1862


Les Misérables
Fathers and Sons
No Name
Lady Audley's Secret
The House of the Dead
Goblin Market: A Tale of Two Sisters
Salammbo
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Winter: My Secret
 
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Christina Rossetti
Roman Fever and Other Stories
The Age of Innocence
Dominique
Stronghand, Or, the Noble Revenge, by Gustave Aimard
Isis
Modern Love
Robin Hood: The Prince of Thieves
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
242 books — 407 voters
Picture the Dead by Adele GriffinAn Acquaintance with Darkness by Ann RinaldiThe River Between Us by Richard PeckIn My Father's House by Ann RinaldiCrossing Ebenezer Creek by Tonya Bolden
YA Fiction set in the 1860s
43 books — 9 voters

Abraham Lincoln
“ In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and, to the young, it comes with bitterest agony, because it takes them unawares. The older have learned to ever expect it. I am anxious to afford some alleviation of your present distress. Perfect relief is not possible, except with time. You can not now realize that you will ever feel better. Is not this so? And yet it is a mistake. You are sure to be happy again. To know this, which is certainly true, will make you some less miserable now. I hav ...more ”
― Abraham Lincoln