Reading England 2015



The Goal To travel England by reading, to read at least one book per however many counties of England you decide to read - ( Level 3 - 7 - 12 titles)

The Plan
  • to read the books that I have on my bookshelf or kindle.
  • to make the counties where my forebears lived a priority to visit. ( marked with *)
The Reading List

Bedfordshire *

John Bunyan ? - unless someone can tell me of another author from this county.

Berkshire

Our Village by Mary Russell Mitford

Buckinghamshire*

Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray

Cambridgeshire

Maurice by E.M.Forster

Cornwall

Rambles Beyond Railways by Wilkie Collins (thanks Jane)

Cumbria

Derbyshire *

Adam Bede by George Eliot

Devon

Rachel Ray by Anthony Trollope
Gentian Hill by Elizabeth Goudge

Dorset

The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy

Huntingdonshire

To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

Kent *

The Chronicles of Pop Larkin by H.E.Bates
Of Human Bondage by Somerset Maugham

Lancashire

Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell

London *

The Odd Women by George Gissing
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
All Passion Spent by Vita Sackville-West
Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens

Nottinghamshire *

Sons and Lovers by D.H.Lawrence

Staffordshire

Anna of the Five Towns by Arnold Bennett

Sussex

Queen Lucia by E.F.Benson
Mapp and Lucia by E.F.Benson

Westmoreland

Helbeck of Bannisdale by Mrs Humphry Ward

Yorkshire *

Shirley by Charlotte Bronte
The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith

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