• ALBEE, Edward: Lolita (C) - dramatization of the classic novel
• AMIS, Martin: Yellow Dog (C+) - porn in contemporary life
• BALLARD, J.G.: Crash (C+) - "the first pornographic novel based on technology"
• BJØRNEBOE, Jens: Without a Stitch (B)
• BYATT, A.S.: Babel Tower (A) - sex (and literature) in the 60s
• CAIN, James M.:
  • The Butterfly (B-) - incest on the farm
  • The Postman always Rings Twice (A-) - sex and murder
  • Serenade (B) - ill-starred romance
  • Sinful Woman (B) - loose women in Reno
• FISCHER, Tibor: Voyage to the End of the Room (B) - sex club account
• FLAUBERT, Gustave: Madame Bovary (A-) - classic adultery novel
• HOUELLEBECQ, Michel: Platform (B+) - sex tourism
• JACOBSON, Howard:
  • Peeping Tom (B) - literary-sexual romp
  • Who's Sorry Now ? (A-) - wife-swapping
• KAKAR, Sudhir: The Ascetic of Desire (B) - fictional biography of the author of the Kamasutra
• LÜ Tiancheng: The Embroidered Couch (C+) - classic Chinese erotica
• MATHEWS, Harry: Singular Pleasures (B) - onanistic variations
• MONZÓ, Quim: The Enormity of the Tragedy (A-) - a man suffering from priapism
• MORAND, Paul: Hecate and Her Dogs (B+) - degeneracy in 1920s North Africa
• MURAKAMI Ryu: In the Miso Soup (B-) gore-fest
• NABOKOV, Vladimir:
  • Lolita (A+) - the classic novel
  • Lolita: A Screenplay (B+) - the screenplay
• NEIMI, Salwa Al: The Proof of the Honey (B-) - sex in the Arab world
• NICHOLSON, Geoff: Footsucker (A-) - foot fetish fiction
• NOZAKA Akiyuki: The Pornographers (B)
• OKUDA Hideo: Lala Pipo (B+) - a Japanese variation on La ronde
• P., Melissa:
  • 100 Strokes of the Brush Before Bed (D) - fictionalized teen sex memoir
  • The Scent of Your Breath (C-)
• PERA, Pia: Lo's Diary (B-) (also: Diario di Lo) - Lolita from her point of view
• ROCHE, Charlotte: Wetlands (B) - wallowing in bodily filth
• SAKURAI Ami: Innocent World (B) - incest, underage prostitution, gang rape
• SATRAPI, Marjane: Embroideries (B) - sex in Iran
• SCHIFF, Stephen: Lolita: The Book of the Film (C+) - screenplay to the remake
• THIRLWELL, Adam: Politics (B+) - contemporary relationships
• TURNER, Michael: The Pornographer's Poem (B+) - coming of age novel
• VARGAS LLOSA, Mario:
  • In Praise of the Stepmother (A-) - family fun
  • The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto (B) - family fun continued
• VIAN, Boris: I Spit on Your Graves (B) - pulp thriller
• VIGNALI, Antonio: La cazzaria: The Book of the Prick (B-)
• WOOD, Ed:
  • Death of a Transvestite (B) - transvestite thriller
  • Killer in Drag (C) - transvestite thriller
• ZOLA, Emile: The Kill (A-) - adultery and incest

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Non-fiction Sex-related titles under Review:

• CHRISTIANSEN, Rupert: The Voice of Victorian Sex (B+) -- Arthur Clough
• DART, Gregory: Unrequited Love (B+) - stalking
• LLOYD, Elisabeth A.: The Case of the Female Orgasm (B) -- Bias in the Science of Evolution
• LOWRY, Thomas P.: Venereal Disease and the Lewis and Clark Expedition (B)
• NALEBUFF, Rachel Kauder (ed.): My Little Red Book (B+) -- ninety accounts of menarche
• NICHOLSON, Geoff: Sex Collectors (B) - The Secret World of Consumers, Connoisseurs, Curators, Creators, Dealers, Bibliographers, and Accumulators of "Erotica"
• PAZ, Octavio: An Erotic Beyond: Sade (A-) - on de Sade
• POSNER, Richard A.: A Guide to America's Sex Laws (--)
• SALMON, Catherine: Warrior Lovers (A-) (with Donald Symons) -- Erotic Fiction, Evolution and Female Sexuality
• SURFISTINHA, Bruna: The Scorpion's Sweet Venom (C-) - The Diary of a Brazilian Call Girl
• THOMAS, Chantal: The Wicked Queen (B+) - anti-Marie-Antoinette pamphlets

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