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
Six walks in the fictional woods
On Literature
Lectures on Literature. Austen, Dickens, Flaubert, Stevenson, Proust, Kafka, Joyce
Selected non-fictions
The Common Reader
Travels in Hyperreality (Harvest Book)
The search for the perfect language
Siete noches
Love & death in the American novel
Kant and the Platypus
Maps and Legends
Diario minimo
Serendipities
Against Interpretation
The nonexistent knight & The cloven viscount
The castle of crossed destinies
Difficult loves
Real presences
Comparative literature
Classics for Pleasure
Anatomy of criticism
A literature of their own
The Machine in the Garden