What to Read After The art of fiction
Readers who loved The art of fiction by David Lodge keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The art of fiction 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 art of fiction
Aspects of the Novel
How fiction works
Beginning theory
Lectures on Literature. Austen, Dickens, Flaubert, Stevenson, Proust, Kafka, Joyce
Creative Writing Coursebook
An introduction to literature criticism and theory
Morphology of the folktale
Talking about Detective Fiction
Changing Places
Small World
The British Museum is falling down
Axel's castle
The Western canon
Studying the novel
Six walks in the fictional woods
The sense of an ending
The Common Reader
Why read the classics?
52 Ways of Looking at a Poem
Nice work
How far can you go?
Reading Like a Writer
Thinks--
Therapy