53 Novel Anthology

The following is a collection of novels that are considered classics in literature. They are listed in alphabetical order by the author’s last name. I have included the author, title, genre, and publication year in the table.

Novels in the public domain can be read online through Gutenberg. Simply click on the title to be taken to the novel. Modern novels are linked directly to the Yavapai College Library (anything after 1938). All titles listed here have at least one film adaptation.

Author	Title	Genre	Year Published
Louisa May Alcott	Little Women	Mid-19th Century American Lit	1868
Isabel Allende	The House of Spirits	Magical Realism	1982
Julia Alvarez	In the Time of Butterflies	Historical Fiction	1994
Rudolfo Anaya	Bless Me, Ultima	Chicano Literature	1972
Jane Austen	Emma	Early 19th century British Fiction	1815
Charlotte Bronte	Jane Eyre	British Lit	1847
Emily Bronte	Wuthering Heights	Romantic/Gothic British Lit	1847
John Bunyan	Pilgrim’s Progress	Christian Allegory	1678
Kate Chopin	The Awakening	Late-19th Century American Lit	1899
Sandra Cisneros	House on Mango Street	Chicano Literature	1984
Joseph Conrad	Victory	Psychological Novel	1915
Charles Dickens	Great Expectations	Early British Lit	1861
Arthur Conan Doyle	The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes	British Mystery	1892
Laura Esquirel	Like Water for Chocolate	Magical Realism	1989
F. Scott Fitzgerald	This Side of Paradise	Early-20th Century American Lit	1920
William Goldman	Princess Bride	Fantasy Romance	1973
Nathaniel Hawthorne	The Scarlet Letter	Mid-19th Century American Lit	1850
Ernest Hemingway	The Sun Also Rises	Modernist	1926
Frank Herbert	Dune	Science Fiction	1965
Khalid Hosseini	The Kite Runner	Modern Fiction	2003
Harper Lee	To Kill a Mockingbird	Southern Gothic Fiction	1960
Marco Vargas Llosa	Feast of the Goat	Peruvian Novel	2000
Yann Martel	Life of Pi	Modern Fiction	2001
Ian McEwan	Atonement	British Metafiction	2001
Herman Melville	Moby Dick	Adventure	1851
George Orwell	1984	Dystopian Lit	1949
Ayn Rand	Anthem	Early American Dystopian	1938
Peter Rock	My Abandonment	Modern Fiction	2010
J. D. Salinger	Catcher in the Rye	Modern Fiction	1945
Sapphire	Push	Modern Fiction	1996
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley	Frankenstein	Gothic British Lit	1818
John Steinbeck	Grapes of Wrath	American Realist Novel	1939
Robert Louis Stevenson	Treasure Island	Adventure Novel	1881
Kathryn Stockett	The Help	Historical Fiction	2009
J.R.R. Tolkein	Lord of the Rings	Epic High-Fantasy	1954
Mark Twain	The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson	Late-19th Century American Lit	1893
Oscar Wilde	The Picture of Dorian Gray	Gothic British Lit	1890

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