What to Read After On Literature
Readers who loved On Literature by Umberto Eco keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where On Literature 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 On Literature
Literary theory
Lectures on Literature. Austen, Dickens, Flaubert, Stevenson, Proust, Kafka, Joyce
The Uses of Literature
Selected non-fictions
Six walks in the fictional woods
Mimesis
S/Z
Rereadings
Anatomy of criticism
Problems of Dostoevsky's poetics
Genius
Proust and signs
The educated imagination
Every book its reader
Baudolino
Island of the Day Before
Where shall wisdom be found?
Why read the classics?
Theory of Semiotics (Advances in Semiotics)
Travels in Hyperreality (Harvest Book)
The book of imaginary beings
On ugliness
Serendipities
Other Inquisitions