What to Read After Narratology
Readers who loved Narratology by Mieke Bal keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Narratology 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 Narratology
Mimesis
The poetry handbook
A poetics of postmodernism
Postmodernist Fiction
Story and discourse
On Deconstruction
Borges on writing
Reading for the plot
Anatomy of criticism
Metafiction
The rhetoric of fiction
The political unconscious
S/Z
The dialogic imagination
Literary theory
The Castle of Otranto
Light in August
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Disgrace
To the Lighthouse
A Room of One's Own
Middlemarch
A Little Life
The Age of Innocence