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JASA’s favourite 19th century novels - 2007

How well read are you, really? This is the member-generated list of Top Ten Novels published between 1800 and 1900, providing all JASA members with a fascinating reading list, not just of the most loved 19th century novels, but of other more obscure works which we should all consider reading since clearly someone loves them enough to  for them.

A novel given No. 1 Favourite position, that novel was awarded 10 points, your 2nd favourite was awarded 9 points etc etc. Try some new authors that are clearly popular with other Jane Austen readers, or revisit classic novels you have not read since schooldays. Enjoy the list and happy reading!                                                                                                        

Susannah Fullerton

1. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen – 1187 points

2. Persuasion, Jane Austen – 920

3. Emma, Jane Austen – 764

4. Mansfield Park, Jane Austen – 464

5. Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen – 379

6. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte – 379

7. Middlemarch, George Eliot – 289

8. Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte – 274

9. Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen – 243

10. North and South, Elizabeth Gaskell – 171

11. Barchester Towers, Anthony Trollope – 161

12. Bleak House, Charles Dickens – 158

13. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens – 151

14. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens – 147

15. Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray – 136

16. The Warden, Anthony Trollope – 104

17. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott – 97

18. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy – 89

19. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy – 89

20. Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll – 77

21. Tess of the D’Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy – 77

22. A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens – 67

23. Far From the Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy – 66

24. Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain – 63

25. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Anne Bronte – 61

26. Cranford, Elizabeth Gaskell – 59

27. Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky – 57

28. Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert – 55

29. The Moonstone, Wilkie Collins – 51

30. The Mill on the Floss, George Eliot – 47

31. Silas Marner, George Eliot – 47

32. Kidnapped, Robert Louis Stevenson – 46

33. Wives and Daughters, Elizabeth Gaskell – 44

34. Our Mutual Friend, Charles Dickens – 43

35. The Woman in White, Wilkie Collins – 39

36. Portrait of a Lady, Henry James -35

37. Villette, Charlotte Bronte – 35

38. The Pickwick Papers, Charles Dickens – 35

39. Nicholas Nickleby, Charles Dickens – 33

40. Washington Square, Henry James – 29

41. The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett – 29

42. Seven Little Australians, Ethel Turner – 28

43. The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde – 28

44. The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas – 28

45. Daniel Deronda, George Eliot – 27

46. Les Miserables, Victor Hugo -26

47. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson – 25

48. Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens – 24

49. Alice Through the Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll – 24

50. The Mayor of Casterbridge, Thomas Hardy – 23

51. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens – 23

52. Lorna Doone, R.D.Blackmoore – 22

53. Shirley, Charlotte Bronte – 21

54. The Return of the Native, Thomas Hardy – 20

55. The Woodlanders, Thomas Hardy – 19

56. Jude the Obscure, Thomas Hardy – 18

57. Moby Dick, Hermann Melville – 17

58. Ivanhoe, Sir Walter Scott – 16

59. New Grub Street, George Gissing – 16

60. The Charterhouse of Parma, Stendhal – 15

61. The Hound of the Baskervilles, Conan Doyle – 14

62. Lord Jim, Joseph Conrad – 14

63. Three Men in a Boat, Jerome K.Jerome – 14

64. Frankenstein, Mary Shelley – 13

65. For the Term of his Natural Life, Marcus Clarke – 13

66. Can You Forgive Her?, Anthony Trollope – 12

67. Effi Briest, Theodor Fontane – 11

68. The Last Chronicle of Barset, Anthony Trollope – 11

69. Lady Audley’s Secret, Mary Elizabeth Braddon – 11

70. The Three Musketeers, Alexandre Dumas – 11

71. The Bostonians, Henry James – 11

72. Eugene Onegin, Aleksandr Pushkin – 10

73. Diary of a Nobody, Weedon Grossmith – 9

74. Family Happiness, Leo Tolstoy – 9

75. The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky – 9

76. The Prime Minister, Anthony Trollope – 9

77. He Knew He was Right, Anthony Trollope – 9

78. Dr Thorne, Anthony Trollope – 9

79. War of the Worlds, H.G.Wells – 9

80. Agnes Grey, Anne Bronte – 9

81. The Eustace Diamonds, Anthony Trollope – 8

82. What Katy Did, Susan Coolidge – 8

83. The Way We Live Now, Anthony Trollope – 8

84. Fortunata Y Jacinta, Perez Galdos – 8

85. Waverley, Sir Walter Scott – 8

86. The Claverings, Anthony Trollope – 8

87. Hard Times, Charles Dickens – 8

88. Black Beauty, Anna Sewell – 8

89. Toilers of the Sea, Victor Hugo – 8

90. What Katy Did Next, Susan Coolidge – 8

91. The Duke’s Children, Anthony Trollope – 8

92. On the Eve, Ivan Turgenev – 8

93. A Sentimental Education, Gustave Flaubert – 7

94. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain – 7

95. Mary’s Meadow, Juliana Horatia Ewing – 7

96. Adam Bede, George Eliot – 7

97. Beim Vetter Christian, Theodor Storm – 7

98. Redgauntlet, Sir Walter Scott – 7

99. A Journey to the Centre of the Earth, Jules Verne – 7

100. Kim, Rudyard Kipling – 6

101. The Small House at Allington, Anthony Trollope – 6

102. The Latin Quarter, Henry Murger – 6

103. The Story of an African Farm, Olive Schreiner – 6

104. Miss Mackenzie, Anthony Trollope – 6

105. The Water Babies, Charles Kingsley – 6

106. Germinal, Emile Zola – 6

107. Ruth, Elizabeth Gaskell – 6

108. Sybil, Benjamin Disraeli – 6

109. Mr Midshipman Easy, Frederick Marryat – 6

110. The Chimes, Charles Dickens – 6

111. The Man in the Iron Mask, Alexandre Dumas – 6

112. Martin Chuzzlewit, Charles Dickens – 5

113. The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne – 5

114. Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe – 5

115. The Coral Island, R.M.Ballantyne – 5

116. The Heart of Midlothian, Sir Walter Scott – 5

117. Le Pere Goriot, Honore de Balzac – 5

118. The Awakening, Kate Chopin – 5

119. Scenes from Clerical Life, George Eliot – 5

120. A Study in Scarlet, Conan Doyle – 5

121. Fathers and Sons, Ivan Turgenev – 5

122. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson – 4

123. The Possessed, Fyodor Dostoevsky – 4

124. Little Dorritt, Charles Dickens – 4

125. The Invisible Man, H.G.Wells – 4

126. Castle Rackrent, Maria Edgeworth – 4

127. Notes from the Underground, Fyodor Dostoevsky – 4

128. Is He Popenjoy?, Anthony Trollope – 4

129. The Princess Cassamassima, Henry James – 3

130. Le Ventre de Paris, Emile Zola – 3

131. Spring Torrents, Ivan Turgenev – 3

132. Armadale, Wilkie Collins – 3

133. The Light that Failed, Rudyard Kipling – 3

134. No Name, Wilkie Collins – 3

135. Dracula, Bram Stoker – 3

136. The Children of the New Forest, Captain Marryat – 3

137. The Cloister and the Hearth, Charles Reade – 3

138. Orley Farm, Anthony Trollope – 3

139. Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad – 2

140. The Vicar of Bulhampton, Anthony Trollope – 2

141. Captains Courageous, Rudyard Kipling – 2

142. Phineas Finn, Anthony Trollope – 2

143. Tom Brown’s Schooldays, Thomas Hughes – 2

144. Barry Lyndon, William Makepeace Thackeray – 2

145. The Widow Barnaby, Fanny Trollope – 2

146. She, H. Rider Haggard – 2

147. The Idiot, Fyodor Dostoevsky – 2

148. The Last of the Mohicans, James Fenimore Cooper – 2

149. The Queen’s Tiara, C.J.L. Almquist – 2

150. The Old Curiosity Shop, Charles Dickens – 2

151. Under the Greenwood Tree, Thomas Hardy – 2

152. The Law and the Lady, Wilkie Collins – 1

153. What Katy Did at School, Susan Coolidge – 1

154. Nana, Emile Zola – 1

155. Travels with a Donkey, Robert Louis Stevenson – 1

156. The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Leo Tolstoy – 1

157. The Heir of Redclyffe, Charlotte M. Yonge – 1

158. Pillar of the House, Charlotte M. Yonge – 1

159. The Turn of the Screw, Henry James – 1

160. Such is Life, Joseph Furphy – 1

161. Barnaby Rudge, Charles Dickens – 1

162. Stalky & Co., Rudyard Kipling – 1

163. St Ives, Robert Louis Stevenson – 1

164. Lettres de Mon Moulin, Alphonse Daudet – 1

165. The Jungle Books, Rudyard Kipling – 1
     

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05 April 2008

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