Lists of Bests: The Bloom Boxall Great Fiction List--Read 'Em Or Else Vol. II: 1800s http://www.listsofbests.com/list/59669 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. Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:39:07 GMT en-us 0 50 99 50 0 Castle Rackrent http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1814285 <div id="position">1</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Maria Edgeworth</div> Rameau's Nephew and D'Alembert's Dream (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3254 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3254"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140441735.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V44982308_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Denis Diderot</div> Pride and Prejudice http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1936348 <div id="position">3</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jane Austen</div> Mansfield Park (Jane Austen Collection) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1195572 <div id="position">4</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jane Austen</div> Emma http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2770958 <div id="position">5</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jane Austen</div> Jane Austen's Persuasion (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/752846 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/752846"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0791075850.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div> Frankenstein http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/232013 <div id="position">7</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mary Shelley</div> Melmoth the Wanderer (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/907225 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/907225"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/014044761X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles Robert Maturin</div> The Life and the Opinions of the Tombcat Murr http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5250942 <div id="position">9</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by E.T.A. Hoffmann</div> James Hogg's the Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (Occasional Paper) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/752762 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/752762"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0948877057.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Elaine Petrie</div> The Betrothed: I Promessi Sposi (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/752751 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/752751"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/014044274X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alessandro Manzoni</div> Stendhal: The Red and the Black (Landmarks of World Literature) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/958372 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/958372"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0521349826.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056451228_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Stirling Haig</div> The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (Signet Classics (Paperback)) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/624196 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/624196"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0451527887.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Victor Hugo</div> Old Goriot http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1384481 <div id="position">14</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Honore de Balzac</div> The Nose http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/752727 <div id="position">15</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Nikolai Gogol</div> Oliver Twist http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4621753 <div id="position">16</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles Dickens</div> The life and adventures of Nicholas Nickleby. By Charles Dickens. http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/752635 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/752635"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1425558763.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Michigan Historical Reprint Series</div> The Fall of the House of Usher http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/61897 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/61897"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1594561796.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edgar Allan Poe</div> The Charterhouse of Parma (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/906966 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/906966"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140449663.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V43410828_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Stendhal</div> Dead Souls http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3539533 <div id="position">20</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Nikolai Vasilivich Gogol</div> A Hero of Our Time http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4424188 <div id="position">21</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mikhail Lermontov</div> The Pit and the Pendulum (Unabridged) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5250968 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5250968"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51y%2BFj3Z35L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edgar Allan Poe</div> The Devil's Pool http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5250969 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5250969"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51swlUKAZnL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div> Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre (Bloom's Reviews Series) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1492627 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1492627"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0791041328.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Harold Bloom</div> A Christmas Carol http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4531776 <div id="position">25</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles Dickens</div> Vanity Fair (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3528 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3528"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141439831.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Makepeace Thackeray</div> Wuthering Heights http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1899322 <div id="position">27</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Emily Bronte</div> Martin Chuzzlewit (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3206 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3206"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140436146.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles Dickens</div> The Purloined Letter http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2774418 <div id="position">29</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edgar Allan Poe</div> Mary Barton http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5250984 <div id="position">30</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Elizabeth Gaskell</div> David Copperfield (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3227 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3227"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140439447.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V42219544_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles Dickens</div> The Scarlet Letter http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1221490 <div id="position">32</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Nathaniel Hawthorne</div> Moby Dick (Vintage Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4767917 <div id="position">33</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Herman Melville</div> North and South (Norton Critical Editions) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/270074 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/270074"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393979083.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Elizabeth Gaskell</div> Green Henry http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/897794 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/897794"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1585674273.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gottfried Keller</div> Madame Bovary http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/672772 <div id="position">36</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gustave Flaubert</div> The Woman in White (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/668629 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/668629"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141439610.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Wilkie Collins</div> The Moonstone (Modern Library Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/979673 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/979673"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375757856.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Wilkie Collins</div> Villette http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5187901 <div id="position">39</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Bleak House (Modern Library Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/62898 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/62898"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375760059.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles Dickens</div> Walden http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2190677 <div id="position">41</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Henry David Thoreau</div> Hard Times (Enriched Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2783072 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2783072"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/01EYKMHPAPL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles Dickens</div> Adam Bede (Signet Classics (Paperback)) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/89916 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/89916"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0451529421.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George Eliot</div> Oblomovka - Ivan Goncharov http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3542636 <div id="position">44</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3517 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3517"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141439602.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles Dickens</div> The Marble Faun (Oxford World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1349099 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1349099"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0192839764.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Nathaniel Hawthorne</div> The Mill on the Floss http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2466022 <div id="position">47</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George Eliot</div> Castle Richmond (Webster's English Thesaurus Edition) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5257650 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5257650"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41-ow6229vL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anthony Trollope</div> Great Expectations http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3539407 <div id="position">49</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles Dickens</div> Silas Marner http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5257662 <div id="position">50</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George Eliot</div>