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History Streak #5 answers

Themed day: Shelf Life

September 18, 2026 · Starting event: Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is published (1865)

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1. 1605
   Classic

   Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote is published in Madrid

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2. 1719
   Adventure

   Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe is published

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3. 1813
   Romance

   Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice is published

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4. 1818
   Horror

   Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is published anonymously

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5. 1847
   Romance

   Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre is published under the pen name Currer Bell

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6. 1851
   Adventure

   Herman Melville's Moby-Dick is published

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7. 1865
   Children'sStarting event

   Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is published

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8. 1883
   Adventure

   Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island is published as a book

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9. 1892
   Crime

   Arthur Conan Doyle's The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is published

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10. 1897
    Horror

    Bram Stoker's Dracula is published

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11. 1900
    Children's

    L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is published

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12. 1925
    Classic

    F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby is published

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13. 1934
    Crime

    Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express is published

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14. 1937
    Fantasy

    J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit is published

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15. 1945
    Satire

    George Orwell's Animal Farm is published

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16. 1949
    Dystopia

    George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four is published

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17. 1951
    Classic

    J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye is published

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18. 1960
    Classic

    Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird is published

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19. 1969
    Children's

    Eric Carle's The Very Hungry Caterpillar is published

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20. 1997
    Fantasy

    J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone is published

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21. 2008
    Dystopia

    Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games is published

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