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#David Copperfield – 1849-50 (Dickens' 8th and favorite novel)
 
#David Copperfield – 1849-50 (Dickens' 8th and favorite novel)
 
#Bleak House – 1852-53 (a character dies oddly by spontaneous combustion; also a criticism of the legal system, a never-ending Chancery case of Jarndyce v. Jarndyce and the title is the name of their family home)<ref>https://www.britannica.com/topic/Bleak-House</ref>
 
#Bleak House – 1852-53 (a character dies oddly by spontaneous combustion; also a criticism of the legal system, a never-ending Chancery case of Jarndyce v. Jarndyce and the title is the name of their family home)<ref>https://www.britannica.com/topic/Bleak-House</ref>
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:::This novel ''Bleak House'' by Dickens has been cited 338 times by [[American]] court decisions, including 197 times by federal courts (including 9 times by the [[U.S. Supreme Court]]), as of Oct. 2, 2022.
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:::This novel ''Bleak House'' by Dickens has been cited 338 times by [[American]] court decisions, including 197 times by federal courts (including 9 times by the [[U.S. Supreme Court]]), as of Oct. 2, 2022. ''See, e.g.'', ''Hughes Tool Co. v. TWA'', 409 U.S. 363, 393 (1973) (Burger, C.J.,  dissenting)  (“To describe this litigation as a 20th-century sequel to Bleak House is only a slight exaggeration.”). 
 
#<li value="10">Hard Times – 1854 (an insightful criticism of [[utilitarianism]])</li>
 
#<li value="10">Hard Times – 1854 (an insightful criticism of [[utilitarianism]])</li>
 
#Little Dorrit – 1855-57 (about debtors' prison, which Dickens' father endured)
 
#Little Dorrit – 1855-57 (about debtors' prison, which Dickens' father endured)
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