Literary Criticism
Commentary on the qualities and character of literary works.
Trending titles
The most talked-about and well-loved Literary Criticism titles this month.
Don't Panic: Douglas Adams and the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The World of Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Gulag Archipelago: The Authorized Abridgement Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Reader’s Companion to J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Fahrenheit 451 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Letters to a Young Poet Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Thalia Book Club: Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird 50th Anniversary Celebration Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Thalia Book Club: Neil Gaiman: The Ocean at the End of the Lane Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Oscar Wilde: The Unrepentant Years Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Iliad Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Shakespeare Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Bad Feminist: Essays Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Mythologies: The Complete Edition, in a New Translation Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 1]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Heart of Darkness Thrift Study Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Shakespeare: The World as Stage Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Dr Faustus: The A- and B- texts (1604, 1616): A parallel-text edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Great War and Modern Memory Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Illuminations: Essays and Reflections Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Just Kids: A National Book Award Winner Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Thalia Book Club: Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Call of Cthulhu (Serapis Classics) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Metamorphosis Thrift Study Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Thalia Book Club: On Beauty with Author Zadie Smith Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Everything About Literary Criticism
The Catcher in the Rye Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Of Mice and Men Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Warriors, Witches, Women: Mythology's Fiercest Females Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop: A Memoir, a History Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Bad Feminist: Essays Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Art of Memoir Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5To Kill a Mockingbird Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Lord of the Flies Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5One Hundred Years of Solitude: A Novel by Gabriel Garcia Márquez | Conversation Starters Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies: How Doubting the Bard Became the Biggest Taboo in Literature Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5How to Be: Life Lessons from the Early Greeks Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Hedgehog and the Fox: An Essay on Tolstoy's View of History - Second Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Alchemist Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Hobbit & The Lord of the Rings Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Brave New World Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Three-Martini Afternoons at the Ritz: The Rebellion of Sylvia Plath & Anne Sexton Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Mothering by the Book: The Power of Reading Aloud to Overcome Fear and Recapture Joy Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5We Were the Lucky Ones: by Georgia Hunter | Conversation Starters Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Culture Code: by Daniel Coyle | Conversation Starters Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Animal Farm Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A study guide for Frank Herbert's "Dune" Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5On Women Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Mothering by the Book: The Power of Reading Aloud to Overcome Fear and Recapture Joy Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Reading Genesis Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsEros the Bittersweet Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Recently Added
Theurgy: Theory and Practice: The Mysteries of the Ascent to the Divine Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWriting through Jane Crow: Race and Gender Politics in African American Literature Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Washington Book: How to Read Politics and Politicians Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWhy Poetry Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings50 World’s Greatest Poems: Collectable Edition Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsReading Genesis Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsShaken Wisdom: Irony and Meaning in Postcolonial African Fiction Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsKazuo Ishiguro Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Black History Facts You Didn't Learn in School Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Mystery of Charles Dickens Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Elizabeth Bishop in the Twenty-First Century: Reading the New Editions Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings500 Great Books For Teens Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Consuming Visions: Cinema, Writing, and Modernity in Rio de Janeiro Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Bourgeois Interior Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPathologies of Paradise: Caribbean Detours Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsExodus Politics: Civil Rights and Leadership in African American Literature and Culture Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMigrant Modernism: Postwar London and the West Indian Novel Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBetween the Novel and the News: The Emergence of American Women's Writing Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsOn Endings: American Postmodern Fiction and the Cold War Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPilgrimage to Vallombrosa: From Vermont to Italy in the Footsteps of George Perkins Marsh Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsClose Kin and Distant Relatives: The Paradox of Respectability in Black Women's Literature Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsRace, Romance, and Rebellion: Literatures of the Americas in the Nineteenth Century Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsIn the Hollow of the Wave: Virginia Woolf and Modernist Uses of Nature Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Cross-Dressed Caribbean: Writing, Politics, Sexualities Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCaribbean Literature and the Public Sphere: From the Plantation to the Postcolonial Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Postcolonial Francophone Autobiographies: From Africa to the Antilles Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsComposing Cultures: Modernism, American Literary Studies, and the Problem of Culture Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDisaster Writing: The Cultural Politics of Catastrophe in Latin America Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Ralph Ellison and Kenneth Burke: At the Roots of the Racial Divide Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
There’s more to discover in Literary Criticism
Escape into new titles and new adventures.
Read what you want, how you want
Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, podcasts, and so much more with a free trial.
Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.