20 books from my degree worth reading

After three years and countless reading lists, I thought I’d share 20 books from my degree worth reading. I read a considerable amount of the “classics” in my English course at York along with some obscure literature that no one has ever heard of mainly in the Anglo-Saxon textbook.

But there were also some absolute gems within those reading lists, that I would potentially never have found or not found for a long time.

These were the texts that stuck with me or really interested me over the course of my degree.

20 books from my degree worth reading:

1. The Driver’s Seat by Muriel Sparks
2. Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
3. The Hobbit by J R R Tolkien
4. Emma by Jane Austen
5. The Story of the Glittering Plain by William Morris
6. News From Nowhere by William Morris
7. The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
8. Desdemona by Toni Morrison
9. We should all be feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
10. The Madwoman in the Attic by Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar
11. Persuasion by Jane Austen
12. Random by Debbie Tucker Green
13. Far Away by Caryl Churchill
14. The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
15. The Narrative Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave by Frederick Douglass
16. Beowulf by Seamus Heaney
17. King Henry IV part 1 & 2 by William Shakespeare
18. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
19. The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
20. A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf

What books from your degree are worth reading?