Books like Mythologies

Mythologies by Roland Barthes reads as critical, analytical. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

Fatal strategies

Jean Baudrillard · 1983

Both explore consumerism

53% genome match

Faith in fakes

Umberto Eco · 1986

Both explore semiotics

60% genome match

The terms of political discourse

William E. Connolly · 1974

Both explore ideology

58% genome match

Representations of the intellectual

Edward W. Said · 1994

Same nonfiction feel

56% genome match

Système de la mode

Roland Barthes · 1967

Both explore semiotics & consumerism

53% genome match

Non-Things

Byung-Chul Han · 2021

Both explore consumerism

54% genome match

The Anti-aesthetic

Hal Foster · 1983

Same nonfiction feel

56% genome match

Introducing Foucault

Chris Horrocks · 1997

Same nonfiction feel

54% genome match

Practicing New Historicism

Catherine Gallagher · 2000

Same nonfiction feel

54% genome match

The condition of postmodernity

David Harvey · 1989

Same nonfiction feel

54% genome match

Las Reglas del Arte

Pierre Bourdieu · 1992

Same nonfiction feel

53% genome match

After philosophy

Kenneth Baynes · 1986

Same philosophy feel

53% genome match