Bloomsbury Good Reading Guide: What to Read and What to Read Next Kenneth McLeish
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.