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Between the sheets: What's your best steamy book?
Valentine's Day is fast approaching and love - and lust - is in the air. Tell us about your favourite hot read - romantic, steamy, erotic or otherwise - and we'll publish our favourites next Saturday
- Please be sure to include your name and city, if you'd like to be included in Saturday's selected recommendations.
- i think the only erotic book i've ever read is the kama sutra. does that count? it's still relevant, after all these years
- The Fermata by Nicholson Baker is an extraordinarily imaginative and sexy tale of a man who can stop time and create scenes that press every button.
- Like Water For Chocolate, very sensual and extremely well written.
- The Story of O - a classic, if not more than a tad misogynistic, Collingwood
- "Bound by your touch" by Meredith Duran is the most sensual book I have ever held in my hands.
- Fall into Winter by Eden Baylee
- Guillaume Apollinaire "les Onze mille verges" (the 11000 rods). Surrealistic porn. Hilarious, steamy and a joy to read. Not that it would be tempting, but a great shared read with someone you love.
- Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre contains the most erotic passage ever written in English literature. It's the exchange between Jane and Mr. Rochestrer when she must leave to tend to her ailing Aunt Reed who lives 100 miles away from Thornfield. Mr. Rochester doesn't want her to go. They negociate terms: money, how long she will be away, etc. There is no physical contact between them - just words - spoken and unspoken - and body language, but it's a powerful description of how they long for each other. Gives me shivers each and every time I read it.
- "The Republic of Love" by Carol Shields is one of the best romances I have read.
- Written on the Body, Jeanette Winterson
- I am repeating the message since I think it should be published: D.H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover! by Ari, from Montreal
- Lady Chatterley's Lover, by D. H. Lawrence. I think many British schoolboys would agree ;)
- any and all of shannon mckenna's books - adventure, heroics, lust and love.
- Please be sure to include your name and city!
- Toni Bentley, "The Surrender". Puts a fresh angle on steamy!
- The novel Blue Movie by Terry Southern. A funny, sexy, satirical look at the Holywood movie world in which a famed director decides to make the most expensive and well-crafted porno movie ever.
- I recommend The Seven Minutes. Here is a quick overview from Wikipedia (and yes it is accurate) The Seven Minutes is a novel by Irving Wallace published in 1969 and released by Simon & Schuster. The book is a fictional account of the effects of pornography and the related arguments about freedom of speech. It is about a fictional obscenity trial of a banned book, The Seven Minutes, purported to be the thoughts in a woman's mind during seven minutes of sexual intercourse. Wallace's extensively researched work contains numerous (attributed) quotes and presents well-supported arguments for both sides of his fictional debate.
- Wuthering Heights. I've always fallen for the brooding man.
- @Rose Simpson Would love you include your recommendations in the paper - which city are you in?
- The Consummate Husband by Andy Mong, a noble work of literature and art by a man who knows how to treat his wife like the Queen.
- for the subgenre of erotica for gay men I heartily recommend Benedetto Casanova: the memoirs, by Marten Weber. It is set in mid-18th century Europe and is intelligently written, literate, humourous, and sexually quite explicit.
- In the lonely days after my first marriage ended Martin Cruz Smith's Rose caught my breath. It has it all: mystery, history, location - all cloaked in romance. And a luscious love scene involving a bath and gold dust. Vivian Moreau, Victoria.
- Lady Chatterley's Lover: I never read the book, but I came across it in my sister's bookcase when I was in primary school. She was in high school at the time. She had a habit of making notes and annotations in the books she read. Reading those notes was like sneaking into someone's diary. I could tell that she was shocked, intrigued, and captivated by the sexuality of the book.
- "La Amazona" by Guillermo Cabrera-Infante (Cuba 1929 - London 2005). A heart breaking illicit affair of a married man with a mysterious woman told in a superb style that will hold you by your throat from beginning to end. And I agree with Rod about Irving Wallace's "The Seven Minutes.". Another mention is Gabriel García-Márquez's "Of Love And Other Demons."
- Sally from Ottawa- oldie but goodie: Lady Chatterly's Lover
- Fanny Hill, one of the oldest classic erotic novels. Banned, but read secretly in the parlors of the rich and aristocratic. Nina, in Toronto
- Our Victoria secret is Madam M. She has written two books called The Little Black Book and the Little Red Book. As Madam says in her introduction, "...these are tales to tantalize." We agree. Enjoy.
- The Sleeping Beauty series by Anne Rice writing as A.N. Roquelaire (sp?). Toronto.
- Anne Rice's the Mayfair Witches series are so sexy! Lasher is intoxicating. Julie-Ottawa
- Benedetto Casanova: the memoirs.
- Jamie Smith Tolonen, my city is Victoria, BC - 100 Strokes of the Brush Before Bed by Melissa P. Very raunchy indeed. Not so much romantic but definitely erotic.
- Would you accept a poem? If so, I suggest "The Cinnamon Peeler" by Michael Ondaatje.
- Not an "erotic novel", but with the sexiest scene I've ever read: Ian McEwan's Atonement. I had people over at my house and went to put the kids to bed, sneaking in a chapter as they fell asleep. It happened to be the scene where Cecelia and Robbie have their brief but breath-taking encounter... I had to go back out to my guests with flushed cheeks and a quickened pulse. And why is no one here talking about Anais Nin? What is that about?
- My Secret Garden, and Forbidden Flowers, by Nancy Friday. Vancouver BC
- Tempted to Touch...by Sophia Shaw. Maggie, Toronto
- Two words: Anais Nin.
- Human Sacrifice, Julie Oakes
- Little Birds by Anais Nin
