1890s Reading List

1890s Reading Suggestions for Adults and Teens
In 1894 the renamed Morrisson­Reeves Library, along
with a total remodeling of the building. Over 3,000
residents attend the dedication.
Reading suggestions
Fiction
The Picture of Dorian Gray
by: Oscar Wilde
PB CLA
The New Annotated Dracula
by: Bram Stoker
F S8735n
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
by: Thomas Hardy
F H2722t
The Portrait of a Lady
by: Henry James
FJ275p3
The Country of the Pointed Firs
by: Sarah Orne Jewett
F J593c
Quo Vadis?
by: Henryk Sienkiewicz
F S5723q2
Heart of Darkness
by: Joseph Conrad
F C754h
The Prisoner of Zenda
by: Anthony Hope
F H7905p
Reading suggestions
Non­fiction
The Presidency of Benjamin Harrison
by: Homer E. Socolofsky
973.86 S67
Island of Hope, Island of Tears
by: David M. Brownstone
325.1 B88
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic and Madness at the Fair that Changed
America
by: Erik Larson
364.1523 L334
We as Freemen: Plessy v. Ferguson
by: Keith Weldon Medley
342.73 M485
Good Time Girls of the Alaska­Yukon Gold Rush
by: Lael Morgan
971.91 M84
The Story of the Olympic Games: 776 BC to 1964
by: John Kieran
796.48 K47
The Gold Hustlers
by: Lewis Green
971.21 G79
The Yukon
by: Cherry A. Hinton
971.21 H66
Teddy Roosevelt at San Juan: The Making of a President
by: Peggy Samuels
973.911 S19
The Boys of ‘98: Theodore Roosevelt and the Rough Riders
by: Dale L. Walker
973.894 W17
Hawaii: An Uncommon History
by: Edward Joesting
996.9 J83
The Battleships
by: Ian Johnston
359.8 J72
1898: The Birth of the American Century
by: David Traxel
973.89 T78
The Yellow Kids: Foreign Correspondents in the Hey Day of Yellow Journalism
by: Joyce Milton
071.3 M66
The Spanish War: An American epic
by: G.J.A. O’Toole
973.89 O88
Labyrinths of Iron: A History of the World’s Subways
by: Benson Bobrick
388.42 B66
Henry Miller: Full of LIfe
by: Kathryn Winslow
813 M64Yw
American Gothic: A Life of America’s Most Famous Painting
by: Steven Biel
759.13 W87b
Young Adult Fiction
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
by: Arthur Conan Doyle
YA F D7538a
A Great and Terrible Beauty
by: Libba Bray
YA F BRAY
The Luxe
by: Anna Godbersen
YA F G5773Lu
Alligator Bayou
by: Donna Jo Napoli
YA F NAPO
The Wild
by: Christopher Golden
YA F GOLD