What to Read After Mythologies
Readers who loved Mythologies by Roland Barthes keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Mythologies 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 Mythologies
Illuminations
The Archaeology of Knowledge & The Discourse on Language
Simulacra and Simulation
Literary theory
The dialogic imagination
Postmodernism, or, the cultural logic of late capitalism
Against Interpretation
Mimesis
Camera Lucida
S/Z
The order of things
Fiction and the figures of life
The culture industry
Of grammatology
Image, music, text
Discipline and Punish
On Photography
Subculture
Lenin and philosophy, and other essays.
Elements of Semiology
Phenomenology of Spirit (Galaxy Books)
One-Dimensional Man
Tractatus logico-philosophicus
The poetics of space