Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

No reading list would be complete without Emily Brontë’s gothic romance, Wuthering Heights. Written as a reaction against the popular romantic fiction of Jane Austen, it is an altogether darker and more complicated tale, set within a frame narrative and spanning two generations. Featuring some of the most beautiful prose in the English canon, its depiction of Heathcliff and Cathy’s doomed love affair haunts the reader long after the book has been put down.