The partially complete adapted list of Peter Baxall’s 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die.
1700’s (total: 37 books)
- A Tale of a Tub by Jonathan Swift
- Love in Excess by Eliza Haywood
- Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
- Roxana by Daniel Defoe
- Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
- A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift
- Joseph Andrews by Henry Fielding
- Pamela by Samuel Richardson
- Clarissa by Samuel Richardson
- Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
- Fanny Hill by John Cleland
- Peregrine Pickle by Tobias George Smollett
- Amelia by Henry Fielding
- The Female Quixote by Charlotte Lennox
- Candide by Voltaire
- Julie; or, the New Eloise by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Rameau’s Nephew by Denis Diderot
- Èmile; or, On Education by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith
- Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne
- A Sentimental Journey by Laurence Sterne
- The Man of Feeling by Henry Mackenzie
- Humphry Clinker by Tobias George Smollett
- The Sorrows of a Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Evelina by Fanny Burney
- Reveries of a Solitary Walker by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Dangerous Liaisons by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
- Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Cecilia by Fanny Burney
- The 120 Days of Sodom by Marquis de Sade
- Vathek by William Beckford
- Justine by Marquis de Sade
- The Adventures of Caleb Williams by William Godwin
- Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Camilla by Fanny Burney
- Jacques the Fatalist by Denis Diderot
- The Nun by Denis Diderot
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