[wayback] In 1899, the UK Daily Telegraph offered its readers "the 100 best novels in the world" for nine guineas. [more info] (less) (Etexts were tracked via OLB, Gutenberg, and Blackmask. More)
Henry Fielding
(1707-1754): Tom Jones; Joseph Andrews [olb]
Laurence Sterne
(1713-1768): The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman [olb]
Tobias Smollett
(1721-1771): Roderick Random; Peregrine Pickle [olb]
Sir Walter Scott
(1771-1832): Rob Roy; The Bride of Lammermoor; Old Mortality; Kenilworth; Guy Mannering; Woodstock; The Talisman [olb]
Jane Austen
(1775-1817): Pride & Prejudice; Sense & Sensibility [olb]
J. Fenimore Cooper
(1789-1851): The Last of the Mohicans; The Pathfinder; The Prairie [olb]
Michael Scott
(1789-1835): Tom Cringle's Log; Cruise of the Midge [olb]
Captain Marryat
(1792-1848): The King's Own; Peter Simple; Jacob Faithful; Midshipman Easy [olb]
Samuel Lover
(1797-1868): Handy Andy; Rory O'More [olb]
Honoré de Balzac
(1799-1850): Pere Goriot [olb]
Alexandre Dumas
(1802-70): The Three Musketeers; Twenty Years After; The Count of Monte Cristo [olb]
Victor Hugo
(1802-85): Les Misérables; Toilers of the Sea; Notre Dame [olb]
Lord Lytton
(1803-73): Last of the Barons; Night and Morning; Rienzi; The Caxtons [olb]
R. S. Surtees
(1803-64): Soapey Sponge's Sporting Tour [olb]
Eugene Sue
(1804-57): The Wandering Jew [olb]
N. Hawthorne
(1804-64):The Scarlet Letter; The House of the Seven Gables [olb]
W. H. Ainsworth
(1805-82): The Tower of London; Old St Paul's; Windsor Castle [olb]
Charles Lever
(1806-72): Harry Lorrequer; Charles O'Malley [olb]
Henry Cockton
(1807-53): Valentine Vox [olb]
Samuel Warren
(1807-77): £10,000 a Year [olb]
O. W. Holmes
(1809-94): Elsie Venner [olb]
Mrs Gaskell
(1810-1865): Mary Barton [olb]
H. B. Stowe
(1811-96): Uncle Tom's Cabin [olb]
W. M. Thackeray
(1811-63): The History of Henry Esmond; The Newcomes; The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon [olb]
Charles Dickens
(1812-70): Martin Chuzzlewit; Nicholas Nickleby; The Old Curiosity Shop; Dombey and Son; Oliver Twist [olb]
Charles Reade
(1814-84): It is Never Too Late to Mend; Peg Woffington; Christie Johnstone; Hard Cash [olb]
Mrs Henry Wood
(1814-87): East Lynne [olb]
Anthony Trollope
(1815-82): Orley Farm [olb]
Charlotte Bronte
(1816-55): Jane Eyre; Shirley [olb]
Capt Mayne Reid
(1818-83): The Headless Horseman [olb]
Frank E. Smedley
(1818-64): Frank Fairlegh [olb]
George Eliot
(1819-80): Scenes of Clerical Life [olb]
Charles Kingsley
(1819-75): Two Years Ago; Alton Locke; Hypatia [olb]
E. Wetherell
(Susan Bogert Warner 1819-85): The Wide, Wide World [olb]
G. J. Whyte-Melville
(1821-78): Market Harborough; Inside the Bar [olb]
E. Lynn Linton
(1822-98): The Atonement of Leam Dundas [olb]
James Grant
(1822-87): The Aide de Camp; The Romance of War [olb]
Thomas Hughes
(1822-96): Tom Brown's Schooldays [olb]
Wilkie Collins
(1824-89): The Woman in White; The Moonstone [olb]
Rolf Boldrewood
(Thomas Alexander Browne 1826-1915): Robbery Under Arms [olb]
D. M. Mulock
(Craik 1826-87): John Halifax, Gentleman [olb]
George Lawrence
(1827-76): Guy Livingstone [olb]
George Meredith
(1828-1909): Diana of the Crossways [olb]
Count L. Tolstoy
(1828-1910): Anna Karenina [olb]
Henry Kingsley
(1830-76): The Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn [olb]
Bret Harte
(1836-1902): Gabriel Conroy [olb]
W. Besant
(1836-1901) and J. Rice (1843-82): The Golden Butterfly [olb]
M. E. Braddon
(1837-1915): Lady Audley's Secret [olb]
Ouida
(Marie Louise de la Ramee 1839-1908): Under Two Flags [olb]
H. Sienkiewicz
(1846-1916): Quo Vadis [olb]
Mrs F. A. Steel
(1847-1929): On the Face of the Waters [olb]
Mrs H. Ward
(1851-1920): Robert Elsmere [olb]
Hall Caine
(1853-1931): The Deemster [olb]
F. Marion Crawford
(1854-1909): Mr Isaacs [olb]
Olive Schreiner
(1855-1920): The Story of an African Farm [olb]
Conan Doyle
(1859-1930): The Firm of Girdlestone [olb]
J. M. Barrie
(1860-1937): A Window in Thrums [olb]
Anthony Hope
(1863-1933): The Prisoner of Zenda [olb]
Amelie Rives
(1863-1945): Virginia of Virginia [olb]
Rudyard Kipling
(1865-1936): Soldiers Three [olb]
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