The great writer and writer "Taha Hussein" shows us colors of books that he sees from the important books that he illuminates in this book. The intense desire for knowledge has been pushing him from his youth until the last days of his life; He was spending the long hours daily, listening to his colleagues and assistants, reading him, and even after his star in the world of thought and literature shined and won the highest positions, he did not stop reading the new literary works issued to young men or adults. The books chosen for us have varied between modern, French, American and other Arab literature; He decided to share the reader with him in the pleasure of identifying the new and preciousness of the fruits of minds, also the book included some different intellectual and critical opinions; It was characterized by the boldness that distinguished his intellectual style.