Books---Penguin classics

1. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow --- Washington Irving (1820) (short story)

2. Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded --- Samuel Richardson (1740) (epistolary novel: a novel written as a series of documents. The usual form is letters)

3. The Pilgrim's Progress --- John Bunyan (1678) (Christian allegory)

4. Little Women ---Louisa May Alcott (1868) (about four sisters growing up during the American Civil War)

5. Wuthering Height --- Emily Bronte (1847)

6. Jane Eyre --- Charlotte Bronte (1847)

7. Pride and Prejudice --- Jane Austen (1813) (romantic comedy)

8. The Invisible Man --- H.G. Wells (1897) (science fiction)

9. The War of the Worlds --- H.G. Wells (1898) (science fiction)

10. The Picture of Dorian Gray --- Oscar Wilde (1890) (Gothic Novel)

11. Robinson Crusoe --- Daniel Defoe (1719)

12. A Journey to the Centre of the Earth---Jules Verne (1864) (science fiction)

13. The Woman in White --- Wilkie Collins (1860)(epistolary novel, mystery novel, sensation novels--->a literary genre of fiction popular in Great Britain in the 1860s and 1870s, following on from earlier melodramatic novels and the Newgate novels, which focused on tales woven around criminal biographies.)

14. Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero --- William Makepeace Thackeray (1847-48)( satirizes society in early 19th-century England)

15. The Monk (aka: Ambrosio, or the Monk) --- Mattew Gregory Lewis (1796) (Gothic Novel) (It was written before the author turned 20, in the space of 10 weeks.)

16. Frankenstein --- Mary Shelley (1818)

17. Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde---Robert Louis stevenson (scottish) (1886)(a novella about a dual personality much depicted in plays and films, also influential in the growth of understanding of the subconscious mind through its treatment of a kind and intelligent physician who turns into a psychopathic monster after imbibing a drug intended to separate good from evil in a personality.)

18. The 120 Days in Sodom, or the School of Licentiousness --- Marque de Sade (French) (1785)
The 120 Days of Sodom, or the School of Licentiousness (Les 120 journées de Sodome ou l'école du libertinage) is a novel by the French writer and nobleman Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade, written in 1785.

19. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn --- Mark Twain (1884)

20. Moby Dick --- Herman Melville (1864)