Anyway, it's a Reading England Challenge for 2015. Basically, the idea is to read different books set in the different counties of England. I have about ninety books on my TBR shelves that I've classified as Brit Lit, so there have to be some I can use, right?
Details of the challenge are here, but I'm signing up for level 2, four to six counties. Here are some possible selections (and if I have the appropriate counties wrong, please let me know.) I'm also open to suggestions.
I'm trying to limit my choices to classic books. Here's what I've come up with so far from the TBR shelves and other books on my radar:
Buckinghamshire: Lark Rise to Candleford by Flora Thompson
Cornwall: Frenchman's Creek by Daphne du Maurier
The House on the Strand by Daphne du Maurier
Cumbria: Lady Anna by Anthony Trollope
Devon: A Pair of Blue Eyes by Thomas Hardy
Dorset: Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy
Kent: Aurora Floyd by Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Cakes and Ale by W. Somerset Maugham
Lancashire: Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell
The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy
Kent: Aurora Floyd by Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Cakes and Ale by W. Somerset Maugham
Lancashire: Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell
London: New Grub Street by George Gissing
Liza of Lambeth by W. Somerset Maugham
Of course I have lots more books by Trollope on the TBR shelves, but a bunch of them are the Palliser novels which I think take place mostly in London, plus some Irish novels. One could do an entire challenge of novels set in London, and I think the idea is to spread the reads out amongst various counties.
Any other suggestions?