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Sexual Cultures Books in Order
Below you'll find the complete list of Sexual Cultures books in publication order. This is generally the recommended reading order for the series.
Reading order verified: March 2026
Quick Answer
What order should I read the Sexual Cultures series? Start with "Private Affairs (By: Phillip Brian Harper)" (1999) and follow publication order through all 59 books.
The complete Sexual Cultures reading order is listed below in publication sequence.
Publication Order
Private Affairs (By: Phillip Brian Harper)
1999
Times Square Red, Times Square Blue
1999
In Your Face (By: Mandy Merck)
2000
Tropics of Desire (By: José Quiroga)
2000
Murdering Masculinities (By: Greg Forter)
2000
Our Monica, Ourselves (By: Lauren Berlant,Lisa A. Duggan)
2001
Black Gay Man (By: Robert F. Reid-Pharr)
2001
Passing (By: )
2001
The Explanation For Everything (By: Paul Morrison)
2002
Queer Globalizations (By: Martin F. Manalansan IV,Arnaldo Cruz-Malave)
2002
Queer Latinidad (By: Juana María Rodríguez)
2003
Love the Sin (By: Janet R. Jakobsen)
2003
Boricua Pop (By: Frances Negrón-Muntaner,Frances n-Muntaner)
2004
Why I Hate Abercrombie & Fitch (By: Dwight A. McBride)
2005
In a Queer Time and Place (By: J. Jack Halberstam)
2005
God Hates Fags (By: Michael Cobb)
2006
Once You Go Black (By: Robert F. Reid-Pharr)
2007
The Latino Body (By: Lazaro Lima)
2007
Arranging Grief (By: Dana Luciano)
2007
Cruising Utopia (By: José Esteban Muñoz)
2009
Another Country (By: )
2010
Extravagant Abjection (By: Darieck Scott)
2010
Relocations (By: Karen Tongson)
2011
Single (By: Michael Cobb)
2012
Beyond the Nation (By: Martin Ponce)
2012
Brown Boys and Rice Queens (By: Eng-Beng Lim)
2013
Transforming Citizenships (By: Isaac West)
2013
Investigating Young People's Sexual Cultures (By: Clarissa Smith,Feona Attwood)
2014
The Delectable Negro (By: E. Patrick Johnson,Vincent Woodard,Justin A. Joyce,Dwight A. McBride)
2014
Sexual Futures, Queer Gestures, and Other Latina Longings (By: Juana María Rodríguez)
2014
Sensational Flesh (By: Amber Jamilla Musser)
2014
The Exquisite Corpse of Asian America (By: Rachel C.Lee)
2014
Not Gay (By: Jane Ward)
2015
Embodied Avatars (By: Uri McMillan)
2015
A Taste for Brown Bodies (By: Hiram Pérez)
2015
Wedlocked (By: Katherine Franke)
2015
A Body, Undone (By: Christina Crosby)
2016
The Color of Kink (By: Ariane Cruz)
2016
Archives of Flesh (By: Robert F. Reid-Pharr)
2016
Black Performance on the Outskirts of the Left (By: Malik Gaines)
2017
The Life and Death of Latisha King (By: )
2018
Queer Nuns (By: Melissa M. Wilcox)
2018
After the Party (By: )
2018
Sensual Excess (By: Amber Jamilla Musser)
2018
Afro-Fabulations (By: )
2018
Queer Times, Black Futures (By: )
2019
Queer Faith (By: )
2019
Archiving an Epidemic (By: Robb Hernández)
2019
Frottage (By: Keguro Macharia)
2019
The Sex Obsession (By: Janet R. Jakobsen)
2020
Becoming Human (By: Zakiyyah Iman Jackson)
2020
The Tragedy of Heterosexuality (By: Jane Ward)
2020
Keeping It Unreal (By: Darieck Scott)
2022
Sexuality Beyond Consent (By: )
2023
Queer Childhoods (By: Mary Zaborskis)
2024
Bottoms Up (By: Xiomara Verenice Cervantes-Gomez)
2024
Deviant Matter (By: Kyla Wazana Tompkins)
2024
Extravagant Camp (By: Chris A. Eng)
2025
Queer Lasting (By: Sarah Ensor)
2025
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