**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
- 1984 by George Orwell
- Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne
- Possession: A Romance by A. S. Byatt
- And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
- Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
- Watchmen by Alan Moore
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- The Beach by Alex Garland
- Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
- Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë
- The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë
- A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
- Point Blanc by Anthony Horowitz
- Skeleton Key by Anthony Horowitz
- Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz
- A Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell
- Childhood’s End by Arthur C. Clarke
- Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome
- Dracula by Bram Stoker
- A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
- A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
- Bleak House by Charles Dickens
- David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
- Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens
- Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
- Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens
- Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
- The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
- A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood
- Lady Chatterley’s Lover D.H. Lawrence
- Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence
- The Rainbow by D.H. Lawrence
- Women in Love by D.H. Lawrence
- Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
- Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
- Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
- Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
- I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
- The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
- A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
- A Room With a View by E.M. Forster
- Howards End by E.M. Forster
- Flatland by Edwin A. Abbot
- North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
- Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell
- Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
- The Magic Faraway Tree by Enid Blyton
- A Handful Of Dust by Evelyn Waugh
- Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
- The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
- The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth
- The Man Who was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton
- Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
- The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
- Diary of a Nobody by George and Weedon Grossmith
- Middlemarch by George Eliot
- Silas Marner by George Eliot
- Animal Farm by George Orwell
- Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
- The End of the Affair by Graham Greene
- The Heart Of The Matter by Graham Greene
- The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
- The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
- Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding
- Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
- The Ambassadors by Henry James
- The Golden Bowl by Henry James
- The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
- The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
- The Wings of the Dove by Henry James
- Amsterdam by Ian McEwan
- Atonement by Ian McEwan
- The Silver Sword by Ian Serraillier
- Crash by J.G. Ballard
- Empire of the Sun by J.G. Ballard
- Harry Potter Boxset by J.K. Rowling
- The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
- The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
- Shōgun by James Clavell
- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
- Emma by Jane Austen
- Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
- Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
- Persuasion by Jane Austen
- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
- Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
- The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
- Oranges are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
- Kane and Abel by Jeffrey Archer
- Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome
- Fanny Hill (or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure) by John Cleland
- The French Lieutenant’s Woman by John Fowles
- The Magus by John Fowles
- The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy
- Paradise Lost by John Milton
- The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
- Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
- Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
- Nostromo Joseph Conrad
- Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson
- Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
- The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
- The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
- Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
- The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell
- Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
- Captain Corelli’s Mandolin by Louis de Bernières Angus
- Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging by Louise Rennison
- The Far Pavilions by M. M. Kaye
- The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
- Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry
- Noughts & Crosses by Malorie Blackman
- London Fields by Martin Amis
- Money by Martin Amis
- Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
- Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake
- Goodnight Mister Tom by Michelle Magorian
- V for Vendetta by Alan Moore and David Lloyd
- American Gods by Neil Gaiman
- A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute
- The Horse Whisperer by Nicholas Evans
- The Cruel Sea by Nicholas Monsarrat
- High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
- The Code of the Woosters by P.G. Wodehouse
- His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
- The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman
- The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
- Lorna Doone by R. D. Blackmore
- Watership Down by Richard Adams
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
- Danny, the Champion of the World by Roald Dahl
- Fantastic Mr. Fox by Roald Dahl
- George’s Marvellous Medicine by Roald Dahl
- James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
- Matilda by Roald Dahl
- The BFG by Roald Dahl
- The Twits by Roald Dahl
- The Witches by Roald Dahl
- I, Claudius by Robert Graves
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
- The Shell Seekers by Rosamunde Pilcher
- Kim by Rudyard Kipling
- Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
- Three Novels (Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnameable) by Samuel Beckett
- Clarissa by Samuel Richardson
- Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
- A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
- The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾ by Sue Townsend
- Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
- The Waste Land and Other Writings by T.S. Eliot
- Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
- Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
- Tess of the d’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
- The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
- The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy
- Le Morte d’Arthur by Thomas Malory
- Utopia by Thomas More
- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard
- Man and Boy by Tony Parsons
- In a Free State by V.S. Naipaul
- They Used to Play on Grass by Terry Venables and Gordon Williams
- Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
- To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
- Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
- The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
- Lord of the Flies by William Golding
- Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
- White Teeth by Zadie Smith
- Notes on a Scandal by Zoe Heller
- Confessions of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella
Canada
- Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
- The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
- A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
- Life of Pi by Yann Martel
- Fall on Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald
- In the Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje
- The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
- Not Wanted on the Voyage by Timothy Findley
- The Diviners by Margaret Laurence
- Summer Tree by Guy Gavriel Kay
- The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
- Fifth Business by Robertson Davies
- The Stone Angel by Margaret Laurence
Ireland
- Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer
- Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
- Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
- Ulysses by James Joyce
- Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne
- The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
- The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
- The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell
Scotland
- Sunset Song by Lewis Grassic Gibbon
- The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
- The Thirty-nine Steps by John Buchan
- The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
Wales
- The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett