Here's a fun list I found scrolling through TikTok. To be read in the summer before first year John Henry Newman, The Idea of a University Robin Gilmour, The Victorian Period Isobel Armstron, Victorian Poetry Momma & Matto, A Companion to The History of The English Language Catherine E. Karkov, Imagining Anglo-Saxon England Aarts, McMahon, and Hinrichs, The Handbook of English Linguistics Reading list for Victorian module Oscar Wile, the Importance of Being Earnest Charles Darwin, The Origin of the Species (I was surprised by this one actually) Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyán Robert Browning, Slected Poems Charles Dickens, David Copperfield John Stuart Mill, On Liberty and the Subjection of Women Readling list for Modenr & Contemporary module