What to Read After Orientalism
Readers who loved Orientalism by Edward W. Said keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Orientalism is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after Orientalism
Imagined communities
The location of culture
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972-1977.
Imperial eyes
Colonialism/Postcolonialism (The New Critical Idiom)
Culture and imperialism
Beyond Chutzpah
Out of Place
Covering Islam
Discipline and Punish
Mythologies
Good Muslim, bad Muslim
History of the Arab Peoples
Gender Trouble
Representations of the intellectual
The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order
Selections from the prison notebooks of Antonio Gramsci.
The Archaeology of Knowledge & The Discourse on Language
Literary theory
No god but God
Istanbul
The question of Palestine
Illuminations