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200 Books That Shaped 200 Years of Literature

To celebrate their 200th anniversary, The Center for Fiction came up with a list of the 200 works of fiction that had the most impact on American readers, writers, and culture over these past two centuries.
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Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
Pride and Prejudice
1
Jane Austen
Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Edgar Allan Poe)
Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe
2
Edgar Allan Poe
The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)
The Count of Monte Cristo
3
Alexandre Dumas
Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë)
Jane Eyre
4
Charlotte Brontë
Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)
Wuthering Heights
5
Emily Bronte
Moby Dick (Herman Melville)
Moby Dick
6
Herman Melville
Uncle Tom's Cabin (Harriet Beecher Stowe)
Uncle Tom's Cabin
7
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Clotel
Clotel
8
Bleak House (Charles Dickens)
Bleak House
9
Charles Dickens
Madame Bovary (Gustave Flaubert)
Madame Bovary
10
Gustave Flaubert
Our Nig (Harriet E. Wilson)
Our Nig
11
Harriet E. Wilson
The Mill on the Floss (George Eliot)
The Mill on the Floss
12
George Eliot
Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)
Great Expectations
13
Charles Dickens
Les Miserables (Victor Hugo)
Les Miserables
14
Victor Hugo
Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
Crime and Punishment
15
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Felix Holt: The Radical
Felix Holt: The Radical
16
Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)
Little Women
17
Louisa May Alcott
Middlemarch (George Eliot)
Middlemarch
18
George Eliot
Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
Anna Karenina
19
Leo Tolstoy
Black Beauty (Anna Sewell)
Black Beauty
20
Anna Sewell
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
21
Mark Twain
The Picture of Dorian Grey (Oscar Wilde)
The Picture of Dorian Grey
22
Oscar Wilde
L'argent (Émile Zola)
L'argent
23
Émile Zola
Tess of the D'urbervilles (Thomas Hardy)
Tess of the D'urbervilles
24
Thomas Hardy
Dracula (Bram Stoker)
Dracula
25
Bram Stoker
The Awakening (Kate Chopin)
The Awakening
26
Kate Chopin
The Claudine Novels (Colette)
The Claudine Novels
27
Colette
The House of Mirth (Edith Wharton)
The House of Mirth
28
Edith Wharton
The Jungle (Upton Sinclair)
The Jungle
29
Upton Sinclair
Love Among the Chickens (P.G. Wodehouse)
Love Among the Chickens
30
P.G. Wodehouse
The Man Who Was Thursday (G.K. Chesterton)
The Man Who Was Thursday
31
G.K. Chesterton
Peter and Wendy (J.M. Barrie)
Peter and Wendy
32
J.M. Barrie
In Search of Lost Time (Marcel Proust)
In Search of Lost Time
33
Marcel Proust
Winesburg, Ohio (Sherwood Anderson)
Winesburg, Ohio
34
Sherwood Anderson
The Age of Innocence (Edith Wharton)
The Age of Innocence
35
Edith Wharton
Ulysses (James Joyce)
Ulysses
36
James Joyce
Siddhartha (Hermann Hesse)
Siddhartha
37
Hermann Hesse
Cane (Jean Toomer)
Cane
38
Jean Toomer
Mrs Dalloway (Virginia Woolf)
Mrs Dalloway
39
Virginia Woolf
The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
The Great Gatsby
40
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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