1850-1859

One percent standard: 225,000

(Authors color-coded by nation of origin/publication: United States, England)


1850

Poems, Robert Browning*

(Mott.)

David Copperfield, Charles Dickens

(Mott & Hart.)

The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne

(Mott & Hart.)

Reveries of a Bachelor, Donald Mitchell

(Mott & Hart.)

Pendennis, William Thackeray

(Mott.)

The Wide, Wide World, Susan Warner

(Mott & Hart.)

1851

The House of the Seven Gables, Nathaniel Hawthorne

(Mott & Hart.)

1852

Bleak House, Charles Dickens

(Mott & Hart.)

The Curse of Clifton, E.D.E.N. Soutworth

(Mott & Hart.)

Uncle Tom's Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe

(Mott & Hart.)

1854

Ten Nights in a Bar-Room, T. S. Arthur

(Mott & Hart.)

Struggles and Triumphs, P. T. Barnum

(Mott.)

The Lamplighter, Maria Cummins

(Mott & Hart.)

Hard Times, Charles Dickens

(Mott & Hart.)

Tempest and Sunshine, Mary Jane Holmes

(Mott.)

1855

The Age of Fable, Thomas Bulfinch

(Mott.)

The Prince of the House of David, J. H. Ingraham

(Mott & Hart.)

The Cloister and the Hearth, Charles Reade

(Mott.)

The Newcomes, William Thackeray

(Mott.)

1856

Lena Rivers, Mary Jane Holmes

(Mott.)

John Halifax, Gentleman, Dinah Maria Mulock

(Mott & Hart.)

1857

Little Dorrit, Charles Dickens

(Mott & Hart.)

Tom Brown's School Days, Thomas Hughes

(Mott.)

Barchester Towers, Anthony Trollope

(Mott & Hart. First American edition: 1862)

1859

A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens

(Mott & Hart.)

Adam Bede, George Eliot

(Mott & Hart.)

Beulah, Augusta Evans

(Mott & Hart.)

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, Edward Fitzgerald

(Mott & Hart. First American edition: 1870)

The Hidden Hand, E.D.E.N. Southworth

(Mott & Hart.)

The Virginians, William Thackeray

(Mott & Hart.)