Top 141 Most Important Works of English Literature- Are you looking for famous English writers and their books to read? Do you want to read the top 100 English literature books for free? Here you will get a list of the best English literature books for PGT English, TGT English, Ph.D., M.phil, UPSC, PSC, and English lecturer posts.
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Top 141 Most Important Works of English Literature
- Animal Farm- George Orwell
- Arcadia- Sir Philip Sidney
- Absalom and Achitophel- John Dryden
- Adam Bede- George Eliot
- Agnes Grey- Anne Bronte
- Alchemy- Alexandrian Greeks
- Alchemist- Ben Jonson
- Amelia- Henry Fielding
- American- Henry James
- American Tragedy- Theodore Dreiser
- Astrophel and Stella- Sir Phillip Sidney
- Arcadia- Sir Philip Sidney
- As You Like It- Shakespeare
- Badman, The Life and Death of Mr- John Bunyan
- Bartholomew Fair- Ben Jonson
- Beowulf- Unknown
- Biographia Literaria- S.T Coleridge
- Borough- Crabbe
- Bostonians- Henry James
- Brave New World- Aldous Huxley
- Brideshead Revisited- Evelyn Waugh
- Cake and Ale- Somerset Maugham
- Caleb Williams, The Adventures- Godwin
- Can You Forgive Her- Trollope
- Candida- G.B Shaw
- Canterbury Tales- Geoffrey Chaucer
- Castle of Otranto- Horace Walpole
- Cenci- P.B Shelley
- Chaste Maid in Cheapside- Thomas Middleton
- Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage- Lord Byron
- Christabel- S.T Coleridge
- Clarissa- Samuel Richardson
- Colin Clout’s Come Home Again- Spenser
- Colonel Jack- Daniel Defoe
- Comical Revenge- Etherege
- Confessio Amantis- John Gower
- Confessions of an English Opium-Eater- Thomas De Quincey
- Confidence Man- Herman Melville
- Coningsby- Disraeli
- Daniel Deronda- George Eliot
- Dombey and Son- Chrles Dickens
- Don Juan- Lord Byron
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde- R.L Stevenson
- Dubliners- James Joyce
- Duchess of Malfi- John Webster
- Edwin Drood- Charles Dickens
- Egoist- George Meredith
- Emma- Jane Austen
- Endymion- John Keats
- Essay of Dramatic Poesy- John Dryden
- Essay on Man- Alexander Pope
- Essay in Criticism- Matthew Arnold
- Essay of Elia- Charles Lamb
- Euphues- John Lyly
- Eve of St.Agnes- John Keats
- Every Man in his Humour- Ben Jonson
- Far From The Madding Crowd- Thomas Hardy
- Forsyte Saga- John Galsworthy
- Four Quarters- T.S Eliot
- Frankenstein- Mary Shelley
- Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay- Robert Green
- Gulliver Travels- Jonathan Swift
- Hamlet- Shakespeare
- Hard Times- Charles Dickens
- Heart of Midlothian- Sir Walter Scott
- House of Fame- Geoffrey Chaucer
- Idler- Samuel Johnson
- In Memoriam- Alfred Tennyson
- Instauratio Magna- Francis Bacon
- Intimation of Immorality From Recollection- William Wordsworth
- The Invisible Man- H.G Wells
- Jane Eyre- Charlotte Bronte
- Jonathan Wild The Great- Henry Fielding
- Joseph Andrews- Thomas Hardy
- Julius Caesar- Shakespeare
- Kidnapped- R.L Stevenson
- Kubla Khan- S.T Coleridge
- Kim- Rudyard Kipling
- Kipps- H.G Wells
- King Lear- Shakespeare
- Knight’s Tale- Geoffrey Chaucer
- Lady Chatterley’s Lovers- D.H Lawrence
- Lady of Shalott- Alfred Tennyson
- Lives of the Poets- Samuel Johnson
- Lord Jim- Joseph Conrad
- Love’s Labour’s Lost- Shakespeare
- Lycidas- John Milton
- Macbeth- Shakespeare
- Mayor of Casterbridge- Thomas Hardy
- Merchant of Venice- Shakespeare
- Mill in the Floss- George Eliot
- Moll Flanders- Daniel Defoe
- Monk- Matthew Lewis
- Much Ado About Nothing- Shakespeare
- Nicholas Nickleby- Charles Dickens
- Nigger of Narcissus- Joseph Conard
- Nineteen Eight Four- George Orwell
- Of Human Bondage- Somerset Maugham
- Oliver Twist- Charles Dickens
- Pair of Blue Eyes- Thomas Hardy
- Pamela or Virtue Rewarded- Samuel Richardson
- Passage To India- E.M Forster
- Persuasion- Jane Austen
- Prelude- William Wordsworth
- Pride and Prejudice- Jane Austen
- Professor- Charlotte Bronte
- Prologue to The Canterbury Tales- Geoffrey Chaucer
- Pygmalion- G.B Shaw
- Rape of the Lock- Alexander Pope
- Religio Medici- Sir Thomas Browne
- Romeo and Juliet- Shakespeare
- Room with a View- E.M Forster
- School for Scandal- Richard Brinsley Sheridan
- Scrutiny- F.R Levies
- Sense and Sensibility- Jane Austen
- Sentimental Journey- Laurence Sterne
- Shepherd’s Calendar- John Clare
- Shoemaker’s Holiday- Thomas Dekker
- Silas Mariner- George Eliot
- Sons and Lovers- D.H Lawrence
- Tale of A Tub- Jonathan Swift
- Tale of Two Cities- Charles Dickens
- Tempest- Shakespeare
- Tess of The D’Urbervilles- Thomas Hardy
- Tom Jones- Henry Fielding
- Treasure Island- Robert Louis Stevenson
- Troilus and Criseyde- Geoffrey Chaucer
- Twelfth Night- Shakespeare
- To The Light House- Virginia Woolf
- Ulysses- James Joyce
- Under the Greenwood Tree- Thomas Hardy
- Venus and Adonis- Shakespeare
- Vicar of Wakefield- Oliver Goldsmith
- The Way of the World- William Congreve
- Waverly- Sir Walter Scott
- Where Angels Fear to Tread- E.M Forster
- The Women in Love- D.H Lawrence
- Woodlanders- Thomas Hardy
- Wuthering Heights- Emil Bronte
- Absentee- Maria Edgeworth
- Anna of the Five Towns- Arnold Bennett