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
Orality and Literacy
Cybertext
The Nature of the Book
Coding Manual for Qualitative Researchers
Generations
Ferdinand de Saussure
The act of reading
The sense of an ending
The decay of lying
An introduction to literature criticism and theory
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 Crucible
The Color Purple
American Psycho