Science Fiction/Children/Adventure/etc.

CLASSIC GENRE NOVELS

Classic Adventure Novels

H. RIDER HAGGARD (1856-1925) English
King Solomon's Mines

EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS (1875-1950) American
Tarzan of the Apes

Classic Children's Novels

JOHANNA SPYRI (1827-1901) Swiss
Heidi

LEWIS CARROLL (1832-1898) English
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Through the Looking-Glass

FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT (1849-1924) English
Little Lord Fauntleroy
A Little Princess
The Secret Garden

E. NESBIT (1858-1924) English
Five Children and It

KENNETH GRAHAME (1859 in Scotland--1932) English
The Wind in the Willows

L. M. MONTGOMERY (1874-1942) Canadian
Anne of Green Gables

JOHN MASEFIELD (1878-1967) English
The Box of Delights

Classic Comic Novels

JEROME K. JEROME (1859-1927) English
Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog

FREDERICK WILLIAM ROLFE (1860-1913) English
Hadrian the Seventh

E. W. HORNUNG (1866-1921) English
Raffles: The Amateur Cracksman

Classic Detective Novels

WILKIE COLLINS (1824-1889) English
The Moonstone
The Woman in White
Armadale
No Name

SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE (1859-1930) Scottish
Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes
The Hound of the Baskervilles

G. K. CHESTERTON (1874-1936) English
The Man Who Was Thursday

RAYMOND CHANDLER (1888-1959) American
The Big Sleep

Classic Gothic Novels

HORACE WALPOLE (1717—1797) English
The Castle of Otranto: A Gothic Story

BRAM STOKER (1847-1912) Irish
Dracula

ANN RADCLIFFE (1764-1823) English
The Mysteries of Udolpho
The Italian

MARIA EDGEWORTH (1768–1849) English
Castle Rackrent

JANE AUSTEN (1775-1817) English
Northanger Abbey (parody)

MATTHEW LEWIS (1775-1818) English
The Monk

CHARLES ROBERT MATURIN (1782-1824) Irish
Melmoth the Wanderer

MARY SHELLEY (1797-1851) English
Frankenstein

CHARLOTTE BRONTE (1816-1855) English
Jane Eyre

EMILY BRONTE (1818-1848) English
Wuthering Heights

ANNE BRONTE (1820-1849) English
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

HENRY JAMES (1843-1916) American
The Turn of the Screw (novella)

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON (1850-1894) Scottish
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

OSCAR WILDE (1854-1900) Irish
The Picture of Dorian Gray

GASTON LEROUX (1868-1927) French
The Phantom of the Opera

Classic Historical Novels

LEW WALLACE (1827-1905) American
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

GORE VIDAL (1925--) American
Burr

Classic Science Fiction Novels

JULES VERNE (1828-1905) French
Journey to the Center of the Earth
From the Earth to the Moon
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Around the World in Eighty Days

H. G. WELLS (1866-1946) English
The Invisible Man
The Island of Dr. Moreau
The Time Machine
The War of the Worlds

ISAAC ASIMOV (1920 in Russia--1992) American
Nightfall

RAY BRADBURY (1920- ) American
Fahrenheit 451

PHILIP K. DICK (1928-1982) American
The Man in the High Castle
Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Classic Spy Novels

JOSEPH CONRAD (1857 in Poland--1924) English
The Secret Agent

RUDYARD KIPLING (1865-1936) English
Kim

IAN FLEMING (1908-1964) English
Casino Royale
From Russia with Love
Goldfinger

JOHN LE CARRE (1931--) English
David John Moore Cornwell
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold

Classic War Novels

LEO TOLSTOY (1828-1910) Russian
War and Peace

STEPHEN CRANE (1871-1900) American
The Red Badge of Courage

ERNEST HEMINGWAY (1899-1961)
A Farewell To Arms
For Whom the Bell Tolls

NICHOLAS MONSARRAT (1910-1979) English
The Cruel Sea

Classic Western Novels

OWEN WISTER (1860-1938) American
The Virginian

WALTER VAN TILBURG CLARK (1909-1971) American
The Ox-Bow Incident

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