19th Century Literature REad (18) FICTION Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Anna Karenina Crime and Punishment Emma Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus Great Expectations House of the Seven Gables, The Jane Eyre Madame Bovary Moby-Dick or, The Whale Picture of Dorian Gray, The Scarlet Letter, The Tale of Two Cities, A Turn of the Screw, The War of the Worlds, The Wuthering Heights NON-FICTION Beyond Good and Evil Gay Science, The ← 18th CENT. LIT MENU 1900-1949 → WANT TO REad PRIORITY 1 David Copperfield (Dickens)* Ghost and Horror Stories of Ambrose Bierce (Bierce)* Jude the Obscure (Hardy) Narrative of Frederick Douglass (Douglass)* Time Machine, The (Wells)* PRIORITY 2 Awakening, The (Chopin) Faust (Goethe) Importance of Being Earnest, The (Wilde) Lily of the Valley, The (Balzac)* Little Women (Alcott) Lost Illusions (Balzac)* Middlemarch (Eliot) Pride and Prejudice (Austen) Return of the Native, The (Hardy) Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The (Stevenson) Tenant of Wildfell Hall, The (Brontë) Tess of the d’Urbervilles (Hardy)* Villette (Brontë) PRIORITY 3 Agnes Grey (Brontë) Blithedale Romance, The (Hawthorne) Brothers Karamazov, The (Dostoevsky)* Capital (Marx) Doll’s House, A (Ibsen) Essential Byron, The (Byron)* Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, The (Emerson)* Eugénie Grandet (Balzac) Far from the Madding Crowd (Hardy) Hunger (Hamsun) Idiot, The (Dostoyevsky) In the Cage (James)* Little Dorrit (Defoe) Mansfield Park (Austen) Nicholas Nickleby (Dickens) North and South (Brontë) Northanger Abbey (Austen) Old Curiosity Shop, The (Dickens) Our Mutual Friend (Dickens) Persuasion (Austen) Red and the Black, The (Stendhal ) Sense and Sensibility (Austen) Sonnets from the Portuguese (Browning)* Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Nietzsche) Twice-Told Tales (Hawthorne)* Vanity Fair (Thackeray)* Yellow Wall-Paper, The (Gilman) PRIORITY 4 Bleak House (Austen) Count of Monte Cristo, The (Dumas) Cousin Bette (Balzac) De Profundis (Wilde)* Eugene Onegin (Pushkin) Hard Times (Dickens) Les Misérables (Hugo) Major Victorian Poets: Tennyson, Browning, Arnold, The (various)* Mayor of Casterbridge, The (Hardy) Mill on the Floss, The (Eliot) Père Goriot (Balzac) Portrait of a Lady, The (James) Silas Marner (Eliot)* War and Peace (Tolstoy) * = Read
