Bleak House
British novelist, 1812–1870.
Bleak House is an 1852 novel by Charles Dickens.
On 4 of the 13 lists it was eligible for.
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At a glance
- Author
- Charles Dickens
- First published
- Serialised 1852–53
- Length
- 1088 pages (UK paperback)
- Genre
- Literary fiction, Class and society, Crime, Satire
Is Bleak House worth reading?
4 of the 13 best-of lists it could have made include it, among them The 100 greatest British novels (BBC Culture) and Readers' top 100 novels (The Guardian).
| List | Place | Original |
|---|---|---|
| Readers' top 100 novels (The Guardian, 2026) | No. 26 | See the list |
| The 100 best novels of all time (The Guardian, 2026) | No. 12 | See the list |
| The 100 greatest British novels (BBC Culture, 2015) | No. 6 | See the list |
| The Big Read top 100 (BBC, 2003) | No. 79 | See the list |
Best edition of Bleak House
The edition we link to is the Penguin Classics paperback (2003), 1088 pages.
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics (paperback, 2003)
- Pages
- 1088
- ISBN
- 9780141439723
How critics and readers rate Bleak House
Readers and critics rate it about equally: it earned 34% on readers' and booksellers' lists and 34% on critics' lists.
Share of the available points it earned on each kind of list it was eligible for. How the scores work
Books like Bleak House
If you liked Bleak House, try Great Expectations, David Copperfield or A Tale of Two Cities.
