What to Read After The Function of Criticism
Readers who loved The Function of Criticism by Terry Eagleton keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The Function of Criticism 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 The Function of Criticism
Theory of Prose
Colonialism/Postcolonialism (The New Critical Idiom)
On Deconstruction
Marxism and Literature
An Introduction to Marxist Economic Theory
The Sense of an Ending
Psychoanalysis
The Necessity of Art
The Origin Of German Tragic Drama
Deceit, Desire, and the Novel
Problems of Dostoevsky's poetics
Feminist Literary Theory
Imagined Communities
A Single Man
The Penelopiad
A Room of One's Own
Middlemarch
The Second Sex
The Portrait of a Lady
Orlando
The Remains of the Day
Paradise Lost
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Mrs. Dalloway