The 1800s were such a complicated and turbulent time in history.But issues such as industrialization, slavery, colonizing, and war created great fodder for the developing literary form of the novel. Writers like Charles Dickens and Elizabeth Gaskell commented on social ills and inequalities in their time. Earlier, Jane Austen used wit and sarcasm to poke fun at the customs in her context.
I’ve picked 30 authors that represent the literary strength of that century. Over the next two years, I desire to read all of the main works of these authors (listed below). I’ve read some already, but I still desired to create a representative list. If you want to see my personal progress so far, click here.
Alcott, Louisa May (1832-1888)
Little Women (1868) | eBook | Audiobook
Good Wives (1869) | Audiobook
Little Men (1871) | eBook | Audiobook
Aunt Jo’s Scrap Bag (1872) | eBook | Audiobook
Jo’s Boys (1886) | eBook | Audiobook
An Old Fashioned Girl (1870) | eBook | Audiobook
Work (1873) | eBook | Audiobook
Eight Cousins (1875) | eBook | Audiobook
Rose in Bloom (1876) | eBook | Audiobook
Sense and Sensibility (1811) | eBook | Audiobook
Pride and Prejudice (1813) | eBook | Audiobook
Mansfield Park (1814) | eBook | Audiobook
Emma (1815) | eBook | Audiobook
Northanger Abbey (1818) | eBook | Audiobook
Persuasion (1818) | eBook | Audiobook
Blackmore, R.D. (1825-1900)
Lorna Doone (1869) | eBook | Audiobook
Erema (1877) | eBook | Audiobook
Agnes Grey (1847) | eBook | Audiobook
Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848) | eBook | Audiobook
Brontë, Charlotte (1816-1855)
Jane Eyre (1847) | eBook | Audiobook
Shirley (1849) | eBook | Audiobook
Villette (1853) | eBook | Audiobook
The Professor (1857) | eBook | Audiobook
Brontë, Emily (1818-1848)
Wuthering Heights (1847) | eBook | Audiobook
Carroll, Lewis (1832-1898)
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) | eBook | Audiobook
Through the Looking Glass (1871) | eBook | Audiobook
Collins, Wilkie (1824-1889)
The Woman in White (1859) | eBook | Audiobook
No Name (1862) | eBook | Audiobook
Armadale (1866) | eBook | Audiobook
The Moonstone (1868) | eBook | Audiobook
Cooper, James Fenimore (1789-1851)
The Deerslayer (1841) | eBook | Audiobook
The Last of the Mohicans (1826) | eBook | Audiobook
The Pathfinder (1840) | eBook | Audiobook
The Pioneers (1823) | eBook | Audiobook
The Prairie (1827) | eBook | Audiobook
Dickens, Charles (1812-1870)
The Pickwick Papers (1837) | eBook | Audiobook
Oliver Twist (1838) | eBook | Audiobook
Nicholas Nickleby (1839) | eBook | Audiobook
Barnaby Rudge (1841) | eBook | Audiobook
The Old Curiosity Shop (1841) | eBook | Audiobook
A Christmas Carol (1843) | eBook | Audiobook
The Chimes (1844) | eBook | Audiobook
Martin Chuzzlewit (1844) | eBook | Audiobook
The Cricket on the Hearth (1845) | eBook | Audiobook
Dombey and Son (1848) | eBook | Audiobook
David Copperfield (1850) | eBook | Audiobook
Bleak House (1853) | eBook | Audiobook
Hard Times (1854) | eBook | Audiobook
Little Dorrit (1857) | eBook | Audiobook
A Tale of Two Cities (1859) | eBook | Audiobook
Great Expectations (1861) | eBook | Audiobook
Our Mutual Friend (1865) | eBook | Audiobook
The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1870) | eBook | Audiobook
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor (1821-1881)
Notes from Underground (1864) | eBook | Audiobook
Crime and Punishment (1866) | eBook | Audiobook
The Gambler (1866) | eBook | Audiobook
The Idiot (1869) | eBook | Audiobook
The Brothers Karamazov (1880) | eBook | Audiobook
Doyle, Arthur Conan (1859-1930)
A Study in Scarlet (1887) | eBook | Audiobook
The Sign of Four (1890) | eBook | Audiobook
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1892) | eBook | Audiobook
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (1893) | eBook | Audiobook
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902) | eBook | Audiobook
The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1905) | eBook | Audiobook
The Valley of Fear (1914) | eBook | Audiobook
His Last Bow (1917) | eBook | Audiobook
Dumas, Alexandre (1802-1870)
The Three Musketeers (1844) | eBook | Audiobook
The Man in the Iron Mask | eBook | Audiobook
The Count of Monte Cristo (1845) | eBook | Audiobook
Eliot, George / Evans, Mary Ann (1819-1880)
Adam Bede (1859) | eBook | Audiobook
The Mill on the Floss (1860) | eBook | Audiobook
Silas Marner (1861) | eBook | Audiobook
Romola (1863) | eBook | Audiobook
Felix Holt, the Radical (1866) | eBook | Audiobook
Middlemarch (1871) | eBook | Audiobook
Daniel Deronda (1876) | eBook | Audiobook
Gaskell, Elizabeth (1810-1865)
Mary Barton (1848) | eBook | Audiobook
Ruth (1853) | eBook | Audiobook
Cranford (1853) | eBook | Audiobook
North and South (1855) | eBook | Audiobook
Sylvia’s Lovers (1863) | eBook | Audiobook
Cousin Phillis (1864)| eBook | Cousin Phillis
Wives and Daughters (1866) | eBook | Audiobook
Hardy, Thomas (1840-1928)
Desperate Remedies (1871) | eBook | Audiobook
Under the Greenwood Tree (1872) | eBook | Audiobook
A Pair of Blue Eyes (1873) | eBook | Audiobook
Far From the Madding Crowd (1874) | eBook | Audiobook
The Hand of Ethelberta (1876) | eBook | Audiobook
The Return of the Native (1878) | eBook | Audiobook
The Trumpet-Major (1880) | eBook | Audiobook
Two on a Tower (1882) | eBook | Audiobook
The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886) | eBook | Audiobook
The Woodlanders (1887) | eBook | Audiobook
Tess of the d’Urbervilles (1891) | eBook | Audiobook
Jude the Obscure (1895) | eBook | Audiobook
The Well-Beloved (1897) | eBook | Audiobook
Hawthorne, Nathaniel (1804-1864)
The Scarlet Letter (1850) | eBook | Audiobook
The House of the Seven Gables (1851) | eBook | Audiobook
The Blithedale Romance (1852) | eBook | Audiobook
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (1831) | eBook | Audiobook
Les Miserables (1862) | eBook | Audiobook
The American (1877) | eBook | Audiobook
The Europeans (1878) | eBook | Audiobook
Daisy Miller (1879) | eBook | Audiobook
The Portrait of a Lady (1881) | eBook vol. 1, 2 | Audiobook
Washington Square (1881) | eBook | Audiobook
The Bostonians (1886) | eBook vol. 1, 2 | Audiobook
What Maisie Knew (1897) | eBook | Audiobook
The Turn of the Screw (1898) | eBook | Audiobook
The Awkward Age (1899) | eBook | Audiobook
The Wings of the Dove (1902) | eBook vol. 1, 2 | Audiobook
The Ambassadors (1903) | eBook | Audiobook
The Golden Bowl (1904) | eBook | Audiobook
Kipling, Rudyard (1865-1936)
The Jungle Book (1894) | eBook | Audiobook
The Second Jungle Book (1895) | eBook | Audiobook
Captains Courageous (1897) | eBook | Audiobook
Kim (1901) | eBook | Audiobook
Just So Stories (1902) | eBook | Audiobook
Melville, Herman (1819-1891)
Moby Dick (1851) | eBook | Audiobook
Billy Budd, Sailor (1924)
Scott, Sir Walter (1771-1832)
Waverley (1814) | eBook | Audiobook vol. 1, 2
Guy Mannering (1815) | eBook
Rob Roy (1817) | eBook | Audiobook
Ivanhoe (1819) | eBook | Audiobook
Kenilworth (1821) | eBook | Audiobook
Shelley, Mary (1797-1851)
Frankenstein (1818) | eBook | Audiobook
The Last Man (1826) | eBook | Audiobook
Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894)
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886) | eBook | Audiobook
Kidnapped (1886) | eBook | Audiobook
Treasure Island (1883) | eBook | Audiobook
War and Peace (1869) | eBook | Audiobook
Anna Karenina (1876) | eBook | Audiobook
Resurrection (1899) | eBook | Audiobook
Trollope, Anthony (1815-1882)
Chronicles of Barsetshire
The Warden (1855) | eBook | Audiobook
Barchester Towers (1857) | eBook | Audiobook
Doctor Thorne (1858) | eBook | Audiobook
Framley Parsonage (1860) | eBook | Audiobook
The Small House at Allington (1864) | eBook | Audiobook
The Last Chronicle of Barset (1867) | eBook | Audiobook
Can You Forgive Her? (1864) | eBook | Audiobook
Phineas Finn (1869) | eBook | Audiobook
The Eustace Diamonds (1872) | eBook | Audiobook
Phineas Redux (1874) | eBook | Audiobook
The Prime Minister (1876) | eBook | Audiobook
The Duke’s Children (1880) | eBook | Audiobook
Twain, Mark / Samuel Clemens (1835-1910)
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) | eBook | Audiobook
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885) | eBook | Audiobook
Tom Sawyer Abroad (1894) | eBook | Audiobook
Tom Sawyer, Detective (1896) | eBook | Audiobook
The Prince and the Pauper (1881) | eBook | Audiobook
The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson (1884) | eBook | Audiobook
Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc (1886) | eBook vol. 1, 2 | Audiobook
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (1889) | eBook | Audiobook
Extracts from Adam’s Diary (1904) | eBook | Audiobook
Eve’s Diary (1906) | eBook | Audiobook
Five Weeks in a Balloon (1863) | eBook | Audiobook
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth (1864) | eBook | Audiobook
From the Earth to the Moon (1865) | eBook | Audiobook
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1869) | eBook | Audiobook
Around the World in Eighty Days (1872) | eBook | Audiobook
The Mysterious Island (1874) | eBook | Audiobook
The Time Machine (1895) | eBook | Audiobook
The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896) | eBook | Audiobook
The Invisible Man (1897) | eBook | Audiobook
The War of the Worlds (1898) | eBook | Audiobook
The Sleeper Awakes (1899) | eBook | Audiobook
The Canterville Ghost (1887) | eBook | Audiobook
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891) | eBook | Audiobook
Lady Windermere’s Fan (1892) | eBook | Audiobook
A Woman of No Importance (1893) | eBook | Audiobook
An Ideal Husband (1895) | eBook | Audiobook
The Importance of Being Earnest (1895) | eBook | Audiobook
The Happy Prince and Other Tales (1888) | eBook | Audiobook
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