The books George Orwell wrote about

The novels, poems and polemics George Orwell discussed in his essays and reviews, from Dickens and boys' weeklies to Mein Kampf, with his verdict where he gave a plain one.

215 books

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The best-known books on the list

All 215 books, by author

AUnser Kampf · Richard Acland
Good wives · Louisa May Alcott · loved it
Little men · Louisa May Alcott · disliked it
Little Women · Louisa May Alcott · loved it
Death of a hero · Richard Aldington
King Leir · Anonymous
Vice Versa · F. Anstey
BThe Coral Island · R. M. Ballantyne
Le feu · Henri Barbusse
Peter Pan · J. M. Barrie · disliked it
Mr. Verdant Green · Cuthbert Bede
The servile state · Hilaire Belloc · mixed feelings
A candidate for truth · J. D. Beresford
Dr Nikola · Guy Boothby
Max Carrados · Ernest Bramah
Hunger and Love · Lionel Brittain
Wuthering Heights · Emily Bronte
The House with the Green Shutters · George Douglas Brown
The Machiavellians · James Burnham
The managerial revolution · James Burnham
CVoyage au bout de la nuit · Louis-Ferdinand Celine
He won't need it now · James Hadley Chase
Miss Callaghan Comes to Grief · James Hadley Chase
No Orchids for Miss Blandish · James Hadley Chase · despised it
Trials in Burma · Maurice Collis
Enemies of Promise · Cyril Connolly
What Katy Did At School · Susan Coolidge
Shakespeare and the Working Classes · Ernest Crosby
DThe secret life of Salvador Dali · Salvador Dali
Robinson Crusoe · Daniel Defoe
A Christmas Carol · Charles Dickens
A Tale of Two Cities · Charles Dickens
Barnaby Rudge · Charles Dickens
Bleak House · Charles Dickens
David Copperfield · Charles Dickens
Great Expectations · Charles Dickens
Hard Times · Charles Dickens
Little Dorrit · Charles Dickens
Martin Chuzzlewit · Charles Dickens
Nicholas Nickleby · Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist · Charles Dickens
Our Mutual Friend · Charles Dickens
The Cricket on the Hearth · Charles Dickens
The Pickwick Papers · Charles Dickens
An American Tragedy · Theodore Dreiser
EPrufrock and Other Observations · T. S. Eliot
FSt. Winifred's · Frederic W. Farrar
Sanctuary · William Faulkner
Assignment to Berlin · Harry W. Flannery
Salammbô · Gustave Flaubert
A Passage to India · E. M. Forster
The Eye of Osiris · R. Austin Freeman
The singing bone · R. Austin Freeman
GThe Story of My Experiments with Truth · Mohandas K. Gandhi
Caliban · W. L. George
Retour de l'U.R.S.S · Andre Gide
Ruthless Rhymes for Heartless Homes · Harry Graham
Good-Bye to All That · Robert Graves
Minuit · Julian Green · disliked it
HHelen's babies · John Habberton · loved it
Other people's children · John Habberton
King Solomon's Mines · H. Rider Haggard
Grey children · James Hanley
The dynasts · Thomas Hardy
The First Hundred Thousand · Ian Hay
A Farewell to Arms · Ernest Hemingway
Caliban Shrieks · Jack Hilton
Mein Kampf · Adolf Hitler · disliked it
Interglossa · Lancelot Hogben
A Thief in the Night · E. W. Hornung
Mr. Justice Raffles · E. W. Hornung · disliked it
Raffles · E. W. Hornung
A Shropshire lad · A. E. Housman
My Mark Twain · William Dean Howells
Travels in Tartary · Huc
Tom Brown's School Days · Thomas Hughes
If winter comes · A. S. M. Hutchinson
Brave New World · Aldous Huxley
JMrs. Caudle's curtain lectures · Douglas Jerrold
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man · James Joyce
Dubliners · James Joyce
Finnegan's Wake · James Joyce
Ulysses · James Joyce · loved it
KBarrack-Room Ballads · Rudyard Kipling · mixed feelings
Stalky and Co · Rudyard Kipling
The light that failed · Rudyard Kipling
Arrival and Departure · Arthur Koestler · disliked it
Darkness at Noon · Arthur Koestler · loved it
Scum Of The Earth · Arthur Koestler
Spanish Testament · Arthur Koestler
The gladiators · Arthur Koestler · mixed feelings
LRevolt in the Desert · T. E. Lawrence
The Mind in Chains · C. Day Lewis
Snooty baronet · Wyndham Lewis
Tarr · Wyndham Lewis
The Iron Heel · Jack London
The Road · Jack London
MWalls have mouths · Wilfred Macartney
Told by an idiot · Rose Macaulay · disliked it
Modern poetry · Louis MacNeice
The pub and the people · Mass-Observation
Of Human Bondage · W. Somerset Maugham
White-Jacket · Herman Melville
Rhoda Fleming · George Meredith
Carmen · Prosper Merimee
Cynthia · Leonard Merrick
Black spring · Henry Miller
Max and the white phagocytes · Henry Miller
Tropic of Cancer · Henry Miller · loved it
Tropic of Capricorn · Henry Miller
Where the rainbow ends · Clifford Mills
Areopagitica · John Milton
Paradise Lost · John Milton
Misunderstood · Florence Montgomery
News from Nowhere · William Morris · disliked it
The story of San Michele · Axel Munthe
Adam and Eve · John Middleton Murry
NThe Treasure Seekers · E. Nesbit
OThe Scarlet Pimpernel · Baroness Orczy
PThe Octave of Claudius · Barry Pain
Jail journey · Jim Phelan
A Subaltern on the Somme · Max Plowman
Manon Lescaut · Abbe Prevost
RWe, the accused · Ernest Raymond
Foul play · Charles Reade · loved it
Hard cash · Charles Reade
It is never too late to mend · Charles Reade
The autobiography of a thief · Charles Reade
The Cloister and the Hearth · Charles Reade · disliked it
The martyrdom of man · Winwood Reade · mixed feelings
All Quiet on the Western Front · Erich Maria Remarque
Old soldier sahib · Frank Richards
This side idolatry · C. E. Bechhofer Roberts
New signatures · Michael Roberts
SMemoirs of an Infantry Officer · Siegfried Sassoon
Beautiful Joe · Marshall Saunders
A Hundred Million Allies - If We Choose · Scipio
Wild Animals I Have Known · Ernest Thompson Seton
Black Beauty · Anna Sewell
A Midsummer Night's Dream · William Shakespeare
Hamlet · William Shakespeare
Henry IV · William Shakespeare
King Lear · William Shakespeare
Macbeth · William Shakespeare
Othello · William Shakespeare
Timon of Athens · William Shakespeare
Androcles and the lion · George Bernard Shaw
Man and Superman · George Bernard Shaw
The History of the Fairchild Family · Mary Martha Sherwood · despised it
Fontamara · Ignazio Silone
The combined maze · May Sinclair
Frank Fairleigh · Frank E. Smedley
Cauchemar en URSS · Boris Souvarine
Trial of a judge · Stephen Spender
Le rouge et le noir · Stendhal
Dracula · Bram Stoker
Uncle Tom's Cabin · Harriet Beecher Stowe · mixed feelings
25 years of Soviet Russian literature · Gleb Struve
A tale of a tub · Jonathan Swift
Gulliver's Travels · Jonathan Swift · loved it
The playboy of the western world · J. M. Synge
TPenrod · Booth Tarkington
A shabby genteel story · William Makepeace Thackeray
Pendennis · William Makepeace Thackeray
Vanity Fair · William Makepeace Thackeray
Anna Karenina · Leo Tolstoy
Sebastopol · Leo Tolstoy
Shakespeare and the Drama · Leo Tolstoy · disliked it
The Cossacks · Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace · Leo Tolstoy
The ragged trousered philanthropists · Robert Tressell · loved it
England under Queen Anne · G. M. Trevelyan
Orley Farm · Anthony Trollope
The small house at Allington · Anthony Trollope
The three clerks · Anthony Trollope
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court · Mark Twain · despised it
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn · Mark Twain
Life on the Mississippi · Mark Twain
Roughing It · Mark Twain
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer · Mark Twain
The Gilded Age · Mark Twain
The innocents at home · Mark Twain
VLa Pucelle · Voltaire
WThe Four Just Men · Edgar Wallace
The orator · Edgar Wallace
Burmese interlude · C. V. Warren
Put Out More Flags · Evelyn Waugh
Guide to the new world; · H. G. Wells
Men Like Gods · H. G. Wells
The dream · H. G. Wells
The Outline of History · H. G. Wells
The Shape of Things to Come · H. G. Wells
The Sleeper Awakes · H. G. Wells
Leaves of Grass · Walt Whitman
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm · Kate Douglas Wiggin
The wound and the bow · Edmund Wilson
Indiscretions of Archie · P. G. Wodehouse
Mike · P. G. Wodehouse
Piccadilly Jim · P. G. Wodehouse
Psmith in the City · P. G. Wodehouse
Psmith Journalist · P. G. Wodehouse
Something Fresh · P. G. Wodehouse
Summer lightning · P. G. Wodehouse
Tales of St. Austin's · P. G. Wodehouse
The Coming of Bill · P. G. Wodehouse
The Gold Bat · P. G. Wodehouse
The heart of a goof · P. G. Wodehouse
The Little Nugget · P. G. Wodehouse
The Man with Two Left Feet · P. G. Wodehouse
The Pothunters · P. G. Wodehouse
Young men in spats · P. G. Wodehouse
YA vision · W. B. Yeats
The hour-glass · W. B. Yeats
ZWe · Yevgeny Zamyatin
La débâcle · Emile Zola

Titles we couldn't find (6)

These are on the list too, but they have no page here yet.

A Jack of All Trades · Charles Reade · Internet Archive scan
Letters to the Boys in the Trenches · Horatio Bottomley · no copy found online
Stiugaree · no copy found online
Tales · Edgar Allan Poe · Internet Archive scan
The Good Gorilla · Arnold Lutin · no copy found online
The People of Clopton · Andrew Barton · Open Library edition record (no work match)

Source: George Orwell's essays and reviews, via Project Gutenberg Australia and the Orwell Foundation