Novels & literary fiction

Landmark works

1. 1813 Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen · read free
2. 1719 Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe · read free
3. 1818 Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley
4. 1839 Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens · read free
5. 1843 A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens · read free
6. 1861 Great Expectations by Charles Dickens · read free
7. 1850 David Copperfield by Charles Dickens · read free
8. 1859 A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens · read free
9. 1897 The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
10. 1895 The Time Machine by H. G. Wells
11. 1811 Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen · read free
12. 2001 Quidditch Through the Ages by J. K. Rowling
13. V for Vendetta by Alan Moore
14. 1927 To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
15. 1925 Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
16. 1836 The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens · read free
17. 1885 King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard
18. 1912 The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett · read free
19. 1891 Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
20. 1749 The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding
21. 1884 Flatland by Edwin Abbott Abbott · read free
22. 2001 Atonement by Ian McEwan
23. 1871 Middlemarch by George Eliot
24. 2004 Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
25. 1868 The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins · read free
26. 1722 Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe · read free
27. 1871 Lady Susan by Jane Austen · read free
28. 1854 Hard Times: For These Times by Charles Dickens · read free
29. 1887 She: A History of Adventure by H. Rider Haggard · read free
30. 1894 The Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope · read free

Writers

• Charles Dickens1812–1870 · English novelist and social critic (1812–1870)
• Jane Austen1775–1817 · author, novelist, writer (1775–1817)
• J. K. Rowling1965 · English author (born 1965)
• Virginia Woolf1882–1941 · English modernist writer (1882–1941)
• H. G. Wells1866–1946 · English writer (1866–1946)
• Mary Shelley1797–1851 · English writer (1797–1851)
• Charlotte Brontë1816–1855 · British novelist and poet (1816-1855)
• George Eliot1819–1880 · English novelist, essayist, poet and journalist (1819–1880)
• Thomas Hardy1840–1928 · English novelist and poet (1840–1928)
• William Golding1911–1993 · British novelist, poet, playwright and Nobel Prize for Literature laureate (1911–1993)
• Mick Jagger1943 · British singer and songwriter; vocalist of The Rolling Stones
• Graham Greene1904–1991 · British writer, playwright and literary critic (1904–1991)
• D. H. Lawrence1885–1930 · English writer and poet (1885–1930)
• Neil Gaiman1960 · English writer (born 1960)
• Beatrix Potter1866–1943 · British children's writer and illustrator (1866–1943)
• Stephen Fry1957 · British comedian, actor, writer, presenter, and activist
• William Morris1834–1896 · textile designer, artist, writer, printer (1834–1896)
• DD Daphne du Maurier1907–1989 · British writer (1907–1989)
• Walter Raleigh1552–1618 · English statesman, soldier and writer (1552–1618)
• Anthony Burgess1917–1993 · English writer and composer (1917–1993)
• Morrissey1959 · British singer and songwriter
• Alan Moore1953 · British comic book author (born 1953)
• Evelyn Waugh1903–1966 · British writer and journalist (1903–1966)
• Henry Fielding1707–1754 · English novelist and dramatist (1707–1754)

And 539 more

• Joan Collins (1933)
• John Henry Newman (1801)
• William Godwin (1756)
• Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849)
• Aphra Behn (1640)
• Jhumpa Lahiri (1967)
• Richard Francis Burton (1821)
• Ian McEwan (1948)
• Wilkie Collins (1824)
• Elizabeth Gaskell (1810)
• Julian Barnes (1946)
• Harriet Martineau (1802)
• Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803)
• Samuel Butler (1835)
• H. Rider Haggard (1856)
• Barbara Cartland (1901)
• David Walliams (1971)
• Robert Shaw (1927)
• Anthony Trollope (1815)
• Dorothy L. Sayers (1893)
• Ann Radcliffe (1764)
• Alex Garland (1970)
• Marty Feldman (1934)
• Leonora Carrington (1917)
• Rebecca West (1892)
• Nancy Mitford (1904)
• Angela Carter (1940)
• Michael Moorcock (1939)
• Nick Hornby (1957)
• David Mitchell (1969)
• George Meredith (1828)
• Samuel Richardson (1687)
• Tim Rice (1944)
• Aubrey Beardsley (1872)
• Michaela Coel (1987)
• Maria Edgeworth (1768)
• Bernie Taupin (1950)
• Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire (1757)
• Daniel Defoe (1660)
• Frances Burney (1752)
• Richard O'Brien (1942)
• Helen Fielding (1958)
• Peter Ackroyd (1949)
• Jane Asher (1946)
• Ford Madox Ford (1873)
• Peter Cook (1937)
• Lady Caroline Lamb (1785)
• Genesis P-Orridge (1950)
• John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester (1647)
• William Beckford (1760)
• Meera Syal (1961)
• George Gissing (1857)
• Peter Hammill (1948)
• Sebastian Shaw (1905)
• Mary Renault (1905)
• Alan Sillitoe (1928)
• Isaac Watts (1674)
• Warren Ellis (1968)
• Alan Hollinghurst (1954)
• Leonard Woolf (1880)
• Jack Thorne (1978)
• Jane Goldman (1970)
• John Harington (1560)
• John Cleland (1709)
• Edwin Abbott Abbott (1838)
• Sebastian Faulks (1953)
• William Hope Hodgson (1877)
• Graham Swift (1949)
• Anthony Powell (1905)
• Grace Dent (1973)
• Nigel Planer (1953)
• Thomas Nashe (1567)
• Christopher Priest (1943)
• Anthony Hope (1863)
• Joanna Trollope (1943)
• William Langland (1332)
• James Herbert (1943)
• Ralph Brown (1957)
• Peter James (1948)
• Sally Wainwright (1963)
• Stewart Lee (1968)
• Constance Lloyd (1859)
• Michael Frayn (1933)
• Caroline Norton (1808)
• Jonathan Coe (1961)
• Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton (1831)
• Melvyn Bragg (1939)
• Robert Greene (1558)
• Carol Drinkwater (1948)
• John Cowper Powys (1872)
• Julian Clary (1959)
• Merlin Holland (1945)
• Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1835)
• Chris Chibnall (1970)
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• Kim Newman (1959)
• Vyvyan Holland (1886)
• M. John Harrison (1945)
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• Peter Mayle (1939)
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• Willy Russell (1947)
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• Robert Bridges (1844)
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• T. F. Powys (1875)
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• Jenn Ashworth (1982)
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• Mortimer Collins (1827)
• Les Barker (1947)
• Henrietta Eliza Vaughan Stannard (1856)
• Dougie Brimson (1959)
• Cathi Unsworth (1968)
• Julia Blackburn (1948)
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• Virginia Henley (1935)
• Edward Pakenham, 6th Earl of Longford (1902)
• Hugh Conway (1847)
• Soame Jenyns (1704)
• Emanuel Litvinoff (1915)
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• Robert Nichols (1893)
• William Hale White (1831)
• Joel Lane (1963)
• Alice Dixon Le Plongeon (1851)
• Sarah Holland (1961)
• Ian Stuart Black (1915)
• Edith Olivier (1872)
• Benjamin Farjeon (1838)
• Margaret Irwin (1889)
• Mollie Panter-Downes (1906)
• Elizabeth Buchan (1948)
• Vivian Stuart (1914)
• Lady Pansy Lamb (1904)
• Bernard Barton (1784)
• Barbara Hofland (1770)
• Dreda Say Mitchell (1965)
• Lucas Malet (1852)
• Albert Richard Smith (1816)
• Richard Church (1893)
• John Rodker (1894)
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• Ralph Hale Mottram (1883)
• Margaret Louisa Woods (1855)
• Roy Fisher (1930)
• Bernard Newman (1897)
• Harry Graham (1874)
• Maria Jane Jewsbury (1800)
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• Ernest Rhys (1859)
• Violet Fane (1843)
• Lady Dorothy Mills (1889)
• Ella D'Arcy (1857)
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• Robert Keable (1887)
• William Babington Maxwell (1866)
• Tim Fountain (1967)
• Louis Golding (1895)
• Anthony Anaxagorou (1983)
• Sean Bonney (1969)
• Horace Annesley Vachell (1861)
• Sheenagh Pugh (1950)
• Elizabeth Benger (1775)
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• Anna Blackwell (1816)
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• Edward Bradley (1827)
• Catherine Hubback (1818)
• Mona Douglas (1898)
• William Brighty Rands (1823)
• Ian Duhig (1954)
• Jessie Fothergill (1851)
• William McFee (1881)
• James Roose-Evans (1927)
• Mary Stocks, Baroness Stocks (1891)
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• Ethel Carnie Holdsworth (1886)
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• Bessie Marchant (1862)
• Sarah Hilary (1950)
• John Osborne (1981)
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• Sarah Anne Curzon (1833)
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• Benjamin Brierley (1825)
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• Frank Cowper (1849)
• Marjorie Pickthall (1883)
• Mary Gleed Tuttiett (1846)
• Augusta Theodosia Drane (1823)
• Anne Ross Cousin (1824)
• Frederick Chamier (1796)
• Anne Marsh-Caldwell (1791)
• Annie Hall Cudlip (1838)
• Hubert Crackanthorpe (1870)
• Paul Selver (1888)
• Gabriel Fielding (1916)
• Leo Myers (1881)
• Elizabeth Bentley (1767)
• Alec John Dawson (1872)
• Nathaniel Gould (1857)
• Netta Syrett (1865)
• Garry O'Connor (1938)
• Ada Buisson (1839)
• Amabel Kerr (1846)
• E. L. Grant Watson (1885)
• Caroline Emily Lovett Cameron (1844)
• Edith Cowper (1859)
• George Keate (1729)
• Richard Cobbold (1797)
• Mary Charlotte Julia Gordon (1840)
• Adeline Sergeant (1851)
• Rachel McCarthy (1984)
• Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler (1860)
• Ellen Buckingham Mathews (1849)
• Laura, Lady Troubridge (1867)
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• Basil Macdonald Hastings (1881)
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• Caroline Wigley Clive (1801)
• Michael Morton (1862)
• John Clarke (1885)
• A. Hamilton Gibbs (1888)
• Alice Mary Buckton (1867)
• Mary Hay (1840)
• Charles Francis Keary (1848)
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• Alice Dudeney (1866)
• Caroline Grosvenor (1858)
• Jeremy Brooks (1926)
• Willie Riley (1866)
• Judith Barrington (1944)
• Paul Mendelson (1965)
• Henry Sambrooke Leigh (1837)
• George Calderon (1868)
• Jane Wenham-Jones (1962)
• Harriet Parr (1828)
• Annie Jack (1839)
• William Brough (1826)
• Bernadette Strachan (1962)
• Marcas Mac an Tuairneir (1984)
• Coulson Kernahan (1858)
• Richard Percival Lister (1914)
• Zadie Smith (1975)
• Jane Gomeldon (1720)
• Daniel Weissbort (1935)
• Cecily Sidgwick (1854)
• Arthur Gask (1869)
• John Shebbeare (1709)
• Caroline Fry (1787)
• Ridgwell Cullum (1867)
• Daren King (1972)
• Edith Alleyne Sinnotte (1871)
• John Abraham Heraud (1799)
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• Gertrude M. Robins (1861)
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• Caroline Biggs (1840)
• Emery Bonett (1906)
• N. M. Browne (1960)
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• Tom Gallon (1866)
• Arthur Montagu Brookfield (1853)
• Dorothy Boulger (1847)
• Mary Linskill (1840)
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• Mary Grimstone (1796)
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