The finalists

Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen

1813

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Lewis Carroll

1865

A Christmas Carol

Charles Dickens

1843

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde

1890

Wuthering Heights

Emily Brontë

1846

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Mark Twain

1876

The Scarlet Letter

Nathaniel Hawthorne

1800

Robinson Crusoe

Daniel Defoe

1686