{[Seealso|English novel|English literature}} This is a list of novelists from England.
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A
- Kia Abdullah (born 1982)
- J. R. Ackerley (1896–1967)
- Peter Ackroyd (born 1949)
- Douglas Adams (1952–2001), author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- Richard Adams (born 1920), author of Watership Down
- Wendy Alec, author of The Chronicles of Brothers Trilogy The Fall of Lucifer, and Messiah - The First Judgement.
- Kingsley Amis (1922–1995), novelist and poet, young author of Lucky Jim and old author of The Old Devils.
- Martin Amis (born 1949), son of Kingsley, author of Dead Babies, Money, and The Information
- Lisa Appignanesi (born 1946)
- Jeffrey Archer (born 1940)
- Elizabeth von Arnim (1866–1941)
- Jane Austen (1775–1817), wrote Sense and Sensibility, and Pride and Prejudice.
B
- Robert Bage (1728–1801)
- Beryl Bainbridge (born 1934)
- J. G. Ballard (born 1930), author of Crash, Empire of the Sun and Concrete Island
- Julian Barnes (born 1946), author of England, England
- Nicola Barker (born 1966)
- Ada Ellen Bayly (1857–1903)
- Max Beerbohm (1872–1956)
- Arnold Bennett (1867–1931)
- Anthony Berkeley, mystery writer (The Poisoned Chocolates Case)
- Walter Besant (1836–1901)
- Robert Black (1829-1915)
- Nicholas Blincoe (born 1965) author of Manchester Slingback
- Enid Blyton (1897–1968), author of the children's books
- Alain de Botton (born 1969)
- Marjorie Boulton (born 1924) writes both in English and Esperanto
- Malcolm Bradbury, author of The History Man
- Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1837–1915)
- Edward Bradley (1827–1889)
- John Braine, author of Room at the Top and The Jealous God
- Wallace Breem (1926–1990), author of Eagle in the Snow
- Simon Brett (born 1945), (whodunnits)
- Vincent Brome (1910–2004)
- Anne Brontë (1820–1849)
- Charlotte Brontë (1816–1855), wrote Jane Eyre.
- Emily Brontë (1818–1848), wrote Wuthering Heights.
- Anita Brookner
- Anthony Buckeridge
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton (1803–1873), the annual bad writing contest is named after him.
- John Bunyan (1628–1688)
- Anthony Burgess (1917–1993), composer, essayist, author of A Clockwork Orange and Earthly Powers
- Richard Francis Burton (1821–1890)
- Charlotte Bury (1775–1861)
- Samuel Butler (1835–1902), author of Erewhon
C
- Hall Caine (1853–1931), romantic novelist.
- Lewis Carroll (1832–1898), author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
- Angela Carter (1940–1992), post-feminist, wrote magical realism
- Dame Barbara Cartland (1901–2000)
- G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936), mystery writer and Christian apologist
- Hertzan Chimera, author of Szmonhfu and BoyFistGirlSuck
- Mary Cholmondeley (1859–1925) author of Red Pottage (1899)
- Agatha Christie (1890–1976), famous mystery writer.
- Brian Cleeve (1921–2003)
- Henry Cockton (1807–1852)
- Jonathan Coe
- Mortimer Collins (1827–1876)
- Wilkie Collins (1824–1889), author of The Moonstone and The Woman in White
- Ivy Compton-Burnett, author of novels about dysfunctional families
- Joseph Conrad (1857–1924), Polish-born, but lived in England and wrote in English
- William Cooper, (20th century)
- Marie Corelli (1855–1924), best–selling novelist
- Bernard Cornwell, author of the Sharpe novels
- Amanda Craig, author of A Vicious Circle and In a Dark Wood
- Andrew Crofts, author of The Little Hero
- Lewis Crofts, author of The Pornographer of Vienna
- J. A. Cuddon (1928–1996)
D-E
- Portia Da Costa, author of erotic romance fiction for women
- Daniel Defoe, journalist, author of Robinson Crusoe (1719), Moll Flanders
- Thomas Deloney (1543–1600)
- Nirpal Singh Dhaliwal (born 1974)
- Charles Dickens (17th Feb. 1812–1870), author of David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, and A Christmas Carol.
- Louise Doughty (born 1963), an English novelist, playwright and journalist.
- Margaret Drabble (born 1939)
- Daphne du Maurier (1907–1989), author of Rebecca and Jamaica Inn
- George du Maurier (1834–1896), author of Trilby
- Edward Eggleston (1837–1902)
- George Eliot (1819–1880)
- Ben Elton (born 1959)
F-G
- Susan Edmonstoune Ferrier (1782–1854)
- Henry Fielding (1707–1754)
- Ronald Firbank (1886–1926)
- Ian Fleming, the author of the James Bond novels
- Peter Fleming, author of travel books, brother of Ian
- Ford Madox Ford, author of The Good Soldier (1914), promoter of many other writers.
- C. S. Forester, author of the Horatio Hornblower series.
- E. M. Forster (1879–1970)
- Frederick Forsyth (born 1938), author of The Day of the Jackal
- John Fowles, author of The French Lieutenant's Woman
- Stephen Fry (born 1957)
- Neil Gaiman (born 1960), author of The Sandman comics, American Gods and the BBC series Neverwhere
- John Galsworthy (1867–1933)
- Alex Garland, author of The Beach
- Elizabeth Gaskell (1810–1865)
- Stella Gibbons, author of Cold Comfort Farm
- George Gissing (1857–1903)
- William Golding (1911–1993), author of Lord of the Flies
- Robert Graves (1895–1985), I, Claudius and other historical novels
- Henry Green (1905–1973)
- Graham Greene (1904–1991)
H-J
- H. Rider Haggard (1856–1925), adventure novels set in exotic locations, such as King Solomon's Mines, She
- Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)
- Joanne Harris (born 1964), author of Chocolat, Five Quarters of the Orange
- Josephine Hart, author of Damage
- Carole Hayman
- James Herbert, Horror writer
- Stewart Home (born 1962), his 1999 novel
- Nick Hornby, author of About a Boy (1998)
- William Horwood, author of the Duncton Wood series.
- Elizabeth Jane Howard
- Fergus Hume (1859–1932)
- Aldous Huxley (1884–1963), author of Brave New World
- Conn Iggulden (born 1971)
- Hammond Innes (1914–1998)
- Christopher Isherwood (1904–1986)
- Brian Jacques (born 1939), author of the Redwall and Castaways of the Flying Dutchman series
- P.D. James, author of crime fiction but also the dystopian novel The Children of Men (1992)
- Jerome K. Jerome (1859–1927), author of Three Men in a Boat
K-L
- Lena Kennedy (1914–1986)
- Alexander Kent (born 1924), historical fiction books on the Royal Navy.
- Brian Killick, author of The Heralds
- Charles Kingsley
- Henry Kingsley (1830–1876)
- Rudyard Kipling, author of Kim (1904)
- C. H. B. Kitchin
- D. H. Lawrence (1885–1930), author of Lady Chatterley's Lover
- Marina Lewycka
- C. S. Lewis (1898–1963), Christian, author of The Chronicles of Narnia, wrote a book called Surprised by Joy
- Nell Leyshon
- David Lodge, author of Thinks ... (2001)
M-O
- Hilary Mantel (born 1952)
- Derek Marlowe (1938–1996), A Dandy in Aspic
- Frederick Marryat (1792–1848), Mr Midshipman Easy and other sea stories
- A. E. W. Mason, author of The Four Feathers
- Sarah Matthias, author of The Riddle of the Poisoned Monk
- William Somerset Maugham (1874–1965), author of Liza of Lambeth and The Razor's Edge and creator of Sadie Thompson in Rain
- Ian McEwan
- George Meredith (1828–1909)
- A. A. Milne (1882–1956), The Red House Mystery and Mr. Pim Passes By (a novelization of his own play)
- Nancy Mitford (1904–1973)
- Iris Murdoch (1919–1999), author of A Severed Head
- Margaret Murphy
- John Murray (born 1950), Murphy's Favourite Channels
- V. S. Naipaul (born 1932), author of A House for Mr Biswas
- Patrick O'Brian (1914–2000), author of the Aubrey/Maturin naval historical novels (Master and Commander is the first in the series) and of many other novels and stories.
- Oliver Onions (1873–1961)
- George Orwell, pen name of Eric Arthur Blair, journalist, volunteer soldier in the Spanish Civil War, author of Animal Farm (1945), Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)
- Ouida (1839–1908)
P-S
- Gary Paulson (born 1963)
- Stel Pavlou (born 1970)
- Thomas Love Peacock (1785–1866)
- Mervyn Peake (1911–1968), author of the Gormenghast books
- Mike Philbin (born 1966)
- Harold Pinter (born 1930)
- Anthony Powell (1905–2000), author of A Dance to the Music of Time
- John Cowper Powys (1872–1963), author of A Glastonbury Romance
- Terry Pratchett (born 1948)
- J. B. Priestley
- Barbara Pym
- Ann Radcliffe (1764–1823)
- Julian Rathbone
- Ruth Rendell (aka Barbara Vine), author of King Solomon's Carpet
- Samuel Richardson, printer, contender for the title of "first English novelist", author of Pamela (1740) and Clarissa (1748)
- Sax Rohmer (1883–1959), creator of Dr. Fu Manchu, "the yellow peril incarnate in one man".
- J. K. Rowling (born 1965)
- Salman Rushdie (born 1947), author of "Midnight's Children" and "The Satanic Verses"
- Dorothy L. Sayers (1893–1957), mystery writer (creator of Lord Peter Wimsey), playwright, translator of Dante
- Will Self
- Diane Setterfield, author of The Thirteenth Tale
- Tom Sharpe, author of Wilt
- C. P. Snow (1905–1980)
- Muriel Spark (born 1918)
- Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)
- Alexander Stuart (born 1955), author of The War Zone, for which the 1989 Whitbread Prize was controversially withdrawn.
- Graham Swift won the Booker Prize in 1996 for Last Orders; also known for an earlier novel Waterland (1984).
T
- William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863), author of Vanity Fair
- Colin Thubron, author of A Cruel Madness and other novels as well as travel books
- J. R. R. Tolkien (1892–1973), author of The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit
- Sue Townsend, Adrian Mole books
- Miles Tredinnick, author of Fripp
- Anthony Trollope (1815–1882), prolific documentor of life in Victorian England
W-Z
- Jill Paton Walsh
- Mary Augusta Ward (1851–1920)
- Evelyn Waugh (1903–1966), comic novelist (Scoop), tragic novelist (Brideshead Revisited), sometimes in the same book.
- Mary Webb, tales of rural life
- Fay Weldon
- H. G. Wells (1866–1946), author and essayist, early writer of science fiction, author of The War of the Worlds and The Invisible Man
- Mary Wesley (1912–2002), author of The Camomile Lawn
- T. H. White, author of The Sword in the Stone and The Once and Future King
- Henry Williamson (1895–1977), author
- Angus Wilson (1913–1991)
- P. G. Wodehouse (1881–1975), creator of Jeeves and Wooster
- Virginia Woolf (1882–1941), feminist, modernist, author of To the Lighthouse, Orlando: A Biography, Mrs Dalloway
- Dornford Yates (1885–1960), escapist adventure stories
- Edmund Yates (1831–1894)
- Helen Zahavi, author of Dirty Weekend (1991), a modern-day picaresque novel
