What to Read After Deceit, Desire, and the Novel
Readers who loved Deceit, Desire, and the Novel by René Girard keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Deceit, Desire, and the Novel 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 Deceit, Desire, and the Novel
Who Killed Roger Ackroyd?
Problems of Dostoevsky's poetics
Proust's Way
Practical Criticism
Powers of horror
Mimesis
Anatomy of criticism
On Deconstruction
Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature
Western Attitudes toward Death
The role of the reader
Lectures on Literature. Austen, Dickens, Flaubert, Stevenson, Proust, Kafka, Joyce
The practice of writing
Proust and signs
The function of criticism
The Man Who Was Thursday
Orthodoxy
On writing well
The Complete Poems
Disgrace
Walden
The Taming of the Shrew
Paradise Lost
To the Lighthouse