What to Read After Empire of signs
Readers who loved Empire of signs by Roland Barthes keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Empire of signs 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 Empire of signs
America
Aesthetics and Politics (Radical Thinkers)
Powers of horror
Reflections
Kafka
A Tractate on Japanese Aesthetics
S/Z
Mythologies
Image, music, text
The difficulty of being
The production of space
The emancipated spectator
Specters of Marx
The Japanese chronicles
Storming the Reality Studio
The art of hunger
How to Write a Thesis
A poetics of postmodernism
Writing degree zero, and Elements of semiology.
The dialogic imagination
Thinking architecture
The culture industry
Literature and evil
Elements of Semiology