101 Great Books Series: Part 5 by Umair Mirxa The fifth part of our series leads us right to the end of the 20th century. It is the time of The Silmarillion and Suttree, of The Pillars of the Earth and The Eye of the World. The Golden Compass, Neverwhere, Read more…
101 Great Books Series: Part 4 by Umair Mirxa The 23 years in this list represent a period when J.R.R. Tolkien was at the peak of his powers. Herbert wrote Dune, Heller produced Catch-22, Le Guin treated us to A Wizard of Earthsea, and Nabokov delighted the world with Lolita. Read more…
101 Great Books Series: Part 3 by Umair Mirxa The third list in this series of 101 Great Books spans 35 years. It is the era of Joyce and Woolf, Faulkner and Steinbeck, and Hemingway and Fitzgerald. It is during these years that we were blessed with such legendary works Read more…
101 Great Books Series: Part 2 by Umair Mirxa While the first list spanned nearly four millennia, the second list of 101 Great Books is spread over a mere four decades, at 44 years. The time it takes to travel from one great work of literature to the next is Read more…
101 Great Books Series: Part 1 by Umair Mirxa Travel through more than four thousand years of great literature with this series of ‘101 Great Books’ blog posts, and discover a lifetime’s worth of reading material written from 2100 BCE all the way to the present day. The first 101 Read more…