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Fifty+ Shades of Grey Alternatives - Erotic Romance Novels

Comfort Object (Comfort series)

Annabel Joseph is a novelist who specializes in the romance of dominance and submission. Her stories celebrate the complexity of sensual power exchange in loving and sometimes complicated relationships.

Inferno (a poet's novel)

Inferno (a poet's novel) - Kindle edition by Eileen Myles. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Inferno (a poet's novel).

Little Birds Publisher: Mariner Books: Anais Nin: Amazon.com: Books

Anaïs Nin (1903-1977) was born in Paris and aspired at an early age to be a writer. An influential artist and thinker, she wrote primarily fiction until 1964, when her last novel, Collages, was published.

How Should a Person Be?: A Novel from Life: Sheila Heti: 9780805094725: Amazon.com: Books

Heti truly has a startling voice all her own, and a fresh take on fiction and autobiography's overlap. Her mix of hyperreal detail, sweeping gestures from the realm of parable, and self-reflexive distortions leaves us wondering what's real and what's invented. - Johanna Fateman

Story of O: Pauline Reage: 9780345301116: Amazon.com: Books

The classic erotic novel, THE STORY OF O relates the love of a beautiful Parisian fashion photographer for Rene. As part of that intense love, she demands debasement and severe sexual and pychological tests. It is a unique work not to be missed.

Unsticky: Sarra Manning: 9780755347377: Amazon.com: Books

Unsticky [Sarra Manning] on Amazon.com. FREE shipping on qualifying offers. Product Description High fashion, high art, high expectations - this is Pretty Woman for the twenty-first century Money makes the world go round - that's what twenty-something Grace Reeves is learning.

On Dublin Street

"This is a really sexy book and I loved the heroine's journey to find herself and grow strong. Highly recommend this one."-USA Today's Happily Ever After Blog "Young's voice is riveting and once I opened the book, I wanted to hang a 'do not disturb' sign around my neck until I was finished.

Club Shadowlands (Masters of the Shadowlands)

Club Shadowlands (Masters of the Shadowlands) - Kindle edition by Cherise Sinclair. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Club Shadowlands (Masters of the Shadowlands).

Legs Get Led Astray

Chloe Caldwell's Legs Get Led Astray is a scorching hot glitter box of youthful despair and dark delight. Tender and sharp, wide-eyed and searching, these essays have a reckless beauty that feels to me like magic. --Cheryl StrayedThese true stories are raw and heartfelt... gems galore. --Poe BallantinePrepare to shed skin.

The Surrender: An Erotic Memoir: Toni Bentley: 9780060732479: Amazon.com: Books

"I am sitting on the threshold. Perhaps this is the final paradox of God's paradoxical machinations: my ass is my very own back door to heaven. The Pearly Gates are closer than you think." Bentley is writing of her rhapsodic experience with sodomy. So some will call this memoir blasphemous, others spiritual; some pornographic, others erotic.

The Passion

Jeanette Winterson’s novels have established her as one of the most important young writers in world literature. The Passion is perhaps her most highly acclaimed work, a modern classic that confirms her special claim on the novel. Set during the tumultuous years of the Napoleonic Wars, The Passion intertwines the destinies of two remarkable people: Henri, a simple French soldier, who follows Napoleon from glory to Russian ruin; and Villanelle, the red-haired, web-footed daughter of a Venetian boatman, whose husband has gambled away her heart. In Venice’s compound of carnival, chance, and darkness, the pair meet their singular destiny.

Kafka Was the Rage: A Greenwich Village Memoir: Anatole Broyard: 9780679781264: Amazon.com: Books

Brilliant, funny, penetrating observations on life and culture in N.Y.C. after WW II from critic Broyard, who died of cancer in 1990 (Intoxicated by My Illness, 1992). ``Nineteen forty-six was a good time--perhaps the best time-- in the twentieth century,'' writes Broyard, and the reader wishes that the critic were still here to write a dozen more books just like this wonderful one to explain further exactly what he means.

My Secret Garden: Nancy Friday: 9781416567011: Amazon.com: Books

"You'll blush, your pulse will race." -- The New York Times"Delicious...women can share in their sisters' secrets and not feel that they are alone." -- Los Angeles Times"Provocative." -- Women's Wear Daily

Vox (Vintage Contemporaries)

Baker's self-indulgent novel, a 14-week PW bestseller in cloth, transcribes a long telephone conversation between two people who meet over a phone-sex call-in line. Author tour. Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Trouble: Kate Christensen: 9780307390943: Amazon.com: Books

Christensen follows The Great Man with this slightly lesser work, a coming-of-middle-age novel that explores the sexual lives of three women in their 40s. Best friends since their college days, trust-funder Indrani, therapist Josie and L.A. rocker Raquel are like three very different but close sisters.

Bad Behavior: Mary Gaitskill: 9780679723271: Amazon.com: Books

This collection of nine stories "marks the debut of a promising and provocative new voice," PW remarked. These are tales of sexual obsession, drug addiction, the darkest sides of interpersonal relationships. "Writing about human nature at its most perverse and hopeless, Gaitskill has created an intimate and almost beautiful series of images."

Amazon.com: Taken (Give and Take) eBook: Kelli Maine: Kindle Store

USA Today Bestseller! What Goodreads reviewers are saying about Taken: "WOW! WOW! After finishing up Fifty Shades series I needed a fix and Taken unquestionably hit the spot. Watch out Christian Grey there's a new sexy millionaire in town and he won't take no for an answer.

Amazon.com: Naked (The Blackstone Affair, Part 1) eBook: Raine Miller: Kindle Store

A New York Times bestselling author who has been reading romance novels since she picked up that first Barbara Cartland book at the tender age of thirteen. And it's a safe bet she'll never stop, because now she writes them too.

Club Shadowlands (Masters of the Shadowlands)

Club Shadowlands (Masters of the Shadowlands) - Kindle edition by Cherise Sinclair. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Club Shadowlands (Masters of the Shadowlands).

Amazon.com: Riders eBook: Jilly Cooper: Kindle Store

Set against the glorious Cotswold countryside and the playgrounds of the world, Jilly Cooper's Rutshire Chronicles, Riders, Rivals, Polo, The Man Who Made Husbands Jealous, Appassionata and Score!, offer an intoxicating blend of skulduggery, swooning romance, sexual adventure and hilarious high jinks.

The Marriage Bargain

"Full of nonstop sexual tension that crackles off the page." ---Laura Kaye, author of Hearts in Darkness

Final Payments: Mary Gordon: 9780345329738: Amazon.com: Books

"A first class writer. . . . A splendid balancing act of the intellect and the emotions on a high-tension wire."-The New York Times"A novel of great vitality and wit. . . . It can be read on many levels and enjoyed on every one of them."

Gynomite: Fearless, Feminist Porn

This is a milestone document from an ongoing movement to change the world, one orgasm at a time. Full of sexually charged language and imagery, unusual points of view, and subject matter covering new territory or still considered taboo, each piece of writing in this book represents an original, personal approach to the concept of feminist porn.

Big Sex Little Death: A Memoir: Susie Bright: Amazon.com: Books

"Susie Bright is a one-woman counterculture, a teenaged socialist revolutionary turned Reagan-era sexual freedom fighter. In this lively, bittersweet memoir, she recounts a life full of political and erotic adventures and betrayals, a life at once deeply subversive and totally American, defined as it is by the idea that people should be free to express and pursue their own visions of happiness, no matter how uncomfortable it makes the prigs and scolds among us."

Beg (Songs of Submission)

USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHOR FOR THE SONGS OF SUBMISSION SERIES---AMAZON TOP TEN BESTSELLING AUTHOR------ With a writing skill that can only be described as sexy, gritty, sharp, and sinfully stunning; she creates a sensual story line decorated with addictive characters. And then she lights all of that on fire.