This revised and updated guide to good reading provides a new rating system: Startpoints, which offer suggestions in different areas of reading; and Pathways, which lead from a dozen popular books to whole shelves of follow-up reading. The book includes new symbols for highly recommended and masterpiece; these offer a helpful, at times controversial, guide through the available wide selection of reading material. Kenneth McLeish is the author of Read a Book a Week, Myth, Companion to the Arts in the Twentieth Century and Bloomsbury Guide to Human Thought.