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.

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

The Mammoth Book of The Best of Best New Erotica by Maxim Jakubowski (Editor)
Running Press, April 24, 2012; ISBN-10: 0762444355

The very best of over ten years of the Best New Erotica series and other erotica titles compiled by Maxim Jakubowski. Stories have been taken from all volumes of The Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica with the exception of recent volumes 8 and 9. They have also been drawn from the Mammoth Book of International Erotica, Mammoth Book of Historical Erotica, Mammoth Book of Erotica, Mammoth Book of New Erotica and Mammoth Book of Short Erotic Novels.

The anthology is likely to include stories by Thomas S. Roche; Poppy Z. Brite; Alison Tyler; Lucy Taylor; Matt Thorne; M. Christian; Michael Hemmingson; Mike Kimera; Tara Alton; Marilyn Jaye-Lewis; Savannah Lee; Heather Corinna; Carol Queen; Donna George Storey; Lauren Henderson; Vicki Hendricks; O'Neil De Noux; Cara Bruce; Mark Timlin; Graham Joyce; Conrad Williams; Claude Lalumière; Kristina Lloyd; and Mitzi Szereto.

Available at:  Amazon | Amazon UK

Lustfully Ever After: Fairy Tale Erotic Romance by Kristina Wright (Editor)
Cleis Press, May 2012; ISBN-10: 1573447870

In Lustfully Ever After, classic fairy tales are reimagined for an adult audience with twists (and kinks) to keep readers entertained. In Michelle Augello-Page's romantically charged BDSM tale "Wolf Moon," Little Red Riding Hood is the big bad wolf, while Kristina Lloyd rewrites "The Twelve Dancing Princesses" as a scorching hot MFM threesome in "The Shoes That Were Danced to Pieces." Shanna Germain's "Mirror Mirror" shows the sensual Sapphic side of Snow White's stepmother and Andrea Dale pens a contemporary version of "The Steadfast Tin Soldier" in the poignantly erotic "Steadfast."

This delightful collection of fairy tales will lead you down a magical path into forbidden romance and erotic love. You won’t need those bread crumbs to find your way home—for home is where the heart is and the authors of Lustfully Ever After know your heart’s most wicked and secret desires.

Available at:  Amazon | Amazon UK

Going Down: Oral Sex Stories by Rachel Kramer Bussel (Editor)
Cleis Press, May 2012; ISBN-10: 1573447897

When you look back on the best sex you ever had, oral sex will be a part if the picture. Rachel Kramer Bussell, editor of the award-winning oral sex collections Tasting Him and Tasting Her is back with more lip-smackingly superb oral sex erotica for ALL with Going Down. The primal sense of taking in the essence, taste, smell and sexy up-closeness of a lover is a powerful aphrodisiac that affects one physically, mentally and emotionally. Once you have your lover in your mouth, the heat of desire, passion, and lust focus before your eyes and tie your arousal directly to them. These fictive fellatio stories, sizzling sixty-ninings, and talented tonguings will give readers lots of new ideas to try at home.

In Going Down, lovers both give, receive and explore the many ways oral sex can be an act of love, tenderness, devotion or pure sexual act that lets readers revel in the emotion and sensuality of it all. Just sit back, relax, and enjoy this sexy read of explicit stories to get you hot and bothered with more than a mouthful. Giving head never read so good until now!

Available at:  Amazon | Amazon UK

Sex in Bloom by J. Troy Seate
Melange Books, October 9, 2011; ISBN-10: 1612352316

In curious little out-of-the-way haunts and hotbeds of ribaldry, exuberantly horny people are to be found in a simpler world from times gone by as well as contemporary settings. These nine tales do not seek moonlight or magnolias. They reflect an out-of-the-mainstream feel where virtues, vices, and eroticism are only learned through first-hand experiences. The story might be raunchy or humorous depending on the characters' points of view for they are certainly unreceptive to logic or reason, the rascals. But they do find themselves to be full of awe and wonder, among other things.

Discoveries to be made: A boy gets his first glimpse of a heavenly body. Lust blooms in the Louisiana bayou. A lad has his first blind date. Texans do a two-step. A young woman meets a beach boy. A woman thrills at riding bareback. A farm boy gathers his flock. Two high school enigmas cross paths. And finally, a man finds adventure in a sleazy motel room out west. Here's hoping you find the journey through Sex in Bloom to be a pleasurable one.

Available at:  Melange Books (ebook) | Amazon | Amazon UK

Stretched: Erotic Fiction That Fondles the Imagination Tinder James (Ed)
Rubicund Publishing, March 2012; ISBN: 0984371435

Welcome to Stretched - Erotic Fiction that Fondles the Imagination, where the stories are taut and the sex is hot. The world of Stretched is filled with heated encounters between strangers, phantom lovers, and couples devoted to satisfying one another. If your tastes lean toward the literary, here is a book you can wrap yourself in.

"Some of my favourite erotica writers in the business with sulphurous stories, and a handful of welcome newcomers practicing the delicate art of sex on the page. Who can ask for anything more?" —Maxim Jakubowski - Editor of The Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica series

Available at  Amazon | Amazon UK

Warriors and Wenches by JT Macleod
Melange Books, July 2011; ISBN: 1612352049

Numeromancy: Magical accountancy isn't Hollywood's most exciting profession. But when numeromancer Karlyn Summers finds a handsome knight unconscious in her basement, she's forced to find creative new uses for her skills.

Oni: Danger and desire in ancient Japan. A warrior monk must defeat demons, bandits and a devastating plague to win the heart of a woman.

Horse Thief: Scottish rebel Black Angus steals horses and cattle just to survive, but the girl who loves him has another admirer--the man who holds Angus's very life in his hands.

Wings of Fire: World War II. A captured American pilot brings a German officer's wife into a conflict between duty and desire, and the shattering choice between love and death.

Gulliver Redux: In an unknown erotic episode from Gulliver's Travels our hero rescues a giantess from a brutal beating, and discovers that size really does matter.

Available at:  Melange Books (ebook) | Amazon | Amazon UK

Erotic Novels: Do you like sexy, no-holds-barred erotic fiction? You're going to love these titles and more at our Erotic Novels pages.

Rag Doll: A Horrotica Novel by Mathew Klickstein
OC Press, April 2012: ISBN: 978-1-937898-18-2

One transformative evening, sociopathic loner Oliver Maxwell discovers an unconscious street-girl lying in an alleyway. Inspired by his amorphous sense of right and wrong, he decides to take the sleeping rag-doll back to his apartment where he intends to nurse her back to life. Overcome with an insubordinate erection, Oliver must do everything he can to distract himself from taking advantage of the helpless girl. This overwhelming lust leads Oliver on increasingly depraved erotic adventures with numerous women, each one more perverse than he. Will the sender of the cryptic text messages (I know what ur doing) or his nosy neighbor lead to his ultimate undoing?

Includes: masturbation to cartoon characters, depictions of German pornography, a sleeping beauty who is not Snow White and a very Grumpy (disturbed) sociopath, a filthy and sticky MFF threesome, an oral-sex-loving Osh-Kosh B'Gosh-wearing hippy-chick (who smells of piquant celery soda and dirt), an interlude with a drunk girl who has Polio, gum-drop-nipple burlesque dancers on drugs, gleeful golden showers, erotic asphyxiation in a wintery cold lake, wabi sabi, a very nosy neighbor...and much more.

Warning: This content will offend and horrify most sane readers with its gripping, well-written, and boundary-pushing depictions of sociopathic sexuality and depraved activities. Read at your own risk.

Available at OC Press (Ebook)

Come Play by Emma Hillman
Ellora's Cave: EC for Men, 2012: ISBN: 9781419939150

When Gregory finds his girlfriend Aly waiting for him one evening, naked and with her hand between her thighs, he can’t believe his luck. When it happens again a week later—this time with Aly bent over the desk in his study—he figures he’s got the best girlfriend in the world!

But even Gregory is shocked at Aly’s next surprise. Oh, she’s once again naked and eager—but not alone. She’s kissing and caressing a woman he’s never seen before, a young blonde who’s so hot he can’t take his eyes off her. When they tell him they’ve been waiting for him, Gregory’s more than ready to Come Play.

Available at: Ellora's Cave

The Secret Journey by Paul Christian
Melange Books, May 2012

Yeah I want you, spread on my bed like a banquet..."

With these words, author Paul Christian starts weaving a seductive web that inexorably draws the reader into his dark and intensely erotic world. The line between fantasy and reality blurs, grows faint, and is finally broken as he beguiles the reader into a compelling sexual exploration unlike any other. Half narrative, half love letter, The Secret Journey is not a story but an experience, arousing, hypnotic, and relentlessly compelling. It is a masterwork destined to stand with the classics of erotic literature.

Available at:  Melange Books (ebook)

Erotic Romance: The following titles are sensual romances of bone-melting passion, and enduring love. Browse our list of best sellers in the Erotic Romance pages.

Taking a Shot by Jaci Burton
Berkley Trade, March 2012; ISBN-10: 0425245527

The last thing Jenna Riley needs is more sports in her life. While her brothers are off being athletic superstars, she's stuck running the family's sports bar, whether she likes it or not. Then in walks pro hockey stud Tyler Anderson. As much as Jenna would like to go to the boards with him, she's vowed to never fall for a jock - even one as hot as Ty.

Ty, intrigued by the beautiful bar owner, becomes a regular. He senses that Jenna wants to do something more with her life. And as he gains her trust, the passion between them grows, as does Ty's insistence that Jenna should start living for herself. With his encouragement, Jenna starts to believe it, too. But first, Jenna has to figure out what she wants, what she needs, who she loves, and if she has the passion and pride to take a shot at having it all-including Ty...

"For this third Play-by-Play entry, there’s no shortage of volatile, steamy sex, but the story development is the key to this thoughtful tale. While the heroine figures her life out, the reader will enjoy the smokin’ hot sex that draws the protagonists together — over and over again." —Jacqui McGugins, RT Book Reviews

Available at:  Amazon | Amazon UK

Immortal Cravings by Cindy Spencer Pape
Ellora's Cave, February 2012; ISBN-10: 1419965506

Exploring Ari: Immortal Cravings, Book One
Ariana Stephanopoulos has led a fairly quiet life—especially for a vampire—until she meets sexy werewolf Jackson Marceski. The instant attraction between them is hotter than anything she’s ever experienced, so when Jack offers to help fulfill all her sexual fantasies, she just can’t tell him no. As Ari and Jack explore bondage, toys and even a ménage, Ari discovers the self-confidence she’s always lacked along with a passionate side that’s sure to keep her lover on his toes.

Dani’s Demons: Immortal Cravings, Book Two
Bored with her life in Chicago, vampire Dani DuBois heads to Las Vegas for a little fun. Then she meets demons Kaz Elgin and Ty Cole, and things start to get really interesting. Torn between the attraction she feels for each of them, Dani at first has no idea that the two men know each other. When she runs across the two of them having an argument, she can’t believe they’re both being such men, but they’re both so incredibly hot. After they take care of their rogue demon problem, they decide to take care of Dani—together. Through a dungeon sex club and bondage games in a private room, they set out to discover just how much fun three immortals can have in Sin City.

Just for Jess: Immortal Cravings, Book Three
Vampire Jessamy Maitland is a classic workaholic, until her friends team up to buy her a weekend with the incredibly sexy vampire Dermott McMahon on his luxurious private island. Dermott is determined to get Jess to kick back and relax, so he’s enlisted the help of three lion shifter friends. Jess finds herself faced with three days of no phone, no computer and four sexy, horny males, all determined to wait on her hand and foot and show her a scorching good time. Naked. Together. In ways she’s never imagined. With those odds, what’s a vampire to do? There’s nothing for it but take them up on their offer and discover that sometimes it’s okay to play.

Available at: Ellora's Cave | Amazon | Amazon UK

Department57: Rubies of Fire by Lynne Connolly
Loose-Id Publishing, March 2012; eBook ISBN: 978-1-61118-801-1

Review by Victoria Blisse: I will confess it took me a little while to get into this book but I suggest that’s my own fault for coming into a series part way through. You’ll want to read the Department 57 books in order as the world Lynne has created is complex and you need to really get your head around it. Saying this once I got to grips with the department, the characters and the different paranormal elements (talents as they’re called) I found the story completely absorbing.

Roz is a great character and I felt an affinity with her straight away. Andreas Is also intriguing and the chemistry between the two characters is hot from the get-go. Yep, I don’t need to tell you really but the sex in this book will keep you warm on cold nights. Wow, Lynne has wonderfully passionate way of writing sexual interludes. I love the depth she conveys in every action.  Her work is always very sensual and seductive.

As an author who plays around with the established characteristics of vampires, I loved the way Lynne developed her paranormal characters.  It is not exactly what you expect and that’s the genius of it because although it is unexpected it is entertaining and believable. I was never yanked out of the imagined world by something that didn’t feel right and with a story with fantastical elements I think that’s half the battle won!

If you enjoy paranormal erotic romances, suspenses or crime thrillers you’re going to get something from Rubies of Fire. It’s a good story with hot sex that furthers the plot and doesn’t distract from it. Prepare yourself for twists and turns and surprises but above all prepare to be entertained and sucked into the Department 57 series as you’re going to want more the minute you finish reading!

Available at:  Loose Id | Amazon (Kindle Edition) | Amazon UK (Kindle Edition)

Blood Secret by Sharon Page
Aphrodisia, March 2012; ISBN-10: 0758250959

A romance between a vampire and a dragon(ess) could be really bad or a classic love story, but in the talented Page’s hands, it’s a well-crafted page turner with intense sexual situations. It’s a lovely take on the fairy-tale theme and a compelling story of lovers making sacrifices.

Lucy Drake must repay her brother’s gambling debts. She has little to bargain with but she offers the man holding the chits the only thing she has of value: her innocence. Sinjin, the Duke of Greystone, wants that and more. The vampire and dragon-slayer wants to avenge his family’s deaths – killed by dragons – by destroying Lucy and her siblings. What he doesn’t count on is falling in love. He is also searching for his nephew, who was taken by Lucy’s father, supposedly for his protection.

Available at:  Amazon | Amazon UK

Vintage & Modern Classics: The titles listed here are erotic classics from the 19th century or modern novels destine to become enduring favorites. For more, browse through our Vintage & Modern Classics pages.

Torture Me! A Dark Depraved Tale of Sin and Sex
Erotic Evolution, June 2011

Torture Me! A Dark Depraved Tale of Sin and Sex in the Garden of Evil Ecstasy is a deliciously disturbing erotic novel, recognised as a cult classic of Sadomasochism. The portrayal of ancient methods of torture as an artform - is both beautiful and horrifically shocking.

The story begins with a philosophical discussion about the role of murder in society. Many of the ideas are confronting and unpopular, but potent with the horrible truth of human nature behind them. The writer, Octave Mirbeau, (an atheist and anarchist) constantly challenges the reader through out the novel - with his scathing view of humanity, the hypocrisy, corruption, evil of the world and human condition. He explores the dual nature of life - love is death, beauty is pain, and torture is ecstasy.

This is the twisted tale of a young Frenchman (a corrupted politician) who meets the beautiful (on the outside) aristocratic Clara, who invites him to China. Clara has a fetishistic desire of death and torture - she sees it as beautiful and wildly sexually arousing. She seduces the Frenchman with her wicked enchanting web and takes him to the Torture Garden. This is an unreal place of beauty and death, which grows amazing exotic flowers in soil fertile from the blood and bones of the executed. The man wants to leave but is too weak, he is captivated by Clara's physical beauty but is sickened her dark nature. He begins to see the 'civilised' world as a thinly disguised veil of the Torture Garden (thus the garden serves as an allegory to the brutal, cruel tendencies of humanity and corrupt decay of the modern world).

Sexually explicit, with hardcore sexual torture, violence and bondage - this book shocked the world when first published 100 years ago. Intelligently written, with great artistic and philosophical merit, Torture Me! is an unique experience - intended to both arouse and disturb.

This Kindle version is beautifully illustrated with unique vintage erotica pictures.

Available at:  Amazon (Kindle Edition) | Amazon UK (Kindle Edition)

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

Don't Ask, Don't Tell
Urban Books (Kensington Books);, February 2012; ISBN-10: 1601623380

Private Kyle Sullivan is a happily married man who thinks he's left his gay sex experiences in his past. What he didn't count on was the high-ranking officer who forces a sexual relationship with him.

After breaking off a relationship with her abusive girlfriend, Lauren Burns has finally made her dreams come true by becoming a member of the U.S. Army. Anji Foster is looking at her entrance into the military as a way out of her small town and a place to meet lots of men. What will happen when these two very different women cross paths?

Sky Love is engaged to be married to a handsome and wealthy man, but she's not ready to let go of her woman on the side. Lela is willing to keep their secret because if it gets out, she's not sure how her fellow soldiers will react. When Four Star General Orpheus Beauregard Roulette III finally acts upon the homosexual urges he's been suppressing for years, he gets more than he bargained for. Now he finds himself caught between the crosshairs of his scorned wife and the young man who's blackmailing him.

The Don't Ask, Don't Tell law may have been repealed, but what if there are some members of the U.S. armed forces who still have reasons to keep their sexuality a secret? Urban Books authors M.T. Pope, Tina Brooks McKinney, Brenda Hampton, and Terry E. Hill explore this subject with their own trademark dramatic style.

Available at:  Amazon | Amazon UK

Buccaneer Island by J.P. Beausejour
Bold Strokes Books, April 2012; ISBN-10: 1602826587

At the age of nineteen, Sir Edmund, third son of an English earl, discovers a taste for spanking, submission, and dominant men. Caught on his knees in his father's stables, his backside marked by the whip and his lips around a stable hand's member, he is banished to Louisiana, to pursue the sugar planter's trade. Shipwrecked and marooned on a Caribbean island, he falls under the spell of Matthew, a common seafaring man and sometime pirate. Alone on a desert beach with the handsome giant, Edmund learns to accept Matthew's dominance, and soon finds himself falling in love. He begins his transformation into his rescuer's devoted wife, but when he learns Matthew plans to betray his trust with the Creole witch and brothel keeper Mistress Reid, he escapes into the jungle, and into a world of lust and adventure among the wild buccaneers.

Available at:  Amazon | Amazon UK

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

Girl Fever: 69 Stories of Sudden Sex for Lesbians by Sacchi Green (Editor)
Cleis Press, June 2012; ISBN-10: 1573447919

Girl Fever is Short fiction at its best from rising erotica star Sacchi Green, whose Lesbian Cowboys took the top award at the 2009 Lambda Awards. This big book of lesbian quickies satisfies on every level with stories from top-notch contributors that evoke the heat, the urgency and the "gotta have it" moment of the quickie. There are long-time companions, one night stands, meet-cutes and meet only once stories to fuel your fantasies in this only book of lesbian quickies on the market today.

Sudden sex, when your need is too great wait. Sex in planes, trains and automobiles, and roller coasters, carnival rides, elevators, and ferries as well; and if a bed is handy, that’s fine too. Shanna Germain’s “Answering the Call” shows us games EMTs play in an ambulance, while Victoria Janssen’s “The Airplane Story” crams us into the metal-walled bondage of an airliner restroom. Sommer Marsden makes the very best use of “An Hour,” Allison Wonderland gets it “Off and On” in under ten minutes, and Tigress Healey offers “Six Minutes or It’s Free.” But there’s more to it than speed, and the sixty-nine pieces in Girl Fever by skilled writers Cheyenne Blue, Rachel Kramer Bussel, Delilah Devlin, D.L. King, and scores of others offer characters you’d love to fuck, evocative settings, and well-rounded stories that can intrigue and surprise you along the way to seduction.

Available at:  Amazon | Amazon UK

Women of the Dark Streets: Lesbian Paranormal by Radclyffe & Seaman
Bold Strokes Books, March 2012; ISBN-10: 160282651X

Enter a midnight world of the supernatural—a world of vampires, werewolves, witches, ghosts, and demons. A seductive world limited only by your imagination, full of dark fantasies, hidden desires, and sexy women who rule the night.

Edited by award-winning editors Radclyffe and Stacia Seaman, Women of the Dark Streets presents all new tales of the paranormal from your favorite Bold Strokes authors.

Available at:  Amazon | Amazon UK

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Pirates
Cast: Jesse Jane, Kris Slater, Steven St. Croix, Teagan Presley, Tommy Gunn
Director: Joone
Studio: Adam & Eve

These lusty pirates explode with gun-blazin' action in Adam & Eve's stunning adult movie. Carmen Luvana teams up with Jesse Jane and Evan Stone to hunt down the pirate captain who kidnapped her lover, Kris Slater. Along the way, they have to fight off animated skeletons and search for long-lost treasure — when they're not having wild, no-holds-barred sex! Packed with red-hot romps, humor and a terrific story, Pirates is adult's all time best selling feature and already a legend in adult film making.

There is no doubt that down the road Pirates will be considered one of the greats of porn production. Pirates, filmed on location throughout California and Florida, is a swashbuckling sex tale that combines deadly swordplay against digitally mastered skeleton warriors, cannons firing off the bows of realistic wooden warships and intense offshore battle scenes, offering all of the production values of any Hollywood box office film while still encompassing the erotic feelings and sexual mores of an adult film. This is most definitely a must see film, destine to be classic.

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