200 Greatest Novels of the 19th Century
Criteria: These novels published in the 1800s are ranked according to their initial and lasting acclaim, influence as well as initial and lasting popularity.
Disclaimer: This list is strongly influenced by the Western canon of literature. This means that in the broader scope of a global literature certain regions may be underrepresented, among them India, China, Africa and Latin America.
Disclaimer: This list is strongly influenced by the Western canon of literature. This means that in the broader scope of a global literature certain regions may be underrepresented, among them India, China, Africa and Latin America.
Greatest Novels of the 19th Century
1. War and Peace
by Leo Tolstoy
2. Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen
3. Great Expectations
by Charles Dickens
4. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain
5. Crime and Punishment
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
6. Anna Karenina
by Leo Tolstoy
7. Moby Dick
by Herman Melville
8. The Brothers Karamazov
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
9. Madame Bovary
by Gustave Flaubert
10. Middlemarch
by George Eliot
by Leo Tolstoy
2. Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen
3. Great Expectations
by Charles Dickens
4. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain
5. Crime and Punishment
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
6. Anna Karenina
by Leo Tolstoy
7. Moby Dick
by Herman Melville
8. The Brothers Karamazov
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
9. Madame Bovary
by Gustave Flaubert
10. Middlemarch
by George Eliot
11. The Red and the Black
by Stendhal
12. David Copperfield
by Charles Dickens
13. Wuthering Heights
by Emily Brontë
14. Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Brontë
15. Emma
by Jane Austen
16. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
by Lewis Carroll
17. Frankenstein
by Mary Shelley
18. The Scarlet Letter
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
19. Vanity Fair
by William Makepeace Thackeray
20. Heart of Darkness
by Joseph Conrad
21. The Portrait of a Lady
by Henry James
22. Tess of the d'Urbervilles
by Thomas Hardy
23. Père Goriot
by Honoré de Balzac
24. Les Misérables
by Victor Hugo
25. Dead Souls
by Nikolai Gogol
26. Bleak House
by Charles Dickens
27. Fathers and Sons
by Ivan Turgenev
28. Eugenie Grandet
by Honoré de Balzac
29. The Last of the Mohicans
by James Fenimore Cooper
30. A Sentimental Education
by Gustave Flaubert
31. Hunger
by Knut Hamsun
32. Persuasion
by Jane Austen
33. Germinal
by Émile Zola
34. Uncle Tom's Cabin
by Harriet Beecher Stowe
35. A Tale of Two Cities
by Charles Dickens
36. Dracula
by Bram Stoker
37. Through the Looking Glass
by Lewis Carroll
38. The Idiot
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
39. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
by Mark Twain
40. The Red Badge of Courage
by Stephen Crane
41. The Awakening
by Kate Chopin
42. Little Women
by Louisa May Alcott
43. The Betrothed
by Alessandro Manzoni
44. The Turn of the Screw
by Henry James
45. The Three Musketeers
by Alexandre Dumas
46. Lord Jim
by Joseph Conrad
47. Return of the Native
by Thomas Hardy
48. Sister Carrie
by Theodore Dreiser
49. The Charterhouse of Parma
by Stendhal
50. The Count of Monte Cristo
by Alexandre Dumas
51. Ivanhoe
by Walter Scott
52. A Hero of Our Time
by Mikhail Lermontov
53. Oblomov
by Ivan Goncharov
54. Thus Spake Zarathustra
by Friedrich Nietzsche
55. The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
by Victor Hugo
56. The Moonstone
by Wilkie Collins
57. The Adventures of Pinocchio
by Carlo Collodi
58. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
by L. Frank Baum
59. The Woman in White
by Wilkie Collins
60. Waverley
by Walter Scott
61. Thérèse Raquin
by Emile Zola
62. Lost Illusions
by Honoré de Balzac
63. Sense and Sensibility
by Jane Austen
64. Cousin Bette
by Honoré de Balzac
65. A Christmas Carol
by Charles Dickens
66. The Pickwick Papers
by Charles Dickens
67. The Picture of Dorian Gray
by Oscar Wilde
68. The Mill on the Floss
by George Eliot
69. Demons
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
70. The Death of Ivan Ilyich
by Leo Tolstoy
71. Hard Times
by Charles Dickens
72. Silas Marner
by George Eliot
73. The Way We Live Now
by Anthony Trollope
74. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
by Jules Verne
75. The Time Machine
by H.G. Wells
76. War of the Worlds
by H.G. Wells
77. Treasure Island
by Robert Louis Stevenson
78. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
by Robert Louis Stevenson
79. The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
by Edgar Allan Poe
80. The Last Chronicle of Barset
by Anthony Trollope
81. Jude the Obscure
by Thomas Hardy
82. Notes from the Underground
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
83. Bouvard et Pécuchet
by Gustave Flaubert
84. The Mayor of Casterbridge
by Thomas Hardy
85. Barchester Towers
by Anthony Trollope
86. Far from the Madding Crowd
by Thomas Hardy
87. King Solomon's Mines
by H. Rider Haggard
88. La Regenta
by Clarín
89. Way of All Flesh
by Samuel Butler
90. The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas
by Machado de Assis
91. Maldoror (Les Chants de Maldoror)
by Comte de Lautréamont
92. Oliver Twist
by Charles Dickens
93. Three Men in a Boat
by Jerome K. Jerome
94. Our Mutual Friend
by Charles Dickens
95. The House of the Seven Gables
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
96. Little Dorrit
by Charles Dickens
97. The Diary of a Nobody
by George & Weedon Grossmith
98. New Grub Street
by George Gissing
99. Against Nature
by Joris-Karl Huysmans
100. Dom Casmurro
by Machado de Assis
101. Nightmare Abbey
by Thomas Love Peacock
102. Daniel Deronda
by George Eliot
103. Fortunata and Jacinta
by Benito Pérez Galdós
104. Adolphe
by Benjamin Constant
105. The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
by James Hogg
106. The Red Room
by August Strindberg
107. Hemsoborna
by August Strindberg
108. The Country of the Pointed Firs
by Sarah Orne Jewett
109. Ben-Hur
by Lew Wallace
110. The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr
by E.T.A. Hoffmann
111. Elective Affinities
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
112. Green Henry
by Gottfried Keller
113. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
by Anne Brontë
114. Effi Briest
by Theodor Fontane
115. Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts
by Joseph von Eichendorff
116. Der Stechlin
by Theodor Fontane
117. The Maias
by Eça de Queirós
118. Billy Budd
by Herman Melville
119. Cranford
by Elizabeth Gaskell
120. Michael Kohlhaas
by Heinrich von Kleist
121. The Warden
by Anthony Trollope
122. Daisy Miller
by Henry James
123. Carmen
by Prosper Merimee
124. Villette
by Charlotte Brontë
125. News from Nowhere
by William Morris
126. What Is to Be Done?
by Nikolai Chernyshevsky
127. The Enchanted Wanderer
by Nikolai Leskov
128. The Tigers of Mompracem
by Emilio Salgari
129. What Maisie Knew
by Henry James
130. The Crime of Father Amaro
by Eça de Queirós
131. Eclipse of the Crescent Moon
by Geza Gardonyi
132. North and South
by Elizabeth Gaskell
133. I Malavoglia
by Giovanni Verga
134. Compassion
by Benito Pérez Galdós
135. Uncle Silas
by Sheridan Le Fanu
136. Under the Yoke
by Ivan Vazov
137. Gosta Berling's Saga
by Selma Lagerlof
138. The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby
by Charles Kingsley
139. Bel Ami
by Guy de Maupassant
140. Journey to the Center of the Earth
by Jules Verne
141. Indian Summer
by Adalbert Stifter
142. The Viceroys
by Federico De Roberto
143. Mansfield Park
by Jane Austen
144. Adam Bede
by George Eliot
145. Phineas Finn
by Anthony Trollope
146. Around the World in Eighty Days
by Jules Verne
147. Pepita Jimenez
by Juan Valera y Alcala-Galiano
148. Quo Vadis
by Henryk Sienkiewicz
149. Some Experiences of an Irish R.M.
by Edith Somerville & Violet Florence Martin
150. Erewhon
by Samuel Butler
151. Max Havelaar
by Multatuli
152. Thaïs
by Anatole France
153. The House of Ulloa
by Emilia Pardo Bazán
154. Pharaoh
by Boleslaw Prus
155. Une vie
by Guy de Maupassant
156. Torrents of Spring
by Ivan Turgenev
157. Melmoth the Wanderer
by Charles Robert Maturin
158. Il Piacere
by Gabriele D'Annunzio
159. Rob Roy
by Walter Scott
160. La Bête humaine
by Émile Zola
161. Pierre et Jean
by Guy de Maupassant
162. The Invisible Man
by H.G. Wells
163. The Island of Doctor Moreau
by H.G. Wells
164. Nana
by Émile Zola
165. Senilità
by Italo Svevo
166. Down There
by J. K. Huysmans
167. Eline Vere
by Louis Couperus
168. The Devil's Pool
by George Sand
169. Marius the Epicurean
by Walter Pater
170. L'Assommoir
by Émile Zola
171. The Kreutzer Sonata
by Leo Tolstoy
172. The Deerslayer
by James Fenimore Cooper
173. The Lion of Flanders
by Hendrik Conscience
174. She
by H. Rider Haggard
175. Black Beauty
by Anna Sewell
176. Heidi
by Johanna Spyri
177. A Study in Scarlet
by Arthur Conan Doyle
178. Dombey and Son
by Charles Dickens
179. The Eustace Diamonds
by Anthony Trollope
180. Mysteries
by Knut Hamsun
181. The Prince and the Pauper
by Mark Twain
182. The Blithedale Romance
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
183. The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood
by Howard Pyle
184. The Queen's Tiara
by Carl Jonas Love Almquist
185. The Cloister and the Hearth
by Charles Reade
186. Lenz
by Georg Buchner
187. The Talisman
by Walter Scott
188. The Manuscript Found in Saragossa
by Jan Potocki
189. Flatland
by Edwin A. Abbott
190. Kidnapped
by Robert Louis Stevenson
191. Venus in Furs
by Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch
192. The Bostonians
by Henry James
193. Swiss Family Robinson
by Johann David Wyss
194. The Gambler
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
195. The American
by Henry James
196. Nicholas Nickleby
by Charles Dickens
197. The Pioneers
by James Fenimore Cooper
198. The Master of Ballantrae
by Robert Louis Stevenson
199. Benito Cereno
by Herman Melville
200. Splendors and Miseries of Courtesans
by Honoré de Balzac
by Stendhal
12. David Copperfield
by Charles Dickens
13. Wuthering Heights
by Emily Brontë
14. Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Brontë
15. Emma
by Jane Austen
16. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
by Lewis Carroll
17. Frankenstein
by Mary Shelley
18. The Scarlet Letter
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
19. Vanity Fair
by William Makepeace Thackeray
20. Heart of Darkness
by Joseph Conrad
21. The Portrait of a Lady
by Henry James
22. Tess of the d'Urbervilles
by Thomas Hardy
23. Père Goriot
by Honoré de Balzac
24. Les Misérables
by Victor Hugo
25. Dead Souls
by Nikolai Gogol
26. Bleak House
by Charles Dickens
27. Fathers and Sons
by Ivan Turgenev
28. Eugenie Grandet
by Honoré de Balzac
29. The Last of the Mohicans
by James Fenimore Cooper
30. A Sentimental Education
by Gustave Flaubert
31. Hunger
by Knut Hamsun
32. Persuasion
by Jane Austen
33. Germinal
by Émile Zola
34. Uncle Tom's Cabin
by Harriet Beecher Stowe
35. A Tale of Two Cities
by Charles Dickens
36. Dracula
by Bram Stoker
37. Through the Looking Glass
by Lewis Carroll
38. The Idiot
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
39. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
by Mark Twain
40. The Red Badge of Courage
by Stephen Crane
41. The Awakening
by Kate Chopin
42. Little Women
by Louisa May Alcott
43. The Betrothed
by Alessandro Manzoni
44. The Turn of the Screw
by Henry James
45. The Three Musketeers
by Alexandre Dumas
46. Lord Jim
by Joseph Conrad
47. Return of the Native
by Thomas Hardy
48. Sister Carrie
by Theodore Dreiser
49. The Charterhouse of Parma
by Stendhal
50. The Count of Monte Cristo
by Alexandre Dumas
51. Ivanhoe
by Walter Scott
52. A Hero of Our Time
by Mikhail Lermontov
53. Oblomov
by Ivan Goncharov
54. Thus Spake Zarathustra
by Friedrich Nietzsche
55. The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
by Victor Hugo
56. The Moonstone
by Wilkie Collins
57. The Adventures of Pinocchio
by Carlo Collodi
58. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
by L. Frank Baum
59. The Woman in White
by Wilkie Collins
60. Waverley
by Walter Scott
61. Thérèse Raquin
by Emile Zola
62. Lost Illusions
by Honoré de Balzac
63. Sense and Sensibility
by Jane Austen
64. Cousin Bette
by Honoré de Balzac
65. A Christmas Carol
by Charles Dickens
66. The Pickwick Papers
by Charles Dickens
67. The Picture of Dorian Gray
by Oscar Wilde
68. The Mill on the Floss
by George Eliot
69. Demons
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
70. The Death of Ivan Ilyich
by Leo Tolstoy
71. Hard Times
by Charles Dickens
72. Silas Marner
by George Eliot
73. The Way We Live Now
by Anthony Trollope
74. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
by Jules Verne
75. The Time Machine
by H.G. Wells
76. War of the Worlds
by H.G. Wells
77. Treasure Island
by Robert Louis Stevenson
78. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
by Robert Louis Stevenson
79. The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
by Edgar Allan Poe
80. The Last Chronicle of Barset
by Anthony Trollope
81. Jude the Obscure
by Thomas Hardy
82. Notes from the Underground
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
83. Bouvard et Pécuchet
by Gustave Flaubert
84. The Mayor of Casterbridge
by Thomas Hardy
85. Barchester Towers
by Anthony Trollope
86. Far from the Madding Crowd
by Thomas Hardy
87. King Solomon's Mines
by H. Rider Haggard
88. La Regenta
by Clarín
89. Way of All Flesh
by Samuel Butler
90. The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas
by Machado de Assis
91. Maldoror (Les Chants de Maldoror)
by Comte de Lautréamont
92. Oliver Twist
by Charles Dickens
93. Three Men in a Boat
by Jerome K. Jerome
94. Our Mutual Friend
by Charles Dickens
95. The House of the Seven Gables
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
96. Little Dorrit
by Charles Dickens
97. The Diary of a Nobody
by George & Weedon Grossmith
98. New Grub Street
by George Gissing
99. Against Nature
by Joris-Karl Huysmans
100. Dom Casmurro
by Machado de Assis
101. Nightmare Abbey
by Thomas Love Peacock
102. Daniel Deronda
by George Eliot
103. Fortunata and Jacinta
by Benito Pérez Galdós
104. Adolphe
by Benjamin Constant
105. The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
by James Hogg
106. The Red Room
by August Strindberg
107. Hemsoborna
by August Strindberg
108. The Country of the Pointed Firs
by Sarah Orne Jewett
109. Ben-Hur
by Lew Wallace
110. The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr
by E.T.A. Hoffmann
111. Elective Affinities
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
112. Green Henry
by Gottfried Keller
113. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
by Anne Brontë
114. Effi Briest
by Theodor Fontane
115. Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts
by Joseph von Eichendorff
116. Der Stechlin
by Theodor Fontane
117. The Maias
by Eça de Queirós
118. Billy Budd
by Herman Melville
119. Cranford
by Elizabeth Gaskell
120. Michael Kohlhaas
by Heinrich von Kleist
121. The Warden
by Anthony Trollope
122. Daisy Miller
by Henry James
123. Carmen
by Prosper Merimee
124. Villette
by Charlotte Brontë
125. News from Nowhere
by William Morris
126. What Is to Be Done?
by Nikolai Chernyshevsky
127. The Enchanted Wanderer
by Nikolai Leskov
128. The Tigers of Mompracem
by Emilio Salgari
129. What Maisie Knew
by Henry James
130. The Crime of Father Amaro
by Eça de Queirós
131. Eclipse of the Crescent Moon
by Geza Gardonyi
132. North and South
by Elizabeth Gaskell
133. I Malavoglia
by Giovanni Verga
134. Compassion
by Benito Pérez Galdós
135. Uncle Silas
by Sheridan Le Fanu
136. Under the Yoke
by Ivan Vazov
137. Gosta Berling's Saga
by Selma Lagerlof
138. The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby
by Charles Kingsley
139. Bel Ami
by Guy de Maupassant
140. Journey to the Center of the Earth
by Jules Verne
141. Indian Summer
by Adalbert Stifter
142. The Viceroys
by Federico De Roberto
143. Mansfield Park
by Jane Austen
144. Adam Bede
by George Eliot
145. Phineas Finn
by Anthony Trollope
146. Around the World in Eighty Days
by Jules Verne
147. Pepita Jimenez
by Juan Valera y Alcala-Galiano
148. Quo Vadis
by Henryk Sienkiewicz
149. Some Experiences of an Irish R.M.
by Edith Somerville & Violet Florence Martin
150. Erewhon
by Samuel Butler
151. Max Havelaar
by Multatuli
152. Thaïs
by Anatole France
153. The House of Ulloa
by Emilia Pardo Bazán
154. Pharaoh
by Boleslaw Prus
155. Une vie
by Guy de Maupassant
156. Torrents of Spring
by Ivan Turgenev
157. Melmoth the Wanderer
by Charles Robert Maturin
158. Il Piacere
by Gabriele D'Annunzio
159. Rob Roy
by Walter Scott
160. La Bête humaine
by Émile Zola
161. Pierre et Jean
by Guy de Maupassant
162. The Invisible Man
by H.G. Wells
163. The Island of Doctor Moreau
by H.G. Wells
164. Nana
by Émile Zola
165. Senilità
by Italo Svevo
166. Down There
by J. K. Huysmans
167. Eline Vere
by Louis Couperus
168. The Devil's Pool
by George Sand
169. Marius the Epicurean
by Walter Pater
170. L'Assommoir
by Émile Zola
171. The Kreutzer Sonata
by Leo Tolstoy
172. The Deerslayer
by James Fenimore Cooper
173. The Lion of Flanders
by Hendrik Conscience
174. She
by H. Rider Haggard
175. Black Beauty
by Anna Sewell
176. Heidi
by Johanna Spyri
177. A Study in Scarlet
by Arthur Conan Doyle
178. Dombey and Son
by Charles Dickens
179. The Eustace Diamonds
by Anthony Trollope
180. Mysteries
by Knut Hamsun
181. The Prince and the Pauper
by Mark Twain
182. The Blithedale Romance
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
183. The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood
by Howard Pyle
184. The Queen's Tiara
by Carl Jonas Love Almquist
185. The Cloister and the Hearth
by Charles Reade
186. Lenz
by Georg Buchner
187. The Talisman
by Walter Scott
188. The Manuscript Found in Saragossa
by Jan Potocki
189. Flatland
by Edwin A. Abbott
190. Kidnapped
by Robert Louis Stevenson
191. Venus in Furs
by Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch
192. The Bostonians
by Henry James
193. Swiss Family Robinson
by Johann David Wyss
194. The Gambler
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
195. The American
by Henry James
196. Nicholas Nickleby
by Charles Dickens
197. The Pioneers
by James Fenimore Cooper
198. The Master of Ballantrae
by Robert Louis Stevenson
199. Benito Cereno
by Herman Melville
200. Splendors and Miseries of Courtesans
by Honoré de Balzac
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War and Peace
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Pride and Prejudice
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Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn |
Crime and Punishment
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David Copperfield
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Jane Eyre
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Alice's Adventures
in Wonderland |
Frankenstein
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Edited By: Tim
List Begun: 2022-09-18