45 Novels Written in the 19th Century That Deserve a Place on the Modern Bookshelf - Page 2

The fifty books on this list were all published more than a hundred years ago, and yet remain fresh and exhilarating reads. There's a temptation, of course, to mutter the names Dickens, Tolstoy, and Twain and assume you've covered the 19th century—but a deeper dive proves the novel was alive and well in the 1800s.

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Cousin Bette (Honoré De Balzac)

Cousin Bette

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Honoré De Balzac

To Have and to Hold (Mary Johnston)

To Have and to Hold

42

Mary Johnston

King Solomon's Mines (H. Rider Haggard)

King Solomon's Mines

43

H. Rider Haggard

Fathers and Sons (Ivan Turgenev)

Fathers and Sons

44

Ivan Turgenev

The Death of Ivan Ilyich (Leo Tolstoy)

The Death of Ivan Ilyich

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Leo Tolstoy

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