25 Books an English Literature Student Should Read

Although studying an English Literature degree entails hours upon hours of reading, and a vast amount of books to read, there will always remain those 'classic' novels that deserve a place on your bookshelf.

Here is the list, in no particular order!

1. 'Ulysses' by James Joyce

2. 'The Sound and the Fury' by William Faulkner

3. '1984' by George Orwell

4. 'Lord of the Flies' by William Golding

5. 'A Clockwork Orange' by Anthony Burgess

6. 'A Farewell to Arms' by Ernest Hemingway

7. 'Great Expectations' by Charles Dickens

8. 'Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' by Mark Twain

9. 'To Kill a Mockingbird' by Harper Lee

10. 'The Hound of the Baskervilles' by Arthur Conan Doyle

11. 'The Great Gatsby' F. Scott Fitzgerald

12. 'Frankenstein' by Mary Shelley

13. 'Tess of the D'Urbervilles' by Thomas Hardy

14. 'Wuthering Heights' by Emily Brontë

15. 'Robinson Crusoe' by Daniel Defoe

16. 'Anna Karenina' by Leo Tolstoy

17. 'Moby Dick' by Herman Melville

18. 'Middlemarch' by George Eliot

19. 'The Scarlet Letter' by Nathaniel Hawthorne

20. 'The Way We Live Now' by Anthony Trollope

21. 'Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde' by Robert Louis Stevenson

22. 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' by Oscar Wilde

23. 'Catcher in the Rye' by J.D. Salinger

24. 'The Lord Of The Rings' by J. R. R. Tolkien

25. 'Midnight's Children' by Salman Rushdie

With so many novels to choose from, selecting just 25 was really hard. If there is a novel you think should be on the list, let us know!

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