What to Read After The Promise of Happiness
Readers who loved The Promise of Happiness by Sara Ahmed keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The Promise of Happiness 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 The Promise of Happiness
Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times (Next Wave: New Directions in Womens Studies)
Feminist, Queer, Crip
Cruel Optimism
Revolution at Point Zero
The Cultural Politics of Emotion
Normal Life
Ugly Feelings
Feeling Backward
An Archive of Feelings
Poetics of Relation
Scenes of Subjection
Cruising Utopia
Queer Phenomenology
Garments Against Women
Feminism Without Borders
Purity and Danger
Gender Trouble
A Queer and Pleasant Danger
Undoing Gender
Bodies That Matter
Homo Sacer
Discipline and Punish
Borderlands/La Frontera
Imagined Communities