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10 erotic books dirtier than Fifty Shades of Grey

TNN | Last updated on - Jun 2, 2023, 10:39 IST

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Dirty by Megan Hart

Hart puts a refreshing twist to the Fifty Shades dynamic and introduces Elle, a damaged woman who delves into numerous sexual encounters trying to stay emotionally detached. As fate would have it, she falls for this lawyer and is threatened to be unravelled.
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2/10

Crash by Nicole Williams

This young adult book is straight up risqué for any young adult. This is a steamy story of a high school romance between the ‘bad boy’ Jude and ballerina goody-two-shoes Lucy.
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Delta of Venus by Anais Nin

In this collection, Nin pens a lush, magical world where the characters of her imagination possess the most universal of desires and exceptional of talents. It is an extraordinarily rich and exotic collection from the master of erotic writing.
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The Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire

The French poet’s collection of poems shocked the world with its modernity and undisguised sensual imagery. This banned book became the modern century’s night-time indulgence; as Baudelaire wrote, “Nothing equals the abyss of your bed.
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Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H Lawrence

This love story between a married woman and her gamekeeper threw 20th century England into a state of frenzy. D. H. Lawrence was equally praised and immensely ridiculed for this bombastic piece of work.
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6/10

Inside Madeline by Paula Bomer

Bomer’s collection of short stories is out and about horny. Honest, fearless, and sweaty, the book explores sexual kink to menstruation, everything the human body holds.
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Outlander by Diana Gabaldon

This historical fiction has been even adapted into a television series. For people who fancy the Scottish highlands and sex under kilts way too much, this sexually overdosed piece of fiction is the just the right find.
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Tampa by Alissa Nutting

This is the modern Lolita. Nutting’s controversial book is a tale of a teacher seducing a young student. With keen details, the author portrays the intensity of obsession from a female perspective.
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Vox by Nicholson Baker

The entire story is centred around a phone sex conversation. Imagery becomes paramount when phone sex is involved and Baker champions at that. The New York Times even called Baker “The mad scientist of smut”.
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The Virgins by Pamela Erens

The sensuous suggestion and yearning of sex is sometimes steamier than the actual act. In The Virgins, two college characters indulge in early explorations of one another and the readers watch them through the voyeuristic perspective of another student.
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Carly

2110 days ago

How about this one? amazon.in/dp/B08G5CJF76

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