Literary Criticism
34 books
Must-Read 1958
A Raisin in the Sun
Lorraine Hansberry
Must-Read 1966
Against Interpretation
Susan Sontag
Must-Read 1957
Anatomy of Criticism
Northrop Frye
Must-Read 1993
Culture and Imperialism
Edward Said
Must-Read 2000
How to Read and Why
Harold Bloom
Must-Read 1978
Illness as Metaphor
Susan Sontag
Must-Read 1946
Mimesis
Erich Auerbach
Must-Read 1976
Of Grammatology
Jacques Derrida
Must-Read 2004
Preface to Shakespeare
Samuel Johnson
Must-Read 1984
Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics
Mikhail Bakhtin
Must-Read 1909
Sentimental Education
Gustave Flaubert
Must-Read 1994
Six Walks in the Fictional Woods
Umberto Eco
Must-Read 1973
The Anxiety of Influence
Harold Bloom
Must-Read 2018
The Death of the Author
Roland Barthes
Must-Read 1981
The Dialogic Imagination
Mikhail Bakhtin
Must-Read 1982
The Great Code
Northrop Frye
Must-Read 1973
The Gulag Archipelago
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Must-Read 1953
The Mirror and the Lamp
M. H. Abrams
Must-Read 1975
The Pleasure of the Text
Roland Barthes
Must-Read 1725
The Sacred Wood
T.S. Eliot
Must-Read 1994
The Western Canon
Harold Bloom
Must-Read 2025
Tradition and the Individual Talent
T.S. Eliot
Must-Read 1986
Watchmen
Alan Moore
Must-Read 1953
Writing Degree Zero
Roland Barthes
Recommended 1975
Beginnings
Edward Said
Recommended 1980
Desire in Language
Julia Kristeva
Recommended 1983
How to Suppress Women's Writing
Joanna Russ
Recommended 1961
Illuminations
Walter Benjamin
Recommended 1762
On the Art of Reading
Thomas Sheridan
Recommended 2009
Our American Cousin
Tom Taylor
Recommended 1994
Teaching to Transgress
bell hooks
Recommended 1961
The Rhetoric of Fiction
Wayne C. Booth
Recommended 1958
The Theater and Its Double
Antonin Artaud
Recommended 1983
The World, the Text, and the Critic
Edward Said