British novels adapted into plays

1949 dystopian social science fiction novel by George Orwell

1865 children's novel by Lewis Carroll

1945 novella by George Orwell

1937 fantasy novel by J. R. R. Tolkien

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

1837–1839 novel by Charles Dickens

1890–1891 novel by Oscar Wilde

series of children's fantasy novels by C. S. Lewis, 1950–1956

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

1861 novel by Charles Dickens

fictional Belgian detective by Agatha Christie

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

1886 novella by Robert Louis Stevenson

first Sherlock Holmes novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

1899 novella by Joseph Conrad

fantasy novel by C. S. Lewis

1811 novel by Jane Austen

1964 children's novel by Roald Dahl

1962 novel by Anthony Burgess

1939 novel by Agatha Christie

fictional character appearing in Agatha Christie's crime novels

fantasy novel by C. S. Lewis

1815 novel by Jane Austen

novel by Arthur Conan Doyle

1848 novel by Anne Brontë

novel by C. S. Lewis set in Narnia

1817 novel by Jane Austen

1897 science fiction novel by H. G. Wells

English children's novel, 1908, originally unillustrated

1814 novel by Jane Austen

children's fantasy novel by C.S. Lewis, set in Narnia

novel series by Philip Pullman

fantasy novel by C. S. Lewis

1937 novel by Agatha Christie

1837 novel by Charles Dickens

1912 novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett

1988 children's book by Roald Dahl

Discworld is a collection of fantasy comedy novels, graphic novels, short stories, and associated works conceived and primarily written by the English author Terry Pratchett. They are united by their being set on the Discworld, a flat planet balanced on the backs of four elephants which in turn stand on the back of a giant turtle. The novel series consists of forty-one books, the first being The Colour of Magic, published in 1983, and the last ''The Shepherd's Crown'', published posthumously in 2015. Pratchett also wrote eleven short stories related to the Discworld. The novels often satirise

1877 novel by Anna Sewell

2005 novel by Kazuo Ishiguro

1896 novel by Herbert George Wells

1972 novel by Richard Adams

1817 novel by Jane Austen

1891 novel by Thomas Hardy

1749 novel by Henry Fielding

2003 novel by Mark Haddon

novel by Laurence Sterne

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

2001 novel by Ian McEwan

1995 novel by Philip Pullman

1990 novel by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman

1983 children's book by Roald Dahl