How many of these books have you read?
Thank you Jess’ Reading Nook for putting together this list of essential British literature classics! (You can check out her post here). Feel free to join in! Copy and paste this into a post on your blog, link back to Jess’ post, and change the color of all the books you have read. Are there any you already have on your TBR list??
Read: 26 /50 TBR: 16/50
Emma by Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte *
Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan *
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess *
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens *
A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Wasteland by T.S. Elliot
Lord of the Flies by William Golding *
Far From the Maddening Crowd by Thomas Hardy
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley *
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce *
Ulysses by James Joyce
Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling *
The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
Le Morte d’Arthur by Thomas Malory
Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe *
Paradise Lost by John Milton *
Utopia by Sir Thomas Moore *
Animal Farm by George Orwell
1984 by George Orwell
Rape of Lock by Alexander Pope *
Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott *
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
A Midsummer’s Night Dream by William Shakespeare
Othello by William Shakespeare
Romeo & Juliet by William Shakespeare
Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
The Expedition of Humphrey Clinker by Tobias Smollett
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson *
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
Vanity Fair by William Thackeray
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
Beowulf by Unknown
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells
War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde *
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Wolfe *
Cheers.
(Check out my list of American Classics here)
Thank you so much for participating.:)You’ve read so many of them! I noticed that Lord of the Flies is on your TBR. I hope you enjoy it- it’s one of my favorite novels to teach.
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I’ve been meaning to read it ever since my teacher took it off our class syllabus in high school! My TBR list just keeps on growing but after participating in this checklist post I realized that I need to step up my game haha (:
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