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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
235 books — 399 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

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
189 books — 32 voters
Out from This Place by Joyce HansenSound the Jubilee by Sandra ForresterMy Home Is over Jordan by Sandra ForresterStella Stands Alone by A. LaFayeFires of Jubilee by Alison Hart
Reconstruction in YA & Middle Grade Fiction
21 books — 6 voters

Thrilling Incidents of the Indian War of 1862 by Lavina Day EastlickThe Innocents Abroad, Or, the New Pilgrims' Progress by Mark TwainA Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains by Isabella Lucy BirdAutobiography by John Stuart MillThe Fremantle Diary by Arthur James Lyon Fremantle
Best Memoirs Published in 1860s and 1870s
31 books — 2 voters
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick DouglassA Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty SmithThe 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

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