British literature is literature from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the Isle of Man, and the Channel Islands.

Geoffrey Chaucer. The Canterbury Tales
John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress
William Shakespeare. Sonnets
Frances Bacon. The New Atlantis
John Milton. Paradise Lost
Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels
Daniel Defoe. Robinson Crusoe
Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice
Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities
Walter Scott. Ivanhoe
Mary W. Shelley. Frankenstein
Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre
Thomas Hardy. Tess of the d’Urbervilles
Joseph Conrad. Heart of Darkness
Robert Louis Stevenson. Treasure Island
Arthur Conan Doyle. The Hound of the Baskervilles
Lewis Carroll. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Oscar Wilde. The Picture of Dorian Gray
H. G. Wells. Time Machine
Virginia Woolf. The Voyage Out
George Orwell. Nineteen Eighty-Four
Josephine Tey. The Daughter of Time