Anna Katharine Green, The Leavenworth Case

1879

Henry George, Progress and Poverty

1880

Joel Chandler Harris, Uncle Remus
Margaret Sidney, The Five Little Peppers and How They Grew
Lew Wallace, Ben-Hur
Emile Zola, Nana

1881

Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

1882

Luidovic Halevy, L'Abbe Constantin

1883

James Whitcomb Riley, The Old Swimmin Hole and Leven More Poems
Hannah Whitall Smith, The Christians Secret of a Happy Life
Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi

1884

Johanna Spyri, Heidi
Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

1885;

Robert Louis Stevenson, A Child's Garden of Verse
Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

1886

Frances Hodgson Burnett, Little Lord Fauntleroy
H. Rider Haggard, King Solomon's Mines
Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

1887

Marie Corelli, Thelma
H. Rider Haggard, She

1888

Edward Bellamy, Looking Backward
Hall Caine, The Deemster
Marie Corelli, A Romance
of Two Worlds

A. C. Gunter, Mr. Barnes of New York
Mrs. Humphry Ward, Robert...