What to Read After Ugly feelings
Readers who loved Ugly feelings by Sianne Ngai keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Ugly feelings 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 Ugly feelings
Cruel optimism
Scenes of subjection
The Queer Art of Failure
The Cultural Politics of Emotion
Feeling Backward
Art of Cruelty
Teaching literature
Our Aesthetic Categories
Airless Spaces
Conversations With Kafka
The promise of happiness
The Problem With Work
Introduction to Civil War
Aberrations in black
Don't let me be lonely
Red Skin, White Masks
Simians, cyborgs, and women
Garments against women
In a Queer Time and Place
The Descent of Alette
Hatred of Poetry
The Lost Lunar Baedeker
Sleeping With the Dictionary
Playing in the dark