For a general and very handy reference, I've included O's list of books by English county, copied from her blog.
Bedfordshire
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The Two Sisters by H. E. Bates
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My Uncle Silas by H. E. Bates
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Grace Abounding to the
Chief of Sinners by John
Bunyan
Berkshire
•
The Wind in the
Willows by Kenneth Grahame
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Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
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Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes
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Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome
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The Merry Wives of
Winsor by William
Shakespeare
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The Ballad of Reading
Gaol by Oscar Wilde
Bristol
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Evelina by Fanny Burney
Buckinghamshire
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Lark Rise to Candleford by Flora Thompson
Cambridgeshire
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The Longest Journey by E. M. Forster
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Maurice by E. M. Forster
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Jacob's Room by Virginia Woolf
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Glory by Vladimir Nabakov
Cheshire
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Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell
Cornwall
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Frenchman's Creek by Daphne du Maurier
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Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier
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Basil & Rambles Beyond Railways by Wilkie Collins
• Basil & Rambles Beyond Railways by Wilkie Collins
• Basil & Rambles Beyond Railways by Wilkie Collins
Cumbria
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The Tennant of Wildfell
Hall by Anne Brontë
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The Lazy Tour of Two Idle
Apprentices by Charles
Dickens & Wilkie Collins
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The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
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Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome
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Lady Anna by Anthony Trollope
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The Journals of Dorothy
Wordsworth
Derbyshire
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Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë [uncertain]
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Adam Bede by George Eliot
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Uncle Silas by J. Sheridan Le Fanu
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The Lair of the White
Worm by Bram Stoker
Devon
•
Sense and
Sensibility by Jane
Austen
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Lorna Doone by R. D. Blackmore
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The Hound of the
Baskervilles by Arthur Conan
Doyle
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Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley
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He Knew He Was Right by Anthony Trollope
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Rachel Ray by Anthony Trollope
Dorset
•
The Worm Forgives the
Plow by John Stewart
Collis
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Moonfleet by J. Meade Faulkner
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Far From the Madding Crowd
by Thomas Hardy
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The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
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The Return of the
Native by Thomas Hardy
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Tess of the
D'urbervilles by Thomas
Hardy
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Two on a Tower by Thomas Hardy
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Thank you, Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse
Durham
• (see Tyne & Wear)
Essex
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Lady Audley's Secret by Mary Elizabeth Braddon
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Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens
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Nightingale Woods by Stella Gibbons
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The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
Gloucestershire
•
Cider With Rose by Laurie Lee
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The Tailor of
Gloucestershire by Beatrix
Potter
Hampshire
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Watership Down by Richard Adams
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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
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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Howard's End by E.M. Forster
Huntingdonshire
•
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
Kent
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The Darling Buds of May by H. E. Bates
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The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
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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
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Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
Lancashire
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Hard Times by Charles Dickens
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Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell
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North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
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Redburn by Herman Melville
•
The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell
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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
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Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie
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A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
•
The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Buttler
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The Man Who Was
Thursday by G. K. Chesterton
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Fanny Hill by John Cleland
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No Name by Wilkie Collins
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Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
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A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
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Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens
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Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
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The Nether World by George Gissing
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New Grub Street by George Gissing
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The Diary of a Nobody by George and Wheedon Grossmith
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Hanover Square by Patrick Hamilton
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Esther Waters by George Moore
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The Diary of Samuel Pepys
•
Vanity Fairy by William Makepeace Thackerary
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Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
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Night and Day by Virginia Woolf
Norfolk
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The Big Six by Arthur Ransome
Northamptonshire
•
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen [uncertain]
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Mistress Masham's Repose by T. H. White
Northumberland
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Rob Roy by Sir Walter Scott
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Ruined City by Nevil Shute
Nottinghamshire
•
Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence
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The Rainbow by D. . Lawrence
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Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence
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The White Peacock by D. H. Lawrence
Oxfordshire
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The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford
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Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
Shropshire
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Howards End by E. M. Forster
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A Shopshire Lad by A.E. Housman
Somerset
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Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
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Persuasion by Jane Austen
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No Name by Wilkie Collins
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The History of Tom Jones,
a Foundling by Henry
Fielding
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Black Sheep by Georgette Heyer
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The Belton Estate by Anthony Trollope
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Aunts Aren't
Gentlemen by P. G.
Wodehouse
Staffordshire
•
Anna of the Five Towns by Arnold Bennett
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The Old Wives Tale by Arnold Bennett
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Adam Bede by George Eliot
Suffolk
•
Celia by Fanny Burney
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No Name by Wilkie Collins
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We Didn't Mean to Go to
Sea by Arthur Ransome
Surrey
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The Watsons by Jane Austen
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A Room With a View by E. M. Forster
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The Time Machine by H. G. Wells
Sussex
•
Sanditon by Jane Austen
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The Worm Forgives the
Plow by John Stewart
Collis
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The Last Post by Lord Maddox Ford
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The Collector by John Fowles
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Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
•
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
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The Ragged-Trousered
Philanthropists by
Robert Tressell
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The History of Mr. Polly by H. G. Wells
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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
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Rokeby by Walter Scott
Warwickshire
•
The Diary of an Edwardian
Lady by Edith Holden
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Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes
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Kenilworth by Walter Scott
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As You Like It by William Shakespeare
Wiltshire
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The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
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The Chronicles of Barset by Anthony Trollope
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Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
Worcestershire
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Aurora Leigh by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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The Well of Loneliness by Radcyffe Hall
Yorkshire
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Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë [uncertain]
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Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
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Shirley by Charlotte Brontë
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The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
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No Name by Wilkie Collins
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Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens
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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
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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!
