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Books of the 1860s

Tolstoy began War and Peace. Dostoevsky was developing his first major works. In America, Alcott and Twain were finding their voices. Crime and Punishment appeared in 1866. 30 titles in the catalogue from this decade.

Great Expectations Charles Dickens · 1861 Essential Read Get it on Amazon →

Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoevsky · 1866 Essential Read Get it on Amazon →

Little Women Louisa May Alcott · 1868 Essential Read Get it on Amazon →

War and Peace Leo Tolstoy · 1869 Essential Read See details →

Apologia pro vita sua John Henry Newman · 1860 Recommended See details →

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Harriet A. Jacobs · 1861 Recommended See details →

Carmen 63 Gaius Valerius Catullus · 1861 Recommended See details →

Roots Alex Haley · 1861 Recommended See details →

Framley Parsonage Anthony Trollope · 1861 Recommended See details →

Les Miserables Victor Hugo · 1862 Recommended See details →

Lady Audley's secret Mary Elizabeth Braddon · 1862 Recommended See details →

Hospital Sketches Louisa May Alcott · 1863 Recommended See details →

The water-babies: a fairy tale for a land-baby Charles Kingsley · 1863 Recommended See details →

Utilitarianism John Stuart Mill · 1863 Recommended See details →

Romola George Eliot · 1863 Recommended See details →

Our Old Home Nathaniel Hawthorne · 1863 Recommended See details →

Cape Cod Henry David Thoreau · 1864 Recommended See details →

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Lewis Carroll · 1865 Recommended See details →

Through the Looking-Glass Lewis Carroll · 1865 Recommended See details →

The Man Without a Country Edward Everett Hale · 1865 Recommended See details →

The Life and Death of Jason William Morris · 1867 Recommended See details →

Rip Van Winkle and Sleepy Hollow Washington Irving · 1867 Recommended See details →

Peer Gynt Henrik Ibsen · 1867 Recommended See details →

Facundo, or, civilization and barbarism Domingo Faustino Sarmiento · 1868 Recommended See details →

The variation of animals and plants under domestication Charles Darwin · 1868 Recommended See details →

Max Havelaar of de koffijveilingen der Nederlansche handelmaatschappij Multatuli · 1868 Recommended See details →

Ragged Dick Jr. Horatio Alger · 1868 Recommended See details →

An Old-Fashioned Girl Louisa May Alcott · 1869 Recommended See details →

Culture and anarchy; an essay in political and social criticism Matthew Arnold · 1869 Recommended See details →

Stepping heavenward Elizabeth Prentiss · 1869 Recommended See details →

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