What to Read After S/Z
Readers who loved S/Z by Roland Barthes keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where S/Z 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 S/Z
The Dialogic Imagination
The Archaeology of Knowledge & The Discourse on Language
Of Grammatology
Literary Theory
Mimesis
The Order of Things
Reflections
Aesthetic Theory
Anatomy of Criticism
Marxism and Literature
The Political Unconscious
Limited Inc
Mythologies
Image, Music, Text
Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
Illuminations
The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media
Camera Lucida
Reading for the Plot
On Literature
Stop Me If You've Heard This
Kafka
The Culture Industry
Writing degree zero, and Elements of semiology.