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Essential Books

Favourite classic novels. From Charles Dickens to Jane Austen, Margaret Atwood to Roald Dahl, name the authors of the following classic books.


Books

  1. Peter Pan
  2. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
  3. Silas Marner
  4. I, Claudius
  5. Lark Rise to Candleford




  6. The Secret Garden
  7. Little Women
  8. The Sea, The Sea
  9. Pride and Prejudice
  10. The Catcher in the Rye
  11. Lolita
  12. Midnight's Children
  13. Mrs Dalloway
  14. To Kill a Mockingbird
  15. Vanity Fair
  16. The Great Gatsby
  17. The Wind in the Willows
  18. Catch-22
  19. Brideshead Revisited
  20. Women in Love
  21. The Iliad
  22. Middlemarch
  23. A Christmas Carol
  24. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
  25. The Lord of the Rings
  26. In Cold Blood
  27. North and South
  28. Les Miserables
  29. Of Human Bondage
  30. The Mill on the Floss
  31. One Hundred Years of Solitude
  32. Hard Times
  33. Wuthering Heights
  34. Ulysses
  35. The Handmaid's Tale
  36. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
  37. War and Peace
  38. The Count of Monte Cristo
  39. Barchester Towers
  40. The Godfather
  41. The Brothers Karamazov
  42. East of Eden
  43. Brave New World
  44. The Time Machine
  45. Diary of a Nobody
  46. North and South
  47. The Forsyte Saga
  48. Anna Karenina
  49. Scoop
  50. Orlando
  51. Crime and Punishment
  52. The Betrothed
  53. The Grapes of Wrath
  54. The Code of the Woosters
  55. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
  56. Dracula
  57. Frankenstein
  58. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
  59. Beloved
  60. Moby-Dick
  61. Nineteen Eighty-Four
  62. Tess of the d'Urbervilles
  63. Persuasion



Books and Authors:

  1. Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie (1904)
  2. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (1865)
  3. Silas Marner by George Eliot (1861)
  4. I, Claudius by Robert Graves (1934)
  5. Lark Rise to Candleford by Flora Thompson (1939)
  6. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett (1911)
  7. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (1868)
  8. The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch (1978)
  9. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (1813)
  10. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger (1951)
  11. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (1955)
  12. Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie (1981)he
  13. Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (1925)
  14. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (1960)
  15. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray (1847)
  16. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925)
  17. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame (1908)
  18. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (1961)
  19. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh (1945)
  20. Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence (1920)
  21. The Iliad by Homer (8th century BC)
  22. Middlemarch by George Eliot (1871)
  23. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (1843)
  24. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (1884)
  25. The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien (1954)
  26. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote (1965)
  27. North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell (1854)
  28. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo (1862)
  29. Of Human Bondage by Somerset Maugham (1915)
  30. The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot (1860)
  31. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez (1967)
  32. Hard Times by Charles Dickens (1854)
  33. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë (1847)
  34. Ulysses by James Joyce (1922)
  35. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (1985)
  36. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl (1964)
  37. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (1867)
  38. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas (1844)
  39. Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope (1857)
  40. The Godfather by Mario Puzo (1969)
  41. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1880)
  42. East of Eden by John Steinbeck (1952)
  43. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (1932)
  44. The Time Machine by H. G. Wells (1895)
  45. Diary of a Nobody by George Grossmith and Weedon Grossmith (1892)
  46. North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell (1854)
  47. The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy (1922)
  48. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (1878)
  49. Scoop by Evelyn Waugh (1938)
  50. Orlando by Virginia Woolf (1928)
  51. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky (1866)
  52. The Betrothed by Alessandro Manzoni (1827)
  53. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (1939)
  54. The Code of the Woosters by P. G. Wodehouse (1938)
  55. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey (1962)
  56. Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897)
  57. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (1823)
  58. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis (1950)
  59. Beloved by Toni Morrison (1987)
  60. Moby-Dick by Herman Melville (1851)
  61. Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell (1949)
  62. Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy (1891)
  63. Persuasion by Jane Austen (1818)