Books like Nine and a half weeks by Elizabeth McNeill

Henry Miller’s debut novel follows a lyrical, autobiographical monologue in which he recounts his early 1930s Parisian life, exploring sex, human behavior and bohemian culture with frankness and poetic intensity.

During a summer vacation in Europe, Molly Barlow tries to leave a painful past behind, but over nine days and nine nights a series of unexpected events upends her relationships, ambitions, and sense of self.

A concise account of Lady Jane Grey, who briefly reigned as England’s queen for nine days before being imprisoned and executed.

In 1939, a humble stablehand in Melbourne's suburb of Richmond discovers that a simple coin can alter the lives of his family—and a young girl—set against an Australia unaware of the looming war.

Lynn Chancer advances the provocative thesis that sadomasochism is far more prevalent in contemporary societies like the United States than we realize. According to Chancer, sexual sadomasochism is only the best-known manifestation of what is actually a much more broadly based social phenomenon. Moving from personal relationships to interactions in school, the workplace, and other institutions, Chancer uses a variety of examples that are linked by a recurrent pattern of behavior. She goes beyond the predominantly individualistic and psychological explanations generally associated with sadomasochism (including those popularized in the "how to" literature of the recent Women Who Love Too Much genre) toward a more sociological interpretation. Chancer suggests that the structure of societies organized along male-dominated and capitalistic lines reflects and perpetuates a sadomasochistic social psychology, creating a culture steeped in everyday experiences of dominance and subordination. In the first part of the book, Chancer discusses the prevalence of sadomasochistic cultural imagery in contemporary America and examines sadomasochism through several perspectives. She develops a set of definitional traits both through existential analysis of an instance of S/M sex and by incorporating a number of Hegelian and psychoanalytic concepts. In the second part of the book, she places sadomasochism in a broader context by exploring whether and how it appears in the workplace and how it relates to gender and race.

In Erica Jong’s erotic tale, Isadora Wing’s craving to soar free propels a journey of self‑discovery and liberation, illuminating the complexities of womanhood.

Boy meets girl, things get complicated.

Erotic short stories exploring female sexuality in a world dominated by love, featuring Hungarian adventurer seducing wealthy women, veiled woman selecting strangers, and Parisian hatmaker Mathilde leaving her husband for opium dens.