English Literature

1 Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice

2 Charlotte Bronte

Jane Eyre

3 Emily Bronte

Wuthering Heights

4 Lewis Carroll

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

5 Daphne Du Maurier

Rebecca

6 Thomas Hardy

Tess of the D'Urbervilles

7 D. H. Lawrence

Sons and Lovers

8 William M. Thackeray

Vanity Fair

9 Charles Dickens

A Tale of Two Cities ， David Copperfield

10 Oscar Wilde

The Picture of Dorian Gray

11 Daniel Defoe

Robinson Crusoe

12 Stephen Crane

The Red Badge of Courage

13 Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Scarlet Letter

14 Joseph Heller

Catch-22

15 Ernest Hemingway

The Sun Also Rises, The Old Man and the Sea

16 Jack London

The Call of the Wild, Martin Eden

17 Amy Tan

Joy Luck Club

18 Margaret Mitchell

Gone with the Wind

19 Harriet Beecher Stowe

Uncle Tom's Cabin

20 Mark Twin

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

21 Stephen Leacock

Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town

22 Jonathan Swift

Gulliver's Travels

23 John Steinbeck

The Grapes of Wrath

English Language

24 Dwight Bolinger

Aspects of Language

25 David Crystal

Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language

26 John M. Ellis

Language, Thought, and Logic

27 Albert C. Baugh & Thomas Cable

A History of the English Language

28 R.H. Robins

General Linguistics: An Introductory Survey

29 William Strunk

The Elements of Style

Essays

30 Francis Bacon

The Essays (Penguin Classics)

31 Michel de Montaigne

Essays