Sunday, March 4, 2007

Best British Novels/ists

This list comes from Richard Cracroft, former English professor at BYU and contributor to Meridian Magazine. I've had a hard copy of this list for a few years and have been highlighting the books I've read as I go along. I figured as long as I'm in the book list mode, I might as well post this on here. Once again, books I've read are in green.

The Forty All-Time-Best British Novelists
Being Cracroft's Only True-and-Living List of the Forty All-Time-Best-British-Novelists

Austen, Jane, Emma; Pride and Prejudice
Brontë, Charlotte, Jane Eyre
Brontë, Emily, Wuthering Heights
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward, The Last Days of Pompeii
Bunyan, John, Pilgrim's Progress
Butler, Samuel, The Way of All Flesh
Carroll, Lewis, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Conrad, Joseph, Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim
DeFoe, Daniel, Robinson Crusoe
Dickens, Charles, David Copperfield; Great Expectations; The Pickwick Papers there are more Dickens not on this list that I have read
Doyle, Arthur Conan, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Durrell, Lawrence, The Alexandria Quartet
DuMaurier, Daphne, Rebecca
Eliot, George, Adam Bede, Middlemarch, The Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner
Fielding, Henry, Tom Jones
Forster, E.M., A Passage to India; Howard's End; A Room with a View
Galsworthy, John, The Forsyte Saga
Golding, William, Lord of the Flies
Graves, Robert, I, Claudius
Greene, Graham, The Power and the Glory
Hardy, Thomas, The Return of the Native; Tess of the D'Urbervilles; The Mayor of Casterbridge
Huxley, Aldous, Brave New World
Joyce, James, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses
Kipling, Rudyard, Captains Couragous, Kim
Lawrence, D.H. Sons and Lovers
Lewis, C.S., The Chronicles of Narnia
Maugham, W. Somerset, Of Human Bondage
Orwell, George, 1984; Animal Farm
Scott, Sir Walter, Ivanhoe
Shelley, Mary, Frankenstein
Smollett, Tobias, Humphrey Clinker
Sterne, Laurence, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gent.
Stevenson, Robert Louis, Treasure Island
Swift, Jonathan, Gulliver's Travels
Thackeray, William Makepeace, Vanity Fair
Tolkien, J.R.R., The Lord of the Rings
Trollope, Anthony, Barcester Towers
Waugh, Evelyn, Brideshead Revisited
Wilde, Oscar, The Picture of Dorian Grey
Wolfe, Virginia, To the Lighthouse; Mrs. Dalloway

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