Edward Bellamy
Looking Backward: 2000-1887 (novel) 1888

George Washington Cable
The Grandissimes (novel) 1880
The Negro Question (essay) 1890

Nikolay Gavrilovich Chernyshevsky
What Is to Be Done? (novel) 1863

Stephen Crane
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (novel) 1893

Rebecca Davis
Life in the Iron Mills (novel) 1861

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Crime and Punishment (novel) 1866

Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Woman” (essay) 1855

Henry George
Progress and Poverty (social criticism) 1879
Social Problems (social criticism) 1884

E. T. A. Hoffman
“Der goldene Topf: Ein Märchen aus der neuen Zeit” [“The Golden Pot”] (short story) 1814
Lebensansichten des Katers Murr nebst fragmentarischer Biographie des Kapellmeisters Johannes Kreisler in zufälligen Makulaturblättern. 2 vols. (novel) 1820-22

Victor Hugo
Les Misérables (novel) 1862

Ivan Turgenev
Notes of a Huntsman (short stories) 1852
Fathers and Sons (novel) 1862

Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (novel) 1885

Émile Zola
Germinal (novel) 1885