Books Published Prior to 1990 listed by Publication Year
(asterisks denote how many times I've read it)
750 B. C. The Illiad by Homer *
720 B. C. The Odyssey by Homer *
397 Confessions by St. Augustine *
1000 Beowulf ***
1400 The Canterbury Tales *
1603 Hamlet by William Shakespeare *
1611 King James Bible
1615 Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes **
1719 Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe *
1749 Tom Jones by Henry Fielding *
1764 The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole *
1794 The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe *
1811 Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen ***
1813 Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen ***
1814 Mansfield Park by Jane Austen **
1815 Emma by Jane Austen *
1818 Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen **
1818 Persuasion by Jane Austen *
1820 The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving *
1828 Fanshawe by Nathaniel Hawthorne
1831 The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
1837 The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
1837 Twice-Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne
1839 Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens *
1839 Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens *
1841 The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens
1841 Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens
1843 A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
1843 The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe **
1844 Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens
1845 The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas *
1845 The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Andersen *
1846 Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell
1847 Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë *
1847 Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë ****
1847 Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
1848 Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens
1848 The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë
1848 Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray *
1849 Shirley by Charlotte Brontë
1850 David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
1850 The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne *
1851 The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne *
1852 The Blithedale Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne
1853 Bleak House by Charles Dickens
1853 Villette by Charlotte Brontë
1854 Hard Times by Charles Dickens
1856 Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert *
1857 Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens
1857 The Professor by Charlotte Brontë
1859 A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens **
1859 Family Happiness by Leo Tolstoy
1860 The Marble Faun by Nathaniel Hawthorne
1861 Great Expectations by Charles Dickens *
1862 Les Misérables by Victor Hugo *
1865 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll *
1865 Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
1869 Little Women (and Good Wives) by Louisa May Alcott **
1869 War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy *
1870 An Old-Fashioned Girl by Louisa May Alcott
1870 The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens
1871 Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll *
1871 Little Men by Louisa May Alcott *
1875 Eight Cousins by Louisa May Alcott
1876 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain *
1876 Rose in Bloom by Louisa May Alcott
1877 Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
1878 Daisy Miller by Henry James **
1883 A Ghost (aka The Spectre) by Guy de Maupassant *
1884 The Lady or The Tiger? by Frank Stockton *
1885 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain *
1886 The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson *
1886 Jo's Boys by Louisa May Alcott *
1886 Little Lord Fauntleroy by Frances Hodgson Burnett
1887 A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle *
1891 Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy *
1897 Dracula by Bram Stoker *
1898 The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells *
1901 The Making of a Marchioness by Frances Hodgson Burnett *
1902 The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle *
1905 The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Emmuska Orczy *
1905 A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett *
1906 The Jungle by Upton Sinclair *
1908 Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery *
1909 Anne of Avonlea by Lucy Maud Montgomery *
1910 Howards End by E. M. Forster *
1911 Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton **
1911 The Forged Coupon by Leo Tolstoy
1911 The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett *
1911 The Story Girl by Lucy Maud Montgomery *
1912 Chronicles of Avonlea by Lucy Maud Montgomery *
1913 The Golden Road by Lucy Maud Montgomery *
1914 Eveline by James Joyce *
1915 Anne of the Island by Lucy Maud Montgomery *
1915 Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka *
1917 Summer by Edith Wharton*
1917 Anne's House of Dreams by Lucy Maud Montgomery *
1919 Rainbow Valley by Lucy Maud Montgomery *
1920 Further Chronicles of Avonlea by Lucy Maud Montgomery *
1921 Rilla of Ingleside by Lucy Maud Montgomery *
1921 Simon Called Peter by Robert Keable *
1922 The Mother of All Living by Robert Keable
1923 Anderby Wold by Winifred Holtby *
1923 Emily of New Moon by Lucy Maud Montgomery *
1924 Recompence by Robert Keable
1925 Emily Climbs by Lucy Maud Montgomery *
1925 The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald **
1926 The Love Detectives by Agatha Christie *
1927 The Big Four by Agatha Christie *
1927 Emily's Quest by Lucy Maud Montgomery *
1927 The Land of Green Ginger by Winifred Holtby
1929 A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway *
1930 In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway *
1930 The Mysterious Mr. Quin by Agatha Christie *
1932 Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder *
1933 Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder *
1934 Parker Pyne Investigates by Agatha Christie *
1935 Problem at Pollensa Bay by Agatha Christie *
1935 Three Act Tragedy by Agatha Christie *
1935 Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder *
1936 The Regatta Mystery by Agatha Christie *
1936 Anne of Windy Poplars by Lucy Maud Montgomery *
1936 South Riding by Winifred Holtby
1937 Murder in the Mews by Agatha Christie *
1937 The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien *
1937 Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck *
1937 On the Banks of Plum Creek by Laura Ingalls Wilder *
1939 By the Shores of Silver Lake by Laura Ingalls Wilder *
1939 Anne of Ingleside by Lucy Maud Montgomery *
1939 The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck *
1940 The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder *
1941 Little Town on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder *
1943 These Happy Golden Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder *
1945 Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren *
1947 The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank *
1948 The Lottery by Shirley Jackson **
1951 The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
1954 The Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien *
1954 The Two Towers by J. R. R. Tolkien *
1955 The Return of the King by J. R. R. Tolkien *
1956 Howl by Allen Ginsberg *
1956 Dead Man's Folly by Agatha Christie *
1957 Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
1958 Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote *
1960 Greenshaw's Folly by Agatha Christie *
1960 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee **
1964 A Caribbean Mystery by Agatha Christie *
1964 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl *
1967 Christy by Catherine Marshall *
1967 The Frontiersmen by Allan W. Eckert *
1967 Endless Night by Agatha Christie *
1968 Wilderness Empire by Allan W. Eckert
1970 The Conquerors by Allan W. Eckert
1971 The Harlequin Tea Set by Agatha Christie *
1971 The First Four Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder *
1974 The Road to Yesterday by Lucy Maud Montgomery *
1978 The Bible (New International Version) **
1978 The Wilderness War by Allan W. Eckert
1982 The Color Purple by Alice Walker *
1982 Gateway to Empire by Allan W. Eckert
1987 Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg
1988 Twilight of Empire by Allan W. Eckert
