Lauren Berlant, Cruel Optimism

J. Halberstam, The Queer Art of Failure

Lisa Cacho, Social Death: Racialized Rightlessness and the Criminalization of the Unprotected

Achille Mbembe, “Necropolitcs”

Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

Lee Edelman, No Future

Sarah Ahmed, On Being Included: Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life

Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims: Race and Labor in the South Asian Diaspora

Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California

Charles E. Mann, 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus.

John Berger, After the End: Representations of Post-Apocalypse

Naomi Klein, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate

Giorgio Agamben, State of Exception

(Will update periodically)