What to Read After Art of the Novel
Readers who loved Art of the Novel by Milan Kundera keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Art of the Novel 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 Art of the Novel
On Literature
Letters to a young novelist
Aspects of the Novel
Life is elsewhere.
Farewell Waltz
Immortality
L'Ignorance
Encounter
Axel's castle
Lectures on Literature. Austen, Dickens, Flaubert, Stevenson, Proust, Kafka, Joyce
The Believer Book of Writers Talking to Writers
The art of fiction
Inner Workings
Mimesis
Borges on writing
Deceit, Desire, and the Novel
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
Franz Kafka's The castle
Too loud a solitude
The aleph (including the prose fictions from The Maker)
A Hunger Artist (Short Prose of Franz Kafka Series)
Amerika
Molloy (Modern Classics)
Collected fictions