Best Novels of the 19th Century

This list contains a selection of the most notable novels of the nineteenth century, also called, for good reasons, the century of the Novel.

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War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy)

War and Peace

1

Leo Tolstoy

The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)

The Brothers Karamazov

2

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Madame Bovary (Gustave Flaubert)

Madame Bovary

3

Gustave Flaubert

Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)

Crime and Punishment

4

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)

Anna Karenina

5

Leo Tolstoy

The Red and the Black (Stendhal)

The Red and the Black

6

Stendhal

Moby Dick (Herman Melville)

Moby Dick

7

Herman Melville

Middlemarch (George Eliot)

Middlemarch

8

George Eliot

Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)

Pride and Prejudice

9

Jane Austen

Le Pere Goriot

Le Pere Goriot

10

Germinal (Émile Zola)

Germinal

11

Émile Zola

Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë)

Wuthering Heights

12

Emily Brontë

Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)

Great Expectations

13

Charles Dickens

Dead Souls (Nikolai Gogol)

Dead Souls

14

Nikolai Gogol

Emma (Jane Austen)

Emma

15

Jane Austen

The Idiot (Fyodor Dostoevsky)

The Idiot

16

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Bleak House (Charles Dickens)

Bleak House

17

Charles Dickens

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

18

Mark Twain

Oblomov (Ivan Goncarov)

Oblomov

19

Ivan Goncarov

Hunger (Knut Hamsun)

Hunger

20

Knut Hamsun

Sentimental Education (Gustave Flaubert)

Sentimental Education

21

Gustave Flaubert

The Portrait of a Lady (Henry James)

The Portrait of a Lady

22

Henry James

Les Miserables (Victor Hugo)

Les Miserables

23

Victor Hugo

A Hero of Our Time (Mikhail Lermontov)

A Hero of Our Time

24

Mikhail Lermontov

Dom Casmurro

Dom Casmurro

25

Eugenie Grandet (Honoré De Balzac)

Eugenie Grandet

26

Honoré De Balzac

Sense and Sensibility (Jane Austen)

Sense and Sensibility

27

Jane Austen

L'assommoir by Emile Zola

L'assommoir by Emile Zola

28

The Woman in White (Wilkie Collins)

The Woman in White

29

Wilkie Collins

Against Nature

Against Nature

30

Fathers and Sons (Ivan Turgenev)

Fathers and Sons

31

Ivan Turgenev

The Charterhouse of Parma (Stendhal)

The Charterhouse of Parma

32

Stendhal

Demons (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)

Demons

33

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Tess of the D'urbervilles (Thomas Hardy)

Tess of the D'urbervilles

34

Thomas Hardy

David Copperfield (Charles Dickens)

David Copperfield

35

Charles Dickens

The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Victor Hugo)

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

36

Victor Hugo

Vanity Fair (William Thackeray)

Vanity Fair

37

William Thackeray

Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)

Frankenstein

38

Mary Shelley

The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas (Machado De Assis)

The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas

39

Machado De Assis

The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne)

The Scarlet Letter

40

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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