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Nicholas Nickleby
Author: Charles Dickens First published: 1838-39, by Chapman and Hall Nicholas Nickleby is not my favorite book by Dickens. In fact, it is one of my least favorite books by Dickens. But it is an...
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Bleak House
Author: Charles Dickens First published: 1852-53, by Bradbury and Evans WARNING: Plot spoiler Bleak House is Dickens’s great indictment on the Victorian legal system, but also his critique of a world...
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Great Expectations
Author: Charles Dickens First Published: 1860-61, in All the Year Round The two questions about Dickens that people most often ask me are “What is your favorite Dickens novel?” and “If I’ve never read...
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Jane Eyre
Author: Charlotte Brontë (Currer Bell) First Published: 1847, by Smith, Elder, and Co. Poor Jane Eyre—the doormat of 19th-century literature. Everyone walks all over her, and her mistreatment by other...
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David Copperfield
Author: Charles Dickens First published: 1849-50, by Bradbury and Evans WARNING: Plot spoiler The year before he died, Dickens called this novel “his favorite child.” While it is not exactly mine, I...
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Dracula
Author: Bram Stoker First Published: 1897, by Archibald Constable and Co. “Denn die Todten reiten Schnell” — (“For the dead travel fast.”) I love the opening chapter of Dracula—it’s like walking with...
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The Woman in White
Author: Wilkie Collins First Published: 1859-60, in All the Year Round The below is adapted from an essay I wrote for The Guardian UK online. Often singled out as the foundation text of “sensation...
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The Mill on the Floss
Author: George Eliot (Marian Evans) First published: 1860, by William Blackwood & Sons When Marian Evans began writing The Mill on the Floss during the first few months of 1859, the world did not...
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Wide Sargasso Sea
Author: Jean Rhys First published: 1966, by André Deutsch “Such terrible things happen,” I said. “Why? Why?” Jean Rhys (Ella Gwendolyn Rees Williams) was born in 1890 in Dominica—an island in the...
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Atonement
Author: Ian McEwan First published: 2001, by Jonathan Cape I have talked a lot about beginnings, but this book is all about the ending. Well, its endings, rather, because Atonement has many of them. I...
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