poppy Posted January 15, 2014 Share Posted January 15, 2014 (edited) (Books read highlighted in green) 1. Bedfordshire - My Uncle Silas by H. E. Bates 2. Berkshire - The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame 3. Bristol - The Misses Mallett by E. H. Young 4. Buckinghamshire - The Dark Is Rising by Susan Cooper 5. Cambridgeshire - The Nine Tailors by Dorothy Sayers 6. Cheshire - Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell 7. City of London - A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens 8. Cornwall - Jamaica Inn by Daphne Du Maurier 9. Cumbria - Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome [alt. The Maid of Buttermere by Melvyn Bragg] 10. Derbyshire - Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks 11. Devon - And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie or The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle 12. Dorset - Far From The Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy 13. County Durham - Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens 14. East Riding of Yorkshire - South Riding by Winifred Holtby 15. East Sussex - Winnie-The-Pooh by A. A. Milne 16. Essex - The Turn Of The Screw by Henry James 17. Gloucestershire - Cider With Rosie by Laurie Lee 18. Greater London* - The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 19. Greater Manchester - North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell 20. Hampshire - Watership Down by Richard Adams 21. Herefordshire - On The Black Hill by Bruce Chatwin 22. Hertfordshire - Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen 23. Isle of Wight - England, England by Julian Barnes [alt. The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham (this book is only briefly set on the Isle of Wight but that particular section is famously associated with it)] 24. Kent - The Darling Buds of May by H. E. Bates 25. Lancashire - Oranges are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson 26. Leicestershire - The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13¾ by Sue Townsend 27. Lincolnshire - The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot 28. Merseyside - An Awfully Big Adventure by Beryl Bainbridge 29. Norfolk - The Go-Between by L. P. Hartley 30. North Yorkshire - Dracula by Bram Stoker [alt. All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot] 31. Northamptonshire - Mansfield Park by Jane Austen 32. Northumberland - The Stars Look Down by A. J. Cronin 33. Nottinghamshire - Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence 34. Oxfordshire - The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford 35. Rutland - Set In Stone by Robert Goddard 36. Shropshire - Summer Lightning by P. G. Wodehouse 37. Somerset - Lorna Doone by R. D. Blackmore 38. South Yorkshire - A Kestral For A Knave by Barry Hines 39. Staffordshire - The Old Wives' Tale by Arnold Bennett 40. Suffolk - The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald 41. Surrey - Emma by Jane Austen or The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells 42. Tyne and Wear - Another World by Pat Barker 43. Warwickshire - Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes 44. West Midlands - Middlemarch by George Eliot 45. West Sussex - Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons 46. West Yorkshire - Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë 47. Wiltshire - Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope 48. Worcestershire - The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall Edited February 28, 2014 by poppy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poppyshake Posted January 15, 2014 Share Posted January 15, 2014 Good luck with the county challenge Poppy You've made a big dent in it already Are you planning any re-reads? or are you concentrating on fresh reads first? I will be joining you anyway in trying to cross some more of the list. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willoyd Posted January 15, 2014 Share Posted January 15, 2014 Good luck with the challenge! Are you including books previously read in your list, or are these all books you've read as part of the challenge? If the latter, that's impressive going! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kidsmum Posted January 16, 2014 Share Posted January 16, 2014 Good luck with the challenge Poppy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devi Posted January 16, 2014 Share Posted January 16, 2014 (edited) Good luck poppy! Edited January 16, 2014 by Devi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexi Posted January 16, 2014 Share Posted January 16, 2014 Good luck! Looking forward to comparing notes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Athena Posted January 16, 2014 Share Posted January 16, 2014 Good luck ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poppy Posted January 16, 2014 Author Share Posted January 16, 2014 Thanks for the good wishes everyone It's not a list I'm going to tackle with any great haste, just one I'd like to work through. I may read an alternative book from some of the counties as some are quite difficult to find. Good luck with the county challenge Poppy You've made a big dent in it already Are you planning any re-reads? or are you concentrating on fresh reads first? I will be joining you anyway in trying to cross some more of the list. There's definitely some there I'd like to revisit Poppyshake, quite a few I've read several times aleady, but I'll try to read ones I haven't read first. Good luck with the challenge! Are you including books previously read in your list, or are these all books you've read as part of the challenge? If the latter, that's impressive going! I'd love to impress you by saying I've read all these since the challenge started Willoyd, but alas my nose would probably grow longer or my pants catch on fire or some other dire comeuppance would befall me for telling tall stories. These are just the ones I've read over the course of my reading life. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muggle not Posted January 17, 2014 Share Posted January 17, 2014 So, where does "The Ocean At The End Of The Lane" fit in, in this challenge. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poppy Posted January 17, 2014 Author Share Posted January 17, 2014 So, where does "The Ocean At The End Of The Lane" fit in, in this challenge. Thanks for the reminder Muggle!! I'd forgotten all about it. Have just placed a hold on it at my local library Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chesilbeach Posted January 17, 2014 Share Posted January 17, 2014 Glad to have someone else on board, poppy! Hope you enjoy the challenge. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kylie Posted February 11, 2014 Share Posted February 11, 2014 Good luck with this, Poppy. I look forward to following your progress. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poppy Posted March 15, 2014 Author Share Posted March 15, 2014 Have finished My Uncle Silas by HE Bates for Bedfordshire and am reading another East Sussex title, Miss Mapp by EF Benson. Both thoroughly enjoyable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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