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interpretingthesoul:
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
- 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
- Eight Cousins (1875) | eBook | Audiobook
- Rose in Bloom (1876) | eBook | Audiobook
Austen, Jane (1775-1817)
- 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
Brontë, Anne (1820-1849)
- 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)
- Leatherstocking Tales
- 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)
- Sherlock Holmes
- 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)
- King’s Musketeers
- 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
Hugo, Victor (1802-1885)
- The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (1831) | eBook | Audiobook
- Les Miserables (1862) | eBook | Audiobook
James, Henry (1843-1916)
- 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
Tolstoy, Leo (1828-1910)
- 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
- Palliser
- 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)
- Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn
- 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
- Diaries of Adam and Eve
- Extracts from Adam’s Diary (1904) | eBook | Audiobook
- Eve’s Diary (1906) | eBook | Audiobook
Verne, Jules (1828-1905)
- 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
Wells, H.G. (1866-1946)
- 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
Wilde, Oscar (1854-1900)
- 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
THIS IS SO FREAKING AWESOME THANK YOU SO MUCH