50 best British novels of the 19th century1. “Sense and Sensibility” Jane Austen 1811
2. “Far from the Fatherland” Maria Edgeworth 1812
3. “Pride and Prejudice” Jane Austen 1813
4. “Rob Roy” Walter Scott 1817
5. “Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus” Mary Shelley 1818
6. “Ivanhoe” Walter Scott 1820
7. “Melmoth the Wanderer” Charles Robert Maturin 1820
8. “Quentin Durward” Walter Scott 1823
9. “Pelham, or the Adventures of a Gentleman” Edward Bulwer-Lytton 1828
10. “Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club” Charles Dickens 1836-1837
11. “The Ghost Ship” Frederick Marriet 1837-1839
12. “The Notes of Barry Lyndon” William Thackeray 1844
13. “Sibyl” Benjamin Disraeli 1845
14. “Dombey and Son” Charles Dickens 1846-1848
15. “Jane Eyre” Charlotte Brontë 1847
16. “Wuthering Heights” Emily Brontë 1847
17. “Vanity Fair”William Thackeray1847-1848
18. “The Stranger of Wildfell Hall” Anne Brontë 1848
19. “David Copperfield” Charles Dickens 1849-1850
20. “North and South” Elizabeth Gaskell 1855
21. “Little Dorrit” Charles Dickens 1855-1857
22. “Barcherster Towers” Anthony Trollope 1857
23. “The Woman in White” Wilkie Collins 1859-1860
24. “Great Expectations” Charles Dickens 1860-1861
25. “Grill's Manor” Thomas Love Peacock 1861
26. “Lady Audley’s Secret” Mary Elizabeth Braddon 1862
27. “Uncle Silas” Sheridan Le Fanu 1864
28. “Alice in Wonderland” Lewis Carroll 1865
29. “The Moonstone” by Wilkie Collins 1868
30. “Middlemarch” George Eliot 1871-1872
31. “The Way of All Flesh” Samuel Butler1873-1884
32. “The Egoist” George Meredith 1879
33. “Portrait of a Lady”Henry James1880-1881
34. “Treasure Island” Robert Lewis Stevenson 1881-1882
35. “Black Arrow” Robert Lewis Stevenson 1883
36. “King Solomon’s Mines”Henry Ryder Haggard1885
37. “Study in Scarlet” Arthur Conan Doyle 1887
38. “Three in one boat, not counting the dog” Jerome Klapka Jerome 1889
39. “The Picture of Dorian Gray” Oscar Wilde 1890
40. “The Light Has Gone Out” Rudyard Kipling 1891
41. “Tess of the d'Urbervilles” Thomas Hardy 1891
42. “Montezuma’s Daughter”Henry Rider Haggard1893
43. “The Time Machine” H.G. Wells 1895
44. “The Island of Doctor Moreau” H.G. Wells 1896
45. “The Forest Beyond the World” William Morris 1896
46. “The Invisible Man” H.G. Wells 1897
47. “Dracula” Bram Stoker 1897
48. “Gadfly” Ethel Lilan Voynich1897
49. “War of the Worlds” H.G. Wells1897-1898
50. “Lord Jim” Joseph Conrad