Sexual Cultures books in order

The complete list of books in the Sexual Cultures academic series from NYU Press, featuring works on gender, sexuality, race, and queer studies by various scholars.

Reading order

# Title Published Author Buy on Amazon
1 Private Affairs 1999 Samuel R. Delany Buy
2 Times Square Red, Times Square Blue 1999 Samuel R. Delany Buy
3 In Your Face 2000 Samuel R. Delany Buy
4 Tropics of Desire 2000 Samuel R. Delany Buy
5 Murdering Masculinities 2000 Samuel R. Delany Buy
6 Our Monica, Ourselves 2001 Samuel R. Delany Buy
7 Black Gay Man 2001 Samuel R. Delany Buy
8 Passing 2001 Samuel R. Delany Buy
9 The Explanation For Everything 2002 Samuel R. Delany Buy
10 Queer Globalizations 2002 Samuel R. Delany Buy
11 Queer Latinidad 2003 Samuel R. Delany Buy
12 Love the Sin 2003 Samuel R. Delany Buy
13 Boricua Pop 2004 Samuel R. Delany Buy
14 Why I Hate Abercrombie & Fitch 2005 Samuel R. Delany Buy
15 In a Queer Time and Place 2005 Samuel R. Delany Buy
16 God Hates Fags 2006 Samuel R. Delany Buy
17 Once You Go Black 2007 Samuel R. Delany Buy
18 The Latino Body 2007 Samuel R. Delany Buy
19 Arranging Grief 2007 Samuel R. Delany Buy
20 Cruising Utopia 2009 Samuel R. Delany Buy
21 Another Country 2010 Samuel R. Delany Buy
22 Extravagant Abjection 2010 Samuel R. Delany Buy
23 Relocations 2011 Samuel R. Delany Buy
24 Single 2012 Samuel R. Delany Buy
25 Beyond the Nation 2012 Samuel R. Delany Buy
26 Brown Boys and Rice Queens 2013 Samuel R. Delany Buy
27 Transforming Citizenships 2013 Samuel R. Delany Buy
28 Investigating Young People’s Sexual Cultures 2014 Samuel R. Delany Buy
29 The Delectable Negro 2014 Samuel R. Delany Buy
30 Sexual Futures, Queer Gestures, and Other Latina Longings 2014 Samuel R. Delany Buy
31 Sensational Flesh 2014 Samuel R. Delany Buy
32 The Exquisite Corpse of Asian America 2014 Samuel R. Delany Buy
33 Not Gay 2015 Samuel R. Delany Buy
34 Embodied Avatars 2015 Samuel R. Delany Buy
35 A Taste for Brown Bodies 2015 Samuel R. Delany Buy
36 Wedlocked 2015 Samuel R. Delany Buy
37 A Body, Undone 2016 Samuel R. Delany Buy
38 The Color of Kink 2016 Samuel R. Delany Buy
39 Archives of Flesh 2016 Samuel R. Delany Buy
40 Black Performance on the Outskirts of the Left 2017 Samuel R. Delany Buy
41 The Life and Death of Latisha King 2018 Samuel R. Delany Buy
42 Queer Nuns 2018 Samuel R. Delany Buy
43 After the Party 2018 Samuel R. Delany Buy
44 Sensual Excess 2018 Samuel R. Delany Buy
45 Afro-Fabulations 2018 Samuel R. Delany Buy
46 Queer Times, Black Futures 2019 Samuel R. Delany Buy
47 Queer Faith 2019 Samuel R. Delany Buy
48 Archiving an Epidemic 2019 Samuel R. Delany Buy
49 Frottage 2019 Samuel R. Delany Buy
50 The Sex Obsession 2020 Samuel R. Delany Buy
51 Becoming Human 2020 Samuel R. Delany Buy
52 The Tragedy of Heterosexuality 2020 Samuel R. Delany Buy
53 Keeping It Unreal 2022 Samuel R. Delany Buy
54 Sexuality Beyond Consent 2023 Samuel R. Delany Buy
55 Queer Childhoods 2024 Samuel R. Delany Buy
56 Bottoms Up 2024 Samuel R. Delany Buy
57 Deviant Matter 2024 Samuel R. Delany Buy
58 Extravagant Camp 2025 Samuel R. Delany Buy
59 Queer Lasting 2025 Samuel R. Delany Buy

The Sexual Cultures series is an academic publishing imprint from NYU Press that focuses on scholarship about gender, sexuality, race, and queer theory. With 59 volumes published between 1999 and 2025, it is one of the longest-running and most substantial series in its field.

The series includes works by dozens of scholars and covers an enormous range of topics, from urban studies (Times Square Red, Times Square Blue) to transgender theory (In a Queer Time and Place) to media criticism (Boricua Pop) to historical analysis (Wedlocked). Among the better-known titles is Samuel R. Delany’s Black Gay Man. The series continues to publish new volumes, with recent titles like Queer Lasting and Extravagant Camp appearing in 2025.

Frequently Asked Questions

How many books are in the Sexual Cultures series?

There are 59 books in the Sexual Cultures series, published between 1999 and 2025.

What is the first book in the Sexual Cultures series?

The first book in the Sexual Cultures series is Private Affairs, published in 1999.

What is the Sexual Cultures series?

Sexual Cultures is an academic book series published by NYU Press. It features scholarly works on gender, sexuality, race, and queer theory by a wide range of authors. Samuel R. Delany’s Times Square Red, Times Square Blue and Black Gay Man are among the more well-known titles in the series.

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