I'm a huge fan of the Victorian era and a lot of my favorite books come from that time period. I've read a lot of the biggest Victorian books already and now I'm looking for my next read. Any genre, doesn't have to be a novel, but I particularly love gothic lit, early sci-fi, and philosophical sad books written by mentally ill people (lookin at you, Virginia Woolf). Here's an incomplete list of some Victorian literature that I've already read and loved:
- Dorian Gray
- The Importance of Being Earnest
- Dracula
- Oliver Twist
- Jekyll & Hyde
- To the Lighthouse
- The Island of Dr. Moureau
- The Time Machine
- Sherlock Holmes
- Various short stories by Algernon Blackwood, Edgar Allen Poe, and M. R. James
- The Yellow Wallpaper
- Jane Eyre (actually didn't love this one, pls don't come for me)
- Around the World in 80 Days
by CryptographerLost357
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Vanity Fair by William Thackeray
Salomé by Oscar Wilde
Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti
A little earlier than Victorian, but have you read *Frankenstein*?
I loved many of these, but also..
– The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
– Hard Times by Dickens
– Germinal by Zola – Contemporary to the Victorian era, but not an English novel, it’s a stunning howl of rage, with beautifully complex and fallible characters. A real masterpiece.
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins.
Surprised to see Carmilla not already on your list.
Larkrise Book series – Flora Thompson
*’Diary of a Nobody’* by George and Weedon Grossmith. Comic novel, illustrated.
The Barsetshire novels by Anthony Trollope
You need to check out Thomas Hardy!