What to Read After Reading for the Plot
Readers who loved Reading for the Plot by Peter Brooks keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Reading for the Plot 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 Reading for the Plot
The Political Unconscious
S/Z
Story and Discourse
The Sense of an Ending
The Bedford glossary of critical and literary terms
Desire and Domestic Fiction
On Dreams
The Well Wrought Urn
The Poetics of Prose
Anatomy of Criticism
Mimesis
A Theory of Adaptation
Father-daughter Incest
Structuralist Poetics
The Political Theory of Possessive Individualism
A Theory of Adapation
Theory of Prose
Narratology
The Mirror and the Lamp
The Basics of Social Research
French for Reading
The Dialogic Imagination
Narrative Discourse
Mythologies