What to Read After Cruel Optimism
Readers who loved Cruel Optimism by Lauren Gail Berlant keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Cruel Optimism 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 Cruel Optimism
The Queer Art of Failure
Ugly Feelings
The Cultural Politics of Emotion
Cruising Utopia
Scenes of Subjection
The Promise of Happiness
Frames of War
Testo Junkie
The Problem With Work
Art of Cruelty
Feeling Backward
On the Postcolony
Dialogue on Love
Willful Subjects
Revolution at Point Zero
Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor
Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times (Next Wave: New Directions in Womens Studies)
Liquid Fear
Airless Spaces
Caliban and the Witch
Domination and the Arts of Resistance
The Gift of Death, Second Edition & Literature in Secret (Religion and Postmodernism Series)
Kafka
Feminist, Queer, Crip