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?
On Writing
The Meaning of Meaning
A Textbook of Translation
Orality and Literacy
New Science
Serendipities
Introducing Translation Studies
The Role of the Reader
The Search for the Perfect Language
In Other Words
Metaphors We Live By
Le Ton beau de Marot
The Sense of an Ending
Lost in Translation
Ferdinand de Saussure
Reading Rilke
Literary essays of Ezra Pound
The Well Wrought Urn
Meaning-based Translation
Translation Studies
As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh
ABC of Reading
The Order of Things