Read the Daily Telegraph's 1899 List of the Top 100 Novels of All Time

. . . for posting reading lists you never want to read (or whatever your goal was). I was just thinking that I needed a list of earlier novels to read from, and here you have one all ready for me.

Oddly enough, I already OWN The Tower of London. Apparently the greatest 19th Century novel no one has ever heard of. Maybe I will turn to it first.

This goal was taken from nealcassidy and here is the list:

(Author’s name first and then all titles by that author on consecutive lines.)

1. W. H. Ainsworth: The Tower of London
2. Old St Paul’s
3. Windsor Castle
4. Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice
5. Sense and Sensibility
6. Honoré de Balzac: Pere Goriot
7. J. M. Barrie: A Window in Thrums
8. Walter Besant and James Rice: The Golden Butterfly
9. Rolf Boldrewood: Robbery Under Arms
10. Mary Elizabeth Braddon: Lady Audley’s Secret
11. Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre
12. Shirley
13. Hall Caine: The Deemster
14. Henry Cockton: Valentine Vox
15. Wilkie Collins : The Woman in White
16. The Moonstone
17. James Fenimore Cooper: The Last of the Mohicans
18. The Pathfinder
19. The Prairie
20. F. Marion Crawford: Mr. Isaacs
21. Charles Dickens: Martin Chuzzlewit
22. Nicholas Nickleby
23. The Old Curiosity Shop
24. Dombey and Son
25. Oliver Twist
26. Arthur Conan Doyle: The Firm of Girdlestone
27. Alexandre Dumas: The Three Musketeers
28. Twenty Years After
29. The Count of Monte Cristo
30. George Eliot: Scenes of Clerical Life
31. Henry Fielding: Tom Jones
32. Joseph Andrews
33. Elizabeth Gaskell: Mary Barton
34. James Grant: The Aide de Camp
35. The Romance of War
36. Bret Harte: Gabriel Conroy
37. Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter
38. The House of the Seven Gables
39. Oliver Wendell Holmes: Elsie Venner
40. Anthony Hope: The Prisoner of Zenda
41. Thomas Hughes: Tom Brown’s Schooldays
42. Victor Hugo: Les Misérables
43. Toilers of the Sea
44. Notre Dame
45. Charles Kingsley: Two Years Ago
46. Alton Locke
47. Hypatia
48. Henry Kingsley: The Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn
49. Rudyard Kipling: Soldiers Three
50. George Lawrence: Guy Livingstone
51. Charles Lever: Harry Lorrequer
52. Charles O’Malley
53. E. Lynn Linton: The Atonement of Leam Dundas
54. Samuel Lover: Handy Andy
55. Rory O’More
56. Edward Bulwer-Lytton: Last of the Barons
57. Night and Morning
58. Rienzi
59. The Caxtons
60. Frederick Marryat: The King’s Own
61. Peter Simple
62. Jacob Faithful
63. Midshipman Easy
64. George Meredith: Diana of the Crossways
65. Dinah Maria Muloch: John Halifax, Gentleman
66. Ouida : Under Two Flags
67. Charles Reade: It is Never Too Late to Mend
68. Peg Woffington
69. Christie Johnstone
70. Hard Cash
71. Mayne Reid: The Headless Horseman
72. Amelie Rives: Virginia of Virginia
73. Olive Schreiner: The Story of an African Farm
74. Michael Scott: Tom Cringle’s Log
75. Cruise of the Midge
76. Henryk Sienkiewicz: Quo Vadis?
77. Walter Scott: Rob Roy
78. The Bride of Lammermoor
79. Old Mortality
80. Kenilworth
81. Guy Mannering
82. Woodstock
83. The Talisman
84. Frank E. Smedley: Frank Fairlegh
85. Tobias Smollett: Roderick Random
86. Peregrine Pickle
87. Flora Annie Steel: On the Face of the Waters
88. Laurence Sterne: The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
89. Harriet Beecher Stowe: Uncle Tom’s Cabin
90. R. S. Surtees: Soapey Sponge’s Sporting Tour
91. Eugène Sue: The Wandering Jew
92. William Makepeace Thackeray: The History of Henry Esmond
93. The Newcomes
94. The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon
95. Leo Tolstoy: Anna Karenina
96. Anthony Trollope: Orley Farm
97. Mrs. Humphrey Ward: Robert Elsmere
98. Samuel Warren: £10,000 a Year
99. Elizabeth Wetherell: The Wide, Wide World
100. George John Whyte-Melville: Market Harborough
101. Inside the Bar
102. Mrs. Henry Wood: East Lynne

Okay, so I’ll never get around to this. But it’s a very interesting list. And I get a total of 102. Blue titles I have read, green ones I possess. Author’s name first and then all titles by that author on consecutive lines.

1. W. H. Ainsworth: The Tower of London

2. Old St Paul’s

3. Windsor Castle

4. Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice

5. Sense and Sensibility

6. Honor� de Balzac: Pere Goriot
7. J. M. Barrie: A Window in Thrums
8. Walter Besant and James Rice: The Golden Butterfly
9. Rolf Boldrewood: Robbery Under Arms
10. Mary Elizabeth Braddon: Lady Audley’s Secret

11. Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre

12. Shirley
13. Hall Caine: The Deemster
14. Henry Cockton: Valentine Vox
15. Wilkie Collins : The Woman in White

16. The Moonstone

17. James Fenimore Cooper: The Last of the Mohicans

18. The Pathfinder

19. The Prairie
20. F. Marion Crawford: Mr. Isaacs
21. Charles Dickens: Martin Chuzzlewit

22. Nicholas Nickleby

23. The Old Curiosity Shop

24. Dombey and Son

25. Oliver Twist

26. Arthur Conan Doyle: The Firm of Girdlestone
27. Alexandre Dumas: The Three Musketeers

28. Twenty Years After

29. The Count of Monte Cristo

30. George Eliot: Scenes of Clerical Life

31. Henry Fielding: Tom Jones

32. Joseph Andrews

33. Elizabeth Gaskell: Mary Barton
34. James Grant: The Aide de Camp
35. The Romance of War
36. Bret Harte: Gabriel Conroy
37. Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter

38. The House of the Seven Gables

39. Oliver Wendell Holmes: Elsie Venner

40. Anthony Hope: The Prisoner of Zenda

41. Thomas Hughes: Tom Brown’s Schooldays

42. Victor Hugo: Les Mis�rables
43. Toilers of the Sea
44. Notre Dame
45. Charles Kingsley: Two Years Ago
46. Alton Locke
47. Hypatia
48. Henry Kingsley: The Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn
49. Rudyard Kipling: Soldiers Three
50. George Lawrence: Guy Livingstone
51. Charles Lever: Harry Lorrequer
52. Charles O’Malley
53. E. Lynn Linton: The Atonement of Leam Dundas
54. Samuel Lover: Handy Andy
55. Rory O’More
56. Edward Bulwer-Lytton: Last of the Barons
57. Night and Morning
58. Rienzi
59. The Caxtons
60. Frederick Marryat: The King’s Own
61. Peter Simple
62. Jacob Faithful
63. Midshipman Easy

64. George Meredith: Diana of the Crossways

65. Dinah Maria Muloch: John Halifax, Gentleman

66. Ouida: Under Two Flags

67. Charles Reade: It is Never Too Late to Mend
68. Peg Woffington
69. Christie Johnstone
70. Hard Cash
71. Mayne Reid: The Headless Horseman
72. Amelie Rives: Virginia of Virginia
73. Olive Schreiner: The Story of an African Farm
74. Michael Scott: Tom Cringle’s Log
75. Cruise of the Midge
76. Henryk Sienkiewicz: Quo Vadis?

77. Walter Scott: Rob Roy

78. The Bride of Lammermoor

79. Old Mortality

80. Kenilworth

81. Guy Mannering

82. Woodstock

83. The Talisman

84. Frank E. Smedley: Frank Fairlegh

85. Tobias Smollett: Roderick Random

86. Peregrine Pickle
87. Flora Annie Steel: On the Face of the Waters
88. Laurence Sterne: The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

89. Harriet Beecher Stowe: Uncle Tom’s Cabin

90. R. S. Surtees: Soapey Sponge’s Sporting Tour

91. Eug�ne Sue: The Wandering Jew

92. William Makepeace Thackeray: The History of Henry Esmond
93. The Newcomes
94. The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon

95. Leo Tolstoy: Anna Karenina
96. Anthony Trollope: Orley Farm
97. Mrs. Humphrey Ward: Robert Elsmere
98. Samuel Warren: Ten Thousand a Year

99. Elizabeth Wetherell: The Wide, Wide World
100. George John Whyte-Melville: Market Harborough
101. Inside the Bar
102. Mrs. Henry Wood: East Lynne