Start with high-confidence critical theory books, then narrow by subgenre or adjacent topics.
Anti-oedipus
Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari
Foucault and Latin America
Benigno Trigo
The Politics of Postanarchism
Saul Newman
One-dimensional Man
Herbert Marcuse
Critical Moves
Randy Martin
Ethics of Liberation
Enrique Dussel, Alejandro A. Vallega
Raving
McKenzie Wark
Cruising Utopia, 10th Anniversary Edition
José Esteban Muñoz, Joshua Chambers-Letson
Beginning Theory
Peter Barry
Critical Race Theory
Kimberle Crenshaw, Neil Gotanda
The Politics of Style
Daniel Hartley
Allegory and Ideology
Fredric Jameson
Minima Moralia
Theodor Adorno, Theodor W. Adorno
K-punk
Mark Fisher, Darren Ambrose
Crisis and Criticism
Benjamin Noys
