What to Read After The Nature of the Book
Readers who loved The Nature of the Book by Adrian Johns keep reaching for these 21 books. This list is built from where The Nature of the Book 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 The Nature of the Book
A short history of the printed word
Paratexts
The object stares back
Some Remarks
Leviathan and the Air-Pump - Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life
The Smithsonian book of books
The aesthetics of Thomas Aquinas
Author unknown
A Splendor of Letters
Libraries in the Ancient World
The footnote
Reinventing knowledge
So many books
The search for the perfect language
The Book World of Renaissance Europe
The Gutenberg Elegies
ABC for book collectors
Out of the flames
The printing press as an agent of change
The Literary Underground of the Old Regime
Confessions of a young novelist