Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens — 8 titles in the rankings, first published between 1836 and 1861. They average 7.6, below the 7.8 the whole catalogue averages. One series has a reading order worth keeping to.
Editor’s note A Christmas Carol is the best-rated and the shortest way in — a single evening’s read. Of the long novels, David Copperfield and Bleak House rate highest. Great Expectations and A Tale of Two Cities, the school staples, are the most-read after the Carol and also the lowest-rated.
- Ranked titles
- 8 books
- Average score
- 7.6
- Total ratings
- 5.1K
- First published
- 1836–1861
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Series by Charles Dickens
Reading order of Charles Dickens's series
1 series with a set order — each one opens on the volume to read first.
All books by Charles Dickens in order →Books by Charles Dickens
- A Christmas Carol1.4K ratings
8.18.1 / 10 - David Copperfield378 ratings
7.97.9 / 10 - Bleak House157 ratings
7.97.9 / 10 - Nicholas Nickleby57 ratings
7.77.7 / 10 - Oliver Twist606 ratings
7.57.5 / 10 - The Pickwick Papers63 ratings
7.57.5 / 10 - A Tale of Two Cities1.3K ratings
7.47.4 / 10 - Great Expectations1.1K ratings
7.27.2 / 10
Other books by Charles Dickens
Titles we know of but do not rank — they have not gathered enough reader ratings, or our sources do not agree on where they belong.
- 1800Works (American Notes / Pictures from Italy)
- 1800No Thoroughfare
- 1836Sketches by Boz
- 1837Bentley's Miscellany
- 1838Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi
- 1840The Old Curiosity Shop
- 1840Barnaby Rudge
- 1840Master Humphrey's Clock
- 1841The Old Curiosity Shop: A Tale
- 1841The Pic-Nic Papers: By Various Hands
- 1842American Notes
- 1842American Notes for General Circulation
- 1843A Christmas Carol in Prose: Being a Ghost S...
- 1844The Chimes
- 1844Martin Chuzzlewit
- 1845The Cricket on the Hearth
- 1846The Battle of Life
- 1846Pictures from Italy
- 1848Dombey and Son
- 1848The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain
- 1848Characters in Dombey and Son
- 1848Folklore, legends and myths in Dombey and Son
- 1848Vision of Contemporary England in Dombey and Son
- 1851A Child's History of England
- 1853Gone Astray - Night Walks
- 1854Hard Times: For These Times
- 1857Little Dorrit
- 1858Letture teatrali di Charles Dickens
- 1859Works (American Notes / Pictures from Italy / Tale of Two Cities)
- 1864Our Mutual Friend
- 1866The Frozen Deep
- 1868Works (Oliver Twist / Tale of Two Cities)
- 1868Holiday Romance
- 1870The Mystery of Edwin Drood
- 1870A Child's Dream of a Star
- 1870Hunted Down
- 1875The Uncommercial Traveller
- 1880Novels (Mystery of Edwin Drood / Tale of Two Cities)
- 1896Anatomie de la société dans La Maison d'Âpre-Vent
- 1896Double narration dans La Maison d'Âpre-Vent
- 1896Identité littéraire des personnages dans La Maison d'Âpre-Vent
- 1897Christmas Eve with Mr. Pickwick
- 1908Works (Tale of Two Cities / Uncommercial Traveller)
- 1911Magic Fishbone
- 1934The Life of Our Lord
- 1970Novels (Christmas Carol / Great Expectations / Oliver Twist / Tale of Two Cities)
- 1977Novels (Great Expectations / Oliver Twist / Tale of Two Cities)
- 1979Aspectos de la vida de Charles Dickens relativos a la Casa desolada
- 1979Narration d'Esther dans La Maison d'Âpre-Vent
- 1982Novels (Great Expectations / Christmas Carol / Hard Times / Tale of Two Cities)
- 1989Novels (A Tale of Two Cities / Great Expectations)
- 2003A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings
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