Romantic & 19th Century
c. 1780–1900Blake to Dostoevsky. Emotion over reason, the rise of the great novel, and literature grappling with industrialization and revolution.
Faust, First Part
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe·1808
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen·1813
Emma
Jane Austen·1815
Persuasion
Jane Austen·1817
Frankenstein
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley·1818
The Red and the Black
Stendhal·1830
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
Victor Hugo·1831
Faust, Part Two
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe·1832
Nature
Ralph Waldo Emerson·1836
The Charterhouse of Parma
Stendhal·1839
Dead Souls
Nikolai Gogol·1842
The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas·1844
Self-Reliance and Other Essays
Ralph Waldo Emerson·1844
The Three Musketeers
Alexandre Dumas·1844
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass·1845
Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë·1847
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë·1847
Vanity Fair
William Makepeace Thackeray·1847
The Communist Manifesto
Karl Marx·1848
The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne·1850
David Copperfield
Charles Dickens·1850
Moby-Dick or, The Whale
Herman Melville·1851
Bleak House
Charles Dickens·1853
Walden or, Life in the Woods
Henry David Thoreau·1854
Madame Bovary
Gustave Flaubert·1856
The Woman in White
Wilkie Collins·1859
Les Misérables
Victor Hugo·1862
Fathers and Sons
Ivan Turgenev·1862
Notes from Underground
Fyodor Dostoevsky·1864
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Jules Verne·1864
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky·1866
Little Women
Louisa May Alcott·1868
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Jules Verne·1869
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass
Lewis Carroll·1871
The Complete Poems
Andrew Marvell·1872
Around the World in Eighty Days
Jules Verne·1872
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Mark Twain·1876
Personal Memoirs
Ulysses S. Grant·1885
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain·1885
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde·1890
The Complete Poems
William Blake·1893
Dracula
Bram Stoker·1897