The 31 Best Erotic Novels You Need To Get Your Hands On Right Now

“The toy is so gentle that when the mouth has been lubed up it actually feels quite similar to oral sex, especially if you use one of the settings that pulses slowly,” said one WH tester. Read the full review here.

“Her bendable head means that she can reach anywhere you need her to. The ridges on her head give you extra friction and thus extra feeling, which is really, really great,” said our tester. Read the full review here. 

Have your book in one hand and rabbit in the other without worrying about thrusting because, well, it’s self-thrusting! It’s the perfect companion. Read more about why we love this Happy Rabbit here.

The Love Hypothesis is a bestseller for a reason. Smart, sweet and steamy, this book tells the story of a PhD candidate who ends up fake-dating a notoriously cold young professor. Come for the dreamy, supportive hero and badass heroine, and stay for the characters’ smoking-hot chemistry.

Hot, queer, contemporary fairy tale retellings? Yes, please. An Anastasia retelling, How to Find a Princess focuses on Makeda Hicks, a long-lost princess who wants nothing to do with the royal life – and her simmering attraction to the investigator hired to track her down and bring her back to her kingdom. This is the second book in Alyssa Cole’s Runaway Royalsseries, but it can be read as a stand-alone.

Judith McNaught has an army of fans, and A Kingdom of Dreams does, too. This book tracks the story of Jennifer Merrick, who was abducted from her convent school by the arrogant Royce Westmoreland, Duke of Claymore. The two trade barbs until Jennifer realizes she has feelings for him and… you can take it from there.

This Amazon best-seller tells the story of actress Hazel Nix who has a string of current and ex-lovers. Hazel considers leaving the theater where she’s worked for the last eight years as a string of mysterious happenings strike – and her love life gets even more complicated.

This one is giving off some serious Twilight vibes. A woman joins an academy with supernatural students. She meets and connects with a vampire, and sparks fly from there.

Love celebrity stories? And Playing the Role of Herself tells the story of Caidence Harris, an actress on a hit show who just became a big star. She ends up crossing paths with talented actress Robyn Ward and sparks fly.

Follow Me Darkly has many similarities to 50 Shades of Grey: There’s an innocent young woman with big dreams who catches the eye of a billionaire. The two starts dating, and the woman (Skye Manning, FYI) realizes that her new love has some dark desires.

After a painful, lonely childhood, snarky photographer Delilah Green is living her best life in New York City. But when she’s called back to her small hometown in the Pacific Northwest, she realizes there might be something in Bright Falls for her, after all: Claire Sutherland, her snobby stepsister’s best friend (and her one-time childhood crush).

In this sexy, Schitt’s Creek-inspired rom-com, glitzy socialite Piper Bellinger is shipped out to a rural small town to man her late father’s dive bar. She couldn’t have less in common with the locals—especially rugged fisherman Brendan. But even as they clash, they can’t seem to fight their attraction…

If steamy, heartfelt reads are what you’re after, look no further than Talia Hibbert. Although you can’t go wrong with any of Hibbert’s books, the Brown Sisters trilogy is the perfect entry to her work: In Get a Life, a hyper-organized, careful computer geek enlists her building’s sexy, mysterious handyman to help her learn to let loose, with extremely hot results.

A student falls in love with her tall, dark, and handsome professor – nothing new there. But this professor has a little secret: He used to live the billionaire lifestyle in New York City. He thought it would be easy not to socialise with any of his students, but he never expected to meet such a beautiful woman like Penny. This book is scorching hot (according to Amazon reviewers).

Just getting into erotic novels? You might want to start with something like The Wedding Date, which could fit in the romance novel category as well. It’s a perfect way to ease into the genre and experience a fair share of romcom-y charm, along with quite a bit of sex. Here’s the deal: Drew picks stranger, Alexa, to be his plus-one to an upcoming wedding – a classic fake significant other story that leads to, yes, you guessed it, actual love.

If you’ve watched the series, you know that Jamie Fraser is just…wow. He sets the bar so high for men. Time travel, the Scottish highlands and freaking hot sex. That’s pretty much what Outlander is. 

Clare, a former British combat nurse, has just been reunited with her husband as they embark on their first trip away together after the war. When Clare ventures into an ancient standing rock circle, she is thrown back into the mid-1700s. And that’s where she meets Jamie, a young Scots warrior, and the story takes off.

While you await Bridgerton‘s return to streaming, grab the books and get a healthy dose of “your grace.” If the series wasn’t hot enough for you, the books take it up a notch. Plus, you can get a head start on the rest of the series while they work on season three. 

And on the off chance you haven’t binged the Netflix series yet, the Bridgerton series is about each of the Bridgerton siblings finding love and marriage in high-society London in the early 1800s. Each book tells the story of one sibling’s romantic journey. This first novel in the series, which the first season of the show follows, is about Daphne falling in love with the Duke of Hastings, who also happens to be her older brother’s best friend.

TikTok is obsessed with this book, and that’s reason enough to give it a try. The young huntress, Feyre, ends up in the dangerous fantasy world that she has heard about only in legends. She and the immortal faerie, Tamlin, have an enemies-to-lovers affair that is very *spicy*. A top review on Amazon identifies it as “nothing more than erotica,” which I’m totally fine with.

Kat McClain just got out of a failed marriage and is the only sister in a family of super-protective brothers. She wants to move on with her life, which is perfect timing for family friend Tommy Kirby, who conveniently has been crushing on Kat and wants a wife and kids of his own. Could these two find the romance they’ve both been waiting for in each other?

Meet Jasmine, the star of a super popular daytime soap opera living in Chicago. Now, meet Luke, a major mayoral candidate and a professor at the University of Chicago. He’s got everything figured out: He wants to give back to the city he’s always called his home. Together, they find themselves in the middle of a forbidden love affair. What will they do about their respective romances? You’ll have to read to find out.

Savannah has just relocated to Salem, Massachusetts. She’s hired movers and when they arrive, she sees that they’re three college hunks and she’s pretty pumped. They offer to come back to her place later tonight to “help her unpack,” but it turns out they also have a little more in mind (hint: it’s a foursome!).

Jason Dare is a guarded nightclub owner living in New York City. Because of his ~dark past~, he keeps those he calls family close and doesn’t let anyone else in. That is until he meets candy store owner Faith Lancaster. Faith is ambitious and sweet, and she wants to let Jason in, but she has her fair share of secrets, too, like the fact that her brother is trying to steal her inheritance. Dramaaa.

Cinnamon Blade is a modern crime fighter in a city threatened by aliens and vampires on the daily. She’s saved the book-smart Soledad Castillo from bad guys on multiple occasions, and each time she does their sexual chemistry increases. Soledad is attractive, but how can they have any time of relationship when Blade is constantly protecting the vulnerable city from danger?

Amy Barnes has never had much luck with love. But she basically thrives at everything else. (She’s a rising star at work, for instance.) Then comes Josephine Taft, an attractive, accomplished tech investor who’s looking for a stake in Amy’s company. Distracted by her attraction to Josephine but also passionate about wanting the investment for her company, Amy’s got, like, a lot to juggle. And I’m here for it.

After living in Europe for years, Ali Lennox’s father asks her to move back to L.A. so that she can take over the family company, Lennox Breweries. However, this decision angers the company’s COO, Jill Gold, who has been at LB for more than 20 years. Annoyed that she has to show Ali the ropes on top of her career snub, Jill treats Ali with disdain. Can the two find a common ground and mesh at work? Potentially. It turns out that sparks fly outside of the office, too…

Harriet and Sally were in love 17 years ago until Harriet broke Sally’s heart. Now, they’ve stumbled back into each other’s lives only to realize that they’ve got some serious trust issues. Can the two make it work despite their past—and the fact that they live in two different states?

Sarah is a passionate paramedic who will literally do anything for her patients. Veronica is an ER nurse who is getting fed up with work (and, um, her meddling ex-GF). After pushing herself to the limit one day, Sarah passes out and falls into Veronica’s arms. From there? Well, things heat up even more.

After moving into her new San Francisco apartment, Caroline Reynolds is less than thrilled to find out she lives next to a super-loud neighbour. Each night she hears him banging against the wall and letting out moans of pleasure during sex (with a different woman each time). Soon, though, the noise becomes too much. Caroline heads over to give him a piece of her mind, only to find out that he’s, ahem, very attractive.

There’s no Timothée Chalamet in this version, sadly (pro tip: you can picture his face when you read). But still, the story of Elio and Oliver is just as steamy in book form. For those of you who are unfamiliar with the plot, Oliver is a sexy American student who comes to stay with Elio’s family in Italy. At first, the pair appear to hate each other. As time goes on, however, it’s clear that there’s more to their relationship than meets the eye.

Governor Georgia “George” Fernandez is *very serious*. And since she’s started her reelection campaign, she’s even more stoic than before as she focuses on winning the race of a lifetime. That is until Mila, a young woman working as an exotic dancer, almost ruins Georgia’s run with a juicy scandal. To mend the situation, Mila is offered a position working at the governor’s office. It turns out that opposites really do attract since Mila and Georgia soon find out they have some serious chemistry.

Elle is totally busted when her (um, really attractive) boss Colton catches her using the photocopier to ***take pics of her ass*** for a risky dare from her bestie. In short, she’s super embarrassed that her tall, dark, and sexy superior saw her in such a NSFW situation. But it might work in her favour as she works toward taking on the biggest dare of them all: Making Colton fall in love with her.

Beautiful Stranger follows the story of Sara and Max, two strangers who meet at a New York City club and have discreet, spontaneous sex on the dance floor. Pretty soon public, no-strings-attached sex becomes their ~thing~. But their no-feelings agreement doesn’t last for long (classic).

At her university graduation party, Lia receives a beautiful wine cup decorated with roses. Almost immediately, a family friend, August Bowman, tells her it’s a rare ancient artefact instilled with the power to bring the most intimate sexual fantasies to life. Of course, Lia doesn’t believe him, so August dares her to try it. Not only does the cup’s magic work, but it allows Lia and August to live out their wildest, sexiest dreams – together.

Stella Lane’s spent much of her adult life focused on her career, meaning she has way less dating experience than the average 30-year-old. She decides she needs to take a crash course in romance and hires an escort, Michael Phan, to show her the ropes. He takes Stella up on her offer, teaching her everything from foreplay to more-than-missionary position…