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

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.
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 Castle Rackrent
by Maria Edgeworth
  
2. Rameau's Nephew and D'Alembert's Dream (Penguin Classics)
by Denis Diderot
  
3.
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 Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen
  
4.
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 Mansfield Park (Jane Austen Collection)
by Jane Austen
  
5.
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 Emma
by Jane Austen
  
6. Jane Austen's Persuasion (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations)  
7.
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 Frankenstein
by Mary Shelley
  
8. Melmoth the Wanderer (Penguin Classics)
by Charles Robert Maturin
  
9.
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 The Life and the Opinions of the Tombcat Murr
by E.T.A. Hoffmann
  
10. James Hogg's the Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (Occasional Paper)
by Elaine Petrie
  
11. The Betrothed: I Promessi Sposi (Penguin Classics)
by Alessandro Manzoni
  
12. Stendhal: The Red and the Black (Landmarks of World Literature)
by Stirling Haig
  
13. The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (Signet Classics (Paperback))
by Victor Hugo
  
14.
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 Old Goriot
by Honore de Balzac
  
15.
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 The Nose
by Nikolai Gogol
  
16.
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 Oliver Twist
by Charles Dickens
  
17. The life and adventures of Nicholas Nickleby. By Charles Dickens.
by Michigan Historical Reprint Series
  
18. The Fall of the House of Usher
by Edgar Allan Poe
  
19. The Charterhouse of Parma (Penguin Classics)
by Stendhal
  
20.
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 Dead Souls
by Nikolai Vasilivich Gogol
  
21.
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 A Hero of Our Time
by Mikhail Lermontov
  
22. The Pit and the Pendulum (Unabridged)
by Edgar Allan Poe
  
23. The Devil's Pool  
24. Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre (Bloom's Reviews Series)
by Harold Bloom
  
25.
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 A Christmas Carol
by Charles Dickens
  
26. Vanity Fair (Penguin Classics)
by William Makepeace Thackeray
  
27.
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 Wuthering Heights
by Emily Bronte
  
28. Martin Chuzzlewit (Penguin Classics)
by Charles Dickens
  
29.
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 The Purloined Letter
by Edgar Allan Poe
  
30.
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 Mary Barton
by Elizabeth Gaskell
  
31. David Copperfield (Penguin Classics)
by Charles Dickens
  
32.
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 The Scarlet Letter
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  
33.
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 Moby Dick (Vintage Classics)
by Herman Melville
  
34. North and South (Norton Critical Editions)
by Elizabeth Gaskell
  
35. Green Henry
by Gottfried Keller
  
36.
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 Madame Bovary
by Gustave Flaubert
  
37. The Woman in White (Penguin Classics)
by Wilkie Collins
  
38. The Moonstone (Modern Library Classics)
by Wilkie Collins
  
39.
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 Villette  
40. Bleak House (Modern Library Classics)
by Charles Dickens
  
41.
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 Walden
by Henry David Thoreau
  
42. Hard Times (Enriched Classics)
by Charles Dickens
  
43. Adam Bede (Signet Classics (Paperback))
by George Eliot
  
44.
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 Oblomovka - Ivan Goncharov  
45. A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin Classics)
by Charles Dickens
  
46. The Marble Faun (Oxford World's Classics)
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  
47.
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 The Mill on the Floss
by George Eliot
  
48. Castle Richmond (Webster's English Thesaurus Edition)
by Anthony Trollope
  
49.
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 Great Expectations
by Charles Dickens
  
50.
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 Silas Marner
by George Eliot
  
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Created by jillelvish on Oct 08, 2008.