Noteworthy Erotic Novels

The novels listed on this page will appeal to men and women who enjoy erotic fiction. The list includes underground classics from the 19th century (Man With a Maid) and modern novels destine to become enduring favorites and possible future classics (The Story of O). Titles range from hardcore bondage, spanking and contemporary swinging, to passionate love stories and all the lusty varieties in-between.

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Body Temperature and Rising by K.D. Grace
Xcite Books, Novemer 2011

Review by Ashley Lister:  To my mind there have always been three potential reasons for visiting the Lakeland National Park in Great Britain.

1. It contains some of the most beautiful countryside in the world.
2. It gives me a chance to pay homage to my heroes in poetry – the Lakeland poets (Wordsworth and Coleridge etc).
3. I occasionally visit the Lakeland area as a performance poet – reading my own material and enjoying the company of other poets.

But now there’s a fourth reason to visit: Body Temperature and Rising by K D Grace. This is the first in a series of titles (other titles to follow include Elemental Fire and Riding the Ether). Set with its feet firmly in the Lakeland area, the story begins with Marie feeling a little lost on a remote path in this fell walking region.
As she struggles to find her bearings Marie comes across a couple. And, in this place of elemental beauty and charm, Marie finds herself being drawn into an enticing world of intrigue, witches and sex magic.

This is powerful, sexy writing from the extremely competent K D Grace. The story contains a compelling narrative. And all of it is set in the most beautiful scenery in the natural world. You really will love this book.
Available at:  Amazon | Xcite Books

Pleasure Dial: An Erotocomedic Novel of Old-Time Radio by Jeremy Edwards
OC Press, November 17, 2011

Review by Ashley Lister:  At just shy of forty-three thousand words, The Pleasure Dial is more novella than novel, making it a delightfully swift and enjoyable read. The book is exquisitely written, perfectly paced, and provides the reader with an array of exciting erotic encounters from the opening page through to the successful denouement.

The Pleasure Dial follows the antics and adventures of Artie Plask – a joke writer in the golden heyday of radio comedy. Artie is witty and well-conceived, and typical of Edwards’ amazing ability to create likeable male protagonists for his erotic fiction. 

The story is sex-positive and upbeat and hurtles along at the unmissable pace of a Buster Keaton car chase.
I am a huge fan of Jeremy Edwards. He knows how to tell a story that excites and entertains and his fiction is never less than a must-read. From what I understand, Oysters and Chocolate are on the verge of producing a series of fiction titles, under their new eBook imprint OC Press.  If this standard is any indication of what to expect, I think every reader will be very satisfied by the quality of material they produce. This is Jeremy Edwards, so you won’t be disappointed.
Available at:  OC Press

House of Holes: A Book of Raunch by Nicholson Baker
Simon & Schuster, August 2011; ISBN-10: 143918951X

Shandee finds a friendly arm at a granite quarry. Ned drops down a hole in a golf course. Luna meets a man made of light bulbs at a tanning parlor. So begins Nicholson Baker’s fuse-blowing, sex-positive escapade, House of Holes. Baker, the bestselling author of The Mezzanine, Vox, and The Fermata, who “writes like no one else in America” (Newsweek), returns to erotic territory with a gleefully over-the-top novel set in a pleasure resort, where normal rules don’t apply. Visitors, pulled in via their drinking straws or the dryers in laundromats, can undergo crotchal transfers . . . make love to trees . . . visit the Groanrooms and the twelve-screen Porndecahedron . . . or pussy-surf the White Lake. It’s very expensive, of course, but there are work-study programs. In charge of day-to-day operations is Lila, a former hospital administrator whose breast milk has unusual regenerative properties. Brimful of good-nature, wit, and surreal sexual vocabulary, House of Holes is a modern-day Hieronymous Boschian bacchanal that is sure to surprise, amuse, and arouse.

“Truly uproarious . . . Fiendishly clever . . . Baker is one of the most consistently enticing writers of our time . . . Readers with a fondness for richly ridiculous diction, witty provocation and graphic sexual prose that celebrates desire, frailty and the comedy of life will not be disappointed. . . . Hilarious and extremely dirty.” —Sam Lipsyte, front cover of the New York Times Book Review
Available at:  Amazon | Barnes & Noble

Exposure by Lisabet Sarai
Phaze Books, June 2010; ISBN-13: 978-1606599747

Stella is just minding her own business and having a bit of fun, working as an exotic dancer at the Peacock Lounge. Through no fault of her own, she witnesses a double murder and gets pulled into a shady dance of deceit with political bigwigs, mob bosses, dirty cops and scheming widows. Now she's everyone's target; her only chance is to sift through the lies and expose the truth.

"In many ways a murder mystery shares a lot in common with a typical striptease. As one layer after another is removed, a little more is revealed but the audience remains hungry to see even more and they won't be satisfied until everything has been wholly and totally exposed...[In Exposure] Lisabet manages this authorial trick with typical aplomb, setting the story up so that the reader is presented with a Stella's eye view of reality." - Ashley Lister, EroticaRevealed.com
Available at:  Amazon | Amazon UK

Pride And Prejudice: Hidden Lusts by Mitzi Szereto
Cleis Press, July 2011; ISBN-10: 1573446637

Review by Ashley Lister: It is a truth universally acknowledged that Jane Austen remains one of the most resilient of classical authors. If anything Austen defies Mark Twain’s tenet that a classic is something everyone wants to have read but no one wants to read. People still want to read Austen, despite her being burdened with the label ‘classic.’ Her writing style remains accessible. Her stories are populated by credible characters and she delivers narratives with a rewarding and satisfying sense of wit.

And so it’s understandable that contemporary authors would pay homage to Austen.
Mitzi Szereto’s latest release, Pride and Prejudice: Hidden Lusts, retains the prim and proper diction of Austen’s original title, but with a contemporary approach to the erotic. There is a considered balance between the proper and the prurient that makes the erotic content seem surprisingly vivid, incredibly intense and coyly charming.

This is not the first title to revisit Austen’s work. Pride and Prejudice has proved a rich source of inspiration for such diverse titles as Helen Fielding’s Bridget Jones’ Diary and Seth Grahame-Smith’s Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.  However, Pride and Prejudice: Hidden Lusts is certainly one of the most stylishly exciting and arousing appropriations of Jane Austen. And that’s a truth that every lucky reader will universally acknowledge.
Available at:  Amazon | Amazon UK

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