What to Read After After Babel
Readers who loved After Babel by George Steiner keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where After Babel is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after After Babel
Is That a Fish in Your Ear?
The role of the reader
Serendipities
A textbook of translation
The meaning of meaning
The search for the perfect language
New science
Orality and Literacy
Introducing Translation Studies
Metaphors We Live By
Ferdinand de Saussure
The well wrought urn
Lost in translation
Literary essays of Ezra Pound
The sense of an ending
Meaning-based translation
Le Ton beau de Marot
Reading Rilke
As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh
ABC of reading
The order of things
Beginning theory
The Human Condition
The Origins of Totalitarianism