Dickens novels

Charles Dickens wrote 15 novels, roughly 4 million words in length:

1. The Pickwick Papers – 1836-37 (a mockery of the justice system)
2. Oliver Twist – 1837-39) (the first edition had a longer biblical title, Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy’s Progress; the character Fagin was named after Bob Fagin, was was a fellow employee met by Charles Dickens as youngster working at a blacking factory)
3. Nicholas Nickleby – 1838-39 (Mrs. Nickleby was modeled after Dickens' mother)
4. The Old Curiosity Shop – 1840-41
5. Barnaby Rudge – 1841 (an historical novel about the Gordon Riots of 1780)
6. Martin Chuzzlewit – 1843-44 (written after an unpleasant trip to the United States by Dickens)
7. Dombey and Son – 1846-48 (Dickens read this work to friends, and then to the public)
8. David Copperfield – 1849-50 (Dickens' 8th and favorite novel)
9. 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)
10. Hard Times – 1854 (an insightful criticism of utilitarianism)
11. Little Dorrit – 1855-57 (about debtors' prison, which Dickens' father endured)
12. A Tale of Two Cities – 1859 (perhaps Dickens' most famous work)
13. Great Expectations – 1860-81 (about dreams of becoming a gentleman)
14. Our Mutual Friend – 1864 (Dickens' last completed novel, focusing on the "dust" business)
15. The Mystery of Edwin Drood – 1870 (halfway completed by Dickens when he died)

Novella

A Christmas Carol (1843) was a novella, short in length.