The Bloom Boxall Great Fiction List--Read 'Em Or Else Vol. II: 1800s

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I cross-referenced Harold Bloom’s Western Canon with the Peter Boxall "1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die" (2006 and 2008 versions, inclusive) to come up with this Must-Read list to end all Must-Read lists. It will be split into three volumes by century. PLEASE DON’T ADD OR DELETE ANYTHING. Create your own, or adopt mine and leave me a comment if I have omitted something. Please remember that Bloom is hopelessly stuffy (H. G. Wells is "serious" literature and Jules Verne isn’t; Waugh’s political satire is worthwhile and "Brideshead Revisited" is fluff) and that his "canon" doesn’t include anything from the past 20 years or so. Boxall’s lists are almost entirely comprised of novels.

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    Castle Rackrent
    by Maria Edgeworth

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    Rameau's Nephew and D'Alembert's Dream (Penguin Classics)
    by Denis Diderot

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  3. 3.
    Pride and Prejudice
    by Jane Austen

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    Mansfield Park (Jane Austen Collection)
    by Jane Austen

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    Emma
    by Jane Austen

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  6. 7.
    Frankenstein
    by Mary Shelley

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    Melmoth the Wanderer (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Robert Maturin

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    The Life and the Opinions of the Tombcat Murr
    by E.T.A. Hoffmann

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    The Betrothed: I Promessi Sposi (Penguin Classics)
    by Alessandro Manzoni

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    Old Goriot
    by Honore de Balzac

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  13. 15.
    The Nose
    by Nikolai Gogol

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  14. 16.
    Oliver Twist
    by Charles Dickens

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  15. 17.
    The life and adventures of Nicholas Nickleby. By Charles Dickens.
    by Michigan Historical Reprint Series

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  16. 18.
    The Fall of the House of Usher
    by Edgar Allan Poe

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  17. 19.
    The Charterhouse of Parma (Penguin Classics)
    by Stendhal

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    Dead Souls
    by Nikolai Vasilivich Gogol

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  19. 21.
    A Hero of Our Time
    by Mikhail Lermontov

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  20. 22.
    The Pit and the Pendulum (Unabridged)
    by Edgar Allan Poe

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  21. 23.
    The Devil's Pool

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  22. 24.
    Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre (Bloom's Reviews Series)
    by Harold Bloom

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    A Christmas Carol
    by Charles Dickens

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  24. 26.
    Vanity Fair (Penguin Classics)
    by William Makepeace Thackeray

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  25. 27.
    Wuthering Heights
    by Emily Bronte

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  26. 28.
    Martin Chuzzlewit (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

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    The Purloined Letter
    by Edgar Allan Poe

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    Mary Barton
    by Elizabeth Gaskell

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  29. 31.
    David Copperfield (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

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  30. 32.
    The Scarlet Letter
    by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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  31. 33.
    Moby Dick (Vintage Classics)
    by Herman Melville

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  32. 34.
    North and South (Norton Critical Editions)
    by Elizabeth Gaskell

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  33. 35.
    Green Henry
    by Gottfried Keller

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  34. 36.
    Madame Bovary
    by Gustave Flaubert

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  35. 37.
    The Woman in White (Penguin Classics)
    by Wilkie Collins

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  36. 38.
    The Moonstone (Modern Library Classics)
    by Wilkie Collins

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    Villette

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    Bleak House (Modern Library Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

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  39. 41.
    Walden
    by Henry David Thoreau

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  40. 42.
    Hard Times (Enriched Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

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  41. 43.
    Adam Bede (Signet Classics (Paperback))
    by George Eliot

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    Oblomovka - Ivan Goncharov

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  43. 45.
    A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

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  44. 46.
    The Marble Faun (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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  45. 47.
    The Mill on the Floss
    by George Eliot

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  46. 48.
    Castle Richmond (Webster's English Thesaurus Edition)
    by Anthony Trollope

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  47. 49.
    Great Expectations
    by Charles Dickens

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    Silas Marner
    by George Eliot

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