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1860s


1860s Books

Crime and Punishment
Great Expectations
Little Women (Little Women, #1)
War and Peace
Les Misérables
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Notes from Underground
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, #1)
The Idiot
Fathers and Sons
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
Thérèse Raquin
The Moonstone
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Silas Marner
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Lists

Uncle Montague's Tales of Terror by Chris PriestleyThe Case of the Missing Marquess by Nancy SpringerThe Wolves of Willoughby Chase by Joan AikenThe Night Gardener by Jonathan AuxierThe Little White Horse by Elizabeth Goudge
Middle Grade Victorian Historical Fiction
95 books — 22 voters
Little Women by Louisa May AlcottHeidi by Johanna SpyriAlice in Wonderland by Jane CarruthThe Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank BaumTreasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Best Children's Books, 1850-1900
161 books — 40 voters

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyLittle Women by Louisa May AlcottGreat Expectations by Charles DickensWar and Peace by Leo TolstoyLes Misérables by Victor Hugo
Best Books of the Decade: 1860s
241 books — 402 voters
Chains by Laurie Halse AndersonCopper Sun by Sharon M. DraperJefferson's Sons by Kimberly Brubaker BradleyA Picture of Freedom by Patricia C. McKissackMeet Addy by Connie Rose Porter
Slavery in YA & Middle Grade Historical Fiction
193 books — 33 voters

Thrilling Incidents of the Indian War of 1862 by Lavina Day EastlickA Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains by Isabella Lucy BirdThe Innocents Abroad, Or, the New Pilgrims' Progress by Mark TwainAutobiography by John Stuart MillThe Fremantle Diary by Arthur James Lyon Fremantle
Best Memoirs Published in 1860s and 1870s
31 books — 2 voters
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty SmithNarrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick DouglassThe Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin FranklinThe Egg and I by Betty MacDonaldPioneer Girl by Laura Ingalls Wilder
The Best American Memoirs of Life Before 1940
101 books — 2 voters