55 Essential British 19th century novels (adapted from a Columbia University syllabus by me)

Ann Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794)
Maria Edgeworth, Castle Rackrent (1800)
Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey (1803/1818)
— Sense and Sensibility (1811)
— Pride and Prejudice (1813)
— Mansfield Park (1814)
— Emma (1816)
— Persuasion (1818)
Walter Scott, Waverley (1814)
— The Antiquary (1816)
— Ivanhoe (1819)
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (1818)
Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers (1837)
— Oliver Twist (1838)
— David Copperfield (1850)
— Bleak House (1853)
— Little Dorrit (1857)
— Great Expectations (1861)
— Our Mutual Friend (1865)
Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil (1845)
Elizabeth Gaskell, Mary Barton (1848)
—  Cranford (1853)
-North and South (1855)
Charlotte Bronte, The Professor (1846/1857)
— Jane Eyre (1847)
— Villette (1853 )
--Shirley  (1849)
Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights (1847)
Anne Bronte, The Tennant of Wildfell Hall (1848)
William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair (1848)
— Pendennis (1850)
Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers (1857)
— The Way We Live Now (1875)
George Meredith, The Ordeal of Richard Feverel (1859)
Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White (1860)
— The Moonstone (1868)
Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Lady Audley's Secret (1862)
George Eliot,  The Mill on the Floss (1860)
— Felix Holt, The Radical (1866)
— Middlemarch (1869)
— Daniel Deronda (1876)
Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886)
Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886)
— Tess of the D' Urbervilles (1891)
— Jude the Obscure (1895)
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891)
George Gissing, New Grub Street (1893)
H.G. Wells, The Time Machine (1895)
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1892)
Sarah Grand, The Heavenly Twins (1893)
George Du Maurier, Trilby (1894)
Bram Stoker, Dracula (1897)
Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady (1881)
— The Turn of the Screw (1898)