This is for students in my eighteenth-century British fiction course who want reading recommendations beyond the syllabus.
If you liked Evelina (by Frances Burney) and liked OR hated Pamela (by Samuel Richardson):
- The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless by Eliza Haywood
- Belinda by Maria Edgeworth
- A Simple Story by Elizabeth Inchbald
- The Wild Irish Girl by Sydney Owenson (Lady Morgan)
- Cecilia by Frances Burney
- Journals and Letters by Frances Burney (Penguin edition)
- Clarissa by Samuel Richardson (abridgement published by Broadview is a reasonable option here)
If you liked Robinson Crusoe (by Daniel Defoe):
- Oroonoko by Aphra Behn
- Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
- Roxana by Daniel Defoe
- Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
- The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
If you liked Tom Jones ( by Henry Fielding):
- Amelia by Henry Fielding
- Humphry Clinker by Tobias Smollett
- Joseph Andrews by Henry Fielding
- The Adventures of David Simple by Sarah Fielding
If you liked The Castle of Otranto (by Horace Walpole):
- A Sicilian Romance by Ann Radcliffe
- The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe
- The Victim of Prejudice by Mary Hays
- The Wrongs of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft
- The Monk by Samuel Lewis
- Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
If you liked Rasselas (by Samuel Johnson):
- Candide by Voltaire
- Mary, A Fiction by Mary Wollstonecraft
- The Female Quixote by Charlotte Lennox
- Millenium Hall by Sarah Scott
If you liked Tristram Shandy (by Laurence Sterne):
- A Sentimental Journey by Laurence Sterne
- The Man of Feeling by Henry Mackenzie
- The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith