- Daniel Defoe (1660-1731). Moll Flanders (1722)
- Jonathan Swift (1667-1744). Gulliver's Travels (1726)
- Edward Gibbon (1737-1794). The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776-1788)
- William Blake (1757-1827). Poetry
- William Beckford (1760-1844). Vathek (1786)
- Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859). The Last Days of Emmanuel Kant and Other Stories
- "The Last Days of Kant", 1827
- "Goethe", 1835 (Article on Goethe contributed to the Encyclopædia Britannica)
- "The Sphinx's Riddle", 1850
- "Philosophy of Herodotus", 1842
- "The Pagan Oracles", 1842
- "On Hume's Argument Against Miracles", 1839
- "On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth", 1823
- Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849). Tales
- "MS. Found in a Bottle", 1833 (&)
- "A Descent into the Maelström", 1841
- "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", 1841
- "The Man of the Crowd", 1840 (&)
- "The Pit and the Pendulum", 1842 (&)
- "The Purloined Letter", 1845 (&)
- "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar", 1845 (&)
- "The Cask of Amontillado", 1846
- "The Philosophy of Composition", 1846
- Herman Melville (1819-1891)
- Benito Cereno (1855)
- Billy Budd (1888)
- Bartleby, the Scrivener (1853)
- Wilkie Collins (1824-1889). The Moonstone (1868)
- Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)
- New Arabian Nights (1878)
- Markheim (1885)
- Henry James (1843-1916)
- The Lesson of the Master (1888)
- The Private Life (1892)
- The Figure in the Carpet (1896)
- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900). Intentions (1891)
- The Decay of Lying
- Pen, Pencil and Poison
- The Truth of Masks (first published 1885)
- The Critic as Artist
- Arthur Machen (1863-1947). The Three Impostors (1895)
- H. G. Wells (1866-1946)
- The Time Machine (1895)
- The Invisible Man (1897)
- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
- Caesar and Cleopatra (1898)
- Candida (1898)
- Major Barbara (1905)
- Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929). The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899)
- Joseph Conrad (1857-1924)
- Heart of Darkness (1899)
- The End of the Tether (1902)
- Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936). Tales
- "Beyond the Pale", 1888; "The Gate of a Hundred Sorrows", 1884; Plain Tales from the Hills
- "A Sahib’s War", 1901; "They", 1904; Traffics and Discoveries
- "The Church that was at Antioch", 1929; Limits and Renewals
- "The Wish House", 1924; "The Eye of Allah", 1926; "A Madonna of the Trenches", 1924; Debits and Credits
- William James (1842-1910). The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902)
- Arnold Bennett (1867-1931). Buried Alive (1908)
- G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936). The Blue Cross and Other Stories
- "The Blue Cross", 1910; The Innocence of Father Brown
- "The Secret Garden", 1910; The Innocence of Father Brown
- "The Queer Feet", 1910; The Innocence of Father Brown (&)
- "The Invisible Man", 1911; The Innocence of Father Brown
- "The Honour of Israel Gow", 1911; The Innocence of Father Brown (&)
- "The Hammer of God", 1910; The Innocence of Father Brown
- "The Eye of Apollo", 1911; The Innocence of Father Brown (&)
- "The Duel of Dr Hirsch", 1914; The Wisdom of Father Brown (&)
- "The Bottomless Well", 1922; The Man Who Knew Too Much
- "The Dagger With Wings", 1926; The Incredulity of Father Brown
- "The Song Of The Flying Fish", 1927; The Secret of Father Brown
- "The Blast of the Book", 1935; The Scandal of Father Brown
- Eden Phillpotts (1862-1960). The Red Redmaynes (1922)
- David Garnett (1892-1981)
- Lady into Fox (1922)
- A Man in the Zoo (1924)
- The Sailor's Return (1925)
- Eugene O'Neill (1888-1953)
- The Great God Brown (1926)
- Strange Interlude (1928)
- Mourning Becomes Electra (1931)
- J. W. Dunne (1875-1949). An Experiment with Time (1927)
- John Alexander Gunn (1896-1975). The Problem of Time (1929)
- Hugh Walpole (1884-1941). Above the Dark Circus (1931)
- Edward Kasner (1878–1955) and James R. Newman (1907–1966). Mathematics and the Imagination (1940)
- Robert Graves (1895-1985). The Greek Myths (1955)