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 | William Makepeace Thackeray Vanity FairThis novel by English author William Makepeace Thackeray, first published in 1847–48, satirizing society in early 19th-century Britain. The book's title comes from John Bunyan's allegorical story The Pilgrim's Progress, first published in 1678 and still widely read at the time of Thackeray's novel. "Vanity Fair" refers to a stop along the pilgrim's progress: a never-ending fair held in a town called Vanity, which is meant to represent man's sinful attachment to worldly things. |
 | Charlotte Brontë Jane EyreJane Eyre follows the emotions and experiences of its eponymous character, including her growth to adulthood, and her love for Mr. Rochester, the byronic master of fictitious Thornfield Hall. In its internalization of the action — the focus is on the gradual unfolding of Jane's moral and spiritual sensibility and all the events are colored by a heightened intensity that was previously the domain of poetry — the novel revolutionized the art of fiction. Charlotte Brontë has been called the 'first historian of the private consciousness' and the literary ancestor of writers like Joyce and Proust. |
 | Jane Austen Pride and PrejudiceThis novel follows the main character Elizabeth Bennet as she deals with issues of manners, upbringing, morality, education, and marriage in the society of the landed gentry of early 19th-century England. (Illustrations by C. E. Brock for the 1895 edition) |
 | Gaius Suetonius The Lives of the Twelve CaesarsDe vita Caesarum (Latin, literal translation: About the Life of the Caesars) commonly known as The Twelve Caesars, is a set of twelve biographies of Julius Caesar and the first 11 emperors of the Roman Empire |
 | Mary Shelley FrankensteinFrankenstein is written in the form of a frame story that starts with Captain Robert Walton writing letters to his sister, Margaret Walton Saville. This novel was written by Mary Shelley about a creature produced by an unorthodox scientific experiment. |
 | Jonathan Swift Gulliver’s travelsThis book is a novel by Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift, that is both a satire on human nature and a parody of the "travellers' tales" literary sub-genre. |
 | Mark Twain The Adventures of Tom SawyerThis is a wonderful story about the adventures of a little boy from a small town on the Mississippi River. The hero of the book Tom Sawyer has become a model restless boy, whom they want to be like all the guys who read this book. Adults, too, should read this book, and to remember his childhood. |
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