What to Read After Metafiction
Readers who loved Metafiction by Patricia Waugh keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Metafiction 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 Metafiction
Postmodernist Fiction
Fantastic Metamorphoses, Other Worlds
Narrative Fiction
The philosophy of horror, or, Paradoxes of the heart
Five faces of modernity
A poetics of postmodernism
Narratology
Supernatural Horror in Literature
A literature of their own
The sense of an ending
Validity in interpretation
Through alien eyes
Magical realism
Against the Day
The hours
At Swim-Two-Birds
Don Juan
To Build a Fire
Life & times of Michael K
The New York Trilogy (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
Poetics
Rudyard Kipling's Kim
The Epic of Gilgamesh