What to Read After The Role of the Reader
Readers who loved The Role of the Reader by Umberto Eco keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The Role of the Reader 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 Role of the Reader
Elements of Semiology
Morphology of the Folktale
Validity in Interpretation
After Babel
Limits of Interpretation
Mimesis
Sexual/textual Politics
On Deconstruction
Deceit, Desire, and the Novel
Proust and Signs
Six Walks in the Fictional Woods
Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language
S/Z
On Literature
The Dialogic Imagination
Mythologies
Against the Day
Camera Lucida
History Of Beauty
Island of the Day Before
Simulacra and Simulation
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
Tractatus Logico-philosophicus
Baudolino