Recs if you like Tess of the D’Urbervilles...

Based on the list/book published in 2006, general editor Peter Boxall.

size matters for this list, all these classics are more than 400 pages long. they are THICK. suggestions welcome, i am a very generous interpreter of the term "classic" normally but i'm starting with the golden oldies

Penguin asked its readers in 2022 for the must-read classics. This is that list!

For when you need to wallow in melancholy and misery: a collection of pessimistic, cynical, downbeat, depressing, doom and gloom fiction for my disillusioned friends.

More to come!

Got the holiday blues? Check out my list Christmas with the Cranks!

for when you’re craving an emotional hangover.

titles named after the main character of the novel.

books mentioned in Solitaire by Alice Oseman

Found this online - a reading list of a first year English course at Oxford University. Wanted to create this for my own enjoyment and figured someone else might like it too! I only added the fiction and poetry books and I also did not add any companions.

The last bit (from bottom up to Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway) are required reading - top half is recommended.

I will update this list frequently! Recommendations welcomed.

Titles with full character's name. I haven't read all of those books, and I'm open to suggestions.

Ever wondered what books of your nation are taught in other countries? Well, I always do. This is what we study in English literature (by any English speaking country) here in Italian highschools.

I only study English, so I can only do it for this language. If any Italian highschooler wants to add books mentioned by their text that I didn't have, or books their teachers made them study in class, they are welcome to do so.

Hope someone is interested.

The Primary Works section of the Reading List of Thomas C. Foster's How to Read Literature Like a Professor

Books saved the narrator in "Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal" by Jeanette Winterson. Books may yet save us. This is a list of all the books mentioned & referenced in the novel. Feel free to comment any that I missed

All the books I've been asked to read for my English BA, but not necessarily the books I read while doing it (also i did a New Zealand literature paper so a couple of these will be a bit obscure)

Novels set in the countryside, which are comfy, connected, scenic and feels like home, you wish to live there❤️( I'm trying to collect stories from across the world, let me know your favourites, I'm happy to add as well)

Books recommended by Ruth Shaw in her memoir, The Bookseller at the End of the World.

The classics: mostly english & french lit, with some american & eastern european lit sprinkled in