British Novel/Fiction/Short Stories

Major Elizabethan to Romantic Fiction/Novel/Short Story

1. Sir Thomas Malory – Morte d’Arthur
2. Sir Thomas More- Utopia
3. Sir Philip sidney – Arcadia
4. Sir Thomas Lodge – Rosalynde
5. John Lyly – The Anatomy of Wit
6. Robert Greene – Pandosto (1588)
7. Francis Bacon – The New Atlantis
8. Sir Thomas Malory- Le Morte d’Arthur
9. John Bunyan- Pilgrim Progress
10. Aphra Behn – Oroonoko
11. Jonathan Swift- Gulliver’s Travels
12. Swift – A Tale of A Tub
13. Swift – The Battle of the Books
14. Swift – A Modest Proposal
15. Daniel Defoe- Robinson Crusoe
16. Daniel Defoe- Moll Flanders
17. Samuel Richardson- Pamela
18. Samuel Richardson-  Clarissa
19. Lawrence Sterne- Tristram Shandy
20. Jane Austen- Pride and Prejudice
21. Jane Austen- Sense and Sensibility
22. Jane Austen- Manseld Park
23. Jane Austen- Emma
24. Mary Shelley- Frankenstein
25. Horace Walpone- The Castle of Otranto
26. Fanny Burney- Evelina

Major Victorian Fiction/ Novel/Short Story

1. Charles Dickens- Pickwick Papers
2. Charles Dickens- Great Expectations
3. Charles Dickens- David Coppereld
4. William Makepeace Thackeray- Vanity Fair
5. George Eliot- Mill on the Floss
6. George Eliot- Middlemarch
7. Charlotte Bronte- Jane Eyre
8. Emily Bronte- Wuthering Heights
9. Thomas Hardy- Tess of the d’Urbervilles
10. Thomas Hardy- Mayor of the Casterbridge
11. Thomas Hardy- Jude The Obscure
12. Lewis Carroll- Alice in Wonderland
13. Wilkie Collins- The Woman in White

Major Modern & Postmodern Fiction/Novel/Short Story

1. Joseph Conrad- Heart of Darkness
2. Joseph Conrad- Lord Jim
3. George Orwell- 1984
4. James Joyce- Ulysses
5. James Joyce- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
6. Virginia Woolf- To the Lighthouse
7. Virginia Woolf- Mrs. Dalloway
8. D.H Lawrence- Sons and Lovers
9. D.H Lawrence- Women in Love
10. Aldous Huxley- Brave New World
11. Graham Greene- The Power and the Glory
12. E.M Forster- A Passage to India
13. H.G Wells- The Invisible Man
14. Rudyard Kipling- The Man Who Would Be King
15. Jeanette Winterson- Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
16. William Golding- Lord of the Flies
17. Martin Amis- Lucky Jim
18. John Fowles- The French Lieutenant’s Woman
19. Muriel Spark- The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
20. Major European Fiction/Novel/Short Story
21. Fyodor Dostoesvsky- The Brothers Karamazov
22. Fyodor Dostoevsky- Crime and Punishment
23. Leo Tolstoy- Anna Karenina
24. Leo Tolstoy- War and Peace
25. Alexander Pushkin- Eugene Onegin
26. Boris Pasternak- Dr Zhivago
27. Ivan Turgenev- Fathers and Sons
28. Vladimir Nabokov- Lolita
29. Joseph Conrad- The Shadow Line
30. Thomas Mann- Death in Venice
31. Franz Kafka- The Metamorphosis
32. Franz Kafka- The Trial
33. Hermann Hesse- Siddhartha
34. Günther Grass- The Tin Drum
35. Gustave Flaubert- Madame Bovary
36. Albert Camus- The Plague
37. Albert Camus- The Stranger
38. Alexandre Dumas- The Three Musketeers
39. Pearl S Buck- The Good Earth

Major American Fiction/Novel/Short Story

1. Herman Melville- Moby Dick
2. Louisa May Alcott- Little Woman
3. Nathaniel Hawthrone- The Scarlet Letter
4. Mark Twain- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
5. Mark Twain- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
6. Henry James- The Portrait of a Lady
7. Theordore Dreiser- Sister Carrie
8. William Faulkner- Sound and the Fury
9. William Faulkner- As I Lay Dying
10. Ernest Hemingway- A Farewell to Arms
11. Ernest Hemingway- The Old Man and the Sea
12. F.Scott Fitzgerald- The Great Gatsby

Major Indian Fiction/Novel/Short Story

1. R K Narayan- The Guide
2. R K Narayan- Swami and Friends
3. Raja Rao- Kanthapura
4. Kamala Markandaya- Nectar in a Sieve
5. Khushwant Singh- Train to Pakistan
6. Anita Desai- Fasting Feasting
7. Kiran Desai- The Inheritance of Loss
8. Arundhati Roy- The God of Small Things
9. Jhumpa Lahiri- The Namesake
10. Amitav Ghosh- The Shadow Lines
11. Amitav Ghosh- Hungry Tide

Major Post Colonial Fiction/Novel/Short Story

1. Toni Morrison- Beloved
2. Zora Neale Hurston- Their Eyes Are Watching God
3. Alice Walker- The Color Purple
4. Ralph Ellison- Invisible Man
5. Jean Rhys- Wide Sargasso Sea
6. Kazuo Ishiguru- Never Let me Go
7. Salman Rushdie- Midnight’s Children
8. V.S Naipaul- A House for Mr Biswas
9. Sam Selvon- Lonely Londoners
10. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie- Half of a Yellow Sun
11. Chinua Achebe- Things Fall Apart
12. J.M Coetzee- Disgrace
13. Michael Ondaatje- The English Patient
14. Margaret Atwood- The Handmaid’s Tale
15. Margaret Atwood- Surfacing
16. Shyam Selvaduria- Funny Boy
17. David Malouf- Fly Away Peter
18. Gabriel Garcia Marquez- One Hundred Years of Solitude