Reading England 2015 Book List

For a general and very handy reference, I've included O's list of books by English county, copied from her blog.

Bedfordshire

•                The Two Sisters by H. E. Bates

•                My Uncle Silas by H. E. Bates

•                Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners by John Bunyan

Berkshire

•                The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

•                Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy 

•                Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes

•                Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome

•                The Merry Wives of Winsor by William Shakespeare

•                The Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde

Bristol

•                Evelina by Fanny Burney

Buckinghamshire

•                Lark Rise to Candleford by Flora Thompson

Cambridgeshire

•                The Longest Journey by E. M. Forster

•                Maurice by E. M. Forster

•                Jacob's Room by Virginia Woolf

•                Glory by Vladimir Nabakov

Cheshire

•                Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell

Cornwall

•                Frenchman's Creek by Daphne du Maurier

•                Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier

•                Basil & Rambles Beyond Railways by Wilkie Collins
•                Basil & Rambles Beyond Railways by Wilkie Collins

Cumbria

•                The Tennant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

•                The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices by Charles Dickens & Wilkie Collins

•                The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

•                Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome

•                Lady Anna by Anthony Trollope

•                The Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth

Derbyshire

•                Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë [uncertain]

•                Adam Bede by George Eliot

•                Uncle Silas by J. Sheridan Le Fanu

•                The Lair of the White Worm by Bram Stoker

Devon

•                Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

•                Lorna Doone by R. D. Blackmore

•                The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle

•                Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley

•                He Knew He Was Right by Anthony Trollope

•                Rachel Ray by Anthony Trollope

Dorset

•                The Worm Forgives the Plow by John Stewart Collis

•                Moonfleet by J. Meade Faulkner

•                Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

•                The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy

•                The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy

•                Tess of the D'urbervilles by Thomas Hardy

•                Two on a Tower by Thomas Hardy

•                Thank you, Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse

Durham

•                  (see Tyne & Wear)

Essex

•                Lady Audley's Secret by Mary Elizabeth Braddon

•                Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens

•                Nightingale Woods by Stella Gibbons

•                The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

Gloucestershire

•                Cider With Rose by Laurie Lee

•                The Tailor of Gloucestershire by Beatrix Potter

Hampshire

•                Watership Down by Richard Adams

•                The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

Herefordshire 

•                On The Black Hill by Bruce Chatwin

•                The Diaries of Francis Kilvert by Rev. Francis Kilvert

Hertfordshire

•                Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

•                Howard's End by E.M. Forster

Huntingdonshire

•                To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

Kent

•                The Darling Buds of May by H. E. Bates

•                The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

•                Murder in the Cathedral by T.S. Eliot

•                Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

•                The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens

•                Cakes and Ale by W. Somerset Maugham

•                Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham

Lancashire

•                Hard Times by Charles Dickens

•                Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell

•                North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell

•                Redburn by Herman Melville

•                The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell

•                Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson

Leicestershire

•                The Right to an Answer by Anthony Burgess

Lincolnshire

•                John Marchmount's Legacy by Mary Elizabeth Braddon

•                The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

•                Pamela, or, Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

London

•                Emma by Jane Austen

•                Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie

•                A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett

•                The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Buttler

•                The Man Who Was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton

•                Fanny Hill by John Cleland

•                No Name by Wilkie Collins

•                Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe

•                A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

•                Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

•                Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

•                The Nether World by George Gissing

•                New Grub Street by George Gissing

•                The Diary of a Nobody by George and Wheedon Grossmith

•                Hanover Square by Patrick Hamilton

•                Esther Waters by George Moore

•                The Diary of Samuel Pepys

•                Vanity Fairy by William Makepeace Thackerary

•                Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

•                Night and Day by Virginia Woolf

Norfolk

•                The Big Six by Arthur Ransome

Northamptonshire

•                Mansfield Park by Jane Austen [uncertain]

•                Mistress Masham's Repose by T. H. White

Northumberland

•                Rob Roy by Sir Walter Scott

•                Ruined City by Nevil Shute

Nottinghamshire

•                Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence

•                The Rainbow by D. . Lawrence

•                Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence

•                The White Peacock by D. H. Lawrence

Oxfordshire

•                The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford

•                Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh

Shropshire

•                Howards End by E. M. Forster

•                A Shopshire Lad by A.E. Housman

Somerset

•                Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

•                Persuasion by Jane Austen

•                No Name by Wilkie Collins

•                The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

•                Black Sheep by Georgette Heyer

•                The Belton Estate by Anthony Trollope

•                Aunts Aren't Gentlemen by P. G. Wodehouse

Staffordshire

•                Anna of the Five Towns by Arnold Bennett

•                The Old Wives Tale by Arnold Bennett

•                Adam Bede by George Eliot

Suffolk

•                Celia by Fanny Burney

•                No Name by Wilkie Collins

•                We Didn't Mean to Go to Sea by Arthur Ransome

Surrey

•                The Watsons by Jane Austen

•                A Room With a View by E. M. Forster

•                The Time Machine by H. G. Wells

Sussex

•                Sanditon by Jane Austen

•                The Worm Forgives the Plow by John Stewart Collis

•                The Last Post by Lord Maddox Ford

•                The Collector by John Fowles

•                Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons

•                Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

•                The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell

•                The History of Mr. Polly by H. G. Wells

•                The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells

Tyne & Wear (formerly Durham)

•                Afternoon Off by Alan Bennett

•                The novels of Catherine Cookson

•                The Stars Look Down by A.J. Cronin

•                Rokeby by Walter Scott

Warwickshire

•                The Diary of an Edwardian Lady by Edith Holden

•                Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes

•                Kenilworth by Walter Scott

•                As You Like It by William Shakespeare

Wiltshire

•                The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

•                The Chronicles of Barset by Anthony Trollope

•                Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh

Worcestershire

•                Aurora Leigh by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

•                The Well of Loneliness by Radcyffe Hall

Yorkshire

•                Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë [uncertain]

•                Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

•                Shirley by Charlotte Brontë

•                The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

•                No Name by Wilkie Collins

•                Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

•                The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith

•                A Kestrel for a Knave by Barry Hines

•                The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

•                Dracula by Bram Stoker

For those who would like to learn where the counties are situated in England, some handy references are: this link to a map of the counties; as well as this quiz; and this quiz; and this jigsaw puzzle.

Picture me rubbing my hands together gleefully.  I just can't wait!