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.