What books were popular in the 1860s?

Answer 1

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne, published 1870

Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll, published 1971

Erewhon by Samuel Butler, published 1872

Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne, published 1873

Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy, publish 1874

The Lost Princess by George MacDonald, published 1875

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain, published 1876

Black Beauty by Anna Sewell, published 1877

Confidence by Henry James, published 1879

Heidi's Years of Wandering and Learning (best known as Heidi) by Johanna Spyri, published 1880

The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain, published 1881

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson, published 1883

Ramona by Helen Hunt Jackson, published 1884

King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard, published 1885

Little Lord Fauntleroy by Frances Hodgson Burnett, published 1886

A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, published 1887

Looking Backward: 2000-1887 by Edward Bellamy, published 1888

Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog) by Jerome K. Jerome, published 1889

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, published 1890

Barrack Room Ballads (which includes Gunga Din) by Rudyard Kipling, published 1892

Maggie: A Girl of the Streets by Stephen Crane, published 1893

The Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope, published 1894

Quo Vadis: A Narrative of the Time of Nero (best known as Quo Vadis) by Henryk Sienkiewicz, published 1895

The Island of Doctor Moreau by H.G. Wells, published 1896

The Spoils of Poynton by Henry James, published 1897

The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells, published 1898

Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy, published 1899

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum, published 1900

Kim by Rudyard Kipling, published 1901

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, published 1902

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggan, published 1903

The Sea-Wolf by Jack London, published 1904

The Little Princess by Francess Hodgson Burnett, published 1905

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair, published 1906

The Shepherd of the Hills by Harold Bell Wright, published 1907

The Mystery of the Yellow Room: Extraordinary Adventures of Joseph Rouletabille, Reporter by Gaston Leroux, published in 1908

The Lady of the Shroud by Bram Stoker, published 1909

A Gentleman of Leisure by P.G. Wodehouse, published 1910

Answer 2

The Bible, obviously. There was also Robinson Crusoe, which was popular for many years. Charles Dickens was also writing around that time, so his books would have been quite big. People would wait at the docks in the U.S. for his next installment of his serial novel came out. Little Women (1868) and Crime and Punishment (1866) also came out during the time period, although I don't know how popular they were when they first hit the shelves. Hope this helps!