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Newark Public Library's 1904 List of a Thousand of the Best Novels

Based on bookaward: Newark Public Library's 1904 List of a Thousand of the Best Novels
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Rank Title Author Added CK Order

1

A Christmas Carol

by Charles Dickens

23,497 members

502 reviews

4.1

5 Members: hipdeep, merrystar, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

2

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

by Arthur Conan Doyle

15,011 members

244 reviews

4.1

5 Members: hipdeep, merrystar, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

3

36,569 members

495 reviews

4.1

5 Members: hipdeep, merrystar, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

4

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

41,635 members

509 reviews

3.9

4 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

5

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

31,586 members

319 reviews

3.9

4 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

6

Tales of Edgar Allan Poe

by Edgar Allan Poe

693 members

9 reviews

½ 4.4

4 Members: hipdeep, merrystar, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

7

by Charles Dickens

13,337 members

243 reviews

4.2

4 Members: merrystar, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

8

Sense and Sensibility

36,809 members

506 reviews

4.1

4 Members: merrystar, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

9

by Wilkie Collins

10,452 members

246 reviews

4

4 Members: merrystar, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

10

by Charlotte Brontë

56,884 members

894 reviews

4.2

4 Members: merrystar, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

11

by Elizabeth Gaskell

4,407 members

127 reviews

3.8

4 Members: merrystar, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

12

The Scarlet Letter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

35,271 members

360 reviews

½ 3.4

4 Members: merrystar, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

13

The Woman in White

by Wilkie Collins

12,418 members

331 reviews

4.1

4 Members: merrystar, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

14

The Sign of Four

by Arthur Conan Doyle

4,864 members

166 reviews

3.8

4 Members: merrystar, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

15

Treasure Island

by Robert Louis Stevenson

32,495 members

425 reviews

3.8

3 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

16

The War of the Worlds

17,620 members

301 reviews

3.8

3 Members: hipdeep, merrystar, ahef1963

17

Northanger Abbey

20,882 members

406 reviews

3.8

4 Members: merrystar, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

18

by Charlotte Brontë

8,493 members

139 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

19

Great Expectations

by Charles Dickens

37,020 members

419 reviews

3.9

3 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

20

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

by Robert Louis Stevenson

16,643 members

312 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

21

by William Makepeace Thackeray

14,288 members

191 reviews

3.9

3 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

22

The House of the Seven Gables

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

8,362 members

112 reviews

½ 3.5

3 Members: merrystar, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

23

The Mill on the Floss

by George Eliot

8,428 members

118 reviews

3.8

3 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

24

The Mayor of Casterbridge

by Thomas Hardy

8,123 members

110 reviews

3.9

3 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

25

by Henry Fielding

7,927 members

94 reviews

3.9

3 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

26

by George Eliot

4,094 members

72 reviews

3.9

3 Members: ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

27

The Portrait of a Lady

10,580 members

126 reviews

3.9

2 Members: NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

28

20,000 Leagues under the Sea

17,416 members

238 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: merrystar, ahef1963

29

The Small House at Allington

by Anthony Trollope

1,745 members

47 reviews

4

2 Members: NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

30

A Tale of Two Cities

by Charles Dickens

35,323 members

438 reviews

3.9

2 Members: merrystar, ahef1963

31

Barchester Towers

by Anthony Trollope

4,782 members

104 reviews

4.2

2 Members: NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

32

by George Eliot

17,114 members

324 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

33

by Charles Dickens

23,239 members

227 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, NinieB

34

Framley Parsonage

by Anthony Trollope

1,817 members

45 reviews

4

2 Members: NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

35

David Copperfield

by Charles Dickens

19,960 members

260 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, NinieB

36

by Anthony Trollope

2,027 members

62 reviews

4.1

2 Members: NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

37

by Anthony Trollope

1,848 members

30 reviews

4

2 Members: NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

38

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

13,511 members

172 reviews

3.9

2 Members: merrystar, ManWithAnAgenda

39

37,162 members

608 reviews

4.1

2 Members: merrystar, NinieB

40

Tess of the D'Urbervilles

by Thomas Hardy

18,601 members

241 reviews

3.8

2 Members: merrystar, ahef1963

41

The Last Chronicle of Barset

by Anthony Trollope

1,758 members

48 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

42

by Wilkie Collins

1,207 members

31 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, NinieB

43

The Call of the Wild

19,176 members

310 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

44

by Washington Irving

1,236 members

16 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ahef1963, NinieB

45

The Time Machine

17,020 members

327 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

46

by Robert Louis Stevenson

10,346 members

117 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

47

by Frances Burney

2,417 members

37 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

48

by Charlotte Brontë

2,625 members

42 reviews

½ 3.3

2 Members: NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

49

Around the World in Eighty Days

16,296 members

258 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

50

The Ordeal of Richard Feverel

by George Meredith

473 members

5 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

51

The Country of the Pointed Firs

by Sarah Orne Jewett

902 members

24 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

52

by Robert Louis Stevenson

858 members

16 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

53

The Master of Ballantrae

by Robert Louis Stevenson

2,125 members

42 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

54

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

by Kate Douglas Wiggin

3,902 members

46 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: merrystar

55

The Marble Faun

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

1,373 members

16 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

56

by George Eliot

1,393 members

18 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

57

2,017 members

23 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

58

The Blithedale Romance

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

1,625 members

21 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: merrystar

59

To Have and to Hold

by Mary Johnston

295 members

11 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: merrystar

60

Looking Backward, 2000-1887

by Edward Bellamy

3,014 members

62 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

61

The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains

2,240 members

41 reviews

3.8

Member: merrystar

62

3,532 members

80 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

63

Far from the Madding Crowd

by Thomas Hardy

10,992 members

187 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

64

Bob Son of Battle

by Alfred Ollivant

320 members

5 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

65

27,694 members

427 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

66

Les Misérables

25,280 members

327 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: merrystar

67

Crime and Punishment

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

42,442 members

477 reviews

4.2

Member: ahef1963

68

Uncle Tom's Cabin

by Harriet Beecher Stowe

16,314 members

188 reviews

3.8

Member: NinieB

69

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

11,177 members

130 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: NinieB

70

by George Eliot

10,963 members

148 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

71

The Pickwick Papers

by Charles Dickens

8,742 members

125 reviews

3.9

Member: NinieB

72

Nicholas Nickleby

by Charles Dickens

6,714 members

92 reviews

3.9

Member: NinieB

73

by Charlotte Brontë

3,945 members

60 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: NinieB

74

Lady Audley's Secret

by Mary Elizabeth Braddon

2,630 members

80 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: NinieB

75

The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.

by Washington Irving

1,507 members

19 reviews

3.8

Member: NinieB

76

Scenes of Clerical Life

by George Eliot

846 members

18 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: NinieB

77

Quentin Durward

by Sir Walter Scott

756 members

10 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: NinieB

78

Raffles: The Amateur Cracksman

by E. W. Hornung

739 members

33 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: NinieB

79

by Helen Hunt Jackson

718 members

18 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: NinieB

80

624 members

18 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: NinieB

81

The Leavenworth Case: A Lawyer's Story

by Anna Katharine Green

482 members

15 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: NinieB

82

by Mary Elizabeth Braddon

295 members

8 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: NinieB

83

A Country Doctor

by Sarah Orne Jewett

215 members

8 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: NinieB

84

The Recollections of Geoffry Hamlyn

by Henry Kingsley

59 members

5

Member: NinieB

85

The Greater Inclination

by Edith Wharton

40 members

1 review

½ 3.4

Member: NinieB

86

by Constance Fenimore Woolson

24 members

1 review

3.8

Member: NinieB

87

by Miss Thackeray

11 members

1 review

½ 4.5

Member: NinieB

88

by Victor Cherbuliez

9 members

3

Member: NinieB

89

by Joseph Conrad

8,753 members

114 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

90

King Solomon's Mines

by H. Rider Haggard

5,521 members

126 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ahef1963

91

by H. Rider Haggard

2,861 members

73 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: ahef1963

92

A Kentucky Cardinal

by James Lane Allen

34 members

½ 2.3

Member: NinieB

93

by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

34 members

4

Member: NinieB

94

The Stillwater Tragedy

by Thomas Bailey Aldrich

18 members

1 review

½ 3.5

Member: NinieB

95

The Count of Monte Cristo

by Alexandre Dumas

24,409 members

411 reviews

½ 4.3

96

The Three Musketeers

by Alexandre Dumas

20,535 members

241 reviews

4.1

97

The Last of the Mohicans

by James Fenimore Cooper

12,633 members

120 reviews

½ 3.5

98

by Sir Walter Scott

12,533 members

118 reviews

½ 3.7

99

The Red Badge of Courage

by Stephen Crane

10,747 members

126 reviews

½ 3.4

100

by Nikolai Gogol

8,915 members

114 reviews

3.9

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