) USA
- THE AWAKENING (1899)
WILKIE COLLINS (1824–89) UK
- THE WOMAN IN WHITE (1860)
JOSEPH CONRAD (1857–1924) Poland/UK
- NOSTROMO (1904)
- THE SECRET AGENT (1907)
STEPHEN CRANE (1871–1900) USA
- THE RED BADGE OF COURAGE (1895)
DANIEL DEFOE (1660–1731) UK
- ROBINSON CRUSOE (1719)
CHARLES DICKENS (1812–70) UK
- BLEAK HOUSE (1853)
- GREAT EXPECTATIONS (1861)
BENJAMIN DISRAELI (1804–81) UK
- SYBIL (1845)
ALFRED DÖBLIN (1878–1957) Germany
- BERLIN ALEXANDERPLATZ (1929)
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY (1821–81) Russia
- CRIME AND PUNISHMENT (1866)
- THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV (1880)