READING LIST

I’m creating a reading list made up of British, Irish, Welsh, Scottish, and Canadian authors. It’s a work in progress. If you have anything you want to suggest, correct, or add, just let me know by sending me a message. Yes, I’m counting Henry James as British so please don’t message me about that.

**Just a note: I've read quite a few books on this list. I'm actually well-read, however, I feel some of the books that I've read in the past deserve to be read again.

England

  1. 1984 by George Orwell 
  2. Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne 
  3. Possession: A Romance by A. S. Byatt 
  4. And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
  5. Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
  6. Watchmen by Alan Moore
  7. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
  8. The Beach by Alex Garland
  9. Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
  10. Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë
  11. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë
  12. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
  13. Point Blanc by Anthony Horowitz
  14. Skeleton Key by Anthony Horowitz
  15. Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz
  16. A Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell
  17. Childhood’s End by Arthur C. Clarke
  18. Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome
  19. Dracula by Bram Stoker
  20. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
  21. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
  22. Bleak House by Charles Dickens
  23. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
  24. Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens
  25. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
  26. Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens
  27. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
  28. The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
  29. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
  30. A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood
  31. Lady Chatterley’s Lover D.H. Lawrence
  32. Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence
  33. The Rainbow by D.H. Lawrence
  34. Women in Love by D.H. Lawrence
  35. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
  36. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
  37. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
  38. Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
  39. I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
  40. The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
  41. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
  42. A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
  43. A Room With a View by E.M. Forster
  44. Howards End by E.M. Forster
  45. Flatland by Edwin A. Abbot
  46. North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
  47. Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell
  48. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
  49. The Magic Faraway Tree by Enid Blyton
  50. A Handful Of Dust by Evelyn Waugh
  51. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
  52. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
  53. The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth
  54. The Man Who was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton
  55. Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
  56. The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
  57. Diary of a Nobody by George and Weedon Grossmith
  58. Middlemarch by George Eliot
  59. Silas Marner by George Eliot
  60. Animal Farm by George Orwell
  61. Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
  62. The End of the Affair by Graham Greene
  63. The Heart Of The Matter by Graham Greene
  64. The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
  65. The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
  66. Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding
  67. Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
  68. The Ambassadors by Henry James
  69. The Golden Bowl by Henry James
  70. The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
  71. The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
  72. The Wings of the Dove by Henry James
  73. Amsterdam by Ian McEwan
  74. Atonement by Ian McEwan
  75. The Silver Sword by Ian Serraillier
  76. Crash by J.G. Ballard
  77. Empire of the Sun by J.G. Ballard
  78. Harry Potter Boxset by J.K. Rowling
  79. The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
  80. The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
  81. Shōgun by James Clavell
  82. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
  83. Emma by Jane Austen
  84. Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
  85. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
  86. Persuasion by Jane Austen
  87. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
  88. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
  89. The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
  90. Oranges are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
  91. Kane and Abel by Jeffrey Archer
  92. Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome
  93. Fanny Hill (or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure) by John Cleland
  94. The French Lieutenant’s Woman by John Fowles
  95. The Magus by John Fowles
  96. The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy
  97. Paradise Lost by John Milton
  98. The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
  99. Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
  100. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
  101. Nostromo Joseph Conrad
  102. Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson
  103. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
  104. The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
  105. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
  106. Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
  107. The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell
  108. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
  109. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin by Louis de Bernières Angus
  110. Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging by Louise Rennison
  111. The Far Pavilions by M. M. Kaye
  112. The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
  113. Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry
  114. Noughts & Crosses by Malorie Blackman
  115. London Fields by Martin Amis
  116. Money by Martin Amis
  117. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
  118. Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake
  119. Goodnight Mister Tom by Michelle Magorian
  120. V for Vendetta by Alan Moore and David Lloyd
  121. American Gods by Neil Gaiman
  122. A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute
  123. The Horse Whisperer by Nicholas Evans
  124. The Cruel Sea by Nicholas Monsarrat
  125. High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
  126. The Code of the Woosters by P.G. Wodehouse
  127. His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
  128. The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman
  129. The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
  130. Lorna Doone by R. D. Blackmore
  131. Watership Down by Richard Adams
  132. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
  133. Danny, the Champion of the World by Roald Dahl
  134. Fantastic Mr. Fox by Roald Dahl
  135. George’s Marvellous Medicine by Roald Dahl
  136. James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
  137. Matilda by Roald Dahl
  138. The BFG by Roald Dahl
  139. The Twits by Roald Dahl
  140. The Witches by Roald Dahl
  141. I, Claudius by Robert Graves
  142. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
  143. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
  144. The Shell Seekers by Rosamunde Pilcher
  145. Kim by Rudyard Kipling
  146. Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
  147. Three Novels (Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnameable) by Samuel Beckett
  148. Clarissa by Samuel Richardson
  149. Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
  150. A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  151. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  152. The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  153. Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
  154. The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾ by Sue Townsend
  155. Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
  156. The Waste Land and Other Writings by T.S. Eliot
  157. Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
  158. Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
  159. Tess of the d’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
  160. The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
  161. The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy
  162. Le Morte d’Arthur by Thomas Malory
  163. Utopia by Thomas More
  164. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard
  165. Man and Boy by Tony Parsons
  166. In a Free State by V.S. Naipaul
  167. They Used to Play on Grass by Terry Venables and Gordon Williams
  168. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
  169. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
  170. Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
  171. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
  172. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
  173. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
  174. White Teeth by Zadie Smith
  175. Notes on a Scandal by Zoe Heller
  176. Confessions of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella

Canada

  1. Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
  2. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
  3. A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
  4. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
  5. Fall on Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald
  6. In the Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje
  7. The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
  8. Not Wanted on the Voyage by Timothy Findley
  9. The Diviners by Margaret Laurence
  10. Summer Tree by Guy Gavriel Kay
  11. The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
  12. Fifth Business by Robertson Davies
  13. The Stone Angel by Margaret Laurence

Ireland

  1. Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer
  2. Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
  3. Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
  4. Ulysses by James Joyce
  5. Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne
  6. The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
  7. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
  8. The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell

Scotland

  1. Sunset Song by Lewis Grassic Gibbon
  2. The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
  3. The Thirty-nine Steps by John Buchan
  4. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark

Wales

  1. The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
 
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