1. Henry Fielding: Joseph Andrews (The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews and of his Friend Mr. Abraham Adams, novel first published in 1742)
2. Cervantes: Don Quixote (The Ingenious Gentleman Sir Quixote of La Mancha, first published in Spanish in 1605)
3. Longus: Daphnis and Chloe (written in the Roman Empire)
4. Lawrence Sterne: Tristram Shandy (The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, novel first published in 1759)
5. Tobias Smollet: Roderick Random (The Adventures of Roderick Random, picaresque novel first published in 1748)
6. Samuel Richardson: Pamela: or Virtue Rewarded (Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded, epistolary novel first published in 1740)