Popular Erotic Books

Featuring new releases and enduring favorites

Every month we feature erotic anthologies and novels, sensual romances, erotic chick lit, hot guy lit, gay and lesbian erotica, and more. Titles are recommended by the Erotica Readers & Writers Association and our website visitors. Read a good book lately? E-mail Adrienne with title, author and synopsis and we'll post it right here.

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

Just Watch Me: Erotica for Women by Violet Blue (Editor)
Cleis Press, September 1; ISBN-10: 1573444170

Just Watch Me is a sassy selection of the very best erotica by women, for women. Hand-picked by Violet Blue from the Best Women's Erotica series, these stories should be read nice and slow so that every outrageous scenario can be savored. Sydney Beier's "Reading to Horst" follows an American woman living in Germany who conducts foreplay by reading aloud to a tourist from Anaïs Nin's Little Birds. In Alison Tyler's "Four on the Floor," a pair of lovers hunt for and conquer another couple. And Elizabeth Coldwell's "Heat" describes the fierce affair between a barmaid and her brutish boss, a man she doesn't even like but who sets her heart pounding.

Intended as inspiration for bedroom adventures, this heady collection of smart, sensual erotic stories is filled with hair-raising, relatable encounters.
Available at: Amazon | Amazon UK

Letters to Penthouse XXXVIII:
Exposed, Mind-blowing Sexcapades
Grand Central Publishing, August 2010; ISBN-10: 0446619361

Sex fantasies--we all have them. But how many of us get to fulfill them? Meet the brave and sexy souls who not only dare to dream, but take the plunge and make the hotness happen.

Hang for a night with the humble housewife turned high-priced hooker. Spy on the shy boy-next-door about to discover the naughty neighbor. Bring that sweet slice of sugar to the bodacious birthday girl at the party of her life. This is Penthouse, where nothing and no one is ever too wild.
Available at: Amazon | Amazon UK

Backstage Passes: An Anthology of Rock and Roll Erotica
Blue Blood, June 2010; ISBN-10: 09846053120

In this sexy literary anthology, top genre authors explore the deep eroticism of music subcultures. Demons, vampires, punk employees, spirits, gothic fetish party revelers, and guitarists feel the rhythm where it counts. Features fiction by Poppy Z. Brite, Nancy A. Collins, Yon Von Faust, Amelia G, Sèphera Girón, Andew Greenberg, Thomas S. Roche, William Spencer-Hale, John Shirley, Shariann Lewitt, Will Judy, Althea Morin, Ceclia Tan, and more.

Critics' praise for Backstage Passes: "sure to stimulate the mind, heart and other places ... If you like your Rock and Roll the way it was meant to be, this is a reading must." —Redemption Magazine
Available at: Amazon | Amazon UK

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.

Corralled by Lorelei James
NAL Trade, August 2010; ISBN-10: 0451230132

Sports therapist Lainie Capshaw has been rehabilitating injured cowboys long enough to know that a charming western drawl combined with a fine physical form doesn't mean you fall for the man.

So no one is more surprised than Lainie when she finds herself involved with not one, but two different men: Hank Lawson, a bullfighter, and Kyle Gilchrist, a bull rider. Lainie feels guilty about her two-timing, but it doesn't keep her from doubling her fun-that is until Hank catches her with Kyle.

She's shocked that Hank isn't mad. But she's more shocked to learn Hank and Kyle are hometown buddies. But when the men offer to share her-in every way-she knows that she's going to have to choose the one man who can give her the ride of her life.
Available at: Amazon | Amazon UK

Being With Him by Jessica Barksdale Inclan
Zebra, September; ISBN-10: 1420101137

Mila Adams has always known she was different. For as long as she can remember, she has had the ability to shift time, and who would believe that? Certainly not the obnoxious blind dates her mother foists off on her. But Mila can't help feeling there's someone out there for her, a soul mate who might understand her unique ability. And when she looks into the dark eyes of financial whiz Garrick McClellan, she can't help but feel her time has finally come.

Any man would lust after a beauty like Mila, but the moment Garrick touches her - feels her shifting time just as he can - he recognizes her as his partner in power. Their connection is immediate, passionate, raw, and beyond anything either has ever experienced. But who are they? What is this gift that joins them so intensely? Are there others like them? And why do they feel that time is running out?
Available at: Amazon | Amazon UK

Into the Crossfire by Lisa Marie Rice
Avon Red, July 2010; ISBN-10: 0061808261

A rising star in erotica, author Lisa Marie Rice launches her new Protectors series with Into the Crossfire—introducing the first of three super-hot ex-Special Forces operatives willing to walk through fire for the women they love. Romantic suspense has never been this thrilling and scintillating!

Former Navy SEAL Sam Reston keeps to himself. His world is dangerous, uncertain, violent...and there is no room in it for the helpless and weak. Then the most beautiful woman in the world moves in next door to him.

Nicole Pearce's life is complicated enough—with an ailing father and a new business to worry about—and the last thing she needs is to get involved with a secretive, hard-bodied, hardheaded neighbor. Yet Sam leaves her breathless—her body tingling with erotic desire—and it takes every ounce of her fabled control to resist offering herself to him, no strings attached. What she doesn't know is that Sam Reston is on an undercover assignment . . . and she's about to step into the crossfire.

Never has Sam ached for a woman so badly, and he's never fallen in love before. Now that Nicole is in grave danger, he will become her shield, and guard the tempting body he longs to touch and taste. Because a terrorist plot hatched half a world away is heading to their doorstep—and it can only be derailed by one man and one woman.
Available at: Amazon | Amazon UK

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

Best of Best Gay Erotica 3 by Richard Labonte (Editor)
Cleis Press, September 2010; ISBN-10: 1573444103

Since it began in 1996, this groundbreaking series — hailed as “consistently outstanding” by the Lambda Book Report and as “literally orgasmic” by HX Magazine — has delivered the hottest gay male sex writing anywhere. In Best of Best Gay Erotica 3, editor Richard Labonté brings together the most daring, intense, and memorable stories from the series’ past five years.

To pull together these intense, insightful stories, Labonté worked together with an impressive panel of judges, making sure this volume was a landmark in gay erotica.
Available at: Amazon | Amazon UK

Hard Working Men: Gay Erotic Fiction by Shane Allison (Editor)
Cleis Press, September 2010; ISBN-10: 1573444065

Got a big pole that needs planting? Need help getting the heat turned back on? Well, strap on your tool belt and get ready for a rough ride! The hunks of Hard Working Men will do whatever it takes to get the job done. These sweaty studs, brawny bears, and cocksure construction workers go all out to turn on, tune up, and fulfill every work order.

When a man living in wintry seclusion is visited by a cable repairman in Marvin Richmond’s "Service Call," things start to heat up. William Holden sets loins ablaze when a lonely neighbor gets a house call from a couple of horned-up tree trimmers in "Out on a Limb." In the world of Hard Working Men, hats aren't the only things that are hard.
Available at: Amazon | Amazon UK

Graphic Novels, adult comic books, 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.

Pin-Up Artist by Ignacio Noe (Illustrator)
Eurotica, July 2010; ISBN-10: 1561635871

The best-selling author of Convent of Hell and the Piano Tuner brings us to an exhibition of the great pin-up artist Gil Spam. He’s now a very old man in a wheelchair who can’t even speak, taken care of by his lovely niece. Chapter by chapter we get to discover the real dirty story behind each wonderful slightly naughty famous piece being exhibited.

How could such charmingly risqué paintings have been inspired by such utter lechery and sexual abandon? Noe delivers another raunchy, funny and beautifully painted story.
Available at: Amazon | Amazon UK

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

Lesbian Lust by Sacchi Green (Editor)
Cleis Press, August 2010; ISBN-10: 1573444030

2010 Lambda Award Winner! Lammy-award winning editor Sacchi Green's newest, Lesbian Lust, is a critical darling, with a rash of rave reviews. It showcases the very best of Cleis Press erotica with stories by both the best in the genre as well as exciting new voices.

For readers who crave stories of uninhibited, unrepentant sex between women, Lesbian Lust delivers. This is real lesbian sex: sensual, inventive, and nothing less than breathtaking. Butches abound, baby dykes learn important life lessons, femmes and fatales bring each other to the brink.

In "The Office Grind," by R. G. Emanuelle, a stressed-out businesswoman loses herself and her heart in the startling green eyes of a sleek butch in a bar. Gill McKnight's "Beach Moth" tells the tale of a tall, dark, and handsome stranger who offers her hand to a femme abandoned on vacation. The ultimate in eroticism, the relentless, raw stories of Lesbian Lust leave no fantasy is unfulfilled.
Available at: Amazon | 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.

Wicked Intentions by Elizabeth Hoyt
Grand Central Publishing, August 2010; ISBN-10: 044655894X

A man controlled by his desires....  Infamous for his wild, sensual needs, Lazarus Huntington, Lord Caire, is searching for a savage killer in St. Giles, London's most notorious slum. Widowed Temperance Dews knows the area like the back of her hand—she cares for its children at the foundling home her family established. Now that home is at risk…

A woman haunted by her past....  Caire makes a simple offer—in return for Temperance's help navigating the perilous alleys of St. Giles, he will introduce her to high society so that she can find a benefactor for the home. But Temperance may not be the innocent she seems, and what begins as a cold bargain soon falls prey to a passion neither can control—and may well destroy them both.

"Bestseller Hoyt brings steamy sensuality...in this engaging series launch... enhanced by earthy, richly detailed characterizations and deft historical touches." —Publishers Weekly
Available at: Amazon | Amazon UK

Swept Away By a Kiss by Katharine Ashe
Avon, July 2010; ISBN-10: 0061965626

When pirates storm Viscount Steven Ashford's ship upon the high seas, it brings him closer than ever to the nefarious criminal he seeks to ruin. Only one seductive detail threatens his victory: the scandalous beauty imprisoned with him, Lady Valerie Monroe. Temptation has never been so intoxicating or so forbidden, for Steven is disguised as a French priest. If they make it off the ship alive, to protect her from his enemies he must never see her again.

Back in England, and under the ton's scrutiny for a reckless past she hasn't escaped, Valerie dreams of the breathtaking "man of the cloth" with whom she shared her greatest adventure. Then he reappears in society under his true identity, Viscount Ashford, but, despite the danger, their consuming passion cannot be denied. Now standing in the way of their desire are Valerie's wounded heart, Steven's lone destiny, and a villain who will stop at nothing to crush them both.

"The sexual tension between the two is nothing short of amazing, beautiful and steamy! I’m big on the sexual build up, it’s an important factor in developing the characters and this book definitely delivers and follows through on said sexual tenstion.

Fellow romance lovers run, don’t walk to your nearest bookstore and get this book. You will not be disappointed. I will always be first in line to get Katharine’s other books!!" —Rebecca, TheSeasonForRomance.com
Available at: Amazon | Amazon UK

Forbidden by Christina Phillips
Berkley Trade, September 2010; ISBN-10: 0425238083

Carys knew from the moment she first spied on Maximus in his naked barbarian glory that he was a dangerous Roman centurion-his taut, battle-scarred flesh marking him as a fearless warrior. But her desire for him was as undeniable as it was illicit.

Charged by his emperor to eliminate a clan of powerful Druids in Britain, Maximus never expects his mission to be thwarted by the clan's ethereal princess, Carys. Falling under her spell, he doesn't realize her true heritage-until he captures her heart as well as her body.

Now Carys and Maximus must overcome the devastation of war and face the ultimate sacrifice if their forbidden love is to survive.

"Set in the time of Caesar, Forbidden is a fabulous erotic ancient historical romance. As the two adversaries fall in love, she fears the Eagle of Roman will destroy her beloved culture as Rome assimilates them before superseding the local heritage.  With a sense of time and place, fans will enjoy the taboo romance between the Druid and the Centurion." —Harriet Klausner
Available at: Amazon | 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.

Not M*A*S*H
Cast: Bailey Brooks, Brandy Blair, Herschel Savage, Krissy Lynn, Miko Sins
Director: Will Ryder
Studio: Hustler

While many films and TV shows have been parodied in porn, none have tickled my fancy as much as NOT M*A*S*H, a film which combines the heavy-handed 'dramedy' of military hospital unit workers involved in the Korean War debacle during the 1950's and hardcore, deep-dick fucking. Many of the young watchers today of the original television series and big-budget film might not be aware, but the show was actually a long drawn out metaphor - not of the Korean conflict, but of the quagmire in Vietnam during the 1960's and 70's.

The film starts out with a brilliant 'porn-style' copyright-infringement-free instrumental version of the song, "Suicide is Painless", the song famously affixed at the beginning of each episode of the original series.

The attention to detail with the set is beyond amazing. They must have spent a large portion of the budget on the settings, as a nearly identical operating room and tent-city have been built, including the infamous road sign. They even spent the time making the corkboards in Colonel Blake's office look humidity-damaged and aged.

In this wild tale the cast attempts Pyrrhic victory of helping Radar lose his virginity. Choppers fly overhead and victims appear suddenly as our group of docs and nurses work diligently to convince someone to sleep with him, even if it means bribing them with better, hotter, sex. Moments of extreme dirty fucking are interspersed with bits of actual comedy and surprisingly great acting. One moment you will be laughing and the next you will be rock hard as hot blowjobs and canned laughter go hand in hand.

If you're looking for straight-to-fucking hardcore, this isn't the film for you. There is quite a build-up in comedic scenes before you get to the sexual interludes. But, if you are looking for a feeling of nostalgia, mixed with all those masturbational television fantasies of your youth, you have definitely come to the right unit. Will Ryder has directed, yet again, a perfect porn picture. Highly recommended. —WrightWilliams, Adult DVD Empire
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