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The 10 Most
Fantastically Dirty
Novels You Need to
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AMANDA BULLOCK @AMANDA_LEIGH JUN. 10, 2014

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A dirty book is a tale of the taboo: affairs, incest, pedophilia,

perversion, sadomasochism, well-meaning cults. But perhaps you
already did your Dirty Books 101 homework with the classics: Lolita,
V. C. Andrews, Anais Nin, maybe even some Colette or Marquis de
Sade? Even suffered through the Fifty Shades trilogy? Still
unsatisfied? Dive between the covers of these 10 nontraditionaldirty novels on those nights when you need a little more
frenzied bodice-ripping than Mr. Darcy can manage, something less
predictable than a mild-mannered secretary and less obvious than a
Harlequin romance.

Tipping the Velvetby Sarah Waters

With every step I took away from her, the movement at my heart
and between my legs grew more defined: I felt like a ventriloquist,
locking his protesting dolls in to a trunk.
Sexy historical fiction! Victorian music halls, cross-dressing ladies,
secret lesbian love affairs, and more.

Written on the Body by Jeanette

Winterson

She arches her body like a cat on a stretch. She nuzzles her cunt
into my face like a filly at the gate. She smells of the sea. She smells of
rockpools when I was a child. She keeps a starfish in there. I crouch
down to taste the salt, to run my fingers around the rim. She opens
and shuts like a sea anemone. Shes refilled each day with fresh tides
of longing.
A nameless narrator of unspecified gender tells of an affair with a
married woman in this raw, short book exposing love and desire.

Vox by Nicholson Baker

And back in the hall, while the one gymnast painter was sinking
himself unapologetically into my ass, I felt the other, the one whod
responsibly used the right kind of paint all along, now use his
thumbs to hold my real self open, my lips, and then I felt him slide
slowly up my real hole. I said, Vvoo!
I swear, I just opened to a random page and this is what was on it,
followed by a long description of activities with the paint roller.
Nicholson Baker excels at silly-dirty, and Vox is the masterpiece of
that very specific virtuosity.

Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle by

Vladimir Nabokov

The fire you rubbed left its brand on the most vulnerable, most
vicious and tender point of my body. Now I have to pay for your
rasping the red rash too strongly, too soon, as charred wood has to
pay for burning. When I remain without your caresses, I lose all
control of my nerves, nothing exists any more than the ecstasy of
friction, the abiding effect of your sting, of your delicious poison.
I bet you thought if Nabokov made this list it would be Lolita, right?
Ada, or Ardor, released when Nabokov had just passed the age of 70,

is the story of the narrators decades-long love affair with his sister,
Ada, whom he begins a sexual relationship with believing her to be
his cousin (still not ideal, but would have been acceptable).

Tampa by Alissa Nutting

His eyes took in the details of my body with a conflicted gaze that I
knew well: even having seen all the facts of the case, he still wanted
me. He wanted me despite knowing what that meant about him.
A novel about a woman who teaches middle school specifically to

pursue, with sociopathic zeal, sexual relationships with middle

school boys, one of the brilliant things about Tampa in which
there is a sex act, masturbation, or fantasy on almost every page is
the sly way that Nutting implicates her reader in her villains sexual
appetite: What does it mean about you if a novel about fucking young
boys is sort of sexy?

Wonderland by Stacey DErasmo

We fuck and it is only, sheerly, ridiculously good. Our bodies fit, our
rhythms match, as if weve been fucking our entire lives, as if I came

across the world just to be here at this moment, in this room, with
this man, in exactly this way. It is all electric light blue.
Anna is a 44 year-old rock star on a comeback tour through Europe,
and she is gloriously unapologetic about her tour-tendency to go to
bed with strangers, past loves, other musicians, etc. DErasmos sex
scenes have a very real and exciting rhythm to them, are equally
carnal and intimate, revealing the characters in unexpected ways.

A Sport and a Pastime by James Salter

He leans over to admire her, she does not see him. Hair covers her
cheek. Her skin seems very white. He kisses her side and then,
without force, as one stirs a favorite mare, begins again. She comes to
life with a soft, exhausted sound, like someone saved from
drowning.
The sweetest (maybe not the part comparing her to a horse,
granted) description of from-behind morning sex you ever did read,
no? Salters masterpiece is the story of an affair between a Yale
dropout and a young girl in the French countryside in the 1960s.

The Gospel of Anarchy by Justin

Taylor

Katy began [] a relentless campaign of fucking David, having David

fuck Liz, him watching the two girls, and as often as possible all three
of them in ecstatic triangleanything Katy could come up with (and
ply Liz into trying) in order to drive home the lesson she wants him
to learn, which is that no light-box, no machine, can ever come
within a country mile of the sweat-blind holy thing itself. This, this,
is the truth and the life.
More morning sex: David emerges from porn-filled loneliness to find
himself quite happily in the middle of an exuberant threesome within
a punk house practicing anarcho-Christianity. Fivesomes, whiskeyfueled prayer meetings, and such ensue.

The Epicures Lament by Kate

Christensen

She holds nothing back, not at gambling, not at fucking.

Throughout the most lost-in-space moments with her, when our
eyes are wild, our breath is raspy, our lips are chafed raw on each
other, when were wholly given over to our plundering instincts and
all our animal cells are plumped with satiation likewise
Our narrator is the terminally ill Hugo, who writes (the book is
structured as his journal entries) even more erotically about food
than he does about women, enjoys flirting with the chubby
convenience store cashier girl, appreciates his hated wifes
willingness to go straight from anal sex to blow jobs, and joyfully
carries on an affair with the married woman his brother is in love
with.

My Girlfriend Comes to the City and

Beats Me Up by Stephen Elliott

She tied my cock and balls together and told me to stick my tongue
out and then slapped my face hard, the way my father used to.
An autobiographical memoir/fiction hybrid about consensual
sadomasochism. This sentence is relatively mild, overall.

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