What to Read After The Act of Reading
Readers who loved The Act of Reading by Wolfgang Iser keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The Act of Reading 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 Act of Reading
Mimesis
Real Presences
The Great Code
The Well Wrought Urn
Cybertext
Is There a Text in This Class? The Authority of Interpretive Communities
Story and Discourse
The Process of Education
Seven Types of Ambiguity
Paratexts
Oracle Night
Poetics
Pedro Páramo
The Mill on the Floss
La père Goriot
Madame Bovary
Howl, and Other Poems
The English Patient
Notes From Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections From the House of the Dead
The Remains of the Day
Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass
The Elements of Style
David Copperfield
Robinson Crusoe