1001 BOOKS YOU MUST READ BEFORE YOU DIE (2021)

Offering concise critical insight to the novels and the writers that have fired imaginations and influenced cultures around the world, this newly updated edition runs the gamut from the first Latin novel to survive in its entirety to Dave Egger's highly topical novel about an all-seeing, all-knowing technology company, The Circle. Discover the stories behind the adjectives Dickensian, Kafkaesque and Rabelaisian; the dark recesses of the Marquis de Sade's jail cell; Aldous Huxley's brave new world; the society of Barbara Pym's excellent women - and much more.