This is a non fiction book with a brief history of .. the entirety of literature and it's pretty interesting! I did really enjoy reading about the books and the authors, I especially enjoyed the sections on romanticism and modernism. I read this cover to cover but you can definitely jump around and read a little bit here and there if you wanted to. It's not /super/ in depth, but it does pretty well for a three hundred page book. I just wish more diverse writers had been included prior to the contemporary literature section. This book has a foreword about how including more "non white male" authors in the canon was important but I don't know how much they actually incorporated that However, for such a short book I think this was really interesting and I liked reading about some books I hadn't heard of before, or had heard the name of but didn't really know what it was about There is another book in this series about history so I will probably read that one too

Amazing, informative book!