Expand What’s So Great About the Great Books?, by Naomi KanakiaNaomi Kanakia is a trans blogger of South Asian heritage who’s become something of an activist for the Great Books. As for the character, mind-building results ascribed to reading such Great Books as Moby Dick or Crime and Punishment, Kanakia avoids being lofty. “I don’t think I’ve ever been triggered,” she writes, adding that many of the charges made against certain Great Books are caricatured or out of context. She appends her book with a roster of Great Books compiled in the late last century by Clifton Fadiman and John Major, a list beginning with the ancient Mesopotamian epic Gilgamesh and ending with Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe. SIGN UPGet What's So Great About the Great Books?