Book suggestions for studying English Literature and Creative Writing?

So I realised that the last post I made on here was quite gumbled and hard to understand so I apolagise for that and will try it out this way instead and hope that helps.

So I finished college a while ago for an animal care course. I loved it a lot and don’t regret taking it as it has taught me a lot and allows me to take even better care of the animals in my life. However, it has become apparent that trying to get a job in that field where I live is nearly impossible or requires a university degree which I havent taken the plunge on yet as it’s a lot of money and I’ve been saving up for a while and if I’m beging honest I’m having second thoughts on whether that’s the degree I wish to persue. I do love animal care but I have realised that there are other subjects that I may love more and may want to go into to study that would be easier later on for me to get a job so I would like to take this time to research more into them to not only see if that’s true but to see whether I still enjoy them after studying them for a while.

So I’ve decided to take this year to research and learn more about those courses and what they would entail by looking into a few different things relating to them.

First I am making a list of all subjects that interest me a lot that I may wish to persue.

Second I’m looking at different collages and university’s courses on those subjects and the curriculum they offer to see what I would be learning and making a list on that and looking at jobs I could get after finishing those studies with those qualifications.

Last I am trying to read more into those subjects to see if it is indeed something I could see myself doing as a job and enjoying for the rest of my life which leads me to here.

So for the next few days you may see a few posts like this one popping up for me asking about different subjects and book reccomendations for those subjects. I hope that’s okay?

So for today English Literature and Creative Writing! I have seen this course a few times and looked into it when I was younger but never picked it but it’s one that has interested me a lot and more so now that I recently got back into reading again and even attempting to write my own little stories and poems. I have been watching some videos on youtube of students who have studied courses like this and jotted down books they reccomended but it just truly sounds fascinating to me. So I would love some reccomendations for books that you think would be useful for a person to read who would be interested in studying a course like this? The basics and the more obscure are welcomed.

Thank you to anyone who reccomends me a book!

by Edenacris97