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A Tale of Two Cities by Charles DickensThe Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel HawthorneMoby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman MelvilleMadame Bovary by Gustave FlaubertDavid Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Best Books of the Decade: 1850s
223 books — 303 voters
Little Women by Louisa May AlcottHeidi by Johanna SpyriAlice in Wonderland by Jane CarruthTreasure Island by Robert Louis StevensonThe Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
Best Children's Books, 1850-1900
161 books — 38 voters

A Spy in the House by Y.S. LeeWe Hear the Dead by Dianne K. SalerniIn the Shadow of the Lamp by Susanne DunlapBoston Jane by Jennifer L. HolmThe Firefly Letters by Margarita Engle
YA Fiction set in the 1850s
15 books — 4 voters
Walden by Henry David ThoreauNarrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick DouglassAdventures of a Mountain Man by Zenas LeonardDomestic Manners of the Americans by Frances Milton TrollopeThe Life of Henry Brulard by Stendhal
Best Memoirs Published in the 1830s, 1840s, and 1850s
28 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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