What to Read After Real Presences
Readers who loved Real Presences by George Steiner keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Real Presences 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 Real Presences
Mimesis
Encounter
Fearful Symmetry
The Sense of an Ending
The Mission of Art
Is There a Text in This Class? The Authority of Interpretive Communities
Space of Literature
The Rule of Metaphor
DMT and the Soul of Prophecy
Death by Government
The Uses of Literature
The Mirror and the Lamp
Structuralist Poetics
Ludwig Wittgenstein
If Not, Winter
The Complete Poems of John Keats
The Complete Poems
Medea
Notes From Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections From the House of the Dead
The Tempest
Franny and Zooey
Mrs. Dalloway
To the Lighthouse
Walden