What to Read After Paratexts
Readers who loved Paratexts by Gérard Genette keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Paratexts 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 Paratexts
The Nature of the Book
Cybertext
Orality and Literacy
Coding Manual for Qualitative Researchers
An Introduction to Literature Criticism and Theory
The Sense of an Ending
Ferdinand de Saussure
Limits of Interpretation
The Act of Reading
The Decay of Lying
Generations
Generations
Literary Theory
Poetics
The House of Mirth
The Walking Dead, Vol. 1
Madame Bovary
The Awakening
Mrs. Dalloway
The Secret Garden
On The Road
A Midsummer Night's Dream
The Importance of Being Earnest
The Casual Vacancy