Humanities › Literature A Reading List of the Best 19th Century Novels This selection of influential works is categorized by writer Share Flipboard Email Print Old books, Herbarium, Kew Gardens, London, England, United Kingdom. De Agostini / G. Wright Getty Literature Classic Literature Authors & Texts Top Picks Lists Study Guides Terms Best Sellers Plays & Drama Poetry Quotations Shakespeare Short Stories Children's Books By Esther Lombardi Literature Expert M.A., English Literature, California State University - Sacramento B.A., English, California State University - Sacramento Esther Lombardi, M.A., is a journalist who has covered books and literature for over twenty years. our editorial process Esther Lombardi Updated October 31, 2017 The novels of the 19th century remain some of the most taught literary works of any period. They not only continue to influence the canon but also cinema and popular culture. Get better acquainted with these groundbreaking works with this reading list, categorized by author. The most popular authors from the era--Jane Austen, Charles Dickens and Nathaniel Hawthorne--appear on this list in alphabetical order. Alcott, Louisa May Little Women Austen, Jane Emma Mansfield Park Persuasion Pride and Prejudice Blackmore, Richard Doddridge Lorna Doone Braddon, Mary Elizabeth Lady Audley’s Secret Bronte, Charlotte Jane Eyre Villette Bronte, Emily Wuthering Heights Burnett, Frances Hodgson The Secret Garden Butler, Samuel Erewhon Carlyle, Thomas Sartor Resartus Carroll, Lewis Alice in Wonderland Through the Looking Glass Collins, Wilkie Armadale No Name The Moonstone The Woman in White Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan Rodney Stone A Study in Scarlet Conrad, Joseph Heart of Darkness Lord Jim Cooper, James Fenimore The Last of the Mohicans The Prairie Crane, Stephen Red Badge of Courage Dickens, Charles Bleak House David Copperfield Dombey & Son D Great Expectations Hard Times Little Dorritt Mystery Of Edwin Drood Nicholas Nickleby The Old Curiosity Shop Oliver Twist Pickwick Papers Tale of Two Cities Disraeli, Benjamin Sybil, or The Two Nations Dostoevski, Fedor Brothers Karamazov Crime and Punishment The Idiot Dreiser, Theodore Sister Carrie Dumas, Alexandre The Count of Monte Cristo Three Musketeers Eliot, George Adam Bede Daniel Deronda Middlemarch Mill on the Floss Silas Marner Flaubert, Gustave Madame Bovary A Sentimental Education Gaskell, Elizabeth Cranford Wives and Daughters Gissing, George New Grub Street Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von Elective Affinities Gogol, Nikolai Dead Souls Hardy, Thomas Far from the Madding Crowd Jude the Obscure The Mayor of Casterbridge The Return of the Native Tess of the d’Urbervilles The Woodlanders Under the Greenwood Tree Hawthorne, Nathaniel Blithedale Romance Scarlet Letter Hugo, Victor Les Miserables The Hunchback of Notre-Dame de Paris James, Henry The American The Bostonians Daisy Miller The Europeans Portrait of a Lady Washington Square Le Fanu, Sheridan Uncle Silas MacDonald, George Lilith Phantastes Melville, Herman Moby Dick Redburn Typee Meredith, George Diana of the Crossways The Egoist Norris, Frank McTeague Oliphant, Margaret The Perpetual Curate Salem Chapel Scott, Sir Walter The Antiquary The Heart of Mid-Lothian Ivanhoe Sewall, Anna Black Beauty Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Frankenstein Stevenson, Robert L Catriona (aka David Balfour) Kidnapped The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Treasure Island Stoker, Bram Dracula Stowe, Harriet Beecher Uncle Tom’s Cabin Thackeray, William M Barry Lyndon The History of Henry Esmond The Newcomes Vanity Fair Tolstoy, Leo Anna Karenina Resurrection The Forged Coupon War and Peace Trollope, Anthony Ayala's Angel Framley Parsonage Barchester Towers John Caldigate The Last Chronicle of Barset Marion Fay Phineas Finn The Prime Minister The Warden The Way We Live Now Turgenev, Ivan Fathers and Children Twain, Mark The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Adventures of Tom Sawyer Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc Verne, Jules Around the World in 80 Days Journey to the Center of the Earth 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea Wells, HG Invisible Man Island of Dr Moreau The Time Machine War of the Worlds Wilde, Oscar Picture of Dorian Gray Zola, Emile L’Assommoir Therese Raquin Cite this Article Format mla apa chicago Your Citation Lombardi, Esther. "A Reading List of the Best 19th Century Novels." ThoughtCo, Aug. 27, 2020, thoughtco.com/19th-century-novels-reading-list-737909. Lombardi, Esther. (2020, August 27). A Reading List of the Best 19th Century Novels. Retrieved from https://www.thoughtco.com/19th-century-novels-reading-list-737909 Lombardi, Esther. "A Reading List of the Best 19th Century Novels." ThoughtCo. https://www.thoughtco.com/19th-century-novels-reading-list-737909 (accessed April 23, 2021). copy citation