by Eurydice (c) 1999

TOP TEN Sexiest Books in Classic Literature :
 

1. Sappho's Poetic Fragments
She lusts for everything that breathes but never crudely, she appreciates youth and erotic detail, and what's unsaid or lost is also a turn-on.
2. The Apocrypha
Before Solomon met Sheba, Lilith sat on top of Adam  he asked God for the submissive Eve and lost a rib to it; later, Joseph got laid, and cuckolded, by Mary.
3. Amores and The Art Of Love
Ovid's manuals on how to choose, get, and keep a worthwhile lover.
4. Tale of Genji
Lady Murasaki's tale of nonstop adulterous fucking among the aristocracy.
5. Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
Written when fat women had more fun and men of the cloth were responsible for it.
6. The Love Poems Of John Donne
Far sexier than Dante's Beatrice, Donne's wife combined sex-and-God in a sublime way.
7. Shakespeare's The Dark Lady Sonnets and at least six plays
Othello is the great love story, Anthony and Cleopatra, is the great turn-on.
8. Les Liaisons Dangereuses
Laclos's only work of fiction, written to prove his theory of warfare, which had cost him his military job, is the supreme erotic epistolary novel: rape, seduction, betrayal, control.
9. Goethe's Elective Affinities
In his middle-age, the world's first literary superstar writes about a middle-ager falls for his new wife's 17 year old niece who loves him but dies after he fails to die in battle to save himself from scorching desire.
10. Dora: An Analysis of a Case of Hysteria, Sexuality and The Psychology of Love
Sigmund Freud's wannabe-dry prose is rife with incestuous desires, analyst lust, unspoken possessiveness, power-play paranoia, transference between reality and fantasy, written by a physician whose libido was vast enough to fuck with the whole world.

TOP TEN Sexiest Books in Modern Literature:
 

1. Poe's The Fall Of The House Of Usher
Dark, hot, and feverish, but you too would be pale, anemic, and listless, if the only woman you were supposed to screw was your sister; at least let's hope so.
2. Emily Bronte's Weathering Heights
Is Heathcliff Catherine's half brother, the bastard Earnshaw? And what gift does Cathy ask her father to bring her when he brings Heathcliff home? A whip. It ends in necrophilia.
3. Clarissa
Richardson's heroine gets laid in her sleep and spends hundreds of pages in sexy torment.
4. The Ambassadors
400 pages of foreplay, foreplay, foreplay. Remember Henry James died a virgin.
5. The Albertine volumes in Proust's A La Researche Du Temps Perdu
The best sustained writing on jealousy and possessiveness and sluthood ever.
6. Lolita
Nabokov solves the toughest problem a writer can face: how to get a 40 year old man in bed with a 12 year old girl and not make him a psycho—and not to alienate the reader.
7. Querelle
Lust in the Navy among smelly manly men, which Genet knew first-hand.
8. Thongs
Trocchi reenacts the Crucifixion with a nympho who can't get enough of a good thing.
9. Candy
Terry Southern's rewrite of Voltaire's Candide, only this protagonist's appetites are as big as a hunchback's hump and her garden is bushy.
10. Spanking the Maid
Robert Coover has written the best American novel dealing with S/M power themes: no sex but plenty of sexiness in the arousing ritual repetitions.

TOP TEN Sexiest Books in Erotic Literature:
 

1. The Satyricon
Petronius writes the first porn ever, covering Roman sexual decadence in evocative detail.
2. Priapeia
A compilation of ancient smut poems celebrating the arts of Penis and its God, Priapus.
3. The Dialogues Of Aretino
Aristocrats travel and fuck indiscriminately and make fun of the Pope throughout Italy.
4. The Perfumed Garden
Arabian sex manual much sexier than the tediously clinical Kama Sutra.
5. Philosophy In The Bedroom
De Sade's Bible, the sexiest of all his very sexy writings, stars a sewing needle, thread, anus, penis and discusses in depth morality, birth control, human nature and atheism.
6. Erotic Tales of the Victorian Age, ed. By Bram Stoker
19th century heterosexual erotica.
7. The Story Of O
Pauline Reage's dog-collared young nude woman in chains gets to go to posh parties full of men only and taught to listen-and-obey in exchange for a top-notch branding on the ass.
8. City of Night
John Reichy makes gay cruisers, fisting, and anonymous rape so sexy you can't stay straight after reading it; it's liberation sexology.   
9. Diesel Fuel, Sensual Magic, Macho Sluts
Lesbian erotic poetry, sex and spirituality, and classic BDSM short stories by Pat Califia, America's most skilled living smut-writer.
10. The Ages of Lulu
Almudena Grandes presents the darker side of female desire in soft-lit feminine filth.