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Updated 2026-07-11 / 150 books / 8 series
American author Samuel R. Delany is best known for his influential science fiction works, including the *Return to Nevèrÿon* series and *Dhalgren*. A multiple Hugo and Nebula Award winner, his literary legacy has shaped speculative fiction for decades. This page provides the Samuel R. Delany books in order, including both chronological order and series reading order.
Books by Samuel R. Delany in Publication Order
1962
The Jewels of Aptor
POoSS / 1
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1963
Captives of the Flame / Out of the Dead City
POoTFotTB / 1
Buy
1964
The Towers of Toron
POoTFotTB / 2
Buy
1965
The Ballad of Beta-2
POoSN / 1
Buy
1965
City of a Thousand Suns
POoTFotTB / 3
Buy
1966
Babel-17
POoSN / 2
Buy
1966
Empire Star
POoSS / 2
Buy
1967
Aye, and Gomorrah
POoC / 1
Buy
1967
The Einstein Intersection
POoSN / 3
Buy
1971
Driftglass
POoC / 2
Buy
1973
The Tides of Lust
POoSN / 5
Buy
1975
Dhalgren
POoSN / 6
Buy
1976
Trit’n / Trouble on Triton
POoSN / 7
Buy
1977
The Jewel-Hinged Jaw
POoNB / 1
Buy
1978
The American Shore
POoNB / 2
Buy
1978
Empire
POoSN / 8
Buy
1979
Tales of Nev’r’on
POoRtNB / 1
Buy
1979
Heavenly Breakfast
POoNB / 3
Buy
1981
Distant Stars
POoC / 3
Buy
1983
Nevery’na
POoRtNB / 2
Buy
1984
The Presidential Papers(By: John H. Kessel)
POoOAB / 1
Buy
1984
Starboard Wine
POoNB / 4
Buy
1984
Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand
POoSN / 9
Buy
1985
Flight from Nev’r’on
POoRtNB / 3
Buy
1986
The Complete Nebula Award-Winning Fiction
POoC / 4
Buy
1987
The Bridge of Lost Desire / Return to Neveryon
POoRtNB / 4
Buy
1988
The Motion of Light in Water
POoNB / 5
Buy
1988
Wagner Artaud
POoNB / 6
Buy
1989
The Straits of Messina
POoNB / 7
Buy
1990
Home Is the Hangman/We, in Some Strange Power's Employ, Move on a Rigorous Line
POoSS / 3
Buy
1993
Driftglass/Starshards
POoC / 5
Buy
1993
They Fly At ’iron
POoSN / 10
Buy
1994
Silent Interviews
POoNB / 8
Buy
1994
The Mad Man
POoSN / 12
Buy
1995
Atlantis
POoC / 6
Buy
1996
Longer Views
POoNB / 9
Buy
1999
Private Affairs(By: Phillip Brian Harper)
POoSCB / 2
Buy
1999
Bread and Wine
POoSS / 4
Buy
1999
Times Square Red, Times Square Blue
POoNB / 10
Buy
2000
In Your Face(By: Mandy Merck)
POoSCB / 3
Buy
2000
Tropics of Desire(By: Jos’ Quiroga)
POoSCB / 4
Buy
2000
Murdering Masculinities(By: Greg Forter)
POoSCB / 5
Buy
2000
Shorter Views
POoNB / 12
Buy
2001
The Human Front(By: Ken MacLeod)
POoOAB / 2
Buy
2001
Our Monica, Ourselves(By: Lauren Berlant,Lisa A. Duggan)
POoSCB / 6
Buy
2001
Black Gay Man(By: Robert F. Reid-Pharr)
POoSCB / 7
Buy
2001
Passing(By: )
POoSCB / 8
Buy
2001
Black Gay Man
POoNB / 13
Buy
2002
The Explanation For Everything(By: Paul Morrison)
POoSCB / 9
Buy
2002
Queer Globalizations(By: Martin F. Manalansan IV,Arnaldo Cruz-Malave)
POoSCB / 10
Buy
2003
Queer Latinidad(By: Juana Mar’a Rodr’guez)
POoSCB / 11
Buy
2003
Love the Sin(By: Janet R. Jakobsen)
POoSCB / 12
Buy
2004
Phallos
POoSS / 5
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2004
Boricua Pop(By: Frances Negr’n-Muntaner,Frances n-Muntaner)
POoSCB / 13
Buy
2005
In a Queer Time and Place(By: J. Jack Halberstam)
POoSCB / 14
Buy
2005
Why I Hate Abercrombie & Fitch(By: Dwight A. McBride)
POoSCB / 15
Buy
2006
About Writing
POoNB / 14
Buy
2006
God Hates Fags(By: Michael Cobb)
POoSCB / 16
Buy
2007
Dark Reflections
POoSN / 13
Buy
2007
Once You Go Black(By: Robert F. Reid-Pharr)
POoSCB / 17
Buy
2007
The Latino Body(By: Lazaro Lima)
POoSCB / 18
Buy
2007
Arranging Grief(By: Dana Luciano)
POoSCB / 19
Buy
2009
The Left Left Behind(By: Terry Bisson,Eleanor Arnason)
POoOAB / 3
Buy
2009
Lucky Strike(By: Kim Stanley Robinson)
POoOAB / 4
Buy
2009
Conversations with Samuel R. Delany
POoNB / 15
Buy
2009
Cruising Utopia(By: Jos’ Esteban Mu’oz)
POoSCB / 20
Buy
2010
The Underbelly(By: Gary Phillips,Eleanor Arnason)
POoOAB / 5
Buy
2010
Mammoths of the Great Plains(By: Eleanor Arnason)
POoOAB / 6
Buy
2010
Another Country(By: )
POoSCB / 21
Buy
2010
Extravagant Abjection(By: Darieck Scott)
POoSCB / 22
Buy
2011
The Wild Girls(By: Ursula K. Le Guin,Eleanor Arnason)
POoOAB / 7
Buy
2011
Modem Times 2.0(By: Michael Moorcock,Eleanor Arnason)
POoOAB / 8
Buy
2011
The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow(By: Cory Doctorow,Eleanor Arnason)
POoOAB / 9
Buy
2011
Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders
POoSN / 14
Buy
2011
Relocations(By: Karen Tongson)
POoSCB / 23
Buy
2012
Sensitive Skin #9: post-beat, pre-apocalyptic art, writing and music(With: Bernard Meisler,John Lurie)
POoC / 7
Buy
2012
Surfing the Gnarl(By: Rudy Rucker)
POoOAB / 10
Buy
2012
Report from Planet Midnight(By: Nalo Hopkinson,Eleanor Arnason)
POoOAB / 11
Buy
2012
Single(By: Michael Cobb)
POoSCB / 24
Buy
2012
Beyond the Nation(By: Martin Ponce)
POoSCB / 25
Buy
2013
The Science of Herself(By: Karen Joy Fowler,Eleanor Arnason)
POoOAB / 12
Buy
2013
Patty Hearst & The Twinkie Murders: A Tale of Two Trials(By: Eleanor Arnason,Paul Krassner)
POoOAB / 13
Buy
2013
New Taboos(By: John Shirley)
POoOAB / 14
Buy
2013
Brown Boys and Rice Queens(By: Eng-Beng Lim)
POoSCB / 26
Buy
2013
Transforming Citizenships(By: Isaac West)
POoSCB / 27
Buy
2014
Raising Hell(By: Norman Spinrad,Eleanor Arnason)
POoOAB / 15
Buy
2014
Investigating Young People's Sexual Cultures(By: Clarissa Smith,Feona Attwood)
POoSCB / 28
Buy
2014
The Delectable Negro(By: Vincent Woodard)
POoSCB / 29
Buy
2014
Sexual Futures, Queer Gestures, and Other Latina Longings(By: Juana Mar’a Rodr’guez)
POoSCB / 30
Buy
2014
Sensational Flesh(By: Amber Jamilla Musser)
POoSCB / 31
Buy
2014
The Exquisite Corpse of Asian America(By: Rachel C.Lee)
POoSCB / 32
Buy
2015
A, B, C
POoC / 8
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2015
My Life, My Body(By: Marge Piercy)
POoOAB / 16
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2015
Gypsy(By: Carter Scholz,Eleanor Arnason)
POoOAB / 17
Buy
2015
Not Gay(By: Jane Ward)
POoSCB / 33
Buy
2015
Embodied Avatars(By: Uri McMillan)
POoSCB / 34
Buy
2015
A Taste for Brown Bodies(By: Hiram P’rez)
POoSCB / 35
Buy
2015
Wedlocked(By: Katherine Franke)
POoSCB / 36
Buy
2016
Miracles Ain't What They Used to Be(By: Joe R. Lansdale,Eleanor Arnason)
POoOAB / 18
Buy
2016
A Body, Undone(By: Christina Crosby)
POoSCB / 37
Buy
2016
The Color of Kink(By: Ariane Cruz)
POoSCB / 38
Buy
2016
Archives of Flesh(By: Robert F. Reid-Pharr)
POoSCB / 39
Buy
2017
The Novels of Samuel R. Delany Volume One
POoC / 9
Buy
2017
Fire.(By: Elizabeth Hand,Eleanor Arnason)
POoOAB / 19
Buy
2017
Totalitopia(By: John Crowley)
POoOAB / 20
Buy
2017
Black Performance on the Outskirts of the Left(By: Malik Gaines)
POoSCB / 40
Buy
2018
The Atheist in the Attic(With: Eleanor Arnason)
POoOAB / 21
Buy
2018
Thoreau's Microscope(By: Michael Blumlein,Eleanor Arnason)
POoOAB / 22
Buy
2018
The Life and Death of Latisha King(By: )
POoSCB / 41
Buy
2018
Queer Nuns(By: Melissa M. Wilcox)
POoSCB / 42
Buy
2018
After the Party(By: )
POoSCB / 43
Buy
2018
Sensual Excess(By: Amber Jamilla Musser)
POoSCB / 44
Buy
2018
Afro-Fabulations(By: )
POoSCB / 45
Buy
2019
Voyage, Orestes!
POoSN / 15
Buy
2019
Letters from Amherst
POoNB / 17
Buy
2019
The Beatrix Gates(By: Rachel Pollack)
POoOAB / 23
Buy
2019
A City Made of Words(By: Paul Park)
POoOAB / 24
Buy
2019
Talk Like a Man(By: Nisi Shawl)
POoOAB / 25
Buy
2019
Queer Times, Black Futures(By: )
POoSCB / 46
Buy
2019
Queer Faith(By: )
POoSCB / 47
Buy
2019
Archiving an Epidemic(By: Robb Hern’ndez)
POoSCB / 48
Buy
2019
Frottage(By: Keguro Macharia)
POoSCB / 49
Buy
2020
Shoat Rumblin: His Sensations and Ideas
POoSN / 16
Buy
2020
Big Girl(By: Meg Elison)
POoOAB / 26
Buy
2020
The Sex Obsession(By: Janet R. Jakobsen)
POoSCB / 50
Buy
2020
Becoming Human(By: Zakiyyah Iman Jackson)
POoSCB / 51
Buy
2020
The Tragedy of Heterosexuality(By: Jane Ward)
POoSCB / 52
Buy
2021
Occasional Views, Volume 2
POoC / 11
Buy
2021
Frederick Weston & Samuel R. Delany in Conversation(With: Frederick Weston)
POoNB / 18
Buy
2021
Occasional Views, Volume 1
POoNB / 19
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2021
Of Solids and Surds
POoNB / 20
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2021
The Tragedy of Ophelia: Two Essays
POoNB / 22
Buy
2021
Planetbreaker’s Son(By: Nick Mamatas)
POoOAB / 27
Buy
2021
Utopias of the Third Kind(By: Vandana Singh)
POoOAB / 28
Buy
2022
Night Shift(By: Eileen Gunn)
POoOAB / 29
Buy
2022
Keeping It Unreal(By: Darieck Scott)
POoSCB / 53
Buy
2023
Roots of Imagination: A Chrestomathy
POoC / 12
Buy
2023
Sexuality Beyond Consent(By: )
POoSCB / 54
Buy
2024
The Collapsing Frontier(By: Jonathan Lethem)
POoOAB / 30
Buy
2024
Queer Childhoods(By: Mary Zaborskis)
POoSCB / 55
Buy
2024
Bottoms Up(By: Xiomara Verenice Cervantes-Gomez)
POoSCB / 56
Buy
2024
Deviant Matter(By: Kyla Wazana Tompkins)
POoSCB / 57
Buy
2025
Not What I Intended(By: Nancy Kress)
POoOAB / 31
Buy
2025
Extravagant Camp(By: Chris A. Eng)
POoSCB / 58
Buy
2025
Queer Lasting(By: Sarah Ensor)
POoSCB / 59
Buy
2026
Last and First Tales
POoC / 13
Buy
2026
She is Here(By: Nicola Griffith)
POoOAB / 32
Buy
Complete Samuel R. Delany Series Reading Order /
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01
The Jewel-Hinged Jaw
1977
Buy
02
The American Shore
1978
Buy
03
Heavenly Breakfast
1979
Buy
04
Starboard Wine
1984
Buy
05
The Motion of Light in Water
1988
Buy
06
Wagner Artaud
1988
Buy
07
The Straits of Messina
1989
Buy
08
Silent Interviews
1994
Buy
10
Times Square Red, Times Square Blue
1999
Buy
12
Shorter Views
2000
Buy
13
Black Gay Man
2001
Buy
14
About Writing
2006
Buy
15
Conversations with Samuel R. Delany
2009
Buy
17
Letters from Amherst
2019
Buy
18
Frederick Weston & Samuel R. Delany in Conversation(With: Frederick Weston)
2021
Buy
19
Occasional Views, Volume 1
2021
Buy
20
Of Solids and Surds
2021
Buy
22
The Tragedy of Ophelia: Two Essays
2021
Buy
01
The Ballad of Beta-2
1965
Buy
03
The Einstein Intersection
1967
Buy
05
The Tides of Lust
1973
Buy
07
Trit’n / Trouble on Triton
1976
Buy
09
Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand
1984
Buy
10
They Fly At ’iron
1993
Buy
13
Dark Reflections
2007
Buy
14
Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders
2011
Buy
15
Voyage, Orestes!
2019
Buy
16
Shoat Rumblin: His Sensations and Ideas
2020
Buy
01
The Jewels of Aptor
1962
Buy
03
Home Is the Hangman/We, in Some Strange Power's Employ, Move on a Rigorous Line
1990
Buy
04
Bread and Wine
1999
Buy
01
The Presidential Papers(By: John H. Kessel)
1984
Buy
02
The Human Front(By: Ken MacLeod)
2001
Buy
03
The Left Left Behind(By: Terry Bisson,Eleanor Arnason)
2009
Buy
04
Lucky Strike(By: Kim Stanley Robinson)
2009
Buy
05
The Underbelly(By: Gary Phillips,Eleanor Arnason)
2010
Buy
06
Mammoths of the Great Plains(By: Eleanor Arnason)
2010
Buy
07
The Wild Girls(By: Ursula K. Le Guin,Eleanor Arnason)
2011
Buy
08
Modem Times 2.0(By: Michael Moorcock,Eleanor Arnason)
2011
Buy
09
The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow(By: Cory Doctorow,Eleanor Arnason)
2011
Buy
10
Surfing the Gnarl(By: Rudy Rucker)
2012
Buy
11
Report from Planet Midnight(By: Nalo Hopkinson,Eleanor Arnason)
2012
Buy
12
The Science of Herself(By: Karen Joy Fowler,Eleanor Arnason)
2013
Buy
13
Patty Hearst & The Twinkie Murders: A Tale of Two Trials(By: Eleanor Arnason,Paul Krassner)
2013
Buy
14
New Taboos(By: John Shirley)
2013
Buy
15
Raising Hell(By: Norman Spinrad,Eleanor Arnason)
2014
Buy
16
My Life, My Body(By: Marge Piercy)
2015
Buy
17
Gypsy(By: Carter Scholz,Eleanor Arnason)
2015
Buy
18
Miracles Ain't What They Used to Be(By: Joe R. Lansdale,Eleanor Arnason)
2016
Buy
19
Fire.(By: Elizabeth Hand,Eleanor Arnason)
2017
Buy
20
Totalitopia(By: John Crowley)
2017
Buy
21
The Atheist in the Attic(With: Eleanor Arnason)
2018
Buy
22
Thoreau's Microscope(By: Michael Blumlein,Eleanor Arnason)
2018
Buy
23
The Beatrix Gates(By: Rachel Pollack)
2019
Buy
24
A City Made of Words(By: Paul Park)
2019
Buy
25
Talk Like a Man(By: Nisi Shawl)
2019
Buy
26
Big Girl(By: Meg Elison)
2020
Buy
27
Planetbreaker’s Son(By: Nick Mamatas)
2021
Buy
28
Utopias of the Third Kind(By: Vandana Singh)
2021
Buy
29
Night Shift(By: Eileen Gunn)
2022
Buy
30
The Collapsing Frontier(By: Jonathan Lethem)
2024
Buy
31
Not What I Intended(By: Nancy Kress)
2025
Buy
32
She is Here(By: Nicola Griffith)
2026
Buy
02
Private Affairs(By: Phillip Brian Harper)
1999
Buy
03
In Your Face(By: Mandy Merck)
2000
Buy
04
Tropics of Desire(By: Jos’ Quiroga)
2000
Buy
05
Murdering Masculinities(By: Greg Forter)
2000
Buy
06
Our Monica, Ourselves(By: Lauren Berlant,Lisa A. Duggan)
2001
Buy
07
Black Gay Man(By: Robert F. Reid-Pharr)
2001
Buy
08
Passing(By: )
2001
Buy
09
The Explanation For Everything(By: Paul Morrison)
2002
Buy
10
Queer Globalizations(By: Martin F. Manalansan IV,Arnaldo Cruz-Malave)
2002
Buy
11
Queer Latinidad(By: Juana Mar’a Rodr’guez)
2003
Buy
12
Love the Sin(By: Janet R. Jakobsen)
2003
Buy
13
Boricua Pop(By: Frances Negr’n-Muntaner,Frances n-Muntaner)
2004
Buy
14
In a Queer Time and Place(By: J. Jack Halberstam)
2005
Buy
15
Why I Hate Abercrombie & Fitch(By: Dwight A. McBride)
2005
Buy
16
God Hates Fags(By: Michael Cobb)
2006
Buy
17
Once You Go Black(By: Robert F. Reid-Pharr)
2007
Buy
18
The Latino Body(By: Lazaro Lima)
2007
Buy
19
Arranging Grief(By: Dana Luciano)
2007
Buy
20
Cruising Utopia(By: Jos’ Esteban Mu’oz)
2009
Buy
21
Another Country(By: )
2010
Buy
22
Extravagant Abjection(By: Darieck Scott)
2010
Buy
23
Relocations(By: Karen Tongson)
2011
Buy
24
Single(By: Michael Cobb)
2012
Buy
25
Beyond the Nation(By: Martin Ponce)
2012
Buy
26
Brown Boys and Rice Queens(By: Eng-Beng Lim)
2013
Buy
27
Transforming Citizenships(By: Isaac West)
2013
Buy
28
Investigating Young People's Sexual Cultures(By: Clarissa Smith,Feona Attwood)
2014
Buy
29
The Delectable Negro(By: Vincent Woodard)
2014
Buy
30
Sexual Futures, Queer Gestures, and Other Latina Longings(By: Juana Mar’a Rodr’guez)
2014
Buy
31
Sensational Flesh(By: Amber Jamilla Musser)
2014
Buy
32
The Exquisite Corpse of Asian America(By: Rachel C.Lee)
2014
Buy
33
Not Gay(By: Jane Ward)
2015
Buy
34
Embodied Avatars(By: Uri McMillan)
2015
Buy
35
A Taste for Brown Bodies(By: Hiram P’rez)
2015
Buy
36
Wedlocked(By: Katherine Franke)
2015
Buy
37
A Body, Undone(By: Christina Crosby)
2016
Buy
38
The Color of Kink(By: Ariane Cruz)
2016
Buy
39
Archives of Flesh(By: Robert F. Reid-Pharr)
2016
Buy
40
Black Performance on the Outskirts of the Left(By: Malik Gaines)
2017
Buy
41
The Life and Death of Latisha King(By: )
2018
Buy
42
Queer Nuns(By: Melissa M. Wilcox)
2018
Buy
43
After the Party(By: )
2018
Buy
44
Sensual Excess(By: Amber Jamilla Musser)
2018
Buy
45
Afro-Fabulations(By: )
2018
Buy
46
Queer Times, Black Futures(By: )
2019
Buy
47
Queer Faith(By: )
2019
Buy
48
Archiving an Epidemic(By: Robb Hern’ndez)
2019
Buy
49
Frottage(By: Keguro Macharia)
2019
Buy
50
The Sex Obsession(By: Janet R. Jakobsen)
2020
Buy
51
Becoming Human(By: Zakiyyah Iman Jackson)
2020
Buy
52
The Tragedy of Heterosexuality(By: Jane Ward)
2020
Buy
53
Keeping It Unreal(By: Darieck Scott)
2022
Buy
54
Sexuality Beyond Consent(By: )
2023
Buy
55
Queer Childhoods(By: Mary Zaborskis)
2024
Buy
56
Bottoms Up(By: Xiomara Verenice Cervantes-Gomez)
2024
Buy
57
Deviant Matter(By: Kyla Wazana Tompkins)
2024
Buy
58
Extravagant Camp(By: Chris A. Eng)
2025
Buy
59
Queer Lasting(By: Sarah Ensor)
2025
Buy
01
Aye, and Gomorrah
1967
Buy
03
Distant Stars
1981
Buy
04
The Complete Nebula Award-Winning Fiction
1986
Buy
05
Driftglass/Starshards
1993
Buy
07
Sensitive Skin #9: post-beat, pre-apocalyptic art, writing and music(With: Bernard Meisler,John Lurie)
2012
Buy
09
The Novels of Samuel R. Delany Volume One
2017
Buy
11
Occasional Views, Volume 2
2021
Buy
12
Roots of Imagination: A Chrestomathy
2023
Buy
13
Last and First Tales
2026
Buy
01
Tales of Nev’r’on
1979
Buy
03
Flight from Nev’r’on
1985
Buy
04
The Bridge of Lost Desire / Return to Neveryon
1987
Buy
01
Captives of the Flame / Out of the Dead City
1963
Buy
02
The Towers of Toron
1964
Buy
03
City of a Thousand Suns
1965
Buy
Where to start with Samuel R. Delany
What is the best order to read Samuel R. Delany books?
Publication order is usually the safest place to start. If a book belongs to a series,
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Are standalone books and series both included?
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broken out separately with reading-order links when catalog data is available.
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