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The following erotic books recommended by ERWA subscribers, and our website visitors. Read a good book lately? E-mail Adrienne with title, author and synopsis and we'll post it right here. Categories include:

Erotic Anthologies: For a more extensive list of popular erotic short story collections, browse our Erotic Anthology page.

Sex for America: Politically Inspired Erotica by Stephen Elliott
Harper Perennial (January 29, 2008); ISBN-10: 0061351210

Sex for America takes us to the intersection of our desires and our political beliefs. These provocative stories by some of today's best writers, including Anthony Swofford, Jerry Stahl, Rick Moody, and Jonathan Ames, will inspire new discussions of sexual freedom and fascination.

A surprising encounter between a lesbian and a young man shipping off to war, a liberal Hill staffer falling for the wife of a Republican senator, and Dick Cheney's duck hunt accident as jilted lover's revenge. See your government—and your most recent sex partners—as you've never seen them before.
Available at: Amazon.com  / Amazon UK

Letters to Penthouse xxxi: Serving It Up Hot and Dirty
Grand Central Publishing (May 1, 2008); ISBN-10: 0446619299

Name a playful position, a kinky combination, or a sizzling scenario. At Letters to Penthouse, sex never gets old. And nothing is fresher - or hotter - than sex when it's least expected. Whether with a coworker or a friend's lover, a boss, a bartender, or even one's own spouse, an unanticipated encounter can titillate your senses.

Whether it's at the local drive-in or an island hideaway...in a public park or an exclusive hotel...at a pajama party or in the hot tub, lovers find the raunchy in the most astonishing and random places. Are you ready for these sexy surprises?
Available at: Amazon.com  / Amazon UK

White Flames: Erotic Dreams by Cecilia Tan
Running Press Book Publishers (May 5, 2008); ISBN-10: 0786720808

In this groundbreaking collection Cecilia Tan (Black Feathers--15,000 copies sold) blurs definitions of sexuality and redefines women's erotica. She delves deep into the world of dark fantasy in a powerful collection of stories that interweave the supernatural and science fiction with the fantasy of daydream; she brilliantly combines noir erotica with startling sensuality to shatter the physical and emotional boundaries of sex.

About the Author: Cecilia Tan writes about her many passions, from erotic fantasy to baseball. She is the author of Black Feathers and The Velderet, and has edited over forty anthologies for the publishing house she founded, Circlet Press. Her fiction has appeared in Ms. Magazine, Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, Best American Erotica, and many other places. Tan lives in Cambridge, MA.
Available at: Amazon.com  / Amazon UK

Alluring Tales: Awaken the Fantasy by Sasha White, et al
Avon Red (February 27, 2007); ISBN-10: 0061176036

Pleasure beckons and satisfaction is guaranteed in seven titillating stories of love that know no boundaries. Surrender to the passion and follow your desires into unexplored realms of sensuous delights. Awaken the fantasy:

A man harbors impure thoughts about a voluptuous stripperand sets out to make his erotic dreams come true…

A big-city cop discovers that once bitten is not twice shy after spending a tantalizing night with a beautiful vampire…

A sheltered young woman opens a mysterious locket—and is plunged into a legendary battle of good versus evil to set her imprisoned lover free …

A seductive warlock will not rest until the powerful temptress he lusts for is begging to be dominated…

A television executive lets loose when her favorite heart-throb strides into her officeand gives her the ride of her life…

This one-night stand may be too hot to handle for a newly single woman, but that won't stop her from enjoying every delicious second…

When a mysterious package opens to reveal an oh-so-sexy, nearly naked man, these two have no choice but to hide out…for a good, long time.
Available at: Amazon.com  / Amazon UK

Hot Chick Lit: Do you like sexy, no-holds-barred erotic fiction? You're going to love these titles and more at our Hot Chick Lit page.

Phantasmagoria by Madelynne Ellis
Virgin Black Lace; April 29, 2008; ISBN-10: 0352341688

A historical ménage a trois amid the shadows and phantoms. 1800 - Three years after escaping to London with her bisexual lovers, Bella Rushdale wakes to find their delicate ménage a trois about to shatter. Vaughan, Marquis of Pennerley, has left abruptly without any explanation. Determined to reclaim him and preserve their relationship, Bella pursues him to his family seat on the Welsh Borders where she finds herself embroiled in his preparations for a diabolical gothic celebration on All Hallow's Eve—a phantasmagoria.

Among the shadows and phantoms, Bella and her lovers will peel away the deceits and desires of past and future.
Available at: Amazon.com  / Amazon UK

Hot Nights, Dark Desires
Bantam (May 20, 2008); ISBN-10: 0553385178

Inspired by the sultry heat and sensual ambiance of New Orleans, this steamy collection delves into the erotic underground of the Big Easy. Here is a tantalizing trio of stories by three rising stars that will tease your imagination—and seduce your senses. Lush, haunting, and provocative, New Orleans has something to satisfy every desire—as three very lucky women are about to discover.

In “Shadow Play” (Sydney Croft) an ex-supermodel desperate to revive her career seeks the help of a gorgeous, reclusive photographer with a special gift­and offers him anything he wants in return. The result is a series of erotic positions captured on film­along with a mind-blowing physical connection neither expected….

In “The Art of Desire” (Eden Bradley) a sheltered young woman turned on by the idea of getting tattooed dares to make her fantasy a reality. But as her arousing sessions with a dangerously handsome tattoo artist move from the tattoo parlor to the bedroom, they make an impression that’s more than skin deep….

And in “Night Vision” (Stephanie Tyler) when artist Catie Lanford hires professional cooler Bat Kelly to whip the failing bar she’s recently inherited into shape, she’s not looking for a lover­until she lays eyes on the sexy wild man. Soon they’ve agreed to mix business with pleasure, and Catie discovers that Bat is just what she needs to set her artist’s imagination—and her body—on fire.

Abandon your inhibitions and excite your spirit with a gathering of tales that’s as sexy and spicy as the city of New Orleans itself.
Available at: Amazon.com  / Amazon UK

Cassandra's Conflict by Fredrica Alleyn
Virgin Black Lace; 15th Anniversary Edition (April 29, 2008); ISBN-10: 0352341866

A young governess learns that children arent the only ones who need to be disciplined.

A house in Hampstead, present day. Behind a faade of cultured respectability lies a world of decadent indulgence and dark eroticism. Cassandras sheltered life is transformed when she becomes governess to the Barons children. He draws her into games where lust can feed on the erotic charge of submission games where only he knows the rules and where unusual pleasures can flourish.

"CASSANDRA'S CONFLICT is without a doubt the most erotically enticing story I have ever had the pleasure to read." — Amanda Haffery, Romance Junkie Review, March 2008

From the Author: I can't believe that 15 years have passed since I wrote 'Cassandra's Conflict'. It was very exciting for me to be invited to write one of the four launch titles, but also slightly nerve wracking. No one involved in the launch of Black Lace had any idea of how the books would be received, as the concept of 'erotic fiction, written for women by women' was an entirely new one. The erotic fiction market had always been written with men as the target reader, even though a considerable number of women did read them. ... Fifteen years on, with Black Lace still going strong, I feel very excited that I was there at the beginning and equally delighted that my first Black Lace novel is being reissued as part of their anniversary celebration.
Available at: Amazon.com  / Amazon UK

Inequities by Debra Hyde
Double Dragon Publishing; March 2, 2008; ISBN-10: 1554045509

Lonely and too long a young widow, Cynthia Barnett decides to test the waters of life. But rather than toe the temperature, she stumbles into the shallow end when her debut at a party among her late husband's colleagues turns sour. Then she flounders right into the deep end of the pool when her appearance at a fetish bar turns disastrous. She loses her cool with a foot fetishist and leaves him squirming on the floor, clutching himself in pain. Both incidents, coupled with an intensely erotic dream of her late husband, leave her shaken and confused.

Cynthia quickly decides that she has no qualms about turning away from her old life as a doctor's wife, but she can't so easily escape her sexuality. She prefers conducting sex from on high, as a dominant woman, yet her anguished encounter at the fetish bar stands in stark opposition to the perfect and hallowed memory of her blissful marriage to her late husband, Paul. How, she wonders, will she move forward?

Progress occurs. Surrounded by a circle of close, long-time friends, Cynthia finds the courage to step out into a leather group. She develops the sheer persistence that enables her to seek out opportunity at any given turn. Cynth is soon presented with two distinct possibilities, David and Miles, but the men are like night and day. Miles - self-assured, at ease, candid, and not at all hasty in his bid for Cynth's attentions - is the confident counterpart to David, who seems wary of relationships. Driven by desire, David is nonetheless largely inexperienced and deeply conflicted about what he wants.

A complication arises when Cynth's previous life clashes with her new existence. She runs into Spencer Harrison, a colleague of her deceased husband. Her discovery that Spencer is dominant leaves her unnerved, because he is the one doctor who has always raised her hackles and aroused her suspicions. Now, she knows why, as he pursues her and tries to flip her to the submissive side.

Three men to choose from, but only one will emerge as a champion of her happiness. Only one will prove himself to her. Meeting these challenges enables Cynth to reclaim her erotic identity and achieve a thriving balance in life: accomplishments that exceed her expectations.

A deliciously detailed journey of love and lust, Inequities deftly explores the psychology of the heart - and the libido - yet never shirks from rich, lusty erotic extremes. It might just leave you wanting more.
Available at: Amazon.com  / Amazon UK

Hard Guy Lit: Hey, quit your smirking. We have hot chick lit, so why not hard guy lit? For more, browse through our Hard Guy Lit page.

American Blue by Penny Birch
Nexus (6 Mar 2008); ISBN-10: 0352341696

"American Blue" takes a light-hearted but unashamedly perverse look at the American porno industry from the perspective of an innocent young model.

When Penny Birch discovers that her niece Jemima has been seduced into making a working tour of some of the USA's most notorious pornographers, she feels she has no choice but to save her from the clutches of these dangerous men. But Jemima is not to be dissuaded, and as aunt and niece travel west from New York they get themselves into all kinds of kinky trouble.

"girlie over-the-knee frolics aplentyits CP and spanking all the way" -- Desire (Brush Strokes)
Available at: Amazon.com  / Amazon UK

Sensual Romance:  If you like reading about bone-melting passions you'll enjoy these titles. For more recommendations browse our Sensual Romance page.

Demon's Fire: A Tale of the Demon World by Emma Holly
Berkley Trade (April 1, 2008); ISBN-10: 0425220540

The sequel to Prince of Ice

Desperate to escape the routine life her family has planned for her, Beth Philips joins an archeological dig with her long-time friend, Charles. The desert city of Bhamjran is the perfect place to explore desiresincluding Charles's secret yen for a Yamish demon. And as he and Beth are soon to discover, some Yama find humans just as irresistible.

Once a sexual captive, Prince Pahndir now exploits his talents as proprietor to the most successful brothel in Bhamjran. Hoping to find his own erotic fulfillment, he believes these two young humans may hold the key to his long-frustrated demon needs. His seductive ways lure Beth and Charles into a passionate triangle, one that will redefine pleasure's limits . . . and challenge all their understanding of what love means.
Available at: Amazon.com  / Amazon UK

Strong and Sexy by Jill Shalvis (Sky High Air, Book 2)
Brava (January 1, 2008) Language: English ISBN-10: 0758221827

Starring the wildly seductive heroes Noah, Shayne, and Brody, Jill Shalvis's exhilarating new series features a delectable concoction of sex appeal and adventure. Whether they're up in the air or between the sheets, these hot, hardy pilots know exactly where the action is!

Blowing It All Sky High ...

In a family of serious over-achievers, Shayne Mahoney has always been the laid-back, easy-going rebel. But running Sky High Aira charter airline catering to the rich and famousis a dream come true, in-flight specials included. Like kissing his client's beautiful, brainy daughter in a coat closet. But before Shayne can say "Fasten Your Seatbelts," Dani claims to witness a murder, gets stalked in her own apartment, and as added bonus, gets them both shot at by a mystery sniper. Normally Shayne would be running from the obviously crazy woman, and yet he finds himself trying to help her, leaving him to doubt his own sanity.

There's a reason Dani never attends her mother's high society parties. The fake people, the shallow conversationand the fact that she doesn't fit in. She's a zoologist, not a starlet, and happy about it, even if she wishes men like ruggedly handsome Shayne Mahoney would spare her a second glance. Of course, dodging bullets isn't exactly what she'd call the perfect follow-up to their heated kiss, but Shayne makes it clear she can depend on him. All she has to do is hold on tight to his delicious hard body until the ride is over...
Available at: Amazon.com  / Amazon UK

The Perils of Pleasure by Julie Anne Long
Avon (January 29, 2008); ISBN-10: 0061341584

A rescued rogue . . . Scandal has rocked the city of London. Colin Eversea, a handsome, reckless unapologetic rogue is sentenced to hang for murder and, inconveniently for him, the only witness to the crime disappears. Then again, throughout history, the Everseas have always managed to cheat fate in style: Colin is snatched from the gallows by a beautiful, clever mercenary.

A captivating captor. . . Cool-headed, daring Madeleine Greenway is immune to Colin's vaunted charm. Her mission is not to rescue Colin but to kidnap him, and to be paid handsomely for it. But when it becomes clear that whoever wants Colin alive wants Madeline dead, the two become uneasy allies in a deadly race for truth. Together, they'll face great dangerand a passion neither can resist.
Available at: Amazon.com  / Amazon UK

Erotic Gay Fiction: Like hot gay stories? We have an excellent selection of the very best at our Gay Erotica page.

Comin' at Ya!: The Homoerotic 3-D Photographs of Denny Denfield
Arsenal Pulp Press; October 1, 2007; ISBN-10: 155152225X

An amazing collection of full-colour, sexually explicit 3-D photographs of men taken in the early 1950s by Denny Denfield, an amateur physique photographer in California who worked as an accountant for the US Army. Denfield's photographs, never distributed publicly given their illegality at the time, display a skill, wit, and daring rarely seen, and with their rich Kodachrome colours and mid-century decors, can now be appreciated for their rogueish, almost nave charm.

The accompanying narrative by David L. Chapman, from whose own private collection these photographs appear, sheds fascinating light on Denfield's secret life and work (stereography had been invented in 1850, but the advent of a compact, easy-to-use 3-D camera in 1947 allowed amateurs like Denfield to produce their own). And a narrative by acclaimed Montreal writer and scholar Thomas Waugh (Lust Unearthed, Out/Lines, Gay Art: A Historic Collection) places Denfield's work in the historical context of homoerotic photography over the last century.

The 3-D photographs are comprised of dual images which "come alive" when viewed through the 3-D glasses, supplied with the book. Equal parts kitschy, informed, and sexy, Comin' at Ya! is a collection that is both fun and historically fascinating.

"A surprisingly classy book about an overlooked part of gay history, male physique modeling as a cover for gay erotica in the 1950s.... The naked men that fill each page are brought to startling life.... The photographs really are stunning. Their importance is discussed in the two essays, both of which prove to be enlightening, and provide a portrait of the private man behind the lens."  —EDGE Boston
Available at: Amazon.com  / Amazon UK

The Palace of Varieties by James Lear
Cleis Press (April 28, 2008): ISBN-10: 157344314X

Paul Lemoyne is a callow but resourceful 18-year-old who leaves the hinterlands for the big city. A steamy tearoom tryst initiates him into London's gay underground and lands him a job at the seedy Palace of Varieties, where the nonstop backstage blow jobs make the tacky onstage acts seem tame. "As hairy as a donkey and hung like one as well!" as one of his astonished bedmates notes, the indomitable Paul rises quickly from stagehand doing every man in sight to well-heeled rent boy, reluctant thief, and friend with benefits. He can't pass a salon, studio, back alley, or bathhouse without sampling its erotic possibilities. But when he falls into the clutches of butch, sadistic impresario Albert Abbott, even Paul's country-boy mettle may not help him. James Lear's distinctive mix of page-turning prose, droll humor, explicit sex, and memorable cast of sex-crazed studs of all ages, shapes, and inclinations make this an exciting companion to The Back Passage and Hot Valley.

This extremely graphic novel brims with male sex from the sordid to the sublime, in every position, place, and variety. "Lear takes the conventional British murder mystery and turns it on its ear by adding a hearty does of graphic gay sex and comedic sensibility." —Bay Area Reporter
Available at: Amazon.com  / Amazon UK

Erotic Lesbian Fiction: Interested in lesbian erotica? Check out the extensive list of titles on our Lesbian Erotica page.

Purple Panties by Zane (Editor)
Strebor Books (May 6, 2008); ISBN-10: 1593091656

What happens when "The Finest Man" you have ever laid eyes on is a woman? What happens when a woman comes home to her man after a hard day's work with "Lipstick on Her Collar?" What happens when a married woman runs across the love of her life—another woman—who insists that "It's All or Nothing?" Is there such a thing as playing too "Hard to Get?" What happens when "Mom's Night Out" turns into group sex? What happens when you discover your true sexuality "At Last?" All of these questions and more are answered within the pages of Purple Panties.

Written by women from all over the world, here is a new level of lesbian erotica, compiled by Zane, that promises the most exciting and steamy reading experience possible. These stories move beyond race, age, and all walks of life, including long-hidden passions, secret rendezvous with strangers, and May-December romances.

With Zane's ever-growing popularity, and the need for increasingly quality erotica, Purple Panties will satisfy a long-standing demand for African-American lesbian literature.
Available at: Amazon.com  / Amazon UK

Graphic Novels, adult comic books, Yaoi, call them what you will, they are here in a big way, and here to stay. For a list of best sellers, browse our Graphic Novels page.

Erotic Comics: A Graphic History from Tijuana Bibles to Zap Comix
Abrams (May 1, 2008); ISBN-10: 0810995158

This international survey of erotic comics chronicles a groundbreaking form of sexual expression up to 1970, the years when mainstream culture spurned explicit eroticism. In the 1930s, American “Tijuana Bibles,” little pornographic comic books that parodied popular comics and comic strips, were widely available. World War II gave a boost to erotic comics, especially illustrated pin-ups. This set the stage for men’s magazines such as Playboy, which included racy cartoons from the beginning, and fetish comics.

The flowering of the counterculture in the next decade gave rise to underground comics, whose acknowledged master was Robert Crumb. A parallel development occurred in Europe, where erotic comics like Barbarella were suddenly the rage.
Erotic Comics tells this story with hundreds of illustrations, informative text, and insights from key artists, writers, and publishers. It’s sexy, artistic, entertaining, intriguing, and informative.
Available at: Amazon.com  / Amazon UK

Birdland (Expanded Edition) by Gilbert Hernandez
Eros Comix (July 1992); ISBN-10: 1560972009

The Love and Rockets co-creator's sensationally semen-drenched fantasia is still the hottest Eros comic of them all! A voyeuristic foray into the lives of a delightfully deviant cast, including several strippers, bodybuilders, horny aliens and a sensuous psychiatrist and her philandering husband, this gorgeous tome is one for the bedoom and the bookcase! Still the standard-bearer for X-rated comics! This volume reprints all four issues of the series, and includes copious bonus material as well.

"A free flowing stream of cummy consciousness inseminates this unceasingly clever graphic novel, which kicks off with one endlessly spewing character on the verge of discovering the secret of the universe in his lover's snatch." —Village Voice

"When the premier naturalist of the medium decides to do an erotic comic, the result is way too humanist to be just another fuck-book." —L.A. Weekly

"Witty and literate, every page bursts and drips with distended organs and bodily moistures." —Future Sex
Available at: Amazon.com  / Amazon UK

Adult Movies: Hey, what's this Adult Movie stuff doing on a book page? Treat your visual beast within by browsing through our Best In Adult Movies section.

Morphine
Cast: Alex Gonz, April Flores, Ashley Blue, Audrey Hollander, Faith Leon, Jada Fire, Jerry, Julius Ceazher, Otto Bauer, Zak Atak
Director: Kimberly Kane
Studio: Vivid Alt

Based on true events Kimberly Kane paints a dark picture of a young woman (Audrey Hollander) struggling to leave the dead end life of a prostitute and drug addict to follow her dreams of being a Nashville songwriter. In this world of endless sorrow and sadistic sex acts will she make it out of this place alive or will she be just another junkie with a pipe dream?
 
Performer-director Kimberly Kane's latest release from Vivid-Alt starts out something like this: "Faith Leon is driving an old Cadillac down an empty highway, and Audrey [Hollander] is hitching down the highway. She gets picked up, and it goes into one of the gnarliest girl/girl scenes I've ever seen," Kane told XBIZ magazine.

Based on real-life events that took place at a strip club called The Sugar Shack, Kane tells the semi-autobiographical story of a girl who descends into a life of drug addiction and prostitution, while dreaming of become a songwriter in Nashville.

"My favorite part of the movie is the sex," Kane said. "It's nasty and that's the most important thing to me in a porno because that's what I'm making. I'm not making an art project. I'm not trying to be anything that I'm not. I'm a pornographer, and this movie is nasty."

As a director, Kane is bringing her own hardcore sensibilities to the forefront. Kane may join the ranks of an alternative breed of women directors that are not afraid to go to extremes.

" ...Not only was the sex rough, exciting and all around spectacular, the cinematography, soundtrack, and settings were all very appealing as well. ...

"I had one major dilemma with this movie I wanted to watch it in its entirety but I just couldn't do it. The sex scenes were just too hot and I couldn't make it through the whole thing in one sitting, if you know what I mean. I highly recommend this movie and I can't wait to see whats next from Kimberly Kane"  —Dinah-Mo Hum, Adult DVD Empire
Morphine is available at Adult DVD Empire.

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