{"id":3209,"date":"2014-07-23T10:05:53","date_gmt":"2014-07-23T10:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lelo.com\/blog\/?p=3209"},"modified":"2026-03-06T06:22:39","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T05:22:39","slug":"fifty-shades-read-fifty-shades-trilogy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lelo.com\/blog\/fifty-shades-read-fifty-shades-trilogy\/","title":{"rendered":"Fifty Shades More: What to Read after the \u2018Fifty Shades\u2019 Trilogy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the coming weeks, the tens of millions of women swept up in the literary phenomenon that is \u2018Fifty Shades of Grey\u2019 will have finished the trilogy. Those same tens of millions of women will probably go back to the start and reread them, and perhaps once again, but what happens when it\u2019s time to move on to other printed pursuits of passion?<\/p>\n<p>To avoid widespread panic among the women of the world looking for their next fit of erotic lit &#8211; when you&#8217;ve exhausted our own supply of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lelo.com\/blog\/erotic-fantasies\/\">short erotic fiction<\/a> &#8211;\u00a0 we canvassed the offices here at LELO to come up with suggestions of the books you can pick up after you\u2019ve put down \u2018Fifty Shades\u2019.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Lady Chatterley\u2019s Lover<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">by <strong><em>D.H. Lawrence<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b>D.H. Lawrence\u2019s widely-acclaimed (and for years after its release, widely-banned) 1923 novel contains everything we look for in a good book; a protagonist in turmoil, a grizzled antihero, class strife, and hot, steamy sex scenes.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>The Sleeping Beauty Trilogy<\/b><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">by<em><b> Anne Rice<\/b><\/em> (writing as A.N. Roquelaure)<\/p>\n<p>After two critical and commercial missteps following \u2018Interview with the Vampire\u2019, Anne Rice decided to take on the pen name A.N. Roquelaure and release a sprawling 3-book erotic trilogy loosely (and sexily) based on the well-known fairytale. As overheard in the LELO offices, The Sleeping Beauty Trilogy is \u201dwall-to-wall HOT\u201d.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><b style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">The Story of O<\/b><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><b style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\"><\/b>by<em><b> Anne Desclos <\/b><\/em>(writing as Pauline R\u00e9age)<\/p>\n<p>The Story of O\u2019 is a classic in the erotic literary canon. It tells the story of O (no spoilers there), a fashion photographer in Paris who gives herself over to the man she loves via a deepening education in dominance and submission. Sound familiar? It\u2019s a direct inspiration for the \u2018Fifty Shades\u2019 series.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Enjoy 15% off <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lelo.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LELO.com<\/a> with code <span style=\"color: #800080;\">VOLONTE15<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the coming weeks, the tens of millions of women swept up in the literary phenomenon that is \u2018Fifty Shades of Grey\u2019 will have finished the trilogy. Those same tens of millions of women will probably go back to the start and reread them, and perhaps once again, but what happens when it\u2019s time to move on to other printed pursuits of passion? To avoid widespread panic among the women of the world looking for their next fit of erotic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":3213,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[925,924,923],"tags":[327,323],"coauthors":[950],"class_list":["post-3209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-committed","category-dating","category-single","tag-book","tag-fifty-shades-of-grey"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.8.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>What Books to Read After Fifty Shades?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"So you\u2019ve read all three \u2018Fifty Shades of Grey\u2019 novels cover to cover. Twice. Where do you go from here? 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