What to Read After The Sense of an Ending
Readers who loved The Sense of an Ending by Frank Kermode keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The Sense of an Ending 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 Sense of an Ending
Mimesis
The Mirror and the Lamp
The Function of Criticism
The Great Code
Language and Silence
Real Presences
The Well Wrought Urn
Reading for the Plot
Narrative Discourse
Studies in classic American literature
Serendipities
The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism
Genius
Lectures on Literature. Austen, Dickens, Flaubert, Stevenson, Proust, Kafka, Joyce
Anatomy of Criticism
Metafiction
Five Faces of Modernity
Seven Types of Ambiguity
The Western canon
Structuralist Poetics
Grammars of Creation
English Literature in the Sixteenth Century
The Art of Fiction
Principles of Literary Criticism