Best Books of the 19th Century (1703 books)

The best books published during the 19th century (January 1st, 1801 through December 31st 1900).

Most Rated Books by Year By Century
21st, 20th, 19th, 18th, BEFORE 18th

Best Books By Century:
21st, 20th,
19th, 18th, 17th, 16th, 15th,14th, 13th, 12th, 11th, 10th,
9th, 8th, 7th, 6th, 5th, 4th

Best Books by Decade:
2020–2029, 2010–2019, 2000–2009,
1990–1999, 1980–1989, 1970–1979, 1960–1969, 1950–1959,
1940–1949, 1930–1939, 1920–1929, 1910–1919, 1900–1909,
1890–1899, 1880–1889, 1870–1879, 1860–1869, 1850–1859,
1840–1849, 1830–1839, 1820–1829, 1810–1819, 1800–1809

Lists for all books by Number of Ratings:
10,000 to 15,000, 15,000 to 20,000, 20,000 to 25,000, 25,000 to 30,000,
30,000 to 40,000, 40,000 to 50,000, 50,000 to 60,000, 60,000 to 70,000,
70,000 to 80,000, 80,000 to 89,999, 90,000 to 99,999, 100,000 to 149,999,
150,000 to 199,999, 200,000 to 499,999, 500,000 to 999,999, 1,000,000 and more

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1	Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen 4.29 avg rating — 4,757,590 ratings score: 244,282, and 2,475 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
2	Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë 4.16 avg rating — 2,307,217 ratings score: 192,997, and 1,970 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3	The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde 4.13 avg rating — 1,855,557 ratings score: 135,525, and 1,395 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
4	Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë 3.90 avg rating — 2,023,531 ratings score: 132,324, and 1,364 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
5	Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky 4.29 avg rating — 1,067,459 ratings score: 112,735, and 1,159 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
6	Frankenstein: The 1818 Text by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 3.90 avg rating — 1,861,962 ratings score: 102,861, and 1,073 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
7	The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas 4.32 avg rating — 1,016,014 ratings score: 97,140, and 1,005 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
8	Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll 4.06 avg rating — 606,618 ratings score: 86,335, and 896 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
9	Dracula by Bram Stoker 4.02 avg rating — 1,463,807 ratings score: 83,106, and 880 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
10	Little Women (Little Women, #1) by Louisa May Alcott 4.17 avg rating — 2,440,961 ratings score: 82,569, and 869 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
11	Emma by Jane Austen 4.05 avg rating — 975,541 ratings score: 80,212, and 842 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
12	Les Misérables by Victor Hugo 4.21 avg rating — 840,290 ratings score: 78,888, and 830 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
13	Persuasion by Jane Austen 4.15 avg rating — 771,257 ratings score: 76,780, and 805 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
14	Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy 4.10 avg rating — 925,230 ratings score: 76,769, and 812 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
15	The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2) by Mark Twain 3.83 avg rating — 1,333,920 ratings score: 74,415, and 787 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
16	Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen 4.09 avg rating — 1,288,818 ratings score: 71,690, and 766 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
17	A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens 3.88 avg rating — 1,008,608 ratings score: 68,878, and 730 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
18	Great Expectations by Charles Dickens 3.80 avg rating — 869,907 ratings score: 66,886, and 719 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
19	A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens 4.09 avg rating — 922,611 ratings score: 65,274, and 705 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
20	The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky 4.39 avg rating — 382,616 ratings score: 56,500, and 595 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
21	War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy 4.17 avg rating — 363,824 ratings score: 56,436, and 606 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
22	The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #3) by Arthur Conan Doyle 4.30 avg rating — 324,983 ratings score: 49,410, and 538 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
23	The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde 4.17 avg rating — 404,004 ratings score: 46,063, and 502 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
24	Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville 3.56 avg rating — 613,161 ratings score: 44,471, and 482 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
25	The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain 3.92 avg rating — 1,013,285 ratings score: 42,437, and 475 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
26	Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert 3.71 avg rating — 372,606 ratings score: 39,366, and 436 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
27	Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson 3.85 avg rating — 537,896 ratings score: 38,936, and 437 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
28	Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy 3.84 avg rating — 301,675 ratings score: 38,681, and 422 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
29	The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne 3.44 avg rating — 914,866 ratings score: 37,620, and 420 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
30	The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas 4.10 avg rating — 345,730 ratings score: 36,425, and 407 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
31	North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell 4.15 avg rating — 182,513 ratings score: 35,174, and 383 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
32	Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen 3.85 avg rating — 450,699 ratings score: 34,976, and 393 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
33	Mansfield Park by Jane Austen 3.86 avg rating — 378,155 ratings score: 34,482, and 388 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
34	David Copperfield by Charles Dickens 4.04 avg rating — 257,436 ratings score: 34,385, and 388 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
35	Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens 3.88 avg rating — 425,972 ratings score: 33,157, and 385 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
36	The Time Machine by H.G. Wells 3.89 avg rating — 562,426 ratings score: 32,985, and 370 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
37	Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson 3.83 avg rating — 661,051 ratings score: 32,850, and 383 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
38	A Study in Scarlet (Sherlock Holmes, #1) by Arthur Conan Doyle 4.13 avg rating — 491,845 ratings score: 32,413, and 364 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
39	Middlemarch by George Eliot 4.04 avg rating — 178,432 ratings score: 32,319, and 355 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
40	The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales by Jacob Grimm 4.23 avg rating — 220,841 ratings score: 30,606, and 347 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
41	The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings by Edgar Allan Poe 4.19 avg rating — 244,499 ratings score: 29,150, and 329 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
42	The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Oz, #1) by L. Frank Baum really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 508,854 ratings score: 28,226, and 325 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
43	Bleak House by Charles Dickens 4.02 avg rating — 113,793 ratings score: 26,750, and 305 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
44	The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins 4.01 avg rating — 165,510 ratings score: 25,074, and 284 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
45	The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky 4.21 avg rating — 215,320 ratings score: 24,964, and 282 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
46	The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo 4.02 avg rating — 217,249 ratings score: 24,836, and 291 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
47	The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin 4.01 avg rating — 121,604 ratings score: 23,708, and 261 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
48	The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells 3.83 avg rating — 348,003 ratings score: 22,695, and 262 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
49	Faust, First Part by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 3.83 avg rating — 85,691 ratings score: 21,892, and 250 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
50	Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray 3.81 avg rating — 132,924 ratings score: 21,856, and 255 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
51	Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman 4.11 avg rating — 116,213 ratings score: 21,714, and 247 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
52	The Complete Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen 4.29 avg rating — 108,446 ratings score: 21,108, and 254 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
53	Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne 3.89 avg rating — 275,318 ratings score: 21,038, and 247 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
54	Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe 3.92 avg rating — 242,046 ratings score: 20,309, and 238 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
55	Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne 3.95 avg rating — 280,897 ratings score: 19,554, and 234 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
56	The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë 4.03 avg rating — 129,964 ratings score: 19,187, and 222 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
57	Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy 3.97 avg rating — 165,628 ratings score: 19,091, and 222 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
58	Black Beauty by Anna Sewell really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 297,417 ratings score: 18,143, and 215 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
59	A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen 3.77 avg rating — 163,104 ratings score: 17,956, and 211 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
60	Heidi (Heidi, #1-2) by Johanna Spyri 4.04 avg rating — 210,643 ratings score: 17,624, and 209 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
61	Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead by Fyodor Dostoevsky 4.19 avg rating — 78,421 ratings score: 17,618, and 200 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
62	The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins 3.91 avg rating — 98,560 ratings score: 16,533, and 194 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
63	Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad 3.43 avg rating — 555,814 ratings score: 16,474, and 191 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
64	The Awakening by Kate Chopin 3.69 avg rating — 226,403 ratings score: 16,313, and 190 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
65	Walden or, Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau 3.77 avg rating — 203,583 ratings score: 16,074, and 186 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
66	Villette by Charlotte Brontë 3.78 avg rating — 80,201 ratings score: 15,522, and 179 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
67	The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx 3.68 avg rating — 196,072 ratings score: 15,456, and 176 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
68	The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson 4.28 avg rating — 106,533 ratings score: 15,299, and 185 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
69	Les Fleurs du Mal by Charles Baudelaire 4.19 avg rating — 79,916 ratings score: 15,184, and 175 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
70	The Jungle Books by Rudyard Kipling 4.01 avg rating — 89,008 ratings score: 15,155, and 185 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
71	The Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman 4.07 avg rating — 353,800 ratings score: 14,750, and 177 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
72	The Sign of Four (Sherlock Holmes, #2) by Arthur Conan Doyle 3.88 avg rating — 176,736 ratings score: 14,352, and 175 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
73	The Red and the Black by Stendhal 3.86 avg rating — 83,075 ratings score: 14,293, and 171 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
74	Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne 3.85 avg rating — 223,675 ratings score: 13,212, and 164 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
75	Ivanhoe by Walter Scott 3.76 avg rating — 98,867 ratings score: 13,164, and 162 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
76	The Turn of the Screw by Henry James 3.38 avg rating — 178,866 ratings score: 12,905, and 162 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
77	Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol 3.98 avg rating — 95,708 ratings score: 12,262, and 145 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
78	The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain 3.87 avg rating — 125,165 ratings score: 11,626, and 144 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
79	Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell 4.13 avg rating — 50,622 ratings score: 11,200, and 134 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
80	A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain 3.78 avg rating — 107,864 ratings score: 11,079, and 135 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
81	The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James 3.80 avg rating — 84,984 ratings score: 10,679, and 136 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
82	The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells 3.73 avg rating — 134,535 ratings score: 10,645, and 133 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
83	The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy 3.87 avg rating — 65,926 ratings score: 10,125, and 128 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
84	The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells 3.63 avg rating — 216,047 ratings score: 9,994, and 129 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
85	Three Men in a Boat (Three Men, #1) by Jerome K. Jerome 3.83 avg rating — 79,795 ratings score: 9,839, and 119 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
86	Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 100,599 ratings score: 9,729, and 121 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
87	Père Goriot by Honoré de Balzac 3.85 avg rating — 66,569 ratings score: 9,687, and 119 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
88	Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin 4.10 avg rating — 70,463 ratings score: 9,447, and 115 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
89	Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 49,760 ratings score: 9,351, and 116 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
90	Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens 4.09 avg rating — 31,294 ratings score: 9,176, and 114 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
91	The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy 4.14 avg rating — 219,141 ratings score: 8,948, and 113 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
92	The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde & Weir of Hermiston by Robert Louis Stevenson 3.80 avg rating — 2,003 ratings score: 8,947, and 108 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
93	Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche 4.07 avg rating — 174,954 ratings score: 8,752, and 103 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
94	Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi 3.84 avg rating — 88,506 ratings score: 8,661, and 113 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
95	Germinal by Émile Zola 4.20 avg rating — 42,776 ratings score: 8,567, and 103 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
96	The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot 3.83 avg rating — 58,904 ratings score: 8,288, and 107 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
97	The Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Andersen 3.98 avg rating — 30,232 ratings score: 8,262, and 104 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
98	Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë 3.71 avg rating — 81,360 ratings score: 7,741, and 98 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
99	Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell 3.83 avg rating — 47,736 ratings score: 7,250, and 92 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
100	The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy 3.88 avg rating — 40,370 ratings score: 7,039, and 89 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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message 1: by Wealhtheow (new)

Jun 26, 2008 11:13AM

Wuthering Heights is just SO histrionic. I refuse to vote for it!

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message 2: by Kelly (new)

Jun 26, 2008 11:18AM

Vilette needs to be voted up there over Jane Eyre! What's going on with this, people?

PS- I appreciate your principled stand, Wealhtheow. :)

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message 3: by Wealhtheow (new)

Jun 26, 2008 12:13PM

I like the character of Lucy Snowe (of Villette) better than Jane Eyre, but I think JE is a better novel. But I still voted for both. :)

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message 4: by Kelly (new)

Jun 26, 2008 01:07PM

Oh, I voted for them both too, I just think Vilette is the more powerful book. but that's what these lists are for, I guess. :)

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message 5: by Isaac (new)

Jul 14, 2008 12:33PM

I tried adding The Brothers Karamazov and Huckleberry Finn to the list, but it said they were not published in the 19th century. What gives?

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message 6: by Ashley (new)

Sep 02, 2008 08:30AM

Huck Finn is already on the list (currently #9), and Brothers Karamazov had the wrong pub. date listed, so you should be able to add it now.

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message 7: by Austen (new)

Oct 05, 2008 12:39PM

Elective Affinities (a/k/a Die Wahlverwandtschaften) published 1809 is listed as not published in the 19th century.

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message 8: by Brian (new)

Oct 08, 2008 07:53PM

My list is kind of a joke since half of them are in the database as not published in the 19th Century ... like Herman Melville's The Confidence Man or Thomas Carlyle's Sartor Resartus.

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message 9: by John (new)

Jun 08, 2009 11:56AM

Crap books that don't deserve to be in here: Wuthering heights, Frankenstein, Heart of Darkness, Moby Dick.
Great books which weren't here and i had to add: The hunchback of notre dame, Fathers and sons, Dr. Jekyll and Mr hyde, Pere Goriot, The Idiot

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message 10: by Susanna - Censored by GoodReads (new)

Mar 04, 2010 01:09PM

Elective Affinities and Sartor Resartus have addable dates now. As do The Confidence Man and The Brothers Karamazov.

Anything else that needs a new original publication date, just mention it and I'll see if I can fix it.

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message 11: by Amanda (new)

Dec 12, 2010 03:26PM

Tried to add The Beetle by Richard Marsh, published 1897, says it isn't from the 19th century.

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message 12: by Susanna - Censored by GoodReads (new)

Dec 13, 2010 12:12PM

I edited the original publication date. The Beetle should now be addable.

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message 13: by Rada (new)

Jan 24, 2011 03:02PM

Heart of Darkness is on of the greatest novels i have ever read

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message 14: by Brenda (new)

Feb 02, 2011 06:08PM

Sheridan Le Fanu's In a Glass Darkly was first published in 1872, but I can't add it.

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message 15: by Susanna - Censored by GoodReads (new)

Feb 03, 2011 10:06AM

It should be addable now.

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message 16: by Susanna - Censored by GoodReads (new)

May 14, 2011 09:13AM

Well, you could vote for other books.

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message 17: by [deleted user] (new)

May 25, 2011 12:15PM

Villette is a good book but better than Jane Eyre would be a hard sell. LOL! Yep it is a woman's list. ;)

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message 18: by Susanna - Censored by GoodReads (new)

Jun 11, 2011 10:19AM

Made it combine duplicates, so they should be gone.

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message 19: by Thomas (new)

Jun 23, 2011 01:03AM

No Origin of The species?

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message 20: by Susanna - Censored by GoodReads (new)

Jun 23, 2011 09:39AM

You could add it.

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message 21: by Thomas (new)

Jun 23, 2011 10:05AM

I tried and wasn't able to.

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message 22: by Susanna - Censored by GoodReads (new)

Jun 23, 2011 12:01PM

I just voted for it; it should be on the list somewhere now.

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message 23: by Library Angel (new)

Nov 18, 2011 06:23PM

Wow, there are some harsh comments on here. Wuthering Heights isn't my favorite book by the Brontes, but it's not crap. My favorites are Jane Eyre and The Tenant of Wildfield Hall.

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message 24: by Mallory (new)

Nov 27, 2011 12:07PM

I can't believe Frankenstein is so high up...it's a terrible book...but what's with all the Wuthering Heights hate? WH is way better than a lot of books on here. And also, isn't A Little Princess 1900s? Not sure. (Oh, just checked. Looks like an earlier version was published in 1888.)

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message 25: by Susanna - Censored by GoodReads (new)

Nov 27, 2011 01:09PM

For some reason, a lot of people seem to have very strong opinions about Wuthering Heights, either for or against.

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message 26: by Alessandra (new)

Jan 25, 2012 12:42PM

I agree that Frankenstein is terrible. It's painful to watch the main character run from place to place whining out his troubles to every passerby, who then tells him how wonderful he is. Ugh.

Lots of good stuff here.

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message 27: by Michelle (new)

Feb 08, 2012 09:12PM

What you just said about Frankenstein is how I feel about Tess of the D'Urbervilles... I LOATHE that book.

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message 28: by James (last edited Feb 09, 2012 12:55PM) (new)

Feb 09, 2012 12:52PM

The Count of Monte Cristo is the best book on the list...the people that didn't vote for it are the ones that were intimidated by the length and therefore didn't read it.

As for Pride and Prejudice, my wife and I couldn't even sit through the horrible play.

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message 29: by Sunny (new)

May 28, 2012 11:22AM

Isn't it weird....very few American books on this list!

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message 30: by Susanna - Censored by GoodReads (new)

May 28, 2012 12:57PM

I counted 23 on the first page - but American writing was very much in its youth in the 19th century.

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message 31: by Hanne (new)

Jun 17, 2012 11:19AM

i like this list!
i just added a dutch classic from this time period: Eline Vere, written by Louis Couperus. good reads says it's published in 2007, but looks like that is about a new translated version, the original is from 1888 so very much fits the list!

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message 32: by Susanna - Censored by GoodReads (new)

Jun 17, 2012 11:50AM

Yeah, GR has its original publication date as 1889, so that's fine.

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message 33: by mistress_muggle (new)

Jul 18, 2012 01:57PM

Ugh, I cannot believe Wuthering Heights inched its stupidity so high up the list!

I like a lot of the books on the list, though I wish Jane Eyre was first.

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message 34: by Jean Paul (new)

Jul 19, 2012 01:49AM

Excellent list. Thank you.

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message 35: by Michelle (new)

Jul 21, 2012 03:04PM

Nat wrote: "Ugh, I cannot believe Wuthering Heights inched its stupidity so high up the list!

I like a lot of the books on the list, though I wish Jane Eyre was first."

I agree... I like my stories with SOME redeeming points and WH is horrible. Jane Eyre, on the otherhand, is a gothic masterpiece.

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message 36: by Emma (new)

Sep 12, 2012 10:23AM

James wrote: "The Count of Monte Cristo is the best book on the list...the people that didn't vote for it are the ones that were intimidated by the length and therefore didn't read it.

As for Pride and Prejudic..."

I totally agree with you! The Count of Monte Cristo was by far my favorite book ever. Pride and Prejudice was ok. Once I read the Count I have trouble reading rather boring books by Jane Austin. They're all the same.

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message 37: by John (new)

Jan 19, 2013 11:20AM

Call of the Wild was published in 1903.
My Antonia was published in 1918.
Lord Jim was published in a magazine beginning in 1899 but wasn't published as a book until 1900. Not sure about that one.

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message 38: by Dora (new)

Aug 09, 2013 02:39PM

I love, love, love this list! Almost all of my favourites are listed here!

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message 39: by Eslam (new)

Dec 06, 2013 02:01PM

willl read

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message 40: by Longhare (new)

Jan 26, 2014 05:50PM

Fun list. For me the value of a list like this is to see what I've missed. There must have been something in the rainwater in the nineteenth century. Literature, the arts, the sciences were all on steroids, and it was a global phenomenon. I read and read, and the list gets longer instead of shorter. Incidentally, I've read WH more times than I can remember, and each time it's gotten better and richer.

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message 41: by John (new)

Feb 25, 2014 10:30AM

This is an incredible list. Of the top 100, I've read about 25% of them and probably another 50% are to read. If I had to absolutely choose my favorite it would be The Count of Monte Cristo. The mind of Dumas spinning that tale, wow...

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message 42: by Rosemary (new)

Mar 06, 2014 08:46PM

I agree with Longhare; this was an incredible age, and the literature reflects it.

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message 43: by Terry (new)

Mar 31, 2014 05:54AM

Wow! Read the comments about this list. A lot of haters. Every book on this list has stood the test of time because people were able to relate something to their own lives. None of them are crap! And, I do not believe there are "womens" books on the list. Personally, I loved reading little women! Really made me think about how I treat the other people in my life. People that I supposedly love. True, there are some on the list I would not read, but thats just me. I consider this to be a great list of some of the greatest classics ever written. Thanks for putting it together.

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message 44: by Bob (new)

Apr 10, 2014 04:23PM

I was flummoxed by the fact that I couldn't vote for ten of my top fifty-one 19th century books, having received the screen admonishment that each book was "not published during this century", even though my cursory online researches indicate that all met that criterion. Examples: "UNCLE REMUS" and "THE SONG OF HIAWATHA". (Possibly GOODREADS' "originally published" date is missing or in error for those ten works, or, more likely, it's just user-error on my part) But I enjoyed seeing how much I've missed out on, so I appreciate the efforts of this list's author(s) and contributors. Thanks ya'll...

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message 45: by Susanna - Censored by GoodReads (last edited Apr 10, 2014 09:31PM) (new)

Apr 10, 2014 09:29PM

Yeah, it's a problem with the GR database, especially now that Amazon's less-than-accurate data is running roughshod over the existing data.

ETA: You might try a general search, rather than from your own shelves? Might be an uncombined copy with an inaccurate first publication date (or none at all).

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message 46: by Bob (new)

Apr 11, 2014 09:18AM

Thanks Susanna... I've tried BOTH general searches and searches of my shelves for the "system-vetoed" works, getting the same result. I appreciate the input; didn't know that Amazon data had been imported, good to know.

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message 47: by Kirsten (new)

May 14, 2014 09:27AM

Wow, "Wizard of Oz" just makes the cut. I thought it was published in 1901, but according to its Goodreads page it was 1900.

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message 48: by Susanna - Censored by GoodReads (new)

May 14, 2014 11:04AM

Yep, it came out May 17, 1900.

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message 49: by Pandao (new)

May 17, 2014 08:08AM

Alessandra wrote: "I agree that Frankenstein is terrible. It's painful to watch the main character run from place to place whining out his troubles to every passerby, who then tells him how wonderful he is. Ugh.

L..."I agree with both your agree, and about Tess. Actually I really dislike most of the fallen woman reborn again novels. They're all the same and it gets quite boring.

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message 50: by Brian E (new)

Jun 29, 2014 01:40PM

'Tess" is a fallen woman reborn again novel? Interesting perspective on rebirth. I'm going to have to re-read it in the Goodreads Hardy discussion group.

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