19th Century
| Title | Author | Year published | References |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Swiss Family Robinson | Johann Rudolf Wyss | 1812-3 | |
| The Nutcracker and the Mouse King | E. T. A. Hoffman | 1816 | |
| Ivanhoe | Walter Scott | 1819 | |
| The Legend of Sleepy Hollow | Washington Irving | 1819 | |
| Rip Van Winkle | Washington Irving | 1820 | |
| Grimm's Fairy Tales | Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm | 1823 (English) | |
| Oliver Twist | Charles Dickens | 1838 | |
| Nicholas Nickelby | Charles Dickens | 1839 | |
| A Christmas Carol | Charles Dickens | 1843 | |
| The Three Musketeers | Alexandre Dumas, père | 1844 | |
| The Count of Monte Cristo | Alexandre Dumas, père | 1845 | |
| Fairy Tales | Hans Christian Andersen | 1846 (English) | |
| The Children of the New Forest | Frederick Marryat | 1847 | |
| Slovenly Peter | Heinrich Hoffmann | 1848 (English) | |
| David Copperfield | Charles Dickens | 1850 | |
| Little Eva: The Flower of the South | Philip J. Cozans | 1853 | First known children's novel to feature racial (i.e. pro-slavery) bias. |
| The King of the Golden River | John Ruskin | 1851 | |
| A Tale of Two Cities | Charles Dickens | 1853 | |
| The Coral Island | R. M. Ballantyne | 1857 | |
| Tom Brown's Schooldays | Thomas Hughes | 1857 | |
| Great Expectations | Charles Dickens | 1861 | |
| The Water Babies | Charles Kingsley | 1863 | |
| A Journey to the Center of the Earth | Jules Verne | 1864 | |
| Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | 1865 | |
| Max and Moritz | Wilhelm Busch | 1865 | |
| Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates | Mary Mapes Dodge | 1865 | |
| Little Women | Louisa May Alcott | 1868 | |
| Lorna Doone | R. D. Blackmore | 1869 | |
| Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea | Jules Verne | 1870 | |
| At the Back of the North Wind | George MacDonald | 1871 | |
| The Princess and the Goblin | George MacDonald | 1871 | |
| Through the Looking-Glass | Lewis Carroll | 1871 | |
| A Dog of Flanders | Ouida | 1872 | |
| What Katy Did | Susan Coolidge | 1873 | |
| The Adventures of Tom Sawyer | Mark Twain | 1876 | |
| Black Beauty | Anna Sewell | 1877 | |
| The Adventures of Pinocchio | Carlo Collodi | 1883 | |
| The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood | Howard Pyle | 1883 | |
| Nights with Uncle Remus | Joel Chandler Harris | 1883 | |
| Treasure Island | Robert Louis Stevenson | 1883 | |
| Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Mark Twain | 1884 | |
| Heidi | Johanna Spyri | 1884 (English) | |
| King Solomon's Mines | H. Rider Haggard | 1885 | |
| Kidnapped | Robert Louis Stevenson | 1886 | |
| Little Lord Fauntleroy | Frances Hodgson Burnett | 1886 | |
| The Happy Prince and Other Tales | Oscar Wilde | 1888 | |
| The Blue Fairy Book | Andrew Lang | 1889 | |
| The Jungle Book | Rudyard Kipling | 1894 | |
| Seven Little Australians | Ethel Turner | 1894 | |
| The Second Jungle Book | Rudyard Kipling | 1895 | |
| Moonfleet | J. Meade Falkner | 1898 | |
| The Story of the Treasure Seekers | E. Nesbit | 1899 |
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