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
Narrative Discourse
Mimesis
Borges on Writing
Postmodernist Fiction
A Poetics of Postmodernism
On Deconstruction
The Poetry Handbook
Story and Discourse
The Rhetoric of Fiction
Metafiction
The Political Unconscious
Anatomy of Criticism
Reading for the Plot
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