British Novel/Fiction/Short Stories
Major Elizabethan to Romantic Fiction/Novel/Short Story
- Sir Thomas Malory – Morte d’Arthur
- Sir Thomas More- Utopia
- Sir Philip sidney – Arcadia
- Sir Thomas Lodge – Rosalynde
- John Lyly – The Anatomy of Wit
- Robert Greene – Pandosto (1588)
- Francis Bacon – The New Atlantis
- Sir Thomas Malory- Le Morte d’Arthur
- John Bunyan- Pilgrim Progress
- Aphra Behn – Oroonoko
- Jonathan Swift- Gulliver’s Travels
- Swift – A Tale of A Tub
- Swift – The Battle of the Books
- Swift – A Modest Proposal
- Daniel Defoe- Robinson Crusoe
- Daniel Defoe- Moll Flanders
- Samuel Richardson- Pamela
- Samuel Richardson- Clarissa
- Lawrence Sterne- Tristram Shandy
- Jane Austen- Pride and Prejudice
- Jane Austen- Sense and Sensibility
- Jane Austen- Manseld Park
- Jane Austen- Emma
- Mary Shelley- Frankenstein
- Horace Walpone- The Castle of Otranto
- Fanny Burney- Evelina
Major Victorian Fiction/ Novel/Short Story
- Charles Dickens- Pickwick Papers
- Charles Dickens- Great Expectations
- Charles Dickens- David Coppereld
- William Makepeace Thackeray- Vanity Fair
- George Eliot- Mill on the Floss
- George Eliot- Middlemarch
- Charlotte Bronte- Jane Eyre
- Emily Bronte- Wuthering Heights
- Thomas Hardy- Tess of the d’Urbervilles
- Thomas Hardy- Mayor of the Casterbridge
- Thomas Hardy- Jude The Obscure
- Lewis Carroll- Alice in Wonderland
- Wilkie Collins- The Woman in White
Major Modern & Postmodern Fiction/Novel/Short Story
- Joseph Conrad- Heart of Darkness
- Joseph Conrad- Lord Jim
- George Orwell- 1984
- James Joyce- Ulysses
- James Joyce- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- Virginia Woolf- To the Lighthouse
- Virginia Woolf- Mrs. Dalloway
- D.H Lawrence- Sons and Lovers
- D.H Lawrence- Women in Love
- Aldous Huxley- Brave New World
- Graham Greene- The Power and the Glory
- E.M Forster- A Passage to India
- H.G Wells- The Invisible Man
- Rudyard Kipling- The Man Who Would Be King
- Jeanette Winterson- Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
- William Golding- Lord of the Flies
- Martin Amis- Lucky Jim
- John Fowles- The French Lieutenant’s Woman
- Muriel Spark- The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
- Major European Fiction/Novel/Short Story
- Fyodor Dostoesvsky- The Brothers Karamazov
- Fyodor Dostoevsky- Crime and Punishment
- Leo Tolstoy- Anna Karenina
- Leo Tolstoy- War and Peace
- Alexander Pushkin- Eugene Onegin
- Boris Pasternak- Dr Zhivago
- Ivan Turgenev- Fathers and Sons
- Vladimir Nabokov- Lolita
- Joseph Conrad- The Shadow Line
- Thomas Mann- Death in Venice
- Franz Kafka- The Metamorphosis
- Franz Kafka- The Trial
- Hermann Hesse- Siddhartha
- Günther Grass- The Tin Drum
- Gustave Flaubert- Madame Bovary
- Albert Camus- The Plague
- Albert Camus- The Stranger
- Alexandre Dumas- The Three Musketeers
- Pearl S Buck- The Good Earth
Major American Fiction/Novel/Short Story
- Herman Melville- Moby Dick
- Louisa May Alcott- Little Woman
- Nathaniel Hawthrone- The Scarlet Letter
- Mark Twain- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- Mark Twain- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
- Henry James- The Portrait of a Lady
- Theordore Dreiser- Sister Carrie
- William Faulkner- Sound and the Fury
- William Faulkner- As I Lay Dying
- Ernest Hemingway- A Farewell to Arms
- Ernest Hemingway- The Old Man and the Sea
- F.Scott Fitzgerald- The Great Gatsby
Major Indian Fiction/Novel/Short Story
- R K Narayan- The Guide
- R K Narayan- Swami and Friends
- Raja Rao- Kanthapura
- Kamala Markandaya- Nectar in a Sieve
- Khushwant Singh- Train to Pakistan
- Anita Desai- Fasting Feasting
- Kiran Desai- The Inheritance of Loss
- Arundhati Roy- The God of Small Things
- Jhumpa Lahiri- The Namesake
- Amitav Ghosh- The Shadow Lines
- Amitav Ghosh- Hungry Tide
Major Post Colonial Fiction/Novel/Short Story
- Toni Morrison- Beloved
- Zora Neale Hurston- Their Eyes Are Watching God
- Alice Walker- The Color Purple
- Ralph Ellison- Invisible Man
- Jean Rhys- Wide Sargasso Sea
- Kazuo Ishiguru- Never Let me Go
- Salman Rushdie- Midnight’s Children
- V.S Naipaul- A House for Mr Biswas
- Sam Selvon- Lonely Londoners
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie- Half of a Yellow Sun
- Chinua Achebe- Things Fall Apart
- J.M Coetzee- Disgrace
- Michael Ondaatje- The English Patient
- Margaret Atwood- The Handmaid’s Tale
- Margaret Atwood- Surfacing
- Shyam Selvaduria- Funny Boy
- David Malouf- Fly Away Peter
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez- One Hundred Years of Solitude