Ranking all 47 Anthony Trollope Novels | Trollope Thursday

from the beginning you know that something dark is coming and you're waiting to see what it is, and it is great. Really, really good.

I really like An Old Man's Love. I don't think it's going to be for everyone.

It is one of those anti-Trollope books where like objectively I can admit that it is a bit repetitive but my goodness did I love every single second of it. Rarely have I had such a thoroughly enjoyable reading experience of a book ever.

I love Barchester Towers I think it's incredible.

It's great. very dramatic, quite a dramatic Anthony Trollope, one I would definitely recommend.

I think it is just amazing. I'm almost wondering if it should be an absolute all-time favorite, but I don't think it is quite.

Cousin Henry is a really great Anthony Trollope novel and actually interestingly, I would say that this is one of the books that I read a long time ago that has really stuck with me.

I do like it but I think there are stronger Anthony Trollope books. And for me it is one of his like more conventional less exciting books I would say.

I just think Doctor Thorne's School is fantastic and I loved it very much.

It's a weird thought experiment that is fascinating, but I also I didn't love it. So I think I'm probably going to put it in middle-of-the-road.

I think it's really marvelous. There's a lot of elements in it that I really love.

I remember very little about it, but I basically got nothing out of it. I think it's probably the only Anthony Trollope novel I would say that I got a zero out of.

He Knew He Was Right is an incredible novel. Is it the best thing Anthony Trollope ever wrote? Maybe.

Basically, for the first three quarters of Is He Popenjoy? I was like this is my new favorite book, what an incredible novel. And then I found the final like third or quarter much less good.

John Caldigate was my final Anthony Trollope book and I loved it and it tells a story of a young man called John Caldigate who goes to Australia to try and make his fortune in gold mines at the beginning of the book but the book is not actually about his time in Australia. It is really good and I did think it was great.

I just basically think that everything Anthony Trollope is doing in Kept in the Dark he did better in He Knew He Was Right. Kept in the Dark is a really interesting novel, but I kind of just read it thinking it's not as good as He Knew He Was Right though, is it?

I thought it was interesting and I enjoyed the reading experience but it definitely isn't a favorite Anthony Trollope book. Definitely not one I'd say is sort of a must read.

She ends up with two suitors, one of whom is from the upper working classes, one of whom is from the upper classes, and the question is, you know, who should Anna choose? And what is her social position? Really interesting novel.

The book is really focused and intense and horrible and is basically the long drawn-out attempt of Linda's aunt to force her to marry this man and it's horrible. But, it's so good. I think it's maybe like one of the best things he's ever written.

This was one of the final anti-Trollope books I read. I read it back in January, and I was just so utterly emotionally invested in this book.

This is a shorter, more focused Anthony Trollope novel about a woman in her 30s, , who has never really, , had any possibility of marriage, and then after her brother's death, she inherits quite a bit of money, , and suddenly she has lots of suitors around her, , and it's about her experiences with that, and it's just a really great read.

Mr. Scarborough's Family is a really interesting novel looking at a man called Mr. Scarborough who has two sons and one son is sort of more respectable than the other and it's about his will and how he's going to leave his property as well as about various other characters.

This is the story of a young Christian woman living in Prague who is in love with a Jewish man and it's about how these two people fight against the prejudices of their neighbors and communities and try to make their relationship work. And it's really powerful and I would highly recommend it.

And it's mostly about the boy's mother and it's just it's just really good. It's really great. I love an inheritance novel.

I don't dislike Phineas Finn, but it's not a favorite. my liking of Phineas Finn as a novel has been slightly marred by my dislike of its sequel, which we'll talk about in a minute.

Phineas Redux is going straight into that Anthony Trollope let me down pile. It's my second least favorite Anthony Trollope book I would say.

I did recommend Rachel Ray as a good place to start with Anthony Trollope in my where to start with Anthony Trollope videos and I do think it's quite a good sort of gentle introduction into his work, though I don't think it's one of his sort of absolute strongest.

I just I just adore Ralph the Heir. I think it's such a wonderful novel and there's nothing quite so quintessentially Anthony Trollope and quite so ridiculously Victorian as having three characters called Ralph Newbury.

This is not an Anthony Trollope novel I especially love. I think it's one that I was quite enjoying for quite a lot of it, but I didn't like the ending at all, which is very unusual for me in Anthony Trollope.

I feel like what I mostly remember about The American Senator is thinking it was fantastic, but the sort of details of the plots have kind of escaped my mind. There's a lot of fantastic characters in The American Senator. I really loved it.

I did love it so much when I read it. It has a love triangle, , and it has a bit of a, not exactly a disputed inheritance, but a sort of like complications around inheritance plot line, and it's a really powerful novel, , but also sort of a quite short and contained one that I just really recommend.

And it is in many ways is a very good character study, but I basically feel like a lot of the themes and aspects explored in it are explored much better in He Knew Who Was Right. I think I will keep that in middle of the road, cuz it's not a favorite for me.

But what I really love in The Claverings are the themes and the subplots. , the way this book looks at marriage and especially abusive marriages and the control men can exert over women within marriage in the Victorian period is so powerful.

I just think The Duke's Children is magnificent and I highly recommend it.

Many people, I think, really love The Eustace Diamonds, , but it definitely wouldn't be a favorite of mine. I just think it didn't click with me as much.

I did really enjoy this, but I think as Anthony Trollope books go, it's not the most special. The Golden Lion of Granpere is definitely the least dark of the three, , and therefore, in a way, it is the less interesting of the three, though I do think it's really good.

I didn't like the Kelly's and the O'Kelly's that much. I found it [snorts] not a very exciting Anthony Trollope book.

And you know what? I'm going to put it up in the absolute all time favorites because I love it so much. And also because the Barsetshire Chronicles, it's my favorite book series ever, and the final Chronicle of Barset is like the bringing together of everything, and I love it, and it's just beautiful, and I was very emotionally invested.

I absolutely love this book. Is it top tier Anthony Trollope or is it an all-time favorite?

However, I do think the final two books in the Palliser series are incredible, and I do love The Prime Minister a lot.

And it's a great novel and I love Septimus Harding as a character a lot.

I would say that The Landleaguers is my least favorite Anthony Trollope book by probably quite a way. There's a lot in it that I struggled with and didn't really enjoy.

this is probably my favorite Anthony Trollope book. It is the wonderful story of two sisters who live in the small house near the big house at Allington.

It's quite a different Anthony Trollope book looking at the trials and tribulations of a small advertising firm in London. It's really great, worth a read.

It's really delightful and very charming, and I had a great time with it, and I loved it very much.

I think The Vicar of Bullhampton is fantastic, would highly recommend it. I also think it's a very like quintessentially Anthony Trollope book.

In fact, I think it is the best Anthony Trollope book. Though The Small House at Allington may be my favorite, The Way We Live Now is the best, but also so is He Knew He Was Right.