What to Read After Elements of Semiology
Readers who loved Elements of Semiology by Roland Barthes keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Elements of Semiology 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 Elements of Semiology
Theory of Semiotics (Advances in Semiotics)
The dialogic imagination
Travels in Hyperreality (Harvest Book)
Course in general linguistics
The role of the reader
Semiotics
Mythologies
S/Z
Image, music, text
Comments on the society of the spectacle
Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language
This Means This, This Means That
Faith in fakes
Structuralism & semiotics
The System of Objects (Radical Thinkers)
Limited Inc
How to Read Lacan (How to Read)
Writing degree zero, and Elements of semiology.
Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972-1977.
Illuminations
Simulacra and Simulation
The fashion system
The order of things
Of grammatology