What to Read After How to Read Literature
Readers who loved How to Read Literature by Terry Eagleton keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where How to Read 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 How to Read Literature
VITAL LIES SIMPLE TRUTHS
Our Aesthetic Categories
The chronicles of Narnia and philosophy
Classics for Pleasure
Literary theory
Literary Theory
The well-educated mind
An introduction to literature criticism and theory
Marxism and literary criticism
Postcolonialism
How to Read Novels Like a Professor
Mythologies
Ajax
Light Years
Patriotism
The Invention of Morel
Bacchae
Negotiating with the dead
Death of an outsider
Scoop
Ligeia
Chavs
Illuminations
How fiction works