What's on our reading list

March 5th is World Book Day, so we asked some of the YSI’s most avid readers to give us their must read books. Happy World Book Day – get reading!

And why not tell us on social media what your favourite and must read books are too?

Jim Patrick Wyke: Siddhartha by Herman Hesse

Matthew Henderson: 1984 by George Orwell

Ewan Lewis: Prisoners of Geography - Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need To Know About Global Politics

Scott Blair: Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi

Jeanette Millar: Holes by Sachar

Ian Gallagher: Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Lauren Seery-Loudon: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Callum Reid: The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells

Sarah Quinn: Good times, Bad times by John Hills

Michael Gibbons: Look Who's Back by Timur Vermes.

Grace Richardson: Poor things by Alasdair Gray

Described as the glasweigan frankenstein, this novel is my favourite from gray!!

Rory Steel: Granny made me an Anarchist - Stuart Christie

Sophie Duncan Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda

At times challenging to read but it provides some perspective on humanitarianism and our global responsibility.

Declan Blench: Gender - A Graphic Guide by Meg-John Barker & Jules Scheele

Eve Cunnington: Abarat by Clive barker

It’s weird, like a young persons steven king almost? It’s a fantasy novel, but quite dark and had me hooked when I first read it it’s the only book I’ve read more than once.

Steven Campbell: Noughts & Crosses by Malorie Blackman

Catriona MacDonald: Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier

A story of female friendship on the front lines of scientific discovery which follows Mary Anning as she disrupts the upper-class male palaeontology community by inconveniently discovering dinosaurs.

Aidan Phillips: Animal Farm by George Orwell

Eilidh McSherry: A Little Life” by Hanya Yanagihara

Identity, adulthood, trauma, and friendship. Wonderful but bleak.

Frederic Bayer: No Great Mischief by Alistair MacLeod

A novel exploring the struggles of Cape Breton Gaels around identity, tradition and modernity in late 20th century Canada. The title is from a quote of the British Army's commander in Canada, James Wolfe, who said he preferred sending Highlanders into battle rather than Englishmen because "it is no great mischief if they fall