Recs if you like Howards End...
1001 Books to Read Before You Die
Based on the list/book published in 2006, general editor Peter Boxall.
The Guardian’s The 100 Best Novels of All Time
A list published by The Guardian on 5/16/2026, as voted on by authors, critics, and academics worldwide.
Top 100 Books! (According to The Guardian)
The Guardian Top 100 Best Novels
Oxford Reading List for English
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.
from Page to Stage
Theater has long drawn inspiration from books, with works across time, genre, and subject matter having stage adaptations. You're sure to know some big names, but others might surprise you! How many have you seen?
How to Read Literature Like a Professor: List
The Primary Works section of the Reading List of Thomas C. Foster's How to Read Literature Like a Professor
academy award for best adapted screenplay books!
books that have been adapted into successful movies and have also won an oscar for their screenplay
bible
The Guardian's 100 Best Novels of All Time
In May 2026 the Guardian published a list of the 100 greatest novels published in English of all time. The list was created based on votes from authors, critics, and academics.
Due to an error, the list originally included The Go-Between by L.P. Hartley instead of The Stranger by Albert Camus. Both are included here, as an unofficial 101 best novels
pastoral England
classic novels where the depiction of rural, pastoral England is a notable feature
spring reads
books that are like a breath of fresh air or based in nature, or are full of exuberance, sweetness, mischief, long ramblings, and childlike fun
Edwardian / Gilded Age
Books set in or around the Edwardian and Gilded Age
Summer Reads
Books to enjoy in the summer months.
Lemony Snicket's Book Tips
Every book that Lemony Snicket mentions in All the Wrong Questions
illicit affairs & clandestine meetings
Set in Early 20th Century
Takes places during 1900-1930
books i turn to
books i've reread over and over, books that feel like a warm hug when i'm sad, books that i never wanted to end, books that made me want to be a writer
