17th-18th C · 24
- Don Quixote — Miguel de Cervantes, 1605 · trans. John Ormsby
- The Exemplary Novels — Miguel de Cervantes, 1613 · trans. Walter K. Kelly
- The Pilgrim's Progress — John Bunyan, 1678
- Oroonoko; or, The Royal Slave — Aphra Behn, 1688
- Robinson Crusoe — Daniel Defoe, 1719
- A Journal of the Plague Year — Daniel Defoe, 1722
- Moll Flanders — Daniel Defoe, 1722
- Roxana — Daniel Defoe, 1724
- Gulliver's Travels — Jonathan Swift, 1726
- Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded — Samuel Richardson, 1740
- Zadig — Voltaire, 1747
- Clarissa — Samuel Richardson, 1748
- The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling — Henry Fielding, 1749
- Micromegas — Voltaire, 1752 · trans. Peter Phalen
- Candide — Voltaire, 1759 · trans. Philip Littell
- Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia — Samuel Johnson, 1759
- The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman — Laurence Sterne, 1759
- The Sorrows of Young Werther — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1774 · trans. R. D. Boylan
- Mary: A Fiction — Mary Wollstonecraft, 1788
- Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1795 · trans. Thomas Carlyle
- Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman — Mary Wollstonecraft, 1798
- Julie, or the New Heloise — Jean-Jacques Rousseau · trans. W. Kenrick
- Persian Letters — Montesquieu · trans. John Davidson
- The Battle of the Books — Jonathan Swift
19th Century · 253
- Lady Susan — Jane Austen, c. 1794
- The Watsons — Jane Austen, 1804
- Sense and Sensibility — Jane Austen, 1811
- Pride and Prejudice — Jane Austen, 1813
- Mansfield Park — Jane Austen, 1814
- Emma — Jane Austen, 1815
- Northanger Abbey — Jane Austen, 1817
- Persuasion — Jane Austen, 1817
- Sanditon — Jane Austen, 1817
- Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus — Mary Shelley, 1818
- The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon — Washington Irving, 1819
- Bracebridge Hall — Washington Irving, 1822
- The Chouans — Honoré de Balzac, 1829 · trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley
- The Red and the Black — Stendhal, 1830 · trans. C. K. Scott Moncrieff
- The Hunchback of Notre-Dame — Victor Hugo, 1831 · trans. Isabel Hapgood
- The Wild Ass's Skin — Honoré de Balzac, 1831 · trans. Ellen Marriage
- Colonel Chabert — Honoré de Balzac, 1832 · trans. Ellen Marriage and Clara Bell
- Louis Lambert — Honoré de Balzac, 1832 · trans. Clara Bell and James Waring
- Eugénie Grandet — Honoré de Balzac, 1833 · trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley
- Père Goriot — Honoré de Balzac, 1835 · trans. Ellen Marriage
- Sketches by Boz — Charles Dickens, 1836
- The Pickwick Papers — Charles Dickens, 1837
- Twice-Told Tales — Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1837
- Oliver Twist — Charles Dickens, 1838
- The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym — Edgar Allan Poe, 1838
- Nicholas Nickleby — Charles Dickens, 1839
- The Charterhouse of Parma — Stendhal, 1839 · trans. C. K. Scott-Moncrieff
- A Hero of Our Time — Mikhail Lermontov, 1840
- Barnaby Rudge — Charles Dickens, 1841
- The Old Curiosity Shop — Charles Dickens, 1841
- Dead Souls — Nikolai Gogol, 1842 · trans. D. J. Hogarth
- Taras Bulba — Nikolai Gogol, 1842 · trans. Isabel F. Hapgood
- A Christmas Carol — Charles Dickens, 1843
- Lost Illusions — Honoré de Balzac, 1843 · trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley
- Martin Chuzzlewit — Charles Dickens, 1844
- Selected Tales — Edgar Allan Poe, 1845
- Cousin Bette — Honoré de Balzac, 1846 · trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley
- Mosses from an Old Manse — Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1846
- Poor Folk — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 1846 · trans. C. J. Hogarth
- Typee — Herman Melville, 1846
- Agnes Grey — Anne Brontë, 1847
- Cousin Pons — Honoré de Balzac, 1847 · trans. Ellen Marriage
- Jane Eyre — Charlotte Brontë, 1847
- Splendors and Miseries of Courtesans — Honoré de Balzac, 1847 · trans. James Waring
- Wuthering Heights — Emily Brontë, 1847
- Dombey and Son — Charles Dickens, 1848
- The Tenant of Wildfell Hall — Anne Brontë, 1848
- White Nights — Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1848 · trans. Constance Garnett
- Shirley — Charlotte Brontë, 1849
- David Copperfield — Charles Dickens, 1850
- The Scarlet Letter — Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1850
- Moby Dick; or, The Whale — Herman Melville, 1851
- The House of the Seven Gables — Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1851
- A Sportsman's Sketches — Ivan Turgenev, 1852 · trans. Constance Garnett
- Childhood, Boyhood, Youth — Leo Tolstoy, 1852 · trans. C. J. Hogarth
- The Blithedale Romance — Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1852
- Uncle Tom's Cabin — Harriet Beecher Stowe, 1852
- Bartleby, the Scrivener — Herman Melville, 1853
- Bleak House — Charles Dickens, 1853
- Ruth — Elizabeth Gaskell, 1853
- Villette — Charlotte Brontë, 1853
- Hard Times — Charles Dickens, 1854
- North and South — Elizabeth Gaskell, 1855
- The Warden — Anthony Trollope, 1855
- Rudin — Ivan Turgenev, 1856
- The Piazza Tales — Herman Melville, 1856
- Barchester Towers — Anthony Trollope, 1857
- Little Dorrit — Charles Dickens, 1857
- Madame Bovary — Gustave Flaubert, 1857 · trans. Eleanor Marx-Aveling
- The Confidence-Man — Herman Melville, 1857
- The Professor — Charlotte Brontë, 1857
- Doctor Thorne — Anthony Trollope, 1858
- A House of Gentlefolk — Ivan Turgenev, 1859 · trans. Constance Garnett
- A Tale of Two Cities — Charles Dickens, 1859
- Oblomov — Ivan Goncharov, 1859
- The Ordeal of Richard Feverel — George Meredith, 1859
- The Woman in White — Wilkie Collins, 1859
- Uncle's Dream — Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1859 · trans. Frederick Whishaw
- First Love — Ivan Turgenev, 1860 · trans. Isabel F. Hapgood
- On the Eve — Ivan Turgenev, 1860
- The Mill on the Floss — George Eliot, 1860
- Framley Parsonage — Anthony Trollope, 1861
- Great Expectations — Charles Dickens, 1861
- Silas Marner — George Eliot, 1861
- Fathers and Sons — Ivan Turgenev, 1862 · trans. C. J. Hogarth
- Les Misérables — Victor Hugo, 1862 · trans. Isabel Florence Hapgood
- Salammbô — Gustave Flaubert, 1862
- The House of the Dead — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 1862 · trans. Constance Garnett
- Romola — George Eliot, 1863
- Sylvia's Lovers — Elizabeth Gaskell, 1863
- The Cossacks — Leo Tolstoy, 1863 · trans. Aylmer Maude
- Notes from Underground — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 1864
- The Small House at Allington — Anthony Trollope, 1864
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland — Lewis Carroll, 1865
- Can You Forgive Her? — Anthony Trollope, 1865
- Our Mutual Friend — Charles Dickens, 1865
- Crime and Punishment — Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1866 · trans. Constance Garnett
- Felix Holt, the Radical — George Eliot, 1866
- Toilers of the Sea — Victor Hugo, 1866 · trans. W. Moy Thomas
- Wives and Daughters — Elizabeth Gaskell, 1866
- Smoke — Ivan Turgenev, 1867 · trans. Constance Garnett
- The Gambler — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 1867 · trans. C. J. Hogarth
- The Last Chronicle of Barset — Anthony Trollope, 1867
- Thérèse Raquin — Émile Zola, 1867
- Little Women — Louisa May Alcott, 1868
- The Moonstone — Wilkie Collins, 1868
- He Knew He Was Right — Anthony Trollope, 1869
- Phineas Finn — Anthony Trollope, 1869
- Sentimental Education — Gustave Flaubert, 1869
- The Idiot — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 1869
- War and Peace — Leo Tolstoy, 1869 · trans. Louise and Aylmer Maude
- The Eternal Husband — Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1870 · trans. Constance Garnett
- The Mystery of Edwin Drood — Charles Dickens, 1870
- Desperate Remedies — Thomas Hardy, 1871
- Little Men — Louisa May Alcott, 1871
- Middlemarch — George Eliot, 1871
- Through the Looking-Glass — Lewis Carroll, 1871
- Erewhon — Samuel Butler, 1872
- The Possessed — Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1872 · trans. Constance Garnett
- Under the Greenwood Tree — Thomas Hardy, 1872
- A Pair of Blue Eyes — Thomas Hardy, 1873
- The Belly of Paris — Émile Zola, 1873 · trans. Ernest Alfred Vizetelly
- The Eustace Diamonds — Anthony Trollope, 1873
- Far from the Madding Crowd — Thomas Hardy, 1874
- Ninety-Three — Victor Hugo, 1874 · trans. Frank Lee Benedict
- Phineas Redux — Anthony Trollope, 1874
- Roderick Hudson — Henry James, 1875
- The Way We Live Now — Anthony Trollope, 1875
- Daniel Deronda — George Eliot, 1876
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer — Mark Twain, 1876
- The Prime Minister — Anthony Trollope, 1876
- Anna Karenina — Leo Tolstoy, 1877 · trans. Constance Garnett
- L'Assommoir — Émile Zola, 1877
- The Dream of a Ridiculous Man — Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1877 · trans. Constance Garnett
- Three Tales — Gustave Flaubert, 1877
- Virgin Soil — Ivan Turgenev, 1877 · trans. R. S. Townsend
- Daisy Miller — Henry James, 1878
- The Europeans — Henry James, 1878
- The Return of the Native — Thomas Hardy, 1878
- The Egoist — George Meredith, 1879
- The Red Room — August Strindberg, 1879 · trans. Ellie Schleussner
- Nana — Émile Zola, 1880
- The Brothers Karamazov — Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1880 · trans. Constance Garnett
- The Duke's Children — Anthony Trollope, 1880
- The Trumpet-Major — Thomas Hardy, 1880
- Washington Square — Henry James, 1880
- Bouvard and Pécuchet — Gustave Flaubert, 1881 · trans. D. F. Hannigan
- The Portrait of a Lady — Henry James, 1881
- Two on a Tower — Thomas Hardy, 1882
- Treasure Island — Robert Louis Stevenson, 1883
- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn — Mark Twain, 1884
- Against Nature — Joris-Karl Huysmans, 1884
- Bel Ami — Guy de Maupassant, 1885
- Germinal — Émile Zola, 1885 · trans. Havelock Ellis
- The Rise of Silas Lapham — William Dean Howells, 1885
- What Men Live By — Leo Tolstoy, 1885
- His Masterpiece — Émile Zola, 1886 · trans. Ernest A. Vizetelly
- Jo's Boys — Louisa May Alcott, 1886
- Kidnapped — Robert Louis Stevenson, 1886
- Little Lord Fauntleroy — Frances Hodgson Burnett, 1886
- The Bostonians — Henry James, 1886
- The Mayor of Casterbridge — Thomas Hardy, 1886
- The Schoolmistress and Other Stories — Anton Chekhov, 1886
- The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde — Robert Louis Stevenson, 1886
- A Study in Scarlet — Arthur Conan Doyle, 1887
- The Earth — Émile Zola, 1887 · trans. Ernest Alfred Vizetelly
- The Woodlanders — Thomas Hardy, 1887
- Pierre et Jean — Guy de Maupassant, 1888 · trans. Clara Bell
- Wessex Tales — Thomas Hardy, 1888
- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court — Mark Twain, 1889
- The Kreutzer Sonata — Leo Tolstoy, 1889
- The Master of Ballantrae — Robert Louis Stevenson, 1889
- Hunger — Knut Hamsun, 1890 · trans. George Egerton
- La Bête Humaine — Émile Zola, 1890 · trans. Edward Vizetelly
- The Picture of Dorian Gray — Oscar Wilde, 1890
- The Sign of the Four — Arthur Conan Doyle, 1890
- Main-Travelled Roads — Hamlin Garland, 1891
- New Grub Street — George Gissing, 1891
- Tess of the d'Urbervilles — Thomas Hardy, 1891
- The Duel — Anton Chekhov, 1891 · trans. Constance Garnett
- The Story of Gösta Berling — Selma Lagerlöf, 1891 · trans. Pauline Bancroft Flach
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes — Arthur Conan Doyle, 1892
- The Downfall (La Débâcle) — Émile Zola, 1892 · trans. Ernest Alfred Vizetelly
- The Yellow Wallpaper — Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1892
- Ward No. 6 — Anton Chekhov, 1892 · trans. Constance Garnett
- Catriona — Robert Louis Stevenson, 1893
- Doctor Pascal — Émile Zola, 1893 · trans. Ernest Alfred Vizetelly
- Maggie: A Girl of the Streets — Stephen Crane, 1893
- Bayou Folk — Kate Chopin, 1894
- Pudd'nhead Wilson — Mark Twain, 1894
- The Jungle Book — Rudyard Kipling, 1894
- The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes — Arthur Conan Doyle, 1894
- Jude the Obscure — Thomas Hardy, 1895
- Master and Man — Leo Tolstoy, 1895
- Selected Stories — Anton Chekhov, 1895 · trans. Constance Garnett
- The Red Badge of Courage — Stephen Crane, 1895
- The Second Jungle Book — Rudyard Kipling, 1895
- The Time Machine — H.G. Wells, 1895
- Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc — Mark Twain, 1896
- The Country of the Pointed Firs — Sarah Orne Jewett, 1896
- The Island of Doctor Moreau — H.G. Wells, 1896
- Captains Courageous — Rudyard Kipling, 1897
- Dracula — Bram Stoker, 1897
- The Invisible Man — H.G. Wells, 1897
- The Spoils of Poynton — Henry James, 1897
- What Maisie Knew — Henry James, 1897
- Father Sergius — Leo Tolstoy, 1898
- The Turn of the Screw — Henry James, 1898
- The War of the Worlds — H.G. Wells, 1898
- Heart of Darkness — Joseph Conrad, 1899
- McTeague — Frank Norris, 1899
- Resurrection — Leo Tolstoy, 1899 · trans. Louise Maude
- The Awakening — Kate Chopin, 1899
- A Life — Guy de Maupassant · trans. Albert M.C. McMaster
- Adam Bede — George Eliot
- Barry Lyndon — William Makepeace Thackeray
- Benito Cereno — Herman Melville
- Brother Jacob — George Eliot
- Complete Original Short Stories — Guy de Maupassant · trans. Albert M. C. McMaster
- Cranford — Elizabeth Gaskell
- Dream Days — Kenneth Grahame
- Eight Cousins — Louisa May Alcott
- Life's Little Ironies — Thomas Hardy
- Mary Barton — Elizabeth Gaskell
- My Life — Anton Chekhov · trans. Constance Garnett
- O Pioneers! — Willa Cather
- Omoo — Herman Melville
- Pierre, or the Ambiguities — Herman Melville
- Plain Tales from the Hills — Rudyard Kipling
- Scenes of Clerical Life — George Eliot
- Seraphita — Honoré de Balzac · trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley
- Spring Torrents — Ivan Turgenev · trans. Constance Garnett
- Stalky & Co. — Rudyard Kipling
- Sylvie and Bruno — Lewis Carroll
- The American — Henry James
- The Aspern Papers — Henry James
- The Awkward Age — Henry James
- The Bishop and Other Stories — Anton Chekhov · trans. Constance Garnett
- The Duchesse de Langeais — Honoré de Balzac · trans. Ellen Marriage
- The Golden Age — Kenneth Grahame
- The History of Henry Esmond — William Makepeace Thackeray
- The History of Pendennis — William Makepeace Thackeray
- The House of Mirth — Edith Wharton
- The Lifted Veil — George Eliot
- The Man Who Laughs — Victor Hugo · trans. Unknown
- The Newcomes — William Makepeace Thackeray
- The Prince and the Pauper — Mark Twain
- The Secret Sharer — Joseph Conrad
- The Shadow-Line — Joseph Conrad
- The Well-Beloved — Thomas Hardy
- The Wrong Box — Robert Louis Stevenson
- Vanity Fair — William Makepeace Thackeray
- Weir of Hermiston — Robert Louis Stevenson
20th Century · 99
- Billy Budd — Herman Melville, 1891
- Lord Jim — Joseph Conrad, 1900
- Sister Carrie — Theodore Dreiser, 1900
- Kim — Rudyard Kipling, 1901
- The Octopus — Frank Norris, 1901
- The Hound of the Baskervilles — Arthur Conan Doyle, 1902
- The Wings of the Dove — Henry James, 1902
- Typhoon — Joseph Conrad, 1902
- The Ambassadors — Henry James, 1903
- The Call of the Wild — Jack London, 1903
- The Way of All Flesh — Samuel Butler, 1903
- Nostromo — Joseph Conrad, 1904
- The Golden Bowl — Henry James, 1904
- The Sea-Wolf — Jack London, 1904
- Kipps — H. G. Wells, 1905
- The Return of Sherlock Holmes — Arthur Conan Doyle, 1905
- The Jungle — Upton Sinclair, 1906
- White Fang — Jack London, 1906
- The Secret Agent — Joseph Conrad, 1907
- A Room with a View — E.M. Forster, 1908
- The Wind in the Willows — Kenneth Grahame, 1908
- Martin Eden — Jack London, 1909
- Tono-Bungay — H.G. Wells, 1909
- The History of Mr Polly — H.G. Wells, 1910
- Ethan Frome — Edith Wharton, 1911
- The Quest of the Silver Fleece — W. E. B. Du Bois, 1911
- The Secret Garden — Frances Hodgson Burnett, 1911
- Under Western Eyes — Joseph Conrad, 1911
- The Reef — Edith Wharton, 1912
- Chance — Joseph Conrad, 1913
- In Search of Lost Time — Marcel Proust, 1913 · trans. C.K. Scott Moncrieff
- The Custom of the Country — Edith Wharton, 1913
- The Metamorphosis — Franz Kafka, 1915 · trans. David Wyllie
- The Song of the Lark — Willa Cather, 1915
- The Valley of Fear — Arthur Conan Doyle, 1915
- Victory — Joseph Conrad, 1915
- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man — James Joyce, 1916
- Growth of the Soil — Knut Hamsun, 1917 · trans. W. W. Worster
- Summer — Edith Wharton, 1917
- My Ántonia — Willa Cather, 1918
- The Magnificent Ambersons — Booth Tarkington, 1918
- My Man Jeeves — P.G. Wodehouse, 1919
- Winesburg, Ohio — Sherwood Anderson, 1919
- Flappers and Philosophers — F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1920
- Main Street — Sinclair Lewis, 1920
- Poor White — Sherwood Anderson, 1920
- The Age of Innocence — Edith Wharton, 1920
- The Lost Girl — D.H. Lawrence, 1920
- The Mysterious Affair at Styles — Agatha Christie, 1920
- This Side of Paradise — F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1920
- Women in Love — D.H. Lawrence, 1920
- Crome Yellow — Aldous Huxley, 1921
- The Triumph of the Egg — Sherwood Anderson, 1921
- Aaron's Rod — D.H. Lawrence, 1922
- Babbitt — Sinclair Lewis, 1922
- Jacob's Room — Virginia Woolf, 1922
- Tales of the Jazz Age — F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1922
- The Beautiful and Damned — F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1922
- The Forsyte Saga — John Galsworthy, 1922
- The Glimpses of the Moon — Edith Wharton, 1922
- The Secret Adversary — Agatha Christie, 1922
- A Lost Lady — Willa Cather, 1923
- A Son at the Front — Edith Wharton, 1923
- Antic Hay — Aldous Huxley, 1923
- Kangaroo — D.H. Lawrence, 1923
- Leave It to Psmith — P.G. Wodehouse, 1923
- The Inimitable Jeeves — P.G. Wodehouse, 1923
- The Murder on the Links — Agatha Christie, 1923
- A Passage to India — E.M. Forster, 1924
- In Our Time — Ernest Hemingway, 1924
- The Boy in the Bush — D.H. Lawrence, 1924
- The Man in the Brown Suit — Agatha Christie, 1924
- An American Tragedy — Theodore Dreiser, 1925
- Arrowsmith — Sinclair Lewis, 1925
- Carry On, Jeeves — P.G. Wodehouse, 1925
- Mrs Dalloway — Virginia Woolf, 1925
- The Great Gatsby — F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1925
- The Mother's Recompense — Edith Wharton, 1925
- The Professor's House — Willa Cather, 1925
- The Secret of Chimneys — Agatha Christie, 1925
- The Murder of Roger Ackroyd — Agatha Christie, 1926
- The Sun Also Rises — Ernest Hemingway, 1926
- Death Comes for the Archbishop — Willa Cather, 1927
- Elmer Gantry — Sinclair Lewis, 1927
- Men Without Women — Ernest Hemingway, 1927
- A Farewell to Arms — Ernest Hemingway, 1929
- The Sound and the Fury — William Faulkner, 1929
- The Maltese Falcon — Dashiell Hammett, 1930
- A Little Princess — Frances Hodgson Burnett
- All the Sad Young Men — F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Ann Veronica — H. G. Wells
- As I Lay Dying — William Faulkner
- His Last Bow — Arthur Conan Doyle
- Howards End — E. M. Forster
- Just So Stories — Rudyard Kipling
- Orlando — Virginia Woolf
- The First Men in the Moon — H. G. Wells
- The Lost World — Arthur Conan Doyle
- To the Lighthouse — Virginia Woolf
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