What to Read After The Uses of Literature
Readers who loved The Uses of Literature by Italo Calvino keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The Uses of Literature 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 Uses of Literature
Mimesis
On Literature
Six Walks in the Fictional Woods
Lectures on Literature. Austen, Dickens, Flaubert, Stevenson, Proust, Kafka, Joyce
Selected Non-fictions
The Common Reader
Travels in Hyperreality (Harvest Book)
Love & death in the American novel
The Search for the Perfect Language
Kant and the Platypus
Maps and Legends
Serendipities
Seven Nights
Against Interpretation
The Nonexistent Knight & The Cloven Viscount
The Castle of Crossed Destinies
Difficult Loves
A Literature of Their Own
Anatomy of Criticism
Classics for Pleasure
Real Presences
The Machine in the Garden
Every Book Its Reader
Faith in Fakes