20 Terrific Law and Literature Books

1. Atwood, Margaret.  The Handmaid’s Tale
   
   
2. Atwood, Margaret.  Alias Grace
   
   
3. Balzac, Honore de.  Colonel Chabert
   
   
4. Brecht, Bertolt.  The Caucasian Chalk Circle
   
   
5. Browning, Robert.  The Ring and the Book
   
   
6. Burgess, Anthony.  A Clockwork Orange
   
   
7. Camus, Albert.  The Fall
   
   
8. Collins, Wilkie.  The Law and the Lady
   
   
9. Dickens, Charles.  The Pickwick Papers
   
   
10. Dickens, Charles.  Bleak House
    
    
11. Dostoyevsky, Fyodor.  The Brothers Karamazov
    
    
12. Dreiser, Theodore.  An American Tragedy
    
    
13. Gaskell, Elizabeth.  Mary Barton
    
    
14. Jonson, Ben.  Volpone
    
    
15. Melville, Herman.  Billy Budd
    
    
16. Orwell, George.  1984 (a world without law)
    
    
17. Shakespeare, William.  Measure for Measure
    
    
18. Trollope, Anthony.  Orley Farm
    
    
19. Twain, Mark.  Pudd’nhead Wilson
    
    
20. Wright, Richard.  Native Son

For a longer list (with annotations), try Elizabeth Villiers Gemmette, ed., Law in Literature: An Annotated Bibliography of Law-Related Works, (Troy, New York: Whitston Publishing Co., 1998).