British English-language novels

1949 dystopian social science fiction novel by George Orwell

1997 novel by J. K. Rowling

1813 novel by Jane Austen

1719 novel by Daniel Defoe

Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is an 1818 Gothic novel written by English author Mary Shelley. Frankenstein tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a sapient creature from different body parts in an unorthodox scientific experiment. Shelley started writing the story when she was 18 and staying in Bath, and the first edition was published anonymously in London on 1 January 1818, when she was 20. Her name first appeared in the second edition, which was published in Paris in 1821.

1883 novel by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson

1726 novel by Jonathan Swift

1890–1891 novel by Oscar Wilde

Wuthering Heights is the only novel by the English author Emily Brontë, initially published in 1847 under her pen name "Ellis Bell". It concerns two extensive upland estates and their landowning families on the West Yorkshire moors, the Earnshaws and the Lintons; and their turbulent relationships with the Earnshaws' foster son, Heathcliff. Driven by themes of love, possession, revenge, and reconciliation, the novel is influenced by Romanticism and Gothic fiction. It is considered a classic of English literature.

A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, commonly known as A Christmas Carol, is a novella by Charles Dickens, first published in London by Chapman & Hall in 1843 and illustrated by John Leech. It recounts the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, an elderly miser who is visited by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley and the spirits of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come. In the process, Scrooge is transformed into a kinder, gentler man.

1932 novel by Aldous Huxley

1847 novel by Charlotte Brontë

1849–1850 novel by Charles Dickens

1897 serialized novel by H. G. Wells

1859 novel by Charles Dickens

1954 novel by J. R. R. Tolkien, first volume of The Lord of the Rings

Lord of the Flies is the 1954 debut novel of British author William Golding. The plot concerns a group of prepubescent British boys who are stranded on an uninhabited island and their disastrous attempts to govern themselves that lead to a descent into savagery. The novel's themes include morality, leadership, and the tension between civility and chaos.

first Sherlock Holmes novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

1886 novella by Robert Louis Stevenson

1895 dystopian science fiction novella by H. G. Wells

fantasy novel by C. S. Lewis

1954 novel by J. R. R. Tolkien, second volume of The Lord of the Rings

1964 children's novel by Roald Dahl

1962 novel by Anthony Burgess

1939 novel by Agatha Christie

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1934 novel by Agatha Christie

1955 novel by J. R. R. Tolkien

1815 novel by Jane Austen

1926 novel by Agatha Christie

2011 erotic romance novel by E.L. James

1979 novel by Douglas Adams

English children's novel, 1908, originally unillustrated

1920 novel by Agatha Christie

1897 science fiction novel by H. G. Wells

2001 novel by Philip Reeve

1937 novel by Agatha Christie

1837 novel by Charles Dickens

1988 children's book by Roald Dahl

novel by Henry Rider Haggard (1885)

1936 novel by Agatha Christie

1896 novel by Herbert George Wells

2005 novel by Kazuo Ishiguro

1930 novel by Agatha Christie

1972 novel by Richard Adams

picaresque novel by Rudyard Kipling

1958 novel by Chinua Achebe

1817 novel by Jane Austen

novel by Agatha Christie

1968 film directed by Brian G. Hutton

Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions is a satirical novella by the English theologian, Anglican priest and schoolmaster Edwin Abbott Abbott, first published in 1884 by Seeley & Co. of London. Written pseudonymously by "A Square", the book used the fictional two-dimensional world of Flatland to satirise the class and gender hierarchies of Victorian society, but the novella's more enduring contribution is its examination of dimensions.

play and novel by James Matthew Barrie

novel by Arthur Conan Doyle

1950 novel by Agatha Christie

1972 novel by Agatha Christie

Coraline () is a 2002 British fantasy horror children's novella by author Neil Gaiman. Gaiman started writing Coraline in 1990, and it was published in 2002 by Bloomsbury and HarperCollins. It was awarded the 2003 Hugo Award for Best Novella, the 2003 Nebula Award for Best Novella, and the 2002 Bram Stoker Award for Best Work for Young Readers. The Guardian ranked Coraline #82 in its list of 100 Best Books of the 21st Century. It was adapted as a 2009 stop-motion animated film, directed by Henry Selick under the same name.

novel by Daphne du Maurier

2003 novel by Philip Reeve

1942 novel by Agatha Christie

1935 novel by Agatha Christie