Sunday, January 2, 2011

Looking for Lust in All the Wrong Places & 2011 List

No matter what synonym I use, I end up with a search engine list of bodice rippers and vampire books or hobbies that people have a "passion" for. I wish this list of lust for 2011 was more extensive but I just guess I will build it as I go along. (And Slackers all, maybe you can let me know about your favorite lusty love stories.)

To repeat those I identified in December, I will add the few I've unearthed after couple days of diligence:

1. A Sport and A Pastime by James Salter -- December 22, 2010
Lady Chatterley's Lover by D H Lawrence
Dangerous Liaisons by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
The Pure and the Impure by Colette
2. The Lover by Marguerite Duras -- January 8, 2011
Nana by Emile Zola
-- gave up on finishing
Possession by A S Byatt
The Alchemy of Love and Lust by Theresa Crenshaw
After the Apple by Naomi Rosenblatt
Blood Will Tell by Joe Boso
The Passion by Jeanette Witherspoon
Passion - A Novel of the Romantic Poets by Jude Morgan
Letters of Portuguese Nun by Miriam Cyr
3. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov -- April 3, 2011
The Sixteen Pleasures by Robert Hellenga
The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles
Salome by Oscar Wilde
Heloise and Abelard by James Burge
4. The Dangerous Age by Annette Jaffee -- January 9, 2011
5. The Physics of Sunset by Jane Vandenburgh -- January 21, 2011
6a. The Last Time They Met by Anita Shreve -- January 13, 2011
6b. Where or When by Anita Shreve -- January 25, 2011
The Golden Bowl by Henry James
7. A Rage to Live by John O'Hara -- February 11, 2011. Secret Loves -
8. Women With Two Lives by Sonya Friedman
-- January 17, 2011
9. Tempted Women by Carol Botwin -- January 15, 2011
10. Against Love by Laura Kepnis -- January 13, 2011
11. The Double Flame by Octavio Paz -- December 22, 2010
12. Country Girls Triology by Edna O'Brien -- February 19, 2011
Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
13. Love and Summer by William Trevor -- January 28, 2011
14. A Happy Marriage by Rafael Yglesias -- January 29, 2011
15. The Proof of the Honey by Salwa Al Neimi -- January 30, 2011
16. The End of the Story by Lydia Davis -- February 18, 2011
17. Marry Me by John Updike -- February 24, 2011
18. Cleopatra by Stacy Schiff -- March 4, 2011
19a. Justine by Lawrence Durrell -- March 7, 2011
19b. Balthazar by Lawrence Durrell -- March 9, 2011
19c. Mountolive by Lawrence Durrell -- March 16, 2011
19d. Clea by Lawrence Durrell -- March 22. 2011
20a. Museum of Innocence by Orhan Pamuk
20b. The Naive and Sentimental Novelist by Orhan Pamuk -- February 23, 2011
21. The Paris Wife by Paula McLain -- March 23, 2011
22. Vox by Nicholson Baker -- April 4, 2011
23a. The Delta of Venus by Anais Nin -- April 11, 2011
24b. Little Birds by Anais Nin -- April 11, 2011
25a. Philosophy of the Bedroom by de Sade -- April 16, 2011
25b. Justine by de Sade -- May 18, 2011
26. Just Kids by Patti Smith -- May 16, 2011
27. The Natural History of Love by Diane Ackerman -- May 5, 2011
28. The Sixteen Pleasures by Robert Hellenga -- May 29, 2011
29. After the Apple by Naomi Harris Rosenblatt -- June 6, 2011
30. Blood Will Tell: A True Story of Deadly Obsession -- June 7, 2011
31. All the Living by C. E. Morgan -- June 8, 2011
32. Mating by Norman Rush -- June 25, 2011
33. To Be Sung Underwater by Tom McNeal -- July 2, 2011
34a. OFF THEME The Talented Mr Ripley and Ripley Under Ground by Patricia Highsmith -- July 12, 2011
34b. Ripley Under Water and Ripley's Game -- July 16, 2011
34c. The Boy Who Followed Ripley -- July 19, 2011
35. SORT OF BACK ON THEME Remembering Smell, by Bonnie Blodgett -- August 25, 2011
36. SORT OF ON THEME: Spousonomics by Szuchman and Anderson -- August 30, 2011
37. ON All About Love by Lisa Appignanesi -- September 3, 2011
38. OFF My Reading Life by Pat Conroy -- September 3, 2011
39. OFF Every Secret Thing by Laura Lippman -- September 8, 2011
40. OFF Gamble by Felix Francis -- September 13, 2011
41. ON The Debt to Pleasure by John Lancaster -- September 30, 2011
42. The Book of the Courtesans: A Catalogue of Their Virtues by Susan Griffin -- October 1
43. OFF City of Secrets by Kelli Stanley -- October 13, 2011
44. A DIFFERENT LIVELY SIN: GLUTTONY The Belly of Paris by Emile Zola -- October 17
45. RIGHT ON Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality by Christoper Ryan and Cacilda Jetha -- October 18, 2011
46a. OFF The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes -- October 19, 2011
46b. Before She Met Me by Julian Barnes -- November 12, 2011
46c. Talking It Over by Julian Barnes -- November 12, 2011
46d. Love, Etc. by Julian Barnes -- November 12 2011
47a. OFF (Or is it Right On?) 1968, The Year that Rocked the World by Mark Kurlansky -- October 20, 2011
47b. The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell by Mark Kurlansky -- November 12, 2011
48. Lust in Translation by Pamela Druckerman -- October 24, 201
49. OFF The Pattern in the Carpet - A Personal History with Jigsaws by Margaret Drabble -- October 26, 2011
50. OFF: Choice Cuts by Mark Kurlansky -- November 24, 2012
51. OFF: Blueprints for Building Better Girls by Elissa Schappell -- November 26, 2011
52. OFF: Ranchero by Rick Gavin -- December 1, 2011
53. OFF: Darkness and Light by John Harvey -- December 10, 2011
54. OFF: Balzac's Omelette by Anka Muhlstein -- December 22, 2011
55. OFF: Blood, Bones and Butter by Gabrielle Hamilton -- December 23, 2011

This is slim pickins. There's got to be more out there. What are your teenage high school required readings besides Wuthering Heights, Madame Bovary, and Anna Karenina that taught you Slackers all about love and lust?

1 comment:

  1. I like the list but think that we could expand by adding authors like Henry Miller and Laurence Durrell if we look to people who write about lust and passion but maybe do more "telling" than "showing." What do others think?

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