Fifty Writers on Fifty Shades of Grey (34 page)

APPENDIX

Fifty Shades of Reading

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HERE ARE A WHOLE LOT OF BOOKS mentioned in these pages—some are smutty, some are literary, some are educational. We’ve distilled them into a big reference list for you, so you can put them on your favorite reading device and become an expert on smut.

We left out the mainstream classics—we figured you could find
Gone with the Wind
and
Pride and Prejudice
on your own (and if you haven’t, you should!).

We also divided the list into fiction and nonfiction. The fiction list is almost a best-of guide to the erotica of the past decade, plus a few BDSM standards.

Erotica expert Susie Bright put her own list together on Amazon’s Listmania (where you can find many of the same titles) in which she summed up what it is about these books that makes them so compelling:

Every once in a blue hot moon, a novel comes along that captures women’s erotic fantasies. The female heroine is
plucky, headstrong, a little naïve—but with a sexual appetite that’s never been tapped. When she finds a lover who is confident (alright, masterful!) and persuasive enough to push her over the edge—wow, just send all your messages to voicemail and lock the door, because readers will not be torn from these pages.

We hope you’ll find something here whose pages you won’t be torn from, either.

Fiction

Bared to You: A Crossfire Novel
, by Sylvia Day

Best Gay Erotica 2009
, edited by Richard Labonte and James Lear

Black Feathers: Erotic Dreams
, by Cecilia Tan

Blind Seduction
, by Debra Hyde

Blue Boy
, by Rakesh Satyal

Candy
, by Terry Southern and Mason Hoffenberg

Carrie’s Story
, by Molly Weatherfield

Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage
, by Lord Byron

Edge Plays
, by Cecilia Tan

Exit to Eden
, by Anne Rampling (Anne Rice)

Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure
, by John Cleland

The Flame and the Flower
, by Kathleen Woodiwiss

Forever
…, by Judy Blume

Gabriel’s Inferno
, by Sylvain Renard

Gabriel’s Rapture
, by Sylvain Renard

The Image
, by Jean de Berg

Jonah Sweet of Delancey Street
, by Ryan Field

Juliette; or, Vice Amply Rewarded
, by Marquis de Sade

Justine; or, The Misfortunes of Virtue
, by Marquis de Sade

Lip Service
, by M.J. Rose

Lolita
, by Vladimir Nabokov

Madame Bovary
, by Gustave Flaubert

Magic University series, by Cecilia Tan

The Marketplace series, by Laura Antoniou

Mind Games
, by Cecilia Tan

Mr. Benson
, by John Preston

Natural Law
, by Joey W. Hill

Nine and a Half Weeks: A Memoir of a Love Affair
, by Elizabeth McNeill

No Adam in Eden
, by Grace Metalious

Peyton Place
, by Grace Metalious

The Prince’s Boy
, by Cecilia Tan

Return to Peyton Place
, by Grace Metalious

Roving Pack
, by Sassafras Lowrey

Secrets anthology series, by Red Sage Publishing

Seducing the Myth
, edited by Lucy Felthouse

The Sleeping Beauty Trilogy, by A. N. Roquelaure (Anne Rice)

Smut by the Sea
, edited by Lucy Felthouse

Smut in the City
, edited by Lucy Felthouse

Story of L
, by Debra Hyde

Story of O
, by Pauline Réage

Sweet Savage Love
, by Rosemary Rogers

Switch
, by Megan Hart

Taking a Shot
, by Jaci Burton

Tarnsman of Gor
, by John Norman

The Top of Her Game
, by Emma Holly

The Vagina Monologues
, by Eve Ensler

Velvet Glove
, by Emma Holly

Venus in Furs
, by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

The Whippingham Papers
, by Algernon Charles Swinburne

White Flames: Erotic Dreams
, by Cecilia Tan

The Wolf and the Dove
, by Kathleen Woodiwiss

Nonfiction

50 Ways to Play: BDSM for Nice People
, by Don Macleod and Debra Macleod

Enterprising Women: Television Fandom and the Creation of Popular Myth
, by Camille Bacon-Smith

Fifty Shades of Pleasure: A Bedside Companion: Sex Secrets That Hurt So Good
, by Marisa Bennett

Inside Peyton Place: The Life of Grace Metalious
, by Emily Toth

The Joy of Writing Sex: A Guide for Fiction Writers
, by Elizabeth Benedict

Letters to Penthouse
, by Editors of
Penthouse

Master: The Unauthorized Autobiography of Master R
, by Master R

My Secret Garden
, by Nancy Friday

Natural History of the Romance Novel
, by Pamela Regis

New Perspectives on Popular Romance Fiction: Critical Essays
, edited by Sarah S. G. Frantz and Eric Murphy Selinger

The Passion of Michel Foucault
, by James Miller

Pleasure: A Woman’s Guide to Getting the Sex You Want, Need and Deserve
, by Hilda Hutcherson

Psychopathia Sexualis
, by Richard Krafft-Ebing

The Ultimate Guide to Kink: BDSM, Role Play and the Erotic Edge
, edited by Tristan Taormino

Wired for Story: The Writer’s Guide to Using Brain Science to Hook Readers from the Very First Sentence
, by Lisa Cron

Women Constructing Men: Female Novelists and Their Male Characters, 1750-2000
, edited by Sarah S. G. Frantz and Katharina Rennhak

ABOUT THE EDITOR

LORI PERKINS
is the publisher of Riverdale Avenue Books, a digital-first e-publisher. She was the cofounder and former editorial director of erotica e-publisher Ravenous Romance and has been a literary agent for 20 years. She is the author of
The Insider’s Guide to Getting an Agent
(Writer’s Digest Books) and has edited twenty erotica anthologies and more than one hundred erotic novels, as well as published erotica under a pseudonym.

1
Yes, I did read the Twilight books, too, and no, I’m not a closeted romance fan. I suppose I’d gotten used to the movies’’characterization of Bella and had forgotten just how wimpy and annoyingly naïve she was in the books. I reread the last book recently and realized I greatly preferred the screenwriter’s version of Bella. But I digress: Ana is just as annoyingly naïve as Bella was, except it’s worse, because she’s graduating from college with a high school girl’s experience and sensibilities—a very immature high school girl’s experience and sensibilities.

2
As you may imagine, Ana was not the character with whom I, personally, identified.

3
For a lot of erotic romance folks, you need an alpha male to sweep the main character off her feet. A submissive man who craves the application of a woman’s itchy palm applied to his needy backside, among other acts, is not as romantic as the reverse, it would seem.

4
A lot of romance purists don’t think there should be
any
sex in romance, much less the amount ladled into the Fifty Shades books.

5
“He’s Just Not That Into Anyone” and “They Know What Boys Want.”

6
“Women Falling for Fifty Shades of Degradation,” Gina Barreca, the
Hartford Courant
, May 3, 2012.

7
http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/fifty-shades-of-
grey-giving-bondage-a-bad-name-20120709-21rm3.html
.

8
http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/story/2012/07/10/f-50-shades-of-grey-bdsm.html
.

9
http://www.purefreedom.org/blog/?p=320
.

10
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/ny_gals_learning_
the_ropes_at_fifty_sVWWKeksj9WKUto2ITg1KK
.

11
http://www.wiredforstory.com/fifty-shades-of-story-vs-%e2%
80%9cwellwritten%e2%80%9d/
.

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