1880s


The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
A Study in Scarlet (Sherlock Holmes, #1)
Treasure Island
The Death of Ivan Ilych
The Brothers Karamazov
The Portrait of a Lady
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Against Nature
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
King Solomon's Mines (Allan Quatermain, #1)
Pinocchio
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
Washington Square
The Canterville Ghost
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. MontgomeryLittle Women by Louisa May AlcottAnne of Avonlea by L.M. MontgomeryAnne of the Island by L.M. MontgomeryThe Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Teen Girl Classics
129 books — 72 voters

Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant by E.B. LongCompany Aytch; or, A Side Show of the Big Show by Sam R. WatkinsThe Autobiography of Charles Darwin, 1809–82 by Charles DarwinHardtack & Coffee by John Davis BillingsBoots and Saddles or, Life in Dakota with General Custer by Elizabeth Bacon Custer
Best Memoirs Published in the 1880s
21 books — 2 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
160 books — 39 voters

Jennifer Worth
In large groups of enclosed people who were not allowed out, infectious diseases spread like wildfire. For example, in the 1880s in a workhouse in Kent, it was found that in a child population of one hundred and fifty-four, only three children did not have tuberculosis.
Jennifer Worth, Shadows of the Workhouse

Daylight meant that she must exist in a world that was growing darker and darker because she knew that there was not a man within miles who wanted a plain twenty-nine-year-old spinster.
Laura Langdon

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