Books Set in the 19th century
Fiction set in the 19th century, mostly historical romance, historical fiction and regency romance. The most-read are Pride and Prejudice (1813), Wuthering Heights (1846) and The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890).
This list collects 508 books in this collection by 350 authors, published between 1686 and 2021. 34 are free to read and 28 have a free audiobook. Books are ranked by how many readers have shelved, rated or downloaded them.
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Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
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Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde
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Dracula
Bram Stoker
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A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens
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Little Women
Louisa May Alcott
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Treasure Island
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Sense and Sensibility
Jane Austen
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Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë
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Great Expectations
Charles Dickens
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Robinson Crusoe
Daniel Defoe
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Moby Dick
Herman Melville
Le Comte de Monte-Cristo, II
Alexandre Dumas
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The Invisible Man
H. G. Wells
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Les Misérables
Victor Hugo
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Carmilla
Sheridan Le Fanu
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Mansfield Park
Jane Austen
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The Turn of the Screw
Henry James
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The Woman in White
Wilkie Collins
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Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Thomas Hardy
Romancing Mister Bridgerton
Julia Quinn
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The Cricket on the Hearth
Charles Dickens
The Raven
Edgar Allan Poe
The Mayor of Casterbridge
Thomas Hardy
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The Story of the Treasure Seekers
Edith Nesbit
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She
H. Rider Haggard
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Jude the Obscure
Thomas Hardy
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Far from the Madding Crowd
Thomas Hardy
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The Coral Island
Robert Michael Ballantyne, Ralph Crane
An Offer from a Gentleman
Julia Quinn
Wide Sargasso Sea
Jean Rhys
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The Return of the Native
Thomas Hardy
The Haunted Hotel
Wilkie Collins
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The Private Memoirs and Confessions of A Justified Sinner (With A Detail of Curious Traditionary Facts, And Other Evidence, By The Editor)
James Hogg
Life on the Mississippi
Mark Twain
Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency
Douglas Adams
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The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain
Charles Dickens, John Tenniel
Clockwork Angel
Cassandra Clare
Poems
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Sylvie and Bruno
Lewis Carroll
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The Light Princess
George MacDonald
My Secret Life
Walter, Anonymous
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The Dead Secret
Wilkie Collins
Mademoiselle de Maupin
Théophile Gautier
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The house of the Wolfings
William Morris
Fingersmith
Sarah Waters
Whitney, My Love
Judith McNaught