British Literature

English literature is the literature written in the English language, including literature composed in English by writers not necessarily from England; for example, Robert Burns was Scottish, James Joyce was Irish, Joseph Conrad was born in Poland, Dylan Thomas was Welsh, Edgar Allan Poe was American, V.S. Naipaul was born in Trinidad, and Vladimir Nabokov was Russian, but all are considered important writers in the history of English literature. In other words, English literature is as diverse as the varieties and dialects of English spoken around the world. In academia, the term often labels ...more

The Oxford Detective Society (The Oxford Detective Society, #1)
Life of M
The Whitechapel Full Moon Society
The House of Boleyn
The Silent Appeal (The Appeal, #2)
The Phone Swap
The Salt King
Demons and Diplomacy (Ministry of Supernatural Affairs #1)
The Castle: Adventures in a World of Unraveling Men
The Bravest Hour (Verity Kent Mysteries, #9)
Murder in Blackfriars (Below Stairs Mystery #9)
A Family Affair
Nineteen Days in Autumn: A New History of 1066
Preaching to the Choir (Terrible Worlds: Transformations)
The Postmistress of Puddlington
It Could Have Been Her
Dissection of a Murder
The Castle in the Glen
Ransom
Life of M
The Oxford Detective Society (The Oxford Detective Society, #1)
The Castle: Adventures in a World of Unraveling Men
Look What You Made Me Do
A Time of Witches
We Chase Shadows (We Solve Murders, #2)
When I Kill You
May We Feed the King
The Violin Maker's Secret
Switzy
Slags
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo IshiguroThe House at Riverton by Kate MortonBrideshead Revisited by Evelyn WaughHowards End by E.M. ForsterA Room with a View by E.M. Forster
Downton Abbey-esque Books
619 books — 1,019 voters
Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master by K.  RitzOne Dark Window by Rachel GilligThe Butcher of the Forest by Premee MohamedA Story of Yesterday by Sergio CoboAll the Murmuring Bones by A.G. Slatter
Anything You Really Liked
2,748 books — 1,221 voters

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniMemoirs of a Geisha by Arthur GoldenThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Around the World One Book from Each Country
1,100 books — 1,022 voters
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens1984 by George OrwellA Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens84, Charing Cross Road by Helene HanffSense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
London Calling
1,249 books — 647 voters

Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëThe Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienWuthering Heights by Emily Brontë1984 by George Orwell
Best British and Irish Literature
1,185 books — 1,120 voters
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodThe Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëA Room of One’s Own by Virginia WoolfThe Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
Best Feminist Books
3,021 books — 4,383 voters

Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
Wuthering Heights
1984
Animal Farm
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4)
Sense and Sensibility

Quentin Crisp
The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy; they want to be right.
Quentin Crisp

Stephen Fry
There were people who believed their opportunities to live a fulfilled life were hampered by the number of Asians in England, by the existance of a royal family, by the volume of traffic that passed by their house, by the malice of trade unions, by the power of callous employers, by the refusal of the health service to take their condition seriously, by communism, by capitalism, by atheism, by anything, in fact, but their own futile, weak-minded failure to get a fucking grip.
Stephen Fry, Revenge

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