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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  1. 51.
    Fathers and Sons
    by Ivan Turgenev

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  2. 52.
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    Indian Summer: Translated by Wendell Frye
    by Adalbert Stifter

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  3. 53.
    Notes from Underground
    by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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  4. 54.
    Our Mutual Friend (Modern Library Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

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  5. 55.
    Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
    by Lewis Carroll

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  6. 56.
    Crime and Punishment
    by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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  7. 57.
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    The Last Chronicle of Barset
    by Anthony Trollope

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  8. 58.
    Little Women (Signet Classics)
    by Louisa May Alcott

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  9. 59.
    The Idiot
    by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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  10. 60.
    Phineas Finn: The Irish Member (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Anthony Trollope

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  11. 61.
    A Sentimental Education (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Gustave Flaubert

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  12. 62.
    War and Peace
    by Leo Tolstoy

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  13. 63.
    Les Misérables (Signet Classics)
    by Victor Hugo

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  14. 65.
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    He Knew He Was Right
    by Anthony Trollope

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  15. 66.
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    Middlemarch (Penguin Classics)
    by George Eliot

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  16. 67.
    The Devils (Penguin Classics)
    by Fyodor Dostoevsky; Intro. and trans. by David Magarshack

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  17. 68.
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    The Enchanted Wanderer
    by Nicolai Leskov

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  18. 69.
    Far from the Madding Crowd (Signet Classics)
    by Thomas Hardy

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  19. 70.
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    Drunkard (Bestseller Library)
    by Emile Zola

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  20. 71.
    Anna Karenina
    by Leo Tolstoy

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  21. 72.
    The Return of the Native (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Thomas Hardy

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  22. 73.
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    Nana (Penguin Classics)
    by Emile Zola

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  23. 74.
    The Portrait of a Lady
    by Henry James

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  24. 76.
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    Treasure Island
    by Robert Louis Stevenson

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  25. 78.
    Marius the Epicurean. His Sensations and Ideas
    by Walter Horatio Pater

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  26. 79.
    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
    by Mark Twain

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  27. 80.
    Germinal
    by Emile Zola

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  28. 81.
    Kidnapped (Scholastic Classics)
    by Robert Louis Stevenson

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  29. 82.
    The Mayor of Casterbridge (Penguin Classics)
    by Thomas Hardy

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  30. 83.
    The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde
    by Robert Louis Stevenson

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  32. 86.
    Thais
    by Anatole France

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  33. 87.
    The Picture of Dorian Gray (Vintage Classics)
    by Oscar Wilde

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  34. 88.
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    Tess Of The D'Urbervilles
    by Thomas Hardy

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  35. 89.
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    New Grub Street
    by George Gissing

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  36. 90.
    News from Nowhere
    by William Morris

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  37. 91.
    Jude the Obscure
    by Thomas Hardy

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  38. 92.
    Effi Briest (Penguin Classics)
    by Theodor Fontane

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  39. 93.
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    The Time Machine
    by H. G. Wells

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  41. 95.
    Dracula
    by Bram Stoker

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  42. 96.
    The Invisible Man (Signet Classics)
    by H.G. Wells

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  43. 97.
    War of the Worlds
    by H.G. Wells

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  44. 98.
    The Awakening
    by Kate Chopin

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  45. 99.
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    As A Man Grows Older
    by Italo Svevo

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