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 Cultural Politics of Emotion
Ugly feelings
Cruising utopia
Scenes of subjection
Art of Cruelty
The promise of happiness
Frames of War
Feeling Backward
The Problem With Work
Revolution at Point Zero
Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times (Next Wave: New Directions in Womens Studies)
Liquid Fear
Willful Subjects
Airless Spaces
Future of Nostalgia
Dialogue on love
Slow violence and the environmentalism of the poor
Caliban and the Witch
Domination and the Arts of Resistance
The Gift of Death, Second Edition & Literature in Secret (Religion and Postmodernism Series)
Feminist, Queer, Crip
Homo sacer
Queer Phenomenology
Brief History of Neoliberalism