List of novelists from England
- (See also: English novel, English literature)
- A. A. Milne, (1882-1956), The Red House Mystery and Mr. Pim Passes By (a novelization of his own play)
- A. E. W. Mason, author of The Four Feathers
- Agatha Christie, (1890-1976)
- Alain de Botton (born 1969)
- Aldous Huxley, (1884-1963), author of Brave New World
- Alex Garland, author of The Beach
- Amanda Craig, author of A Vicious Circle and In a Dark Wood
- Angela Carter (1940-1992), postfeminist, wrote magical realism
- Angus Wilson, (1913-1991)
- Anita Brookner
- Anne Brontė, (1820-1849)
- Anthony Berkeley, mystery writer (The Poisoned Chocolates Case)
- Anthony Buckeridge
- Anthony Burgess, (1917-1993), composer, essayist, author of A Clockwork Orange
- Anthony Trollope, (1815-1882), prolific documentor of life in Victorian England
- Arnold Bennett, (1867-1931)
- Arthur Koestler, (1905-1983)
- Dame Barbara Cartland, (1901-2000)
- Barbara Pym
- Ben Elton, (born 1959)
- Bernard Cornwell, author of the Sharpe novels
- Beryl Bainbridge, (born 1934)
- C. H. B. Kitchin
- C. P. Snow, (1905-1980)
- C. S. Lewis, (1898-1963), Christian, author of The Chronicles of Narnia, wrote a book called Surprised by Joy, years of English bachelorhood later, married an American fan named Joy
- Carole Hayman
- Charles Dickens, (1812-1870), master of the novel, wrote for serial publication
- Charlotte Brontė, (1816-1855)
- Christopher Isherwood, (1904-1986)
- D. H. Lawrence, (1885-1930), author of Lady Chatterley's Lover
- Daniel Defoe, journalist, author of Robinson Crusoe (1719), Moll Flanders
- Daphne Du Maurier, (1907-1989)
- David Lodge, author of Thinks (2001)
- Doris Lessing, (born 1919), author of The Grass is Singing The Golden Notebook and Canopus in Argos: Archives
- Dornford Yates, (1885-1960), escapist adventure stories
- Dorothy L. Sayers, (1893-1957), mystery writer (creator of Lord Peter Wimsey), playwright, translator of Dante
- Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001), author of the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
- E. M. Forster, (1879-1970)
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, (1803-1873), the annual bad writing contest is named after him.
- Elizabeth Gaskell
- Emily Brontė, (1818-1848)
- Evelyn Waugh, (1903-1966), comic novelist (Scoop), tragic novelist (Brideshead Revisited), sometimes in the same book.
- Fay Weldon
- Ford Madox Ford, author of The Good Soldier (1914), promoter of many other writers.
- Frederick Forsyth, (born 1938), author of The Day of the Jackal
- Frederick Marryat, (1792-1848), Mr Midshipman Easy and other sea stories
- G. K. Chesterton, (1874-1936), mystery writer and Christian apologist
- George A. Moore, (1852-1933)
- George Du Maurier
- George Eliot, (1819-1880)
- George Meredith, (1828-1909)
- George Orwell, pen name of Eric Arthur Blair, journalist, volunteer soldier in the Spanish Civil War, author of Animal Farm (1945), 1984 (1949)
- Graham Greene, (1904-1991)
- Graham Swift won the Booker Prize in 1996 for Last Orders; also known for an earlier novel Waterland (1984).
- H. G. Wells, (1866-1946), author and essayist, early writer of science fiction, author of The War of the Worlds
- H. Rider Haggard, (1856-1925), adventure novels set in exotic locations, such as King Solomon's Mines, She
- Hall Caine, (1853-1931)
- Hammond Innes, (1914-1998)
- Helen Zahavi, author of Dirty Weekend (1991), a modern-day picaresque novel
- Henry Fielding, (1707-1754)
- Henry Green, (1905-1973)
- Henry Williamson, (1895-1977), author
- Hilary Mantel
- Ian McEwan
- Iris Murdoch, (1919-1999), author of A Severed Head
- Ivy Compton-Burnett, author of novels about dysfunctional families
- James Herbert, Horror writer
- J. B. Priestley
- J. G. Ballard, (born 1930), author of Crash, Empire of the Sun
- J. R. Ackerley
- J. R. R. Tolkien, (1892-1973), author of The Lord of the Rings
- Jane Austen, (1775-1817)
- Jeffrey Archer
- Jerome K. Jerome, (1859-1927), author of Three Men in a Boat
- Joanne Harris, (born 1964), author of Chocolat, Five Quarters of the Orange
- John Braine, author of Room at the Top and The Jealous God
- John Bunyan, (1628-1688)
- John Fowles, author of The French Lieutenant's Woman
- Jonathan Coe
- Joseph Conrad, (1857-1924), Polish-born mariner, author of The Heart of Darkness
- Josephine Hart, author of '\'Damage''
- Julian Barnes, (born 1946), author of England, England
- Kazuo Ishiguro, author of The Remains of the Day
- Kingsley Amis, (1922-1995), novelist and poet, young author of Lucky Jim and old author of The Old Devils.
- Lawrence Durrell, (1912-1990), author of The Alexandria Quartet
- Malcolm Bradbury, author of The History Man
- Margaret Drabble, (born 1939)
- Marie Corelli, (1855-1924), best-selling novelist
- Martin Amis, (born 1949), son of Kingsley, author of Dead Babies, Money, and The Information
- Mary Augusta Ward, (1851-1920)
- Mary Elizabeth Braddon, (1837-1915)
- Mary Webb, tales of rural life
- Mary Wesley, (1912-2002), author of The Camomile Lawn
- Muriel Spark, (born 1918)
- Nancy Mitford, (1904-1973)
- Neil Gaiman, (born 1960)
- Nell Leyshon
- Nick Hornby, author of About a Boy (1998)
- Oliver Goldsmith, (1730-1774), The Vicar of Wakefield
- Ouida, (1839-1908)
- P. G. Wodehouse, (1881-1975), creator of Jeeves and Wooster
- P.D. James, author of crime fiction but also the dystopian novel The Children of Men (1992)
- Patrick O'Brian, (1914-2000), author of the Aubrey/Maturin naval historical novels (Master and Commander is the first in the series)
- Peter Ackroyd, (born 1949)
- Rhoda Broughton, (1840-1920)
- Richard Francis Burton, (1821-1890)
- Robert Graves, (1895-1985), The White Goddess
- Rudyard Kipling, author of Kim (1904)
- Ruth Rendell (aka Barbara Vine), author of King Solomon's Carpet
- Samuel Butler, (1612-80)
- Samuel Richardson, printer, contender for the title of "first English novelist", author of Pamela (1740)
- Sax Rohmer, (1883-1959), creator of Dr. Fu Manchu, "the yellow peril incarnate in one man".
- Simon Brett, (born 1945), (whodunnits)
- Stella Gibbons, author of Cold Comfort Farm, found something nasty in Mary Webb's woodshed.
- Stephen Fry, (born 1957)
- Stewart Home, (born 1962), his 1999 novel
- Sue Townsend - Adrian Mole books
- T. H. White, author of The Sword in the Stone and The Once and Future King
- Terry Pratchett, (born 1948)
- Thomas Hardy, (1840-1928)
- Thomas Love Peacock, (1785-1866)
- Tom Sharpe, author of Wilt
- Virginia Woolf, (1882-1941), feminist, modernist
- Wilkie Collins, (1824-1889), author of The Moonstone and many others
- Will Self
- William Cooper, twentieth century
- William G. Golding, (1911-1993), The Lord of the Flies
- William Horwood
- William Makepeace Thackeray, (1811-1863), author of Vanity Fair
- William Somerset Maugham, (1874-1965), author of Liza of Lambeth and The Razor's Edge and creator of Sadie Thompson in Rain
