3.18 avg rating — 1,976 ratings

"This book is a gem. Written in 1959 by a French diplomat who ascribed authorship to his wife and written under the pseudonym Emmanuelle Arsan, it describes the life of a young woman within a community of ex-pats in Thailand in the sixties when she comes to join her engineer husband there. What I love about is the Frenchness of it—the languor of long, slow afternoons that are perfect for exploring sensual pleasures, whether of the lesbian kind or lessons in erotic philosophy from a gay Italian sexual dilettante."

3.30 avg rating — 22,244 ratings

"Move over Marquis. This erotic story of submission was ground-breaking when it came out in 1954. It has held up in the beauty of the writing and defining the S&M experience in a literary way."

3.48 avg rating — 103 ratings

"Full disclosure - I wrote this erotic novel that aims to raise the bar on the genre: Supermodel Katie Wolfer struggles, as we all do, with the pull between what we want and what is "right," what is fun and what is dangerous. Her fictionalized memoir sweeps you up in the world of power, sex, lavish decadence and beauty. "

2.57 avg rating — 7,052 ratings

"An erotic breakout hit from Italy in 2004 where it sold 700,000 copies. From the Amazon description: the fictionalized memoir of Melissa P., a Sicilian teenager whose quest for love rapidly devolves into a shocking journey of sexual discovery. It is kind of dark, and a bit melacholy and a great read."

3.67 avg rating — 2,887,358 ratings

"This hugely popular book has expanded the reach of Erotica. More erotic romance than straight erotica, it is hot."

3.20 avg rating — 61,617 ratings

"Her writing is cool and removed, but oh so provocative and hot. Quite a contradiction I know."

3.60 avg rating — 25,772 ratings

3.68 avg rating — 14,101 ratings

3.56 avg rating — 183 ratings

"Chloe Thurlow's characters are delicious, especially Greta, the hot 19-year old actress who revels in losing her sexual inhibitions. "

3.96 avg rating — 82 ratings

"My favorite erotica of all time. Period."