For each year from Jan 1 to Dec 31 for the year 1800 to 1899, select among the books with the most ratings

One book per year - The book with the most number of ratings on goodreads. Books with less ratings in that year will be deleted. This list uses goodreads publication years NOT actual publication years. If the book in goodreads is wrong, you should fix it.

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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
1890-1899, 1880-1889, 1870-1879, 1860-1869, 1850-1859,
1840-1849, 1830-1839, 1820-1829, 1810-1819, 1800-1809

Best Books by Year:
1889
1890, 1891, 1892, 1893, 1894, 1895, 1896, 1897, 1898, 1899

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message 1: by Mitchell (last edited Oct 05, 2025 09:24PM) (new)

Mitchell Friedman 1800, Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth
1801, Belinda by Maria Edgeworth
1802, Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis by Ugo Foscolo
1803, UNKNOWN
1804, Wilhelm Tell by Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
1805, The Watsons by Jane Austen
1806, Zofloya, Charlotte Dacre
1807, Phenomenology of Spirit by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
1808, Faust, First Part by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
1809, Elective Affinities by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

1810, Michael Kohlhaas by Heinrich von Kleist
1811, Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
1812, Household Tales by Brothers Grimm
1813, Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
1814, Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
1815, Emma by Jane Austen
1816, Nutcracker by E T A Hoffman
1817, Persuasion by Jane Austen
1818, Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
1819, Ivanhoe by Walter Scott

1820, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
1821, Confessions of an English Opium Eater by Thomas de Quincey
1822, UNKNOWN
1823, The Night Before Christmas by Clement Clarke Moore
1824, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg
1825, Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin
1826, The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
1827, The Betrothed by Alessandro Manzoni
1828, The Collected Stories by Alexander Pushkin
1829, The Last Day of a Condemned Man by Victor Hugo

1830, The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ by Joseph Smith Jr
1831, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo
1832, On War by Carl von Clausewitz
1833, Eugenie Grandet by Honore de Balzac
1834, Pan Tadeusz by Adam Mickiewicz
1835, Pere Goriot by Honore de Balzac
1836, The Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Andersen
1837, The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
1838, Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
1839, Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe

1840, The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens
1841, The Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan Poe
1842, Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
1843, A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
1844, The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
1845, The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
1846, The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe
1847, Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
1848, White Nights by Fyodor Dostoevsky
1849, The Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe


message 2: by Mitchell (last edited Oct 05, 2025 09:22PM) (new)

Mitchell Friedman 1850, The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
1851, Moby-Dick or, the Whale by Herman Mellville
1852, Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
1853, Twelve Years A Slave by Solomon Northup
1854, Walden by Hendry David Thoreau
1855, North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
1856, Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
1857, Les Fleurs du Mal by Charles Baudelaire
1858, Phantastes by George MacDonald
1859, A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

1860, The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
1861, Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
1862, Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
1863, Five Weeks in a Balloon by Jules Verne
1864, Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne
1865, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
1866, Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
1867, Therese Raquin by Emile Zola
1868, Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
1869, War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

1870, An Old-Fashioned Girl by Louisa May Alcott
1871, Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There by Lews Carroll
1872, Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
1873, A Pair of Blue Eyes by Thomas Hardy
1874, Far from the Maddening Crowd by Thomas Hardy
1875, The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope
1876, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
1877, Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
1878, Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
1879, A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen

1880, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ by Lew Wallace
1881, The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain
1882, Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
1883, Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
1884, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
1885, King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard
1886, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
1887, A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle
1888, The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde
1889, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain

1890, The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
1891, Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
1892, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
1893, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
1894, The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
1895, The Time Machine by H G Wells
1896, The Island of Dr Moreau by H G Wells
1897, Dracula by Bram Stoker
1898, The War of the Worlds by H G Wells
1899, Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad


message 3: by Mitchell (new)

Mitchell Friedman For 1819 Ivanhoe has 98k ratings. Rip Van Winkle has 18k ratings and will be deleted.

For 1841 The Murders in the Rue Morgue: The Dupin Tales has 42k ratings. The Three Billy Goats Gruff has 257 ratings and will be deleted.

For 1853 Twelve Years a Slave has 124k ratings. Bartleby the Scrivener has 73k ratings and will be deleted.

For 1897 Dracula has 1.4M ratings. The Invisible Man has 214k ratings and will be deleted.


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