Intimate Fiction

Desire as the subject, not the subplot. Sensual adult fiction about attraction and the charged space between people — frank without being graphic, and under no obligation to end happily.

On the Love & Desire shelf.

Books shelved as Intimate Fiction

• Sweet Bean Paste — Alison Watts
• Bastard Out of Carolina — Dorothy Allison
• God and the gay Christian — Matthew Vines
• Sputnik Sweetheart — Haruki Murakami
• The Phone Booth at the Edge of the World — Laura Imai Messina
• Immaculate Conception — Ling Ling Huang
• Con la miel en los labios — Esther Tusquets
• Maurice — E.M. Forster
• Danse Macabre — Laurell K. Hamilton
• The Thirteenth Tale — Diane Setterfield
• Blood Noir — Laurell K. Hamilton
• Micah — Laurell K. Hamilton
• Taiwan Travelogue — Yáng Shuāng-zǐ
• Persuasion — Jane Austen
• In the Miso Soup — Ryu Murakami
• Saint — Sierra Simone
• Ghost Mother — Kelly Dwyer
• La última niebla — María Luisa Bombal
• The Safekeep — Yael van der Wouden
• Dear Mothman — Robin Gow
• The Name of the Wind — Patrick Rothfuss
• Days At The Morisaki Bookshop — Eric Ozawa
• The Fortune Tellers of Rue Daru — Olesya Salnikova Gilmore
• Mercy — Sara Cate

Related genres

• Romance
• Fantasy Romance
• Smutty Corner
• Historical Romance
• LGBTQ+ Romance
• Contemporary Romance
• Regency

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