APPENDIX A: THE MABIE CANON
Most Frequently Mentioned Single Works
| Title | Number of Mentions |
| Vanity Fair | 16 |
| The Rise of Silas Lapham | 14 |
| Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker | 13 |
| Anna Karenina | 12 |
| The Bible | 12 |
| The Virginian | 12 |
| The Scarlet Letter | 11 |
| Adam Bede | 10 |
| David Copperfield | 10 |
| The Mill on the Floss | 10 |
| The Choir Invisible | 9 |
| The Marble Faun | 9 |
| Treasure Island | 9 |
| Uncle Tom’s Cabin | 9 |
| The Grandissimes | 8 |
| Henry Esmond | 8 |
| In Memoriam | 8 |
| Ivanhoe | 8 |
| Lady Baltimore | 8 |
| The Masquerader | 8 |
| Old Creole Days | 8 |
| The Spy | 8 |
| The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | 7 |
| The House of Mirth | 7 |
| The House of the Seven Gables | 7 |
| Red Rock | 7 |
| Robinson Crusoe | 7 |
| A Tale of Two Cities | 7 |
Most Frequently Mentioned Authors
| Author | Number of Mentions |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | 30 |
| William Shakespeare | 30 |
| Henry Van Dyke | 30 |
| William Makepeace Thackeray | 26 |
| William Dean Howells | 24 |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne | 23 |
| Thomas Carlyle | 20 |
| F. Marion Crawford | 19 |
| Edgar Allan Poe | 19 |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes | 18 |
| Thomas Nelson Page | 18 |
| Edith Wharton | 18 |
| James Lane Allen | 17 |
| Henry James | 17 |
| Alfred Lord Tennyson | 17 |
| Charles Dickens | 16 |
| Sarah Orne Jewett | 16 |
| Sir Walter Scott | 16 |
| Mrs. Humphry Ward | 16 |
| Kate Douglas Wiggin | 16 |
| Owen Wister | 16 |
| Thomas Bailey Aldrich | 15 |
| Margaret Deland | 15 |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | 15 |
| S. Weir Mitchell | 15 |
| George E. Woodberry | 15 |
| George Eliot | 14 |
| Ellen Glasgow | 14 |
| F. Hopkinson Smith | 14 |
| James Fenimore Cooper | 13 |
| Mary E. Wilkins Freeman | 13 |
| Rudyard Kipling | 13 |
| Matthew Arnold | 12 |
| Washington Irving | 12 |
| John Greenleaf Whittier | 12 |
| George Washington Cable | 11 |
| John Fox Jr. | 10 |
| Hamlin Garland | 10 |
| Mark Twain | 10 |
| Honoré de Balzac | 9 |
| William Frend De Morgan | 9 |
| John Fiske | 9 |
| Thomas Hardy | 9 |
| Booth Tarkington | 9 |