Most Famous Literature from Each Year

Given a year and the author, name the Literature (Book, Poem, or Play)
Since 1800
Based on when the book was published
Popularity based off of a 2019 Survey by Sylvester Tolognehr
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Year
Author
Book
1800
Horatio Smith
A Family Story
1801
Samuel Coleridge, William wordsworth
Lyrical Ballads
1802
Francois-Rene de Chateaubriand
Rene
1803
Jane Porter
Thaddeus of Warsaw
1804
Francis Holt
The Land We Live In
1805
Jan Potocki
The Manuscript Found in Sargossa
1806
Charlotte Darce
Zofloya
1807
Anna Maria Porter
The Hungarian Brothers
1808
Johann Wolfgang van Goethe
Faust
1809
Richard Cumberland
John De Lancaster
1810
Jane Porter
The Scottish Chefs
1811
Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility
1812
Brothers Grimm
Hansel and Gretel
1813
Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice
1814
Jane Austen
Mansfield Park
1815
Jane Austen
Emma
1816
Benjamin Constant
Adolphe
1817
Jane Austen
Persuasion
1818
Mary Shelley
Frankenstein
1819
Washington Irving
Rip Van Winkle
1820
Sir Walter Scott
Ivanhoe
1821
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Adonais
1822
John Gibson Lockhart
Adam Blair
1823
James Fenimore Cooper
The Pioneers
1824
Washington Irving
The Devil and Tom Walker
1825
James Sheridan Knowles
William Tell
1826
James Fenimore Cooper
The Last of the Mohicans
1827
James Fenimore Cooper
The Red Rover
1828
Susanna Rowson
Lucy Temple
1829
Edgar Allan Poe
Tamerlane
1830
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Paul Clifford
1831
Victor Hugo
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1832
Alexander Pushkin
Dubrovsky
1833
Lord Alfred Tennyson
The Lady of Shalott
1834
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
The Last Days of Pompeii
1835
Hans Christian Andersen
The Princess and the Pea
1836
Alexander Pushkin
The Captain's Daughters
1837
Hans Christian Andersen
Emporers New Clothes
1838
Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist
1839
Edgar Allan Poe
The Fall of the House of Usher
1840
William Harrison Ainsworth
Guy Fawkes
1841
Edgar Allan Poe
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
1842
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Transcendentalist
1843
Edgar Allan Poe
The Tell-Tale Heart
1844
Alexandre Dumas
The Three Musketeers
1845
Edgar Allan Poe
The Raven
1846
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Poor Folk
1847
Charlotte Bronte
Jane Eyre
1848
Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels
The Communist Manifesto
1849
Charles Dickens
David Copperfield
1850
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Scarlett Letter
1851
Herman Melville
Moby Dick
1852
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Uncle Tom's Cabin
1853
Charlotte Bronte
Villette
1854
Lord Alfred Tennyson
The Charge of the Light Brigade
1855
Walt Whitman
Leaves of Grass
1856
Harriet Beecher Stowe
A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp
1857
Gustave Flaubert
Madame Bovary
1858
Elizabeth Gaskell
My Lady Ludlow
1859
Charles Dickens
A Tale of Two Cities
1860
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Marble Faun
1861
Charles Dickens
Great Expectations
1862
Victor Hugo
Les Miserables
1863
Leo Tolstoy
The Cossacks
1864
Jules Verne
A Journey to the Center of the Earth
1865
Lewis Carroll
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
1866
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Crime and Punishment
1867
Thomas William Robertson
Caste
1868
Louisa May Alcott
Little Women
1869
Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace
1870
Jules Verne
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
1871
George Eliot
Middlemarch
1872
Jules Verne
Around the World in 80 Days
1873
Thomas Hardy
A Pair of Blue Eyes
1874
Ambrose Bierce
Cobwebs from an Empty Skull
1875
William Harrison Ainsworth
Preston Fight
1876
Mark Twain
Adventures of Tom Sawyer
1877
Jules Verne
Hector Cervadac
1878
Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina
1879
Henrik Ibsen
A Doll's House
1880
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Brothers Karamazovt
1881
Henry James
The Portrait of a Lady
1882
George Bernard Shaw
Cashel Byron's Profession
1883
Robert Louis Stevenson
Treasure Island
1884
Mark Twain
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
1885
Lewis Carroll
A Tangled Tale
1886
Leo Tolstoy
The Death of Ivan Ilyich
1887
Arthur Conan Doyle
A Study in Scarlet
1888
Thomas Hardy
Wessex Tales
1889
Anton Chekhov
The Bet
1890
Oscar Wilde
The Picture of Dorian Gray
1891
Herman Melville
Billy Budd
1892
Mary Freeman
Young Lucretia
1893
Oscar Wilde
Salome
1894
Rudyard Kipling
The Jungle Book
1895
Stephen Crane
Red Badge of Courage
1896
Anton Chekhov
The Seagull
1897
Bram Stoker
Dracula
1898
Henry James
The Turn of the Screw
1899
Joseph Conrad
Heart of Darkness
1900
Joseph Conrad
Lord Jim
1901
Beatrix Potter
Peter Rabbit
1902
W. W. Jacobs
The Monkey's Paw
1903
Jack London
The Call of the Wild
1904
Anton Chekhov
The Cherry Orchard
1905
Upton Sinclair
The Jungle
1906
Jack London
White Fang
1907
Arthur Machen
The Hill of Dreams
1908
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Anne of Green Gables
1909
Lyman Frank Baum
The Road to Oz
1910
Hermand Hesse
Gertrud
1911
Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Secret Gardes
1912
George Bernard Shaw
Pygmalion
1913
Marcel Proust
In Search of Lost Time
1914
James Joyce
The Dead
1915
Franz Kafka
The Metamorphosis
1916
Robert Frost
The Road Not Taken
1917
Edith Wharton
Summer
1918
Willa Cather
My Antonia
1919
Lyman Frank Baum
The Magic of Oz
1920
Sinclair Lewis
Main Street
1921
Luigi Pirandello
Six Characters In Search of an Author
1922
James Joyce
Ulysses
1923
Aldous Huxley
Antic Hay
1924
Thomas Mann
The Magic Mountain
1925
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
1926
Adolf Hitler
Mein Kampf
1927
Virginia Woolf
To the Lighthouse
1928
Erich Maria Remarque
All Quiet on the Western Front
1929
Ernest Hemingway
A Farewell to Arms
1930
Samuel Hammett
The Maltese Falcon
1931
Pearl Buck
The Good Earth
1932
Aldous Huxley
Brave New World
1933
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Farmer Boy (Little House)
1934
Agatha Christie
Murder on the Orient Express
1935
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Little House on the Prairie
1936
William Faulkner
Absalom, Absalom!
1937
Zora Neale Hurston
Their Eyes Were Watching God
1938
Thornton Wilder
Our Town
1939
John Steinbeck
The Grapes of Wrath
1940
Ernest Hemingway
For Whom the Bell Tolls
1941
H. A. Rey
Curious George
1942
Albert Camus
The Stranger
1943
Antione de Saint-Exupery
The Little Prince
1944
Tennessee Williams
The Glass Menagerie
1945
George Orwell
Animal Farm
1946
Robert Warren
All the King's Men
1947
Tennessee Williams
A Streetcar Named Desire
1948
Shirley Jackson
The Lottery
1949
George Orwell
1984
1950
Isaac Asimov
I, Robot
1951
JD Salinger
Catcher in the Rye
1952
Ralph Ellison
Invisible Man
1953
Arthur Miller
The Crucible
1954
William Golding
Lord of the Rings
1955
Vladimir Nabokov
Lolita
1956
C. S. Lewis
The Chronicles of Narnia, The Last Battle
1957
Dr. Suess
The Cat in the Hat
1958
Chinua Achebe
Things Fall Apart
1959
Lorraine Hansberry
A Raisin in the Sun
1960
Harper Lee
To Kill A Mockingbird
1961
Wilson Rawls
Where The Red Fern Grows
1962
Madeline L'Engle
A Wrinkle in Time
1963
Maurice Sendak
Where the Wild Things Are
1964
Irene Hunt
Across Five Aprils
1965
Frank Herbert
Dune
1966
Daniel Keyes
Flowers for Algernon
1967
S. E. Hinton
The Outsiders
1968
Arthur Hailey
Airport
1969
Kurt Vonnegut
Slaughterhouse Five
1970
Judy Blume
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
1971
Dr. Suess
The Lorax
1972
Richard Adams
Watership Down
1973
Kurt Vonnegut
Breakfast of Champions
1974
Robert Cormier
The Chocolate War
1975
Natalie Babbitt
Tuck Everlasting
1976
Brian Garfield
Gundown
1977
Stephen King
The Shining
1978
Stephen King
The Stand
1979
William Styron
Sophie's Choice
1980
Douglas Adams
The Resteraunt at the End of the Universe
1981
Andrew Lloyd Weber
Cats
1982
Alice Walker
The Color Purple
1983
Stephen King
Christine
1984
William Gibson
Neuromancer
1985
Chris Van Allsburg
The Polar Express
1986
Gary Paulsen
Hatchet
1987
Toni Morrison
Beloved
1988
Roald Dahl
Matilda
1989
Lois Lowry
Number the Stars
1990
Michael Crichton
Jurassic Park
1991
Diana Gabaldon
Outlander
1992
Toni Morrison
Jazz
1993
Lois Lowry
The Giver
1994
Janet Evanovich
One for the Money
1995
Gregory Maguire
Wicked
1996
George R. R. Martin
Game of Thrones
1997
J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Philisopher's Stone
1998
J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
1999
J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
2000
J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
2001
Yann Martel
Life of Pi
2002
Neil Gaiman
Coraline
2003
Khaled Hosseini
Kite Runner
2004
Dan Brown
The Da Vinci Code
2005
J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
2006
Stephenie Meyer
New Moon
2007
J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Dealthly Hallows.
2008
Suzanne Collins
The Hunger Games
2009
Suzanne Collins
Catching Fire
2010
Suzanne Collins
Mockingjay
2011
Veronica Roth
Divergent
2012
John Green
The Fault in our Stars
2013
Donna Tartt
The Goldfinch
2014
Bessel van der Kolk
The Body Keeps the Score
2015
Kristin Hannah
The Nightingale
2016
J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
2017
R. J. Palacio
Wonder
2018
Michelle Obama
Becoming
2019
Alex Michaelides
The Silent Patient
2020
Matt Haig
The Midnight Library
2021
Dav Pilkey
Mothering Heights
2022
Freida McFadden
The Housemaid
2023
Colleen Hoover
It Ends with Us
2024
Hannah Kristin
The Women
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Jan 25, 2025
Fun but tricky. Needs more time, please. And correct spelling of restaurant. William Golding did not write Lord of the Rings!
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