Erotic Novels

[Avalive]

Can anybody please recommend any good erotic novels?

I never read any erotic books before untill I just finished one called: The Story of O, which I think is okay.

[mono]

Hmmm, I have read very few of what many would consider 'erotic' novels, but about as erotic as I get:
anything by D.H. Lawrence (especially Lady Chatterley's Lover), :thumbs_up
perhaps The Satyricon by Petronius, but I question this one as necessarily 'erotic' - more like merely twisted,
and parts of Giovanni Boccaccio's The Decameron.

I apologize, not being the best source for this recommendation, but good luck! :)

[amuse]

i recommend Judith Krantz's Scruples highly; others like her novel Princess Daisy more. scruples is about a fat bostonion turned ultra rich and gorgeous who begins a department store/boutique in beverly hills, california.

there are some fine erotic moments in Karleen Koen's Through a Glass Darkly and And Now Face to Face. these are set in jacobite england and the american colonies.

Rodeo Drive has easy, cheap thrills. i don't remember it all that well but i remember liking the more risque scenes.

[caspian]

I don't know how it's good...but what about "One Hundred Year's of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez?

[Rachy]

"Birdsong" by Sebastian Faulks, it's not really an erotic novel but it's got a couple of scenes in it. Also "Once..." by James Herbert...any help?

[Logos]

Though it is often noted as some of his more `weak' writing, I can't recommend enough,
Mario Vargas Llosa's In Praise of the Stepmother (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0312421303/103-9825228-8665461?v=glance)

[Zooey]

I've only read snippets of her stuff, but Anais Nin's books like Delta of Venus and Little Birds has struck me as managing to be both intensely erotic (hence only reading snippets- can't read much more at a book store ;) ) and extremely well written.

I've always come across her in the general Literature section- so she's certainly not considered a smut writer in any way.

[Avalive]

Thank you all for your recommendations. I'd love to check them out one by one, since erotic books won't take me too much time to dig.

ps,
"One Hundred Year's of Solitude"? I never thought it is quite an erotic book. hehe, anyway it can be.

[blp]

George Bataille's 'The Story of the Eye' is the great masterpiece of surrealist erotica. If you can, get the edition that also has Roland Barthes essay on it (penguin)

'Blood and Guts in High School' by Kathy Acker has some very explicitly erotic passages and drawings and I love it.

[baddad]

Hmmm......The Story of 'O'............is......uh.......yeah......erotic may describe it.......but I'm a little unsure of the literary merits of 'O'........gotta admit I saw the movie as a teenager............never thought I'd see it mentioned on this forum though.....life is full of little surprises..........

[FFlyer]

The best erotic book is forthcoming. :D

[subterranean]

I currently reading Paul Theroux's Stranger at the Pallazo D'Oro. It's a gd book and there are some erotic sections in it. I don't want to be confused between porn and erotic, so I guess the latter is classier and more artistic in a way...
And personally I'm not that interested in reading erotic novels..

[ajoe]

Well, I just read Candy by Mian Mian, in which there are erotic scenes right and left. But I wouldn't call it an erotic book but rather a teenangst book.