Publisher SeriesCollins Classics
| The Iliad by Homer 38,135 copies, 373 reviews | (0750) |
| King Lear by William Shakespeare 14,480 copies, 143 reviews | (1608) |
| Emma by Jane Austen 36,580 copies, 495 reviews | (1815) |
| The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens 8,748 copies, 125 reviews | (1836) |
| Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë 4,920 copies, 160 reviews | (1847) |
| Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë 49,772 copies, 671 reviews | (1847) |
| Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell 4,410 copies, 127 reviews | (1851) |
| Moby Dick by Herman Melville 34,107 copies, 520 reviews | (1851) |
| Villette by Charlotte Brontë 8,500 copies, 139 reviews | (1853) |
| North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell 7,273 copies, 239 reviews | (1855) |
| Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes 1,675 copies, 30 reviews | (1857) |
| The Water Babies by Charles Kingsley 2,803 copies, 42 reviews | (1863) |
| Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne 14,154 copies, 220 reviews | (1864) |
| The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins 10,453 copies, 246 reviews | 456 (1868) |
| Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy 10,998 copies, 187 reviews | (1874) |
| The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde by Oscar Wilde 4,759 copies, 25 reviews | (1880) |
| The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 41,657 copies, 509 reviews | (1884) |
| King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard 5,496 copies, 126 reviews | 545 (1885) |
| Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson 10,353 copies, 117 reviews | (1886) |
| The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson 16,648 copies, 312 reviews | (1886) |
| The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde 38,037 copies, 614 reviews | (1890) |
| Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy 18,606 copies, 241 reviews | (1891) |
| The Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope 2,547 copies, 77 reviews | (1894) |
| The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling 10,658 copies, 147 reviews | (1894) |
| The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane 10,752 copies, 127 reviews | (1894) |
| The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells 10,535 copies, 245 reviews | 683 (1897) |
| The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum 20,924 copies, 409 reviews | (1900) |
| Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad 8,764 copies, 115 reviews | (1900) |
| The Railway Children by E. Nesbit 5,584 copies, 77 reviews | (1905) |
| The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame 22,784 copies, 325 reviews | (1908) |
| The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo 13,516 copies, 172 reviews | (1910) |
| Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton 9,264 copies, 209 reviews | (1911) |
| The Splendour of Asia: The Story and Teaching of the Buddha by L. Adams Beck 33 copies | (1926) |
| The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories: The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. by Washington Irving 1,115 copies, 5 reviews | (1999) |