Fifty Shades of Grey - Healthier alternatives

While readers all over the world devour the Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy, they are not being lauded as ‘haut literature’. Here are just a few healthier alternatives :

 Anais Nin – Delta of Venus, Eros Unbound, Little Birds

Nicholson Baker – House of Holes

Linda Jaivin – A Most Immoral Woman , Eat Me, Confessions of an S&M Virgin and Rock ‘n’ Roll Babes from Outer Space

John Cleland – Fanny Hill : memoirs of a woman of pleasure

Sarah Waters – Fingersmith, The Night Watch, Tipping the Velvet

Laurell K Hamilton – Anita Blake Vampire Hunter series

DH Lawrence – Sons and Lovers, Lady Chatterley’s Lover, Women in Love

Leopold von Sacher-Masoch - Venus in Furs

Pauline Reage – Story of O

The Marquis de Sade – The 120 days of Sodom and other writings; Justine, or Good Conduct Well Chastised; Philosophy in the Bedroom

Nancy Friday - My Secret Garden, Forbidden Flowers, Women On Top and Men In Love

Isabel Allende – Aphrodite : a memoir of the senses

I’m sure you out there could add to this list . . .