1. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales 

2. John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress 

3. Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe 

4. Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels  

5. Charles and Mary Lamb, Tales from Shakespeare 

6. Charles Dickens, A Tale of two Cities 

7. William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair 

8. Jane Austin, Pride and Prejudice 

9. Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre 

10. Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights  

11. George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans), The Mill on the Floss 

12. Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island 

13. Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim  

14. Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady 

15. Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles 

16. E. M. Forster, A Passage to India 

17. George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion  

18. David Herbert Lawrence, Sons and Lovers 

19. Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse 

20. Herman Melville, Moby Dick

21. Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin 

22. Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter  

23. Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens), The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 

24. Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie 

25. Jack London, The Call of the Wild 

26. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby 

27. Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea 

28. William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury 

29. John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath 

30. Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind