Start with high-confidence literary theory books, then narrow by subgenre or adjacent topics.
Topophrenia
Robert T. Tally Jr.
The Black Feminist Reader
Joy James, T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting
Autobiographics
Leigh Gilmore
Reading the Modernist Bildungsroman
Gregory Castle
African Literature
Tejumola Olaniyan, Ato Quayson
The Other Synaesthesia
Susan Bernstein
Distant Reading
Franco Moretti
Immediacy
Anna Kornbluh
