The Merchant of Venice

William Shakespeare

1600 ★ 4.0

Madame Bovary

Gustave Flaubert

1857 ★ 3.8

Poetics

Aristotle

1705 ★ 3.9

As You Like It

William Shakespeare

1734 ★ 3.7

A pattern language

Nax Jacobsohn, Max Jacobson, Christopher Alexander et al.

1977 ★ 4.5

The Tao of Pooh

A. A. Milne, Benjamin Hoff, Ernest H. Shepard

1982 ★ 3.6

How to read literature like a professor

Thomas C. Foster

2003 ★ 3.8

Art & fear

Ted Orland, David Bayles

1993 ★ 4.2

The Comedy of Errors

William Shakespeare

1734 ★ 3.7

Against Interpretation

Tavia Gilbert, Susan Sontag

1966 ★ 3.7

A Swim in a Pond in the Rain

George Saunders

2021 ★ 5.0

Heretics

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

1905 ★ 3.2

The plays of Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde

1905

Cymbeline

William Shakespeare

1823 ★ 2.9

Consider the lobster, and other essays

David Foster Wallace

2007 ★ 4.1

Answer to Job

Carl Gustav Jung

1952

A glossary of literary terms

M. H. Abrams

1957

A short guide to writing about literature

Sylvan Barnet, William Cain, William E. Cain et al.

1979

Beginning theory

Peter Barry

2002

Literary Criticism

Charles E. Bressler

1994

Demigods and Monsters

Rick Riordan, Leah Wilson

2008

Asking the right questions

Stuart M. Keeley, Stuart Keeley, M. Neil Browne et al.

1981

Pooh and the Philosophers

John Tyerman Williams

1996 ★ 3.3

The Book of Household Management

Isabella Beeton

1861

Jesus, Interrupted

Bart D. Ehrman

2009 ★ 3.9

Introduction to mythology

Margaret K. Devinney, Eva M Thury, Eva M. Thury

2017

Postmodernism, or, the cultural logic of late capitalism

Fredric Jameson

1991

Darkest fear

Harlan Coben

2000 ★ 3.7

The Norton anthology of theory and criticism

Vincent B. Leitch

2001

Literary theory

Terry Eagleton

1983