Recs if you like Adam Bede...
1001 Books to Read Before You Die
Based on the list/book published in 2006, general editor Peter Boxall.
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
I tried to find the latest version (2026).
Oxford Reading List for English
Found this online - a reading list of a first year English course at Oxford University. Wanted to create this for my own enjoyment and figured someone else might like it too! I only added the fiction and poetry books and I also did not add any companions.
The last bit (from bottom up to Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway) are required reading - top half is recommended.
pastoral England
classic novels where the depiction of rural, pastoral England is a notable feature
Books in “ a little history of literature”
added as i read the book
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