This bright and witty book will take the reader through millennia of literary history: from the Epic of Gilgamesh to novels created by a neural network. You will learn how literature appeared, what ancient Greek tragedies and Hollywood blockbusters have in common, how women broke into the most read ratings writers of the world and why rappers are also poets. And also find out which poem is the longest, which work was written over fifteen hundred years, and how comics took their rightful place in literature. Thanks to this book, you will learn to distinguish romanticism from realism and modernism, utopia from dystopia, learn how Renaissance poets composed sonnets and what you need to mix to make cyberpunk. Even in ancient texts you can find something close to you and, of course, you will have an impressive list of works to read.