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Romance - Spicy - Christchurch City Libraries

If you enjoy provocative storylines and flirtatious characters you may enjoy spicy Romance novels. A genre that runs the spectrum from delightfully titillating encounters dripping with subtext, to some truly fleshy hardcore sex scenes with copious naughty words. Be careful where you read these as a nosy stranger behind you on the bus might be in for a shock! A lot of this genre focuses heavily on character interaction (both physically and emotionally) but there are some great story based novels in the mix if you prefer just a dash of raunchy content in with your intriguing plot. A Christchurch City Libraries list. ​

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  • A contemporary reimagining of Shakespears' Taming of the Shrew featuring the forced proximity, “enemies to lovers” and age gap tropes. Kate and Christopher were childhood neighbors and nemesis's who unexpectedly end up together and it gets spicy.…
    Book, 2023New York : Berkley Romance, 2023. — ROMANCE
  • A spicy ice hockey romance that tells the tale of Ryder a hotshot hockey player and Gigi the daughter of a famous coach and olympic hopeful in her own right. A deal for mutual gain brings them together and sparks fly.
    Book, 2023Naperville, Illinois : Bloom Books, [2023] — ROMANCE
  • This is a fairy tale that is certainly not for children. When Rosalina enters the Real of the Fae to save her father, she makes a beastly pact to trade her freedom for his. This is like Beauty and the Beast except with four suiters competing for…
    eBook, 2023[New York] : Magpie, 2023. — DIGITAL
  • Sassy, sexy small town Cowboy romance with it's fair share of spicy heat. Troubled rodeo golden boy Rett has to work with his agents fiery daughter Summer get himself out of trouble. Needless to say sparks fly and the tension is like a rampaging…
    Book, 2023London : Piatkus, 2023 — ROMANCE
  • Katee Roberts keeps the heat on high in this second book from her super steamy Dark Olympus series. This scorchingly hot modern retelling of Psyche and Eros has the Gods acting up in ways that would make Zeus blush.
    Book, 2022Naperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks Casablanca, [2022] — ROMANCE
  • If you don’t feel like committing to a full novel, why not have a quick fling with a short story. This spicy anthology is made up of erotic stories written by some of the biggest names in contemporary writing. No author is attributed to a story so…
    Book, 2022New York : Scribner, 2022. — FICTION
  • Kink

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    A scintillating collection of short stories that encapsulates a range of desires, fetishes, and love across the sexual spectrum. The stories within are not vanilla in flavour, so turn the pages with an open mind and see if anything within teases and…
    Book, 2021New York : Simon & Schuster, 2021. — FICTION
  • Abducted by aliens then abandoned on an harsh ice planet our heroine, Georgie, ends up in all sorts of kinky antics with a large, horned, blue alien who makes the Na'vi from Avatar tame prudes by comparison. Ruby Dixon knows her audience demands…
    Book, 2021New York : Jove, 2021. — SCIENCE FICTION
  • This novel could read as a Bacchian feast. It is a goddess rite; full of hungry women, food kinks, and is consuming and political. A provocative debut novel that addresses the main character Roberta, and her understanding of her millennial position…
    Book, 2019New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2019. — FICTION
  • This book is provocative. Filled with a feisty collection of twisting stories that span the genres of fantasy, comedy, horror and romance. Each story starts and ends with the experience of having a body- from the mundanity, to the sensuous, the…
    Book, 2018London : Serpent's Tail, [2018] — FICTION
  • A book that was initially censored in the 1950s when it was first published, only now are we getting this story as it was intended. It's the story of two French boarding school girls who fall in love and start exploring sexually. As explicit and…
    Book, 2015New York : Feminist Press, 2015, c2014. — FICTION
  • The book that became a pop culture icon! A arrangement between a millionaire playboy with a passion for BDSM and a younger woman that alternates between the pain and pleasure of BDSM and the two falling in love. It's actually on the tamer end of the…
    Book, 2012Arrow, 2012. — ROMANCE
  • If you've read all of the Fifty Shades series and are looking for something similar and perhaps a little wilder this is a good place to start. Sylvia Day is known for her romance novels and her erotica series. This one is part of a series so if you…
    eBook, 2012London : Penguin Books, 2012.
  • An erotic gothic thriller/mystery with a storyline that will enthrall your senses and captivate your mind right to the very end. The writing is beautiful, filled with delicious fleshy details and many naughty characters to delight the imagination. A…
    Book, 2002London : Virago, 2002. — FICTION
  • Trigger warning— this book contains necrophilia, incest, rape, racism, and other extreme sexual content. The last work of Anais Nin, aimed at the hardcore erotica audience in 1977 and she was going out with on a high. Considered equal parts shocking…
    Book, 1978London : W.H. Allen, 1978. — FICTION
  • Scandalous! Obscene! One of the 20th Century's defining erotic novels,notorious upon publication in 1928, it's lurid description of the physical and emotional relationship between the upper class Lady Chatterley and the working class gardener Oliver…
    Book, 1932London : Heinemann, 1932. — FICTION