There is always room to improve your English language skills. One of the options is through reading great novels. A great novel will introduce you to new words, give you the chance to learn vocabulary in the context of a story and allow you to see how words and phrases are connected in everyday conversation.
Below, we reveal great novels to help improve your English.
A Gentleman of Courage, by James Oliver Curwood
A Gentleman of Courage, by James Oliver Curwood, a novel of love and adventure in a French-Canadian pioneer village on Lake Superior in the 1890s.
A Passage to India, by E. M. Forster
What really happened to Miss Quested in the Marabar Caves? This tantalising question provides the intense drama of racial tension at the centre of Forster’s last and greatest novel.
A Study In Scarlet, by Arthur Conan Doyle
A Study in Scarlet is an 1887 detective novel by Arthur Conan Doyle. Written in 1886, the story marks the first appearance of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, who would become the most famous detective duo in popular fiction.
Barren Ground, by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
An account of thirty years in the life of a rural Virginia woman, Dorinda Oakley who is an intelligent, independent and vibrant young lady who is trying find herself and her purpose in life by moving to New York after a love disillusion.
Carry On, Jeeves, by P.G. Wodehouse
Carry On, Jeeves is a collection of ten short stories by P. G. Wodehouse. It was first published in the United Kingdom on 9 October 1925 by Herbert Jenkins, London.
Grampa in Oz, by Ruth Plumly Thompson
Grampa in Oz (1924) is the eighteenth in the series of Oz books created by L. Frank Baum and his successors, and the fourth written by Ruth Plumly Thompson.
In Our Time, by Ernest Hemingway
First published in Paris in 1924 by Three Mountains Press under the title in our time – in all lower case – the first state of this work was a set of 18 vignettes and numbered 32 pages in total.
Pimpernel and Rosemary, by Emmuska Orczy
This story takes place three generations after Sir Percy, and is similar in many ways to “The Scarlet Pimpernel” with its intrigue, romance, and twists and turns in the plot.
Poirot Investigates, by Agatha Christie
Poirot Investigates is a collection of eleven short stories involving the famed eccentric detective, Hercule Poirot. Throughout the tales Poirot must solve a variety of mysteries involving greed, jealousy, and revenge.
Porgy, by Edwin DuBose Heyward
The novel tells the story of Porgy, a crippled street beggar living in the black tenements of Charleston, South Carolina, in the 1920s.
Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
In early nineteenth-century England, a spirited young woman copes with the suit of a snobbish gentleman, as well as the romantic entanglements of her four sisters.
Shen of the Sea, by Arthur Bowie Chrisman
Shen of the Sea is a collection of sixteen short stories reflecting the spirit of Chinese life and thought, written by Arthur Bowie Chrisman and published in 1925.
So Big, by Edna Ferber
But as her son grows up to pursue his fortune in Chicago, can she help him retain those same values? So Big is the story of both a woman and her son, and a country in the midst of profound cultural transition.
Some do not…, by Ford Madox Ford
The first novel in the author’s celebrated Parade’s End Tetralogy explores the social tensions between marriage, sex, and honor at the outbreak of WWI.
Tarzan and the Ant Men, by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Tarzan finds himself in a strange country of stone-age savages and knee-high warriors who ride miniature African deer as though they were horses.
The Box-Car Children, by Gertrude Chandler Warner
Four orphaned siblings take refuge in an abandoned boxcar that becomes their home, as they hide from their “villainous” grandfather.
The Call of the Canyon, by Zane Grey
Glenn Killbourne and his fiancee Carley Burch find a strange test of their love in the mountains and canyons of Arizona.
The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s third book, stands as the supreme achievement of his career. First published in 1925, this quintessential novel of the Jazz Age has been acclaimed by generations of readers.
The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Arthur Conan Doyle
A country doctor has come to 221B Baker Street, the lodgings of famed detective Sherlock Holmes, with the eerie tale of the Hound of the Baskervilles.
The King of Elfland’s Daughter, by Lord Dunsany
A young prince ventures into a mysterious forest in search of the land of Faerie and of a princess bride, in one of the landmarks of modern fantasy fiction quot;happily ever after.”
The Land that Time Forgot, by Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Land That Time Forgot is a fantasy novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, the first of his Caspak trilogy.
The Lost King of Oz, by Ruth Plumly Thompson
Mombi, an evil witch, searches for the lost king of Oz in hopes of forcing Ozma to give up her throne.
The Man in the Brown Suit, by Agatha Christie
A young woman witnesses a fatal “accident” at Hyde Park tube station that leads her into a world of diamond thieves and political intrigue.
The Old Maid, by Edith Wharton
“Aunt” Charlotte gave up her daughter to allow the child an advantageous position in 19th-century New York society. Years later, on the eve of the girl’s wedding, Charlotte’s suppressed anguish surfaces.
The Professor’s House, by Willa Cather
Behind this story of Godfrey St. Peter, a man who, despite his successes, has at mid-career experienced a profound disappointment with life, is the fierce story of how he decides to continue living despite his disappointment.
The Secret of Chimneys, by Agatha Christie
A young drifter finds out when a favor for a friend pulls him into the heart of a deadly conspiracy in this captivating classic from Agatha Christie.
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