Literary Criticism
34 books
Must-Read1958
A Raisin in the Sun
Lorraine Hansberry
Must-Read1966
Against Interpretation
Susan Sontag
Must-Read1957
Anatomy of Criticism
Northrop Frye
Must-Read1993
Culture and Imperialism
Edward Said
Must-Read2000
How to Read and Why
Harold Bloom
Must-Read1978
Illness as Metaphor
Susan Sontag
Must-Read1946
Mimesis
Erich Auerbach
Must-Read1976
Of Grammatology
Jacques Derrida
Must-Read2004
Preface to Shakespeare
Samuel Johnson
Must-Read1984
Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics
Mikhail Bakhtin
Must-Read1909
Sentimental Education
Gustave Flaubert
Must-Read1994
Six Walks in the Fictional Woods
Umberto Eco
Must-Read1973
The Anxiety of Influence
Harold Bloom
Must-Read2018
The Death of the Author
Roland Barthes
Must-Read1981
The Dialogic Imagination
Mikhail Bakhtin
Must-Read1982
The Great Code
Northrop Frye
Must-Read1973
The Gulag Archipelago
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Must-Read1953
The Mirror and the Lamp
M. H. Abrams
Must-Read1975
The Pleasure of the Text
Roland Barthes
Must-Read1725
The Sacred Wood
T.S. Eliot
Must-Read1994
The Western Canon
Harold Bloom
Must-Read2025
Tradition and the Individual Talent
T.S. Eliot
Must-Read1986
Watchmen
Alan Moore
Must-Read1953
Writing Degree Zero
Roland Barthes
Recommended1975
Beginnings
Edward Said
Recommended1980
Desire in Language
Julia Kristeva
Recommended1983
How to Suppress Women's Writing
Joanna Russ
Recommended1961
Illuminations
Walter Benjamin
Recommended1762
On the Art of Reading
Thomas Sheridan
Recommended2009
Our American Cousin
Tom Taylor
Recommended1994
Teaching to Transgress
bell hooks
Recommended1961
The Rhetoric of Fiction
Wayne C. Booth
Recommended1958
The Theater and Its Double
Antonin Artaud
Recommended1983
The World, the Text, and the Critic
Edward Said