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
Robyn Graham: Trials - on death row in Pakistan by Isabel Buchanan
Joshua Harper: Surveillance Capitalism, by Shoshana Zuboff
Offers a manual for understanding our future.
Beth Chalmers: O Caledonia by Elspeth Barker
A gothic novel that explores the life of a dead girl through her own eyes.
Angus Nelson: The Stormlight Archives by Brandon Sanderson
Charlotte Armitage: Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur
A poetry book that explores abandonment, sexual violence, feminism, self-love, gender identity and post traumatic growth
Stuart Smith: Occupy by Noam Chomsky
Tells us about the power of left-wing grassroots movements
Emma Hendrie: Becoming - Michelle Obama
There is something in it that everyone can relate to and aspire to furthermore it discusses overcoming the barriers of race, class and gender.
Jack O'Neil: The sustainable growth commission
