Jane Eyre
British novelist, 1816–1855.
Jane Eyre is an 1847 novel by Charlotte Brontë.
In romance and love stories, coming of age
On 8 of the 13 lists it was eligible for.
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At a glance
- Author
- Charlotte Brontë
- First published
- 1847
- Length
- 624 pages (UK paperback)
- Genre
- Romance and love stories, Coming of age, Gothic
Is Jane Eyre worth reading?
8 of the 13 best-of lists it could have made include it, among them 100 novels everyone should read (The Telegraph) and The 100 best novels of all time (The Guardian).
| List | Place | Original |
|---|---|---|
| 100 novels everyone should read (The Telegraph, 2009) | No. 7 | See the list |
| Readers' top 100 novels (The Guardian, 2026) | No. 26 | See the list |
| The 100 best novels of all time (The Guardian, 2026) | No. 8 | See the list |
| The 100 best novels written in English (The Guardian / Observer, 2015) | Listed | See the list |
| The 100 greatest British novels (BBC Culture, 2015) | No. 5 | See the list |
| The 100 greatest novels of all time (The Observer, 2003) | Listed | See the list |
| The Big Read top 100 (BBC, 2003) | No. 10 | See the list |
| The Great American Read (PBS, 2018) | Listed | See the list |
Best edition of Jane Eyre
The edition we link to is the Penguin paperback (2006), 624 pages.
- Publisher
- Penguin (paperback, 2006)
- Pages
- 624
- ISBN
- 9780141441146
How critics and readers rate Jane Eyre
Critics rate it most highly: it earned 75% of the points available on critics' lists, against 57% on readers' and booksellers' lists.
Share of the available points it earned on each kind of list it was eligible for. How the scores work
Books like Jane Eyre
If you liked Jane Eyre, try Wuthering Heights, Middlemarch or Frankenstein.
