Penguin Classics Books
Penguin's classics list, with annotated editions of most gothic and Victorian novels.
Books published by Penguin Classics, mostly horror, historical fiction and gothic fiction. The most-read are A Christmas Carol (1843), The Time Machine (1895) and A Midsummer Night's Dream (1600).
This list collects 36 books in this collection by 33 authors, published between 1600 and 2016. 8 are free to read and 7 have a free audiobook. Books are ranked by how many readers have shelved, rated or downloaded them.
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A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens
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The Time Machine
H. G. Wells
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
William Shakespeare
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Persuasion
Jane Austen
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson
The Color Purple
Alice Walker
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking Glass
Lewis Carroll
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Five Children and It
Edith Nesbit
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Shirley Jackson, Bernadette Dunne
The Big Sleep
Raymond Chandler
The Tell-Tale Heart
Edgar Allan Poe
Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories
Bram Stoker, Bram Bram Stoker
Wide Sargasso Sea
Jean Rhys
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The Private Memoirs and Confessions of A Justified Sinner (With A Detail of Curious Traditionary Facts, And Other Evidence, By The Editor)
James Hogg
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Washington Square
Henry James
Confessions of a Mask
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The Loved One
Evelyn Waugh
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Melmoth the Wanderer
Charles Robert Maturin
Thurber Carnival
James Thurber
The acts of King Arthur and his noble knights
John Steinbeck, Thomas Malory
Olivia
Dorothy Bussy
Beowulf
Anonymous
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The Lost Girl
D. H. Lawrence
The 13 Clocks
James Thurber, Marc Simont
The Sundial
Shirley Jackson
The Little Girls
Elizabeth Bowen
Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories
Washington Irving
Dark Tales
Shirley Jackson
Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm: A New English Version (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Jacob Grimm, Philip Pullman
Count Magnus and other ghost stories
Montague Rhodes James
Haunted Castles
Ray Russell
American Supernatural Tales
S. T. Joshi
The Penguin Arthur Miller
Arthur Miller
Three Gothic Novels
William Beckford
The Tale of Tales
Giovanni Battista Basile
The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault
Angela Carter