What to Read After The Search for the Perfect Language
Readers who loved The Search for the Perfect Language by Umberto Eco keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The Search for the Perfect Language 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 Search for the Perfect Language
Dante
Dionysos
Techgnosis
The First Word
In Search of the Indo-Europeans
The Greek historians
The Nature of the Book
The Story of Writing
The Uses of Literature
A Course in Phonetics
After Babel
Serendipities
Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language
Exploits/Opinions Dr Faust
On Literature
History Of Beauty
Course in general linguistics
Baudolino
Mythologies
The Order of Things
The library of Babel
Julio Cortazar, Rayuela
The Song of Roland (Penguin Classics)
Collected Fictions