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
Encounter
Fearful Symmetry
The Act of Reading
The Mission of Art
The Sense of an Ending
Mimesis
Is There a Text in This Class? The Authority of Interpretive Communities
The Mirror and the Lamp
The Rule of Metaphor
DMT and the Soul of Prophecy
Structuralist Poetics
Death by Government
The Uses of Literature
Space of Literature
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