Well, out of the 1001 books some dude says you should read before you die, I’ve read 43 out of the 157 listed from the 1800s:

1. The Awakening – Kate Chopin
2. The Turn of the Screw – Henry James
3. The War of the Worlds – H.G. Wells
4. The Invisible Man – H.G. Wells
5. Dracula – Bram Stoker
6. The Time Machine – H.G. Wells
7. Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
8. The Yellow Wallpaper – Charlotte Perkins Gilman
9. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
10. Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
11. The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
12. Kidnapped – Robert Louis Stevenson
13. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
14. Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson
15. The Portrait of a Lady – Henry James
16. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
17. Middlemarch – George Eliot
18. Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There – Lewis Carroll
19. The Moonstone – Wilkie Collins
20. Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
21. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
22. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
23. The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
24. A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
25. Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
26. Villette – Charlotte Brontë
27. Moby-Dick – Herman Melville
28. The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
29. David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
30. Agnes Grey – Anne Brontë
31. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë
32. Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
33. The Purloined Letter – Edgar Allan Poe
34. The Pit and the Pendulum – Edgar Allan Poe
35. Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
36. Last of the Mohicans – James Fenimore Cooper
37. Frankenstein – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
38. Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen
39. Persuasion – Jane Austen
40. Emma – Jane Austen
41. Mansfield Park – Jane Austen
42. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
43. Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen

I’ve only got 2 out of 46 from the 1800s, thanks to Mrs. Nekola, my 9th & 10th grade English teacher.

1. A Modest Proposal – Jonathan Swift
2. Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift

And only 1 of the 13 from pre-1700.
1. Aesop’s Fables – Aesopus

Three books tonight for work! The first was a YA fantasy adventure that was plotted like a video game. The characters just had to make the right choice and follow the story path.