It’s unfair that erotic fiction has a negative reputation. A piece of writing is not automatically inferior just because it has the potential to be sexually appealing. There are many erotic and romantic novels that are actually fantastic, and some of them are so good that they have also been adapted for your screens. These 8 erotic books are excellent choices for your reading list.

Praise
Sara Cate
He calls me perfect. His flawless pet. His good girl.
Broken down and wounded by my emotionally neglectful ex, I wanted someone to tell me I was good enough. Then, I stumbled into a new job with a boss who brings me to my knees—literally. He has me do things a real secretary would never do.
Emerson Grant tells me I’m more than just good enough. I’m worthy of his praise. There are a million reasons why I should stay away.
Release Date: March 17, 2022

Beautiful Bastard
Christina Lauren
Whip-smart, hardworking, and on her way to an MBA, Chloe Mills has only one problem: her boss, Bennett Ryan. He’s exacting, blunt, inconsiderate–and completely irresistible. A Beautiful Bastard.
Bennett has returned to Chicago from France to take a vital role in his family’s massive media business. He never expected that the assistant who’d been helping him from abroad was the gorgeous, innocently provocative–completely infuriating–creature he now has to see every day. Despite the rumors, he’s never been one for a workplace hookup. But Chloe’s so tempting he’s willing to bend the rules–or outright smash them–if it means he can have her.
Release Date: February 12, 2013

Priest
Sierra Simone
There are many rules a priest can’t break. A priest cannot marry.
A priest cannot abandon his flock. A priest cannot forsake his God.
I’ve always been good at following rules. Until she came. Then I learned new rules.
My name is Tyler Anselm Bell. I’m twenty-nine years old.
Six months ago, I broke my vow of celibacy on the altar of my own church, and God help me, I would do it again.
Release Date: June 29, 2015

Seven Days in June
Tia Williams
Eva Mercy is a single mom and bestselling erotica writer who is feeling pressed from all sides. Shane Hall is a reclusive, enigmatic, award-winning novelist, who, to everyone’s surprise, shows up in New York.
When Shane and Eva meet unexpectedly at a literary event, sparks fly, raising not only their buried traumas, but the eyebrows of the Black literati.
What no one knows is that fifteen years earlier, teenage Eva and Shane spent one crazy, torrid week madly in love. While they may be pretending not to know each other, they can’t deny their chemistry.
Release Date: June 1, 2021

The Right Swipe
Alisha Rai
Rhiannon Hunter may have revolutionized romance in the digital world.
But in real life she only swipes right on her career—and the occasional hookup.
The cynical dating app creator controls her love life with a few key rules:
– Nude pics are by invitation only
– If someone stands you up, block them with extreme prejudice
– Protect your heart
Release Date: August 6, 2019

The Kiss Quotient
Helen Hoang
Stella Lane thinks math is the only thing that unites the universe. She comes up with algorithms to predict customer purchases—a job that has given her more money than she knows what to do with, and way less experience in the dating department than the average thirty-year-old.
It doesn’t help that Stella has Asperger’s and French kissing reminds her of a shark getting its teeth cleaned by pilot fish. Her conclusion: she needs lots of practice—with a professional. Which is why she hires escort Michael Phan. The Vietnamese and Swedish stunner can’t afford to turn down Stella’s offer.
Release Date: January 1, 2018

Neon Gods
Katee Robert
Society darling Persephone Dimitriou plans to flee the ultra-modern city of Olympus and start over far from the backstabbing politics of the Thirteen Houses. But all that’s ripped away when her mother ambushes her with an engagement to Zeus, the dangerous power behind their glittering city’s dark facade.
With no options left, Persephone flees to the forbidden undercity and makes a devil’s bargain with a man she once believed a myth…a man who awakens her to a world she never knew existed. Hades has spent his life in the shadows, and he has no intention of stepping into the light.
Release Date: June 1, 2021

Ice Planet Barbarians
Ruby Dixon
You’d think being abducted by aliens would be the worst thing that could happen to me.
And you’d be wrong. Because now, the aliens are having ship trouble.
And they’ve left their cargo of human women – including me – on an ice planet.
And the only native inhabitant I’ve met?
He’s big, horned, blue, and really, really has a thing for me…
Release Date: April 24, 2015