Wuthering Heights, by Emily Brontë ... Middlemarch, by George Eliot. ... Nineteen Eighty-Four, by George Orwell. ... The Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkien. ... Diary of a Nobody, by George and Weedon Grossmith. ... His Dark Materials, trilogy by Philip Pullman. ... Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë ... Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens.