University Reading List 

Also the turn of the screw is fab I love it sm

I read The Road last year in high school, and I LOVED it.

Congratulations on finishing uni!! :D The period drama module sounds really interesting! I love watching different adaptations and seeing how people adapt different aspects differently. I'm doing something similar about fairy tales in german at the moment. :)

Whoa! So apparently I was the 5000th view on here. So excited I can't resist letting other people know about it. While I'm at it, thank you for showing & getting me interested in so many wonderful books, and congratulations on your English degree!

Congratulations on finishing university! I graduate next week and I'm very happy about this, I just finished my History and English Literature degree at Reading University :D I know lots about Beckett because we have the huge Beckett archive, which my uni is very pleased with, so they go on about it all the time! I'm very jealous you studied The Road, and loads of others commenters have said they have too, I feel like I've missed out...

Congratulations! I like your sweater a lot, your videos are really great. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man was the first book I read this year, and my first Joyce novel!

The heat of the day is a BRILLIANT novel, I would seriously recommend it if you want to give it another go xxxx

I've read and loved many of these authors / titles. I feel like I deserve an honorary degree, but of course I didn't have to take exams or write papers about them. Thanks for reminding me to read The Third Policeman. It's one I've overlooked.

My sister is studying english literature! She's specializing in translation however. As soon as she overheard you say you're finishing your studies in english literature she came running to see the vid :P

I am in my first year at university and well, it's ending soon, but I did The Road by Cormac McCarthy, my assignment on that was one of my favourites to put together. I did Yeats as well this year but he has been my favourite since the beginning of A Level. I did Heart of Darkness in A level too. I'M DOING THE GATHERING IN AN EXAM ON WEDNESDAY AND IM DYING AT THE THOUGHT. Ironically I am watching your video and commenting instead of revising, but I have Othello and Fantomina on Saturday. I love watching your videos about books and it's interesting to see how many similar ones we are doing! :) Good luck in the real world n'stuff aha!

On the topic of Charles Dickens adaptations: some of the scenes for the adaptation of David Copperfield that Daniel Radcliffe did of David Copperfield before he did Harry Potter were filmed at my old school, so a handful of the teachers there have met him

I love these kind of videos. Really interesting!

I've studied English for two years and miraculously enough I have managed to not read any of these! I've read Jane Eyre several times though ^^, I love long videos about books, thanks for making this, I'll probably check out some of the books you mentioned :)

This is actually useful for me because I'm thinking about studying abroad at Trinity in Dublin in my third year (I'm in Scotland, so that'd be my 2nd last year) so it's good to get an opinion on the irish literature. We've studied Gulliver's Travels and Waiting for Godot is in the second year syllabus but apart from that we haven't studied many Irish works :)

Oh my gosh, cannot believe you've finished, I remember when you started uni and I was in awe of you! This was interesting, to compare to what I've done this year, and what I've chosen for my second and third year modules :) Good luck in waiting on your exam results :)

congrats! I'm so proud of you! ♥ xx

The Thumbnail for this is one if the best ive ever seen 😍 its so strange to think that after many years of watching you and Bri, i finally got to meet you on saturday and it just seems weird watching you now 😂

woo, congrats Candice!

Awesome list, I'm thinking of checking out a few of these.

This thumbnail is absolutely hilarious! Congrats on finishing university -- I've also just finished :)

This makes me want to go back to uni so badly.

WELL DONE! WE'RE ALL SO PROUD OF YOU, AS BRIAN IS TOO I'M SURE XXX

These all sound like such interesting books! Or maybe you're just good at talking about them :P but I'll have a lot of spare time this summer, so I might buy some of these and give them a go. I reckon the library should have them too.

Ahhh I only managed to fight my way through one year of English Literature at uni before I dropped out.. doesn't seem like you had to study any of the same stuff as me, which is a shame. Well done for finishing though, it's weird to think if I'd stayed I would have graduated last year. Lovely video by the way, have a nice day :)

Just finished my degree in english and history Monday. The Road was probably my favourite in the four years I loved my Irish lit courses too, amongst women was really good, butcher boy too. Ullyses kind of killed me, we studied it for four months solid. I feel like the magic was lost on 9 o clock lectures on a Tuesday after a week or two.

I finished today too! Congrats to us:D

Congratulations finishing your degree how exciting it must feel and liberating no more homework =D haha

This was really interesting! I just finished my first year and I took a literature class that I really enjoyed, I plan on taking more so it was interesting to see what you read!

Congratulations!!! Being finished at last is such a strange and giddy feeling xx What do you plan to do now that you're done school? :)

Just finished doing the The Road for AS English Lit, I absolutely hated it. Not only is it completely and utterly miserable but it has no chapters so is a killer to revise.

If you can finish Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian, it is because your are either a sociopath, a masochist, or very very determined. So brutal.

it's amazing how much reading you do when studying english in an english-speaking country. literature was only small part for me, i mostly stuck to cultural studies, lots of watching TV. i had to read one book for one lecture throughout the 3 years, and i didn't even finish it (satire from 1742 wasn't v captivating). classes that were prefaced with "students will have to have read the following 5 novels before attending" were practically empty, no one wanted to do the reading. we're such a lazy bunch here. I have the same issue of Oscar Wilde's short stories, bought it heavily discounted on amazon warehouse deals :D It's so tempting to go on warehouse deals, set the max price to 3€ and see what comes up. I have too many books now :3 I have never read The Heart of Darkness, I have only read about it in essays dealing with postcolonialism which mention it as being racist.

OMG CONGRATULATIONS!!!¡¡¡!!!

In September I'll be starting an English degree (with joint honours of Film and Screen Studies) at Northampton and I'm really looking forward to it. Scared that as I'm a slow reader, I'll struggle with keeping up. D:

I'm sorry, completely off-topic, but that sweatshirt is really cool!!

this is wonderful!

I read Hard Times for AS English Lit last year :) didn't particularly like it but it was better than some others that we read. Have you ever read Fingersmiths by Sarah Waters? she's not Irish (I don't think) but you've ready quite a lot xxx

I love these! - "The Road" looks really interesting. What are you hoping to do next year? :) x

Tried Ulysses years ago, got to p165, gave up. Didn't know what the hell was going on. Meant nothing to me.

I want to go read alllll the Irish lit now. :)

Beckett 😍

Did you have one of those "EVERYONE has to read this book" experiences at university? I haven't had one yet, but I've only started last year.

Did you study any Seamus Heaney for your degree? Great video :)

Have you read any Seamus Heaney? He's a great Irish poet!

The Country Girls trilogy: "...and there's romance". Ummm debatable :O

Hey Candice, I realise you might not see this but I know that you studied English Lit at QUB which is the course I'm interested in applying to this year, and I was wondering if you had to give many speeches/presentations? I'm terrified of those but I don't want it to inhibit doing this course.

Is she happy?

Hi sorry I was wondering which university you went to to study English literature?

Why don't you keep all your books? :)

Did you study any Patrick Kavanagh?

you are really cute

Considering to study abroad in the UK when I'm out of high school. (I'm from Denmark) I don't know if English would be too difficult but perhaps I should consider it😊

I had to read Ulysses last year for the 1st year of me degree and I HATED it. However, did Beckett this year, Endgame and Krapp's Last Tape which I sat an exam on today and I love them. :)

This was so interesting to me because I just finished my first year of university and I'm studying English as one of my arts subjects so I love seeing what books you've read for your degree. We read Dubliners this year and I think we'll be tackling Ulysses next year! I think we get to choose from different modules next year and I definitely want to read more Irish literature. Can't wait to read Wilde and Beckett especially!

What an interesting list! I guess I don't pay enough attention to the authors I read, because I didn't know a few of those were Irish. But I was now introduced to a nice variety of Irish works, thank you for that!

Love your collection and your voice.

I recently finished an english literature degree too, though my concentration was on British literature. I was so excited to see this as I am moving to Dublin in a couple of months and was really wanting to get some recommendations on some Irish works and authors besides Joyce. Off to the library!

where did you study? next year i'm (hopefully) going to study english at queen's (QUB)!

wow, I'm amazed at how different your reading list is from mine :) I'm studying English as well, in Barcelona, and out of all the books you mentioned only a few coincide with the ones that I had to read. We didn't really talk about Irish literature, and it looks fascinating! However, we had a subject on Harry Potter!

Congrats on finishing your degree!!

For this first year of my A-level English Literature course, we studied "Pride and Prejudice" and "The Yellow Wallpaper" and next year we study more feminist poets and writers. The fact that my English teachers are highly feminist apparently has a lot to do with this. I have no complaints, though! I don't think I could handle English Lit at uni though, it's a lot of reading and I can't concentrate on books for long enough to finish them.