500 IMPORTANT WORKS OF ENGLISH LITERATURE - read list

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A curated reading list of 500 influential works in English literature. The document presents a table of title and author for classic novels and major literary pieces across multiple countries and centuries. It includes landmark fiction such as Don Quixote, Pride and Prejudice, Moby-Dick, and Brave New World, alongside English-language favorites like Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Harry Potter. The format supports quick discovery by searching titles, authors, and frequently read canonical works.

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CategoryLiterature

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Reading Time31 min

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500 IMPORTANT WORKS OF ENGLISH LITERATURE TITLE AUTHOR 1. Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes 2. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Lewis Carroll 3. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain 4. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Mark Twain 5. Treasure Island Robert Louis Stevenson 6. Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen 7. Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë 8. Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë 9. Moby Dick Herman Melville 10. The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 11. Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift 12. The Pilgrim's Progress John Bunyan 13. A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens 14. David Copperfield Charles Dickens 15. A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens 16. Little Women Louisa MayAlcott 17. Great Expectations Charles Dickens 18. The Hobbit, or, There and Back Again J.R.R. Tolkien 19. Frankenstein, or, the Modern Prometheus Mary Shelley 20. Oliver Twist Charles Dickens 21. Uncle Tom's Cabin Harriet Beecher Stowe 22. Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoyevsky 23. Madame Bovary: Patterns of Provincial life Gustave Flaubert 24. The Return of the King J.R.R. Tolkien 25. Dracula Bram Stoker 26. The Three Musketeers Alexandre Dumas 27. Brave New World Aldous Huxley 28. War and Peace Leo Tolstoy 29. To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee 30. The Wizard of Oz L. Frank Baum 31. Les Misérables Victor Hugo 32. The Secret Garden Frances Hodgson Burnett 33. Animal Farm George Orwell 34. The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald 35. The Little Prince Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 36. The Call of the Wild Jack London 37. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea Jules Verne 38. Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy 39. The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame 40. The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde 41. The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck 42. Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen 43. The Last of the Mohicans James Fenimore Cooper 44. Tess ofthe d'Urbervilles Thomas Hardy 45. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone J.K. Rowling 46. Heidi Johanna Spyri 47. Ulysses James Joyce 48. The Complete Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle 49. The Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas 50. The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway 51. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe C. S. Lewis 52. The Hunchback of Notre Dame Victor Hugo 53. Pinocchio Carlo Collodi 54. One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García Márquez 55. Ivanhoe Walter Scott 56. The Red Badge of Courage Stephen Crane 57. Anne of Green Gables L.M. Montgomery 58. Black Beauty Anna Sewell 59. Peter Pan J.M. Barrie 60. A Farewell to Arms Ernest Hemingway 61. The House of the Seven Gables Nathaniel Hawthorne 62. Lord of the Flies William Golding 63. The Prince and the Pauper Mark Twain 64. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man James Joyce 65. Lord Jim Joseph Conrad 66. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets J.K. Rowling 67. The Red & the Black Stendhal 68. The Stranger Albert Camus 69. The Trial Franz Kafka 70. Lady Chatterley's Lover D.H. Lawrence 71. Kidnapped: The Adventures of David Balfour Robert Louis Stevenson 72. The Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger 73. Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury 74. A Journey to the Center of the Earth Jules Verne 75. Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray 76. All Quiet on the Western Front Erich Maria Remarque 77. Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 78. My Ántonia Willa Cather 79. Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck 80. The Vicar of Wakefield Oliver Goldsmith 81. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Mark Twain 82. White Fang Jack London 83. Fathers and Sons Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev 84. Doctor Zhivago Boris Leonidovich Pasternak 85. The Decameron Giovanni Boccaccio 86. Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell 87. The Jungle Upton Sinclair 88. The Da Vinci Code Dan Brown 89. Persuasion Jane Austen 90. Mansfield Park Jane Austen 91. Candide Voltaire 92. For Whom the Bell Tolls Ernest Hemingway 93. Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 94. The Fellowship of the R

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What information does the document provide for each work?

Each entry lists the work’s title and its author.

What kind of material is included in the list?

The list covers influential works of English literature, especially classic novels and major literary works.

How is the content organized to help readers find titles?

The works are organized as a numbered table, making it easy to browse and locate specific titles or authors.

Sep 20, 2026

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