1001 books you must read before you die - 1800s

Here are the books on the 1001 books you should read before you die list, published in the 1800s. Queenie promised she wouldn't do this, and then did it anyways..... I have STUFF TO DO TODAY!!!!!!!!!

There are 157 books on this list. Queenie has been very remiss with her Russian giants of literature it would appear.

Maybe I'm grown up enough to get them now.

Q denotes a book read.


Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. – Somerville and Ross Q
The Stechlin – Theodore Fontane
The Awakening – Kate Chopin Q
The Turn of the Screw – Henry James Q
The War of the Worlds – H.G. Wells
The Invisible Man – H.G. Wells
What Maisie Knew – Henry James
Fruits of the Earth – André Gide
Dracula – Bram Stoker
Quo Vadis – Henryk Sienkiewicz
The Island of Dr. Moreau – H.G. Wells
The Time Machine – H.G. Wells
Effi Briest – Theodore Fontane
Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy Q
The Real Charlotte – Somerville and Ross
The Yellow Wallpaper – Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Born in Exile – George Gissing
Diary of a Nobody – George & Weedon Grossmith
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Q
News from Nowhere – William Morris
New Grub Street – George Gissing
Gösta Berling’s Saga – Selma Lagerlöf
Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy Q
The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde Q
The Kreutzer Sonata – Leo Tolstoy
La Bête Humaine – Émile Zola
By the Open Sea – August Strindberg
Hunger – Knut Hamsun
The Master of Ballantrae – Robert Louis Stevenson
Pierre and Jean – Guy de Maupassant
Fortunata and Jacinta – Benito Pérez Galdés
The People of Hemsö – August Strindberg
The Woodlanders – Thomas Hardy Q
She – H. Rider Haggard
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson Q
The Mayor of Casterbridge – Thomas Hardy Q
Kidnapped – Robert Louis Stevenson Q
King Solomon’s Mines – H. Rider Haggard
Germinal – Émile Zola
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain Q
Bel-Ami – Guy de Maupassant
Marius the Epicurean – Walter Pater
Against the Grain – Joris-Karl Huysmans
The Death of Ivan Ilyich – Leo Tolstoy
A Woman’s Life – Guy de Maupassant Q
Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson Q
The House by the Medlar Tree – Giovanni Verga
The Portrait of a Lady – Henry James Q
Bouvard and Pécuchet – Gustave Flaubert
Ben-Hur – Lew Wallace
Nana – Émile Zola
The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Red Room – August Strindberg
Return of the Native – Thomas Hardy Q
Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
Drunkard – Émile Zola
Virgin Soil – Ivan Turgenev
Daniel Deronda – George Eliot Q
The Hand of Ethelberta – Thomas Hardy
The Temptation of Saint Anthony – Gustave Flaubert
Far from the Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy Q
The Enchanted Wanderer – Nicolai Leskov
Around the World in Eighty Days – Jules Verne Q
In a Glass Darkly – Sheridan Le Fanu
The Devils – Fyodor Dostoevsky
Erewhon – Samuel Butler
Spring Torrents – Ivan Turgenev
Middlemarch – George Eliot Q
Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There – Lewis Carroll Q
King Lear of the Steppes – Ivan Turgenev
He Knew He Was Right – Anthony Trollope
War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
Sentimental Education – Gustave Flaubert
Phineas Finn – Anthony Trollope
Maldoror – Comte de Lautréaumont
The Idiot – Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Moonstone – Wilkie Collins Q
Little Women – Louisa May Alcott Q
Thérèse Raquin – Émile Zola
The Last Chronicle of Barset – Anthony Trollope Q
Journey to the Centre of the Earth – Jules Verne
Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky (tried. and tried. and tried)
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll Q
Our Mutual Friend – Charles Dickens Q
Uncle Silas – Sheridan Le Fanu
Notes from the Underground – Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Water-Babies – Charles Kingsley Q
Les Misérables – Victor Hugo Q
Fathers and Sons – Ivan Turgenev Q
Silas Marner – George Eliot Q (Yawwn)
Great Expectations – Charles Dickens Q
On the Eve – Ivan Turgenev
Castle Richmond – Anthony Trollope
The Mill on the Floss – George Eliot Q
The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins Q
The Marble Faun – Nathaniel Hawthorne
Max Havelaar – Multatuli
A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens Q
Oblomovka – Ivan Goncharov
Adam Bede – George Eliot Q (YAWN)
Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert Q
North and South – Elizabeth Gaskell Q
Hard Times – Charles Dickens Q
Walden – Henry David Thoreau
Bleak House – Charles Dickens Q
Villette – Charlotte Brontë
Cranford – Elizabeth Gaskell
Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lonely – Harriet Beecher Stowe Q
The Blithedale Romance – Nathaniel Hawthorne
The House of the Seven Gables – Nathaniel Hawthorne Q
Moby-Dick – Herman Melville Q
The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne Q
David Copperfield – Charles Dickens Q
Shirley – Charlotte Brontë
Mary Barton – Elizabeth Gaskell
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall – Anne Brontë Q
Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë Q
Agnes Grey – Anne Brontë Q
Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë Q
Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray Q
The Count of Monte-Cristo – Alexandre Dumas Q
La Reine Margot – Alexandre Dumas Q
The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
The Purloined Letter – Edgar Allan Poe Q
Martin Chuzzlewit – Charles Dickens
The Pit and the Pendulum – Edgar Allan Poe Q
Lost Illusions – Honoré de Balzac
A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens Q
Dead Souls – Nikolay Gogol
The Charterhouse of Parma – Stendhal
The Fall of the House of Usher – Edgar Allan Poe Q
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby – Charles Dickens Q
Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens Q
The Nose – Nikolay Gogol
Le Père Goriot – Honoré de Balzac
Eugénie Grandet – Honoré de Balzac
The Hunchback of Notre Dame – Victor Hugo Q
The Red and the Black – Stendhal
The Betrothed – Alessandro Manzoni
Last of the Mohicans – James Fenimore Cooper Q
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner – James Hogg Q
The Albigenses – Charles Robert Maturin
Melmoth the Wanderer – Charles Robert Maturin
The Monastery – Sir Walter Scott
Ivanhoe – Sir Walter Scott Q
Frankenstein – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Q
Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen Q
Persuasion – Jane Austen Q
Ormond – Maria Edgeworth
Rob Roy – Sir Walter Scott
Emma – Jane Austen Q
Mansfield Park – Jane Austen Q
Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen Q
The Absentee – Maria Edgeworth
Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen Q
Elective Affinities – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Castle Rackrent – Maria Edgeworth Q