Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf was born in Kensington, Middlesex, England on January 25th, 1882 and passed away at the age of 59 on March 28th, 1941.

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Virginia Woolf Stats: The highest rated book by Virginia Woolf on Book Notification is A Room of One's Own, the 3rd novel in the Virginia Woolf Essays series. The second-highest rated book is Mrs. Dalloway, a Standalone novel.

The most read book by Virginia Woolf on Book Notification is Mrs. Dalloway, a Standalone novel. The second most read book is To the Lighthouse, a Standalone novel.

Below is a complete list of Virginia Woolf books in publication and chronological order, broken down by series.

List of Standalone Novels in Publication Order

Ranked by popularity, the top standalone books are Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, and Orlando.

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
6
The Voyage Out
1915
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2
6
Night and Day
1919
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3
8
Jacob's Room
1922
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4
7.2
Mrs. Dalloway
1925
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5
6.4
To the Lighthouse
1927
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6
8
Orlando
1928
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7
8
The Waves
1931
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8
8
The Years
1937
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9
6.3
Between the Acts
1941
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10
Melymbrosia
1981
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List of Short Stories/Novellas in Publication Order

Ranked by popularity, the top short stories and novellas are The Mark on the Wall, The Lady in the Looking Glass, and The Widow and the Parrot.

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
4
The Mark on the Wall
1917
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2
Kew Gardens
1919
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3
A Society
1921
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4
4
The Lady in the Looking Glass
1960
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5
The Widow and the Parrot
1985
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6
Nurse Lugton's Curtain
1991
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List of Plays in Publication Order (with Sarah Ruhl, with Anton Chekhov)

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
Freshwater (With: Edward Gorey)
1935
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2
Chekhov's Three Sisters & Woolf's Orlando (With: Sarah Ruhl, Anton Chekhov)
2011
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List of Short Story Collections in Publication Order

Ranked by popularity, the top short story collections are Monday or Tuesday, The Virginia Woolf Reader, and Collected Short Stories.

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
The Mark On The Wall & Other Short Fiction
1917
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2
Two Stories
1917
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3
8
Monday or Tuesday
1921
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4
A Haunted House and Other Short Stories
1944
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5
Mrs. Dalloway's Party
1973
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6
The Virginia Woolf Reader
1984
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7
The Complete Shorter Fiction
1993
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8
8
Collected Short Stories
2019
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List of Virginia Woolf Diaries and Journals in Publication Order

Ranked by popularity, the top Virginia Woolf Diaries and Journals books are A Writer's Diary, The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume One, and The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume Three.

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
10
A Writer's Diary
1953
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2
The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume One
1977
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3
The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume Two
1978
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4
The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume Three
1980
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5
The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume Four
1982
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6
The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume Five
1984
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7
A Moment's Liberty
1990
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8
Passionate Apprentice
1990
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9
Travels With Virginia Woolf
1993
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List of Essays in Publication Order

Ranked by popularity, the top Virginia Woolf Essays books are A Room of One's Own, The Common Reader, and How Should One Read a Book?.

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
7
The Common Reader
1925
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2
On Not Knowing Greek
1925
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3
How Should One Read a Book?
1926
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4
8.5
A Room of One's Own
1928
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5
4
Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown
1929
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6
On Being Ill
1930
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7
The London Scene
1931
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8
The Common Reader: Second Series
1932
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9
10
Three Guineas
1938
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10
Reviewing
1939
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11
8
Thoughts on Peace in an Air Raid
1941
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12
The Death of the Moth and Other Essays
1942
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13
Moment And Other Essays
1948
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14
Granite and Rainbow
1958
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15
Contemporary Writers
1965
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16
Walter Sickert
1978
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17
Books & Portraits
1978
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18
Women and Writing
1979
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19
Killing the Angel in the House
1995
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20
A Letter to a Young Poet
2021
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List of Collected Essays in Publication Order

Ranked by popularity, the top Virginia Woolf Collected Essays books are The Essays, Vol. 1, The Essays, Vol. 2, and The Essays, Vol. 3.

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
The Essays, Vol. 1
1967
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2
The Essays, Vol. 2
1967
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3
The Essays, Vol. 3
1967
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4
The Essays, Vol. 4
1967
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5
The Essays, Vol. 5
1986
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6
The Essays, Vol. 6
2011
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7
Street Haunting
2022
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List of The Letters of Virginia Woolf Books in Publication Order

Ranked by popularity, the top The Letters of Virginia Woolf books are The Letters of Virginia Woolf, Vol. 1, The Letters of Virginia Woolf, Vol. 3, and The Letters of Virginia Woolf, Vol. 4.

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
The Letters of Virginia Woolf, Vol. 1
1975
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2
The Letters of Virginia Woolf, Vol. 2
1976
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3
The Letters of Virginia Woolf, Vol. 3
1977
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4
The Letters of Virginia Woolf, Vol. 4
1978
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5
The Letters of Virginia Woolf, Vol. 5
1979
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6
The Letters of Virginia Woolf, Vol. 6
1980
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7
Paper Darts
1991
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List of Non-Fiction Books in Publication Order

Ranked by popularity, the top non-fiction books are Flush, Love Letters, and Moments of Being.

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
Love Letters
1926
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2
8
Flush
1933
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3
Roger Fry: A Biography
1940
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4
Moments of Being
1976
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5
Selected Letters
1990
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6
The Platform of Time
2007
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List of Modern Library Torchbearers Books in Publication Order

Literary classics with introductions, commentary, and other additional information.

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
Persuasion (By: Jane Austen)
1818
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2
Wuthering Heights (By: Emily Brontë)
1847
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3
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (By: Harriet Ann Jacobs)
1861
Go
4
Lady Audley's Secret (By: Mary Elizabeth Braddon)
1862
Go
5
The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Writings (By: Charlotte Perkins Gilman)
1892
Go
6
The Awakening (By: Kate Chopin)
1899
Go
7
The Goodness of St. Rocque: And Other Stories (By: Alice Dunbar-Nelson)
1899
Go
8
The Custom of the Country (By: Edith Wharton)
1913
Go
9
6
The Voyage Out
1915
Go
10
Regiment of Women (By: Clemence Dane, Melissa Broder)
1917
Go
11
The Heads of Cerberus (By: Francis Stevens)
1919
Go
12
Powder And Patch / The Transformation of Philip Jettan (By: Georgette Heyer)
1923
Go
13
A Daughter of the Samurai (By: Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto)
1925
Go
14
8
Bread Givers (By: Anzia Yezierska)
1925
Go
15
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (By: Anita Loos)
1925
Go
16
Quicksand (By: Nella Larsen)
1928
Go
17
Passing (By: Nella Larsen)
1929
Go
18
Nada (By: Carmen Laforet)
1944
Go
19
The Return of the Soldier (By: Rebecca West)
1970
Go
20
The Selected Poetry (By: Edna St. Vincent Millay, Olivia Gatwood, Nancy Milford)
2002
Go
21
Love, Anger, Madness: A Haitian Trilogy (By: Marie Vieux-Chauvet)
2010
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22
American Indian Stories (By: Ziktala-Sa)
2018
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23
Narrative Of Sojourner Truth (By: Sojourner Truth, Oliver Gilbert)
2019
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24
There Is Confusion (By: Jessie Redmon Fauset)
2020
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25
Villette (By: Charlotte Brontë)
2020
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26
The Collected Poems of Chika Sagawa (By: Sawako Nakayasu, Chika Sagawa)
2020
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27
The Squatter and the Don (By: Ana Castillo, María Amparo Ruiz de Burton)
2021
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28
Mrs. Spring Fragrance: and Other Writings (By: C Pam Zhang, Sui Sin Far)
2021
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29
The Southern Woman: Selected Fiction (By: Elizabeth Spencer)
2021
Go
30
The Princess of 72nd Street (By: Elaine Kraf)
2024
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31
I Am Clarence (By: Sarah Manguso, Elaine Kraf)
2025
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32
Lolly Willowes or, the loving huntsman (By: Sylvia Townsend Warner)
2025
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33
The House of Madelaine (By: Elaine Kraf)
2025
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34
Plum Bun Without a Moral (By: Jessie Redmon Fauset)
2025
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35
Find Him! (By: Elaine Kraf)
2025
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36
Nothing Grows by Moonlight (By: Torborg Nedreaas)
2026
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37
Memory House (By: Elaine Kraf)
2026
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38
The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield (By: Katherine Mansfield, Sloane Crosley)
2026
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39
A Country Doctor (By: Sarah Orne Jewett)
2026
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40
Goodbye, Ramona (By: Montserrat Roig)
2026
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List of Virginia Woolf Anthologies in Publication Order

#ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
Identity And Self Respect
1952
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2
4
50 Great Short Stories
1952
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3
Women and Fiction
1975
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4
A World of Fiction
1983
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5
Witches' Brew
1984
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6
Magical Realist Fiction
1984
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7
Famous and Curious Animal Stories
1989
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8
That Kind of Woman: Stories from the Left Bank and Beyond
1991
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9
On Suicide: Great Writers on the Ultimate Question
1992
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10
Chloe Plus Olivia
1994
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11
PEN America Issue 1: Classics
2000
Go
12
40 Model Essays
2005
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13
A Truth Universally Acknowledged
2009
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14
Stories to Get You Through the Night
2010
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15
Fathers: A Literary Anthology
2011
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16
Letters to Change the World: From Pankhurst to Orwell
2018
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17
8
Writers: Their Lives and Works
2018
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18
30 Occult & Supernatural Masterpieces You Have to Read Before You Die
2019
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19
Classic Women's Short Stories
2020
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20
Into the London Fog
2020
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21
Feminist Literary Classics: Volume II
2022
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Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf was born on January 25th, 1882. Virginia passed away March 28th, 1941 at 59 years old. Virginia Woolf was born in Kensington, Middlesex, England.

Virginia Woolf is known for writing in the Non-Fiction, Literary Fiction, and Classics genres.

Virginia Woolf was the author of the Virginia Woolf Essays series which consists of 20 novels. The Virginia Woolf Essays series started in 1925 with the novel The Common Reader. The most recently released novel in the Virginia Woolf Essays series was A Letter to a Young Poet which was released in 2021. There are no upcoming novels for the Virginia Woolf Essays series.

Virginia Woolf: Awards & Accolades

Virginia Woolf books have been nominated for multiple awards, Chloe Plus Olivia was nominated for the Stonewall Book Award, Non-fiction, in 1995. To the Lighthouse was nominated for the Audie Award, Best Female Narrator, in 1998.

Virginia Woolf: Lists & Other Mentions

  • The Waves was the TeaTime Book Club July 2026 Pick and the Natalie Portman's Book Club September '19 Pick.
  • Mrs. Dalloway:
    1. AbeBooks: 100 (Fiction) Books to Read in a Lifetime Selection in 2017.
    2. Good Housekeeping: 100 Best Books to Read by Women Authors Selection in 2021.
    3. Modern Library: 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century: Radcliffe's List Selection in 1998.
    4. The Guardian: 100 Best Novels Written in English Selection in 2015.
    5. BBC: 100 Greatest British Novels Selection in 2015.
    6. The Guardian: 100 Greatest Novels of All Time Selection in 2003 and 2015.
    7. Penguin: 100 Must-Read Classic Books Selection in 2022.
    8. The Telegraph: 100 Novels Everyone Should Read Selection in 2009.
    9. New York Public Library: 125 Books We Love for Adults Selection in 2020.
    10. The Independent: 25 Best Books by Female Authors Selection in 2019.
    11. The Guardian: 50 Best-Loved Novels Written by a Woman Selection in 2003.
    12. The Daily Mail: A Hundred Novels to Change Your Life Selection in 2019.
    13. Time Magazine: All-Time 100 Novels Selection in 2005.
    14. Blackwell's: Five Foot Bookshelf Selection in 2021.
    15. Book Riot: From Zero to Well-Read in 100 Books Selection in 2013.
    16. BBC: Radio Oxford 100 Books You Must Read Before You Die Selection in 2020.
    17. The Guardian: The 100 Best Novels of All-Time Selection in 2026.
    18. Gilmore Girls: The Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge Selection in 2007.
    19. Entertainment Weekly: Top 100 Novels Selection in 2013.
  • To the Lighthouse:
    1. Modern Library: 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century: Board's List Selection in 1998.
    2. Modern Library: 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century: Radcliffe's List Selection in 1998.
    3. Modern Library: 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century: Readers' List Selection in 1998.
    4. Amazon UK: 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime Selection in 2014.
    5. BBC: 100 Greatest British Novels Selection in 2015.
    6. Penguin: 100 Must-Read Classic Books Selection in 2022.
    7. The Guardian: 50 Best-Loved Novels Written by a Woman Selection in 2003.
    8. The Guardian: 50 Books That Defined Their Era Selection in 2011.
    9. Jezebel: 75 Books Every Woman Should Read Selection in 2008.
    10. The Daily Mail: A Hundred Novels to Change Your Life Selection in 2019.
    11. Time Magazine: All-Time 100 Novels Selection in 2005.
    12. Waterstones: Books of the Century Selection in 1997.
    13. Blackwell's: Five Foot Bookshelf Selection in 2021.
    14. BBC: Radio Oxford 100 Books You Must Read Before You Die Selection in 2020.
    15. The Guardian: The 100 Best Novels of All-Time Selection in 2026.
  • Orlando:
    1. Counterpunch: 100 Best Novels in English Since 1900 Selection in 2014.
    2. Modern Library: 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century: Radcliffe's List Selection in 1998.
    3. BBC: 100 Greatest British Novels Selection in 2015.
    4. Penguin: 100 Must-Read Classic Books Selection in 2022.
    5. BBC: 100 Novels That Shaped Our World Selection in 2019.
    6. The Guardian: 50 Best-Loved Novels Written by a Woman Selection in 2003.
    7. The Guardian: The 100 Best Novels of All-Time Selection in 2026.
  • A Room of One's Own:
    1. Book Riot: 25 of the Best Nonfiction Books of All Time Selection in 2022.
    2. Gilmore Girls: The Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge Selection in 2007.
  • The Waves:
    1. BBC: 100 Greatest British Novels Selection in 2015.
    2. The Guardian: The 100 Best Novels of All-Time Selection in 2026.
  • The Years:
    1. New York Times: #1 Fiction Best Seller in 1937.
    2. Publishers Weekly: Bestselling Novel in the United States in 1937.
  • Jacob's Room: The Guardian: The 100 Best Novels of All-Time Selection in 2026.

Virginia Woolf: TV/Movies Based on Books

Clarissa, based on Mrs. Dalloway, releases in theaters on December 11th, 2026. [Trailer]

Related Authors

Fans of Virginia Woolf also enjoy these authors:

  1. Margaret Atwood, author of The Handmaid's Tale Series.
  2. George Orwell, author of: 1984.
  3. Aldous Huxley, author of: Brave New World.
  4. Ernest Hemingway, author of: The Old Man and the Sea.
  5. Alice Sebold, author of: The Lovely Bones.
  6. Amy Tan, author of: The Joy Luck Club.
  7. Pip Williams, author of: The Dictionary of Lost Words.
  8. Dave Eggers, author of The Circle Series.
  9. Elie Wiesel, author of The Night Trilogy Series.
  10. Elizabeth Gilbert, author of: Eat, Pray, Love.

Virginia Woolf: F.A.Q

When was Virginia Woolf Born?

Virginia Woolf was born on January 25th, 1882.

When did Virginia Woolf die?

Virginia Woolf died on March 28th, 1941 at 59 years old.

Where was Virginia Woolf Born?

Virginia Woolf was born in Kensington, Middlesex, England, .

What was the first book Virginia Woolf wrote?

The first book written by Virginia Woolf was The Voyage Out, published in 1915.

What was the most recent book Virginia Woolf wrote?

Their most recently released work was Street Haunting on November 3rd, 2022.

What is the most popular book by Virginia Woolf?

Based on the number of readers on Book Notification, the most popular Virginia Woolf book is Mrs. Dalloway. Here are their most popular books and their average ratings:
  1. Mrs. Dalloway (7.17)
  2. To the Lighthouse (6.36)
  3. A Room of One's Own (8.46)
  4. Orlando (8.00)
  5. The Waves (8.00)

What genres does Virginia Woolf Write?

Virginia Woolf primarily writes in the Classics, Literary Fiction, and Non-Fiction genres. Their work includes sub-genres such as Women’s Fiction, Social Commentary, and Cultural / Social Commentary.

How many books has Virginia Woolf written?

Virginia Woolf has written 75 books across 15 series and categories, excluding contributions to anthologies.
  • 10 Standalone Novels
  • 6 Short Stories/Novellas
  • 2 Plays
  • 8 Short Story Collections
  • 9 Virginia Woolf Diaries and Journals
  • 20 Essays
  • 7 books in the Collected Essays Series
  • 7 books in The Letters of Virginia Woolf Series
  • 6 Non-Fiction Books
  • 1 book in the Modern Library Torchbearers Series
  • 1 Anton Chekhov Play
  • 1 Sarah Ruhl Play

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