2026 Reading Challenge
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1850s


1850s Books

A Tale of Two Cities
Moby-Dick or, The Whale
Madame Bovary
The Scarlet Letter
North and South
Bleak House
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
The Woman in White
Walden or, Life in the Woods
Bartleby the Scrivener
Hard Times
Villette
David Copperfield
The House of the Seven Gables
Leaves of Grass
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Lists

Little Women by Louisa May AlcottHeidi by Johanna SpyriAlice in Wonderland by Jane CarruthTreasure Island by Robert Louis StevensonThe Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
Best Children's Books, 1850-1900
161 books — 38 voters
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles DickensThe Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel HawthorneMoby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman MelvilleMadame Bovary by Gustave FlaubertDavid Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Best Books of the Decade: 1850s
223 books — 301 voters

A Spy in the House by Y.S. LeeWe Hear the Dead by Dianne K. SalerniIn the Shadow of the Lamp by Susanne DunlapBoston Jane by Jennifer L. HolmThe Firefly Letters by Margarita Engle
YA Fiction set in the 1850s
15 books — 4 voters
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick DouglassAdventures of a Mountain Man by Zenas LeonardDomestic Manners of the Americans by Frances Milton TrollopeThe Life of Henry Brulard by StendhalJournal of My Life During The French Revolution by Grace Dalrymple Elliott
Best Memoirs Published in the 1830s, 1840s, and 1850s
25 books — 2 voters

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