Bad Sex in Fiction Award Winners

Each year since 1993, Literary Review presents the annual Bad Sex in Fiction Award to the author who produces the worst description of a sex scene in ...more

Winners

	The Age of Magic by Ben Okri 3.22 avg rating — 724 ratings Bad Sex in Fiction Award (2014)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The City of Devi (The Hindu Gods, #3) by Manil Suri 3.29 avg rating — 904 ratings Bad Sex in Fiction Award (2013)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Infrarouge by Nancy Huston 3.13 avg rating — 223 ratings Bad Sex in Fiction Award (2012)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ed King by David Guterson 3.21 avg rating — 1,756 ratings Bad Sex in Fiction Award (2011)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Shape Of Her by Rowan Somerville 2.92 avg rating — 25 ratings Bad Sex in Fiction Award (2010)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littell 4.06 avg rating — 7,132 ratings Bad Sex in Fiction Award (2009)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Shire Hell (Notting Hell Trilogy, #2) by Rachel Johnson 2.84 avg rating — 176 ratings Bad Sex in Fiction Award (2008)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Castle in the Forest by Norman Mailer 3.13 avg rating — 2,624 ratings Bad Sex in Fiction Award (2007)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Twenty Something: The Quarter-Life Crisis of Jack Lancaster by Iain Hollingshead 3.67 avg rating — 700 ratings Bad Sex in Fiction Award (2006)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Winkler by Giles Coren 2.61 avg rating — 41 ratings Bad Sex in Fiction Award (2005)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	I am Charlotte Simmons by Tom Wolfe 3.41 avg rating — 23,026 ratings Bad Sex in Fiction Award (2004)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bunker 13 by Aniruddha Bahal 3.24 avg rating — 160 ratings Bad Sex in Fiction Award (2003)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tread Softly by Wendy Perriam 2.70 avg rating — 47 ratings Bad Sex in Fiction Award (2002)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rescue Me by Christopher Hart 3.59 avg rating — 29 ratings Bad Sex in Fiction Award (2001)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kissing England by Sean Thomas 2.81 avg rating — 16 ratings Bad Sex in Fiction Award (2000)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Starcrossed by A.A. Gill 3.45 avg rating — 42 ratings Bad Sex in Fiction Award (1999)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Charlotte Gray by Sebastian Faulks 3.80 avg rating — 9,203 ratings Bad Sex in Fiction Award (1998)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Matter Of The Heart by Nicholas Royle 3.69 avg rating — 16 ratings Bad Sex in Fiction Award (1997)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Big Kiss by David Huggins 2.65 avg rating — 23 ratings Bad Sex in Fiction Award (1996)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Grid by Philip Kerr 3.34 avg rating — 748 ratings Bad Sex in Fiction Award (1995)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Stonebreakers by Philip Hook 3.14 avg rating — 36 ratings Bad Sex in Fiction Award (1994)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Time To Dance by Melvyn Bragg 3.67 avg rating — 171 ratings Bad Sex in Fiction Award (1993)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

nominees

	The Legacy of Elizabeth Pringle by Kirsty Wark 3.65 avg rating — 1,036 ratings Bad Sex in Fiction Award Nominee (2014)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Lemon Grove by Helen Walsh 2.84 avg rating — 3,162 ratings Bad Sex in Fiction Award Nominee (2014)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Things to Make and Break by May-Lan Tan (Goodreads Author) 3.95 avg rating — 331 ratings Bad Sex in Fiction Award Nominee (2014)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Desert God (Ancient Egypt, #5) by Wilbur Smith 3.72 avg rating — 4,894 ratings Bad Sex in Fiction Award Nominee (2014)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Affairs of Others by Amy Grace Loyd 2.79 avg rating — 1,241 ratings Bad Sex in Fiction Award Nominee (2014)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami 3.84 avg rating — 110,396 ratings Bad Sex in Fiction Award Nominee (2014)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Hormone Factory by Saskia Goldschmidt 3.26 avg rating — 159 ratings Bad Sex in Fiction Award Nominee (2014)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan 4.01 avg rating — 42,264 ratings Bad Sex in Fiction Award Nominee (2014)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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