A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark TwainThe Master of Ballantrae by Robert Louis StevensonThe Kreutzer Sonata by Leo TolstoyThe Bet by Anton ChekhovSylvie and Bruno by Lewis Carroll
Best of 1889
71 books — 16 voters
Khmurye liudi 1896 [Leather Bound] by Anton ChekhovHunger by Knut HamsunThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeNews from Nowhere by William MorrisThaïs by Anatole France
Best Books 1890
79 books — 26 voters

Quincas Borba by Machado de AssisThe Duel by Anton ChekhovTess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas HardyGösta Berling's Saga by Selma LagerlöfNew Grub Street by George Gissing
Best Books 1891
66 books — 12 voters
Ward No. 6 by Anton ChekhovThe Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins GilmanTales of Soldiers and Civilians and Other Stories by Ambrose BierceUna vita by Italo SvevoThe Diary of a Nobody by George Grossmith
Best Books 1892
92 books — 18 voters

The Story of a Nobody by Anton ChekhovSylvie and Bruno Concluded by Lewis CarrollMaggie by Stephen CraneThe £1,000,000 Bank-Note and Other New Stories by Mark TwainA Traveler from Altruria by William Dean Howells
Best Books 1893
80 books — 11 voters
Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark TwainTevye the Dairyman and the Railroad Stories by Sholom AleichemPan by Knut HamsunThe Wood Beyond the World by William MorrisThe Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
Best Books 1894
95 books — 14 voters

Effi Briest by Theodor FontaneJude the Obscure by Thomas HardyThe Time Machine by H.G. WellsLilith by George MacDonaldThe Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
Best Books 1895
49 books — 24 voters
The Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne JewettThe Well at the World's End by William MorrisThe Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. WellsWeir of Hermiston by Robert Louis StevensonMy Life by Anton Chekhov
Best Books 1896
34 books — 18 voters

Dracula by Bram StokerThe Invisible Man by H.G. WellsThe Well-Beloved by Thomas HardyWhat Maisie Knew by Henry JamesCaptains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling
Best Books 1897
34 books — 24 voters
The Turn of the Screw by Henry JamesThe War of the Worlds by H.G. WellsAs a Man Grows Older by Italo SvevoA Doctor's Visit by Anton ChekhovInferno by August Strindberg
Best Books 1898
33 books — 21 voters

Dom Casmurro by Machado de AssisHeart of Darkness by Joseph ConradThe Lady with the Little Dog by Anton ChekhovThe Awkward Age by Henry JamesThe Awakening by Kate Chopin
The Best Books of 1899
43 books — 29 voters
Lord Jim by Joseph ConradSister Carrie by Theodore DreiserClaudine at School by ColetteIn the Ravine by Anton ChekhovThe Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
Best books 1900
90 books — 25 voters

Buddenbrooks by Thomas MannKim by Rudyard KiplingThe First Men in the Moon by H.G. WellsMy Brilliant Career by Miles FranklinThe Octopus by Frank Norris
Best Books 1901
114 books — 21 voters
The Wings of the Dove by Henry JamesThe Immoralist by André GideJust So Stories by Rudyard KiplingThe Lord Chandos Letter and Other Writings by Hugo von HofmannsthalThe Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
Best Books 1902
35 books — 25 voters

The Ambassadors by Henry JamesThe Beast in the Jungle by Henry JamesThe Way of All Flesh by Samuel ButlerTonio Kröger by Thomas MannTristan by Thomas Mann
Best Books 1903
42 books — 19 voters
Nostromo by Joseph ConradThe Golden Bowl by Henry JamesThe Napoleon of Notting Hill by G.K. ChestertonThe Late Mattia Pascal by Luigi PirandelloJudas Iscariot and Others by Leonid Andreyev
Best of 1904
53 books — 33 voters

The House of Mirth by Edith WhartonDoctor Glas by Hjalmar SöderbergThe Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska OrczyA Little Princess by Frances Hodgson BurnettThe Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
Best Books 1905
56 books — 35 voters
The Confusions of Young Törless by Robert MusilPuck of Pook's Hill by Rudyard KiplingI Am a Cat by Natsume SōsekiThe Red Laugh by Leonid AndreyevThe Four Million by O. Henry
Best Books 1906
50 books — 24 voters

The Secret Agent by Joseph ConradRetreat from Love by ColetteLazarus by Leonid AndreyevThe Tanners by Robert WalserThe Wonderful Adventures of Nils by Selma Lagerlöf
Best Books 1907
58 books — 21 voters
A Room with a View by E.M. ForsterSanshirō by Natsume SōsekiSeven Who Were Hanged by Leonid AndreyevThe Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. ChestertonPenguin Island by Anatole France
Best Books 1908
86 books — 49 voters

Jakob von Gunten by Robert WalserThree Lives by Gertrude SteinStrait is the Gate by André GideThe Ball and the Cross by G.K. ChestertonMartin Eden by Jack London
Best Books 1909
71 books — 26 voters
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge by Rainer Maria RilkeHowards End by E.M. ForsterThe Village by Ivan BuninRewards and Fairies by Rudyard KiplingImpressions of Africa by Raymond Roussel
Best Books 1910
82 books — 28 voters

Death in Venice by Thomas MannHadji Murat by Leo TolstoyСуходол by Ivan BuninThe Gods Will Have Blood by Anatole FranceThe Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man by James Weldon Johnson
Best Books 1912
40 books — 21 voters
Swann’s Way by Marcel ProustSons and Lovers by D.H. LawrencePetersburg by Andrei BelyLe Grand Meaulnes by Alain-FournierO Pioneers! by Willa Cather
Best Books 1913
51 books — 28 voters

Zuleika Dobson by Max BeerbohmThe Wild Geese by Ōgai MoriEthan Frome by Edith WhartonUnder Western Eyes by Joseph ConradExploits & Opinions of Dr. Faustroll, Pataphysician by Alfred Jarry
Best of 1911
81 books — 27 voters
Dubliners by James JoyceKokoro by Natsume SōsekiLocus Solus by Raymond RousselNiebla by Miguel de UnamunoLes caves du Vatican by André Gide
Best Books 1914
49 books — 19 voters

The Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaThe Rainbow by D.H. LawrenceOf Human Bondage by W. Somerset MaughamThe Gentleman from San Francisco by Ivan BuninThe Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
Best Books 1915
51 books — 34 voters
The Rise of David Levinsky by Abraham CahanSouth Wind by Norman DouglasThe Walk by Robert WalserAbel Sánchez by Miguel de UnamunoGrowth of the Soil by Knut Hamsun
Best Books 1917
48 books — 23 voters

My Ántonia by Willa CatherThe Magnificent Ambersons by Booth TarkingtonThe Return of the Soldier by Rebecca WestThe Education of Henry Adams by Henry AdamsEminent Victorians by Lytton Strachey
Best Books 1918
42 books — 17 voters
In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower by Marcel ProustIn the Penal Colony by Franz KafkaA Country Doctor by Franz KafkaThe Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset MaughamWinesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson
Best Books 1919
54 books — 18 voters


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