List of English novelists

(See also: English novel, English literature)

• A. A. Milne, (1882-1956), The Red House Mystery and Mr. Pim Passes By (a novelization of his own play)
• A. E. W. Mason, author of The Four Feathers
• Agatha Christie, (1890-1976)
• Alain de Botton (born 1969)
• Aldous Huxley, (1884-1963), author of Brave New World
• Alex Garland, author of The Beach
• Amanda Craig, author of A Vicious Circle and In a Dark Wood
• Angela Carter (1940-1992), postfeminist, wrote magical realism
• Angus Wilson, (1913-1991)
• Anita Brookner
• Anne Brontë, (1820-1849)
• Anthony Berkeley, mystery writer (The Poisoned Chocolates Case)
• Anthony Buckeridge
• Anthony Burgess, (1917-1993), composer, essayist, author of A Clockwork Orange
• Anthony Trollope, (1815-1882), prolific documentor of life in Victorian England
• Arnold Bennett, (1867-1931)
• Arthur Koestler, (1905-1983)
• Dame Barbara Cartland, (1901-2000)
• Barbara Pym
• Ben Elton, (born 1959)
• Bernard Cornwell, author of the Sharpe novels
• Beryl Bainbridge, (born 1934)
• C. H. B. Kitchin
• C. P. Snow, (1905-1980)
• C. S. Lewis, (1898-1963), Christian, author of The Chronicles of Narnia, wrote a book called Surprised by Joy, years of English bachelorhood later, married an American fan named Joy
• Carole Hayman
• Charles Dickens, (1812-1870), master of the novel, wrote for serial publication
• Charlotte Brontë, (1816-1855)
• Christopher Isherwood, (1904-1986)
• D. H. Lawrence, (1885-1930), author of Lady Chatterley's Lover
• Daniel Defoe, journalist, author of Robinson Crusoe (1719), Moll Flanders
• Daphne Du Maurier, (1907-1989)
• David Lodge, author of Thinks ... (2001)
• Doris Lessing, (born 1919), author of The Grass is Singing The Golden Notebook and Canopus in Argos: Archives
• Dornford Yates, (1885-1960), escapist adventure stories
• Dorothy L. Sayers, (1893-1957), mystery writer (creator of Lord Peter Wimsey), playwright, translator of Dante
• Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001), author of the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
• E. M. Forster, (1879-1970)
• Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, (1803-1873), the annual bad writing contest is named after him.
• Elizabeth Gaskell
• Emily Brontë, (1818-1848)
• Evelyn Waugh, (1903-1966), comic novelist (Scoop), tragic novelist (Brideshead Revisited), sometimes in the same book.
• Fay Weldon
• Ford Madox Ford, author of The Good Soldier (1914), promoter of many other writers.
• Frederick Forsyth, (born 1938), author of The Day of the Jackal
• Frederick Marryat, (1792-1848), Mr Midshipman Easy and other sea stories
• G. K. Chesterton, (1874-1936), mystery writer and Christian apologist
• George A. Moore, (1852-1933)
• George Du Maurier
• George Eliot, (1819-1880)
• George Meredith, (1828-1909)
• George Orwell, pen name of Eric Arthur Blair, journalist, volunteer soldier in the Spanish Civil War, author of Animal Farm (1945), 1984 (1949)
• Graham Greene, (1904-1991)
• Graham Swift won the Booker Prize in 1996 for Last Orders; also known for an earlier novel Waterland (1984).
• H. G. Wells, (1866-1946), author and essayist, early writer of science fiction, author of The War of the Worlds
• H. Rider Haggard, (1856-1925), adventure novels set in exotic locations, such as King Solomon's Mines, She
• Hall Caine, (1853-1931)
• Hammond Innes, (1914-1998)
• Helen Zahavi, author of Dirty Weekend (1991), a modern-day picaresque novel
• Henry Fielding, (1707-1754)
• Henry Green, (1905-1973)
• Henry Williamson, (1895-1977), author
• Hilary Mantel
• Ian McEwan
• Iris Murdoch, (1919-1999), author of A Severed Head
• Ivy Compton-Burnett, author of novels about dysfunctional families
• James Herbert, Horror writer
• J. B. Priestley
• J. G. Ballard, (born 1930), author of Crash, Empire of the Sun
• J. R. Ackerley
• J. R. R. Tolkien, (1892-1973), author of The Lord of the Rings
• Jane Austen, (1775-1817)
• Jeffrey Archer
• Jerome K. Jerome, (1859-1927), author of Three Men in a Boat
• Joanne Harris, (born 1964), author of Chocolat, Five Quarters of the Orange
• John Braine, author of Room at the Top and The Jealous God
• John Bunyan, (1628-1688)
• John Fowles, author of The French Lieutenant's Woman
• Jonathan Coe
• Joseph Conrad, (1857-1924), Polish-born mariner, author of The Heart of Darkness
• Josephine Hart, author of Damage
• Julian Barnes, (born 1946), author of England, England
• Kazuo Ishiguro, author of The Remains of the Day
• Kingsley Amis, (1922-1995), novelist and poet, young author of Lucky Jim and old author of The Old Devils.
• Lawrence Durrell, (1912-1990), author of The Alexandria Quartet
• Malcolm Bradbury, author of The History Man
• Margaret Drabble, (born 1939)
• Marie Corelli, (1855-1924), best-selling novelist
• Martin Amis, (born 1949), son of Kingsley, author of Dead Babies, Money, and The Information
• Mary Augusta Ward, (1851-1920)
• Mary Elizabeth Braddon, (1837-1915)
• Mary Webb, tales of rural life
• Mary Wesley, (1912-2002), author of The Camomile Lawn
• Muriel Spark, (born 1918)
• Nancy Mitford, (1904-1973)
• Neil Gaiman, (born 1960)
• Nell Leyshon
• Nick Hornby, author of About a Boy (1998)
• Oliver Goldsmith, (1730-1774), The Vicar of Wakefield
• Ouida, (1839-1908)
• P. G. Wodehouse, (1881-1975), creator of Jeeves and Wooster
• P.D. James, author of crime fiction but also the dystopian novel The Children of Men (1992)
• Patrick O'Brian, (1914-2000), author of the Aubrey/Maturin naval historical novels (Master and Commander is the first in the series)
• Peter Ackroyd, (born 1949)
• Rhoda Broughton, (1840-1920)
• Richard Francis Burton, (1821-1890)
• Robert Graves, (1895-1985), The White Goddess
• Rudyard Kipling, author of Kim (1904)
• Ruth Rendell (aka Barbara Vine), author of King Solomon's Carpet
• Samuel Butler, (1612-80)
• Samuel Richardson, printer, contender for the title of "first English novelist", author of Pamela (1740)
• Sax Rohmer, (1883-1959), creator of Dr. Fu Manchu, "the yellow peril incarnate in one man".
• Simon Brett, (born 1945), (whodunnits)
• Stella Gibbons, author of Cold Comfort Farm, found something nasty in Mary Webb's woodshed.
• Stephen Fry, (born 1957)
• Stewart Home, (born 1962), his 1999 novel
• Sue Townsend - Adrian Mole books
• T. H. White, author of The Sword in the Stone and The Once and Future King
• Terry Pratchett, (born 1948)
• Thomas Hardy, (1840-1928)
• Thomas Love Peacock, (1785-1866)
• Tom Sharpe, author of Wilt
• Virginia Woolf, (1882-1941), feminist, modernist
• Wilkie Collins, (1824-1889), author of The Moonstone and many others
• Will Self
• William Cooper, twentieth century
• William G. Golding, (1911-1993), The Lord of the Flies
• William Horwood
• William Makepeace Thackeray, (1811-1863), author of Vanity Fair
• William Somerset Maugham, (1874-1965), author of Liza of Lambeth and The Razor's Edge and creator of Sadie Thompson in Rain

See also: List of novelists by country