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 |
Note: All images are directly linked to their source on Wikipedia, Project Gutenberg, or the YC Library Catalog.