Bloomsbury Good Reading Guide: What to Read and What to Read Next

by NickRennison (Editor)

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  Hardcover
  2001

  $3.27

  This guide features more than 350 major authors and 4000 books. For each author there is a short article on style, influences, settings, theme and salient works. This is then followed by a Read On section directing readers to similar books by other authors. For 12 of the most influential works of literature, Pathways lead readers to books with similar themes. Startpoints provide a brief history of writing within each of the 12 main genres and lists the most popular books in each.

• Used

  Paperback
  2002

  $3.27

  Any avid reader will understand the joy of finding an 'unputdownable' book, and will have asked themselves the question, what next? With 100,000 new books published each year - in addition to the enormous wealth of literature already in print - this can be difficult. The Bloomsbury Good Reading Guide features more than 350 major authors, from Margaret Atwood to Emile Zola, through Bruce Chatwin, to Aldous Huxley, and Neville Shute. At the end of each entry, a 'Read On' section directs readers to similar works by other authors. For instance, Iain Banks' science fiction works are cross-referred to The Unlimited Dream Company by J G Ballard and The Alchemical Marriage of Alistair Crompton by Robert Sheckley, while from his literary novels, readers are signposted to Martin Amis' The Information (dark, obsessive behaviour) and to Alasdair Gray's Lanark (Scottish contemporary fiction). For twelve influential works of literature, 'Pathways' lead readers to more books with similar themes. For those new to English literature, the Guide also provides 'Startpoints' for reading around each of nine main genres, including Biography, Crime, Letters and Diaries, Science Fiction and Fantasy, and Travel.