What to Read After Finishing Fifty Shades of Grey: Your Suggestions!

This list is awesome. You have all of my faves in there - Maya Banks, Dana Marie Bell, the incomparable Shayla Black, Emma Holly, Lauren Dane, Megan Hart. . . These all make for some hot, hot reads. I am going to have to start on some of the other suggestions. . .

INCOGNITO Series by Madison Layle and Anna Leigh Keaton, especially SEDUCING OLIVIA & OWNING RACHEL.

If you liked "Fifty" but are looking for a book with a little 'more'- more as in plot, romance, suspense, and fantastic writing- I'd read 'Grave Refrain' from Sarah M. Glover. It's one of those books you simply can't put down- I stayed up all night reading to get to the end! It's gotten rave reviews on Amazon and goodreads:http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_1_13?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=grave+refrain+glover&sprefix=grave+refrain%2Cstripbooks%2C259

As someone who has read both, I don't see the allure of Beautiful Disaster after 50. Where's the emo connection?

SuperWendy, very fortuitously, just blogged about a collection that might give newbies a fun, fast intro to the genre: http://wendythesuperlibrarian.blogspot.com/2012/03/review-best-erotic-romance-as.html

Lastly, Lauren Dane, the author of Liberating Lacey and oh so many others, is an author who is both steamy and satisfying (that is, there's is character development that intrigues and explains).

Kallypso Masters!!!! "Nobody's Hero" and the other 2 books in her series.

How about JJ Argus or is he just a sick muthafuckr?

What else can I say but ROXELANA AND SULEYMAN by P.J.Parker. This is Fifty Shades of Grey with a storyline that makes the former appear quite tame...

Roxelana was the most seductive, powerful, egotistical, intriguing, manipulative and enigmatic woman of the early sixteenth century. History had never known anyone of such beauty and cunning. She was fabulous. Yet very few know her story... Europe is in turmoil under the oppressive rule of the Hapsburgs and the incessent raids of marauding Tartar Warriors. Can the forces of The Ottoman Empire ensure the promised Renaissance? Istanbul, the eye of the Ottoman Sultanate and considered to be the centre of the Universe is the largest and most cosmopolitan city in the world. It is intoxicating and vibrant. But it is also a metropolis of mis-placed trust, of decadence, run by a sexually-charged, sexually-ambiguous drug-riddled beaurocracy. And in the middle of this city, high on an imposing promontory is the fabled Topkapi Palace - the Seraglio of Sultan Suleyman Khan - the Shadow of God on Earth. Within its multitude of gazel-filled courtyards, along its secluded arcades and twisting down through its labyrinth of corridors to the solidly locked doors of the Sultan's Harem are secrets and whispers that promise death by strangulation to some - and absolute power to others. It is in this world that a simple peasant girl, abducted by Tartars and sold into slavery, captured the heart of the greatest Ottoman Sultan and rose to control the largest armies on Earth from within the gilded cage of Topkapi Harem. But does she know that there are those who would see her dead? And yet another, who's undying love, if revealed, would lead to the destruction of all her well laid plans? The story of Roxelana has remained hidden for centuries and needs to be told. It is about someone we should all be acquainted with intimately

Dear Sir, I'm Yours by joely sue burkhart and YES, lora leigh's Bound Heart series!!!!

I can't help but suggest Wicked Allure by Leslie C. Ferdinand. I co-wrote the book with my mom and Like 50 Shades, Wicked Allure is self-published. Zachary Steele is a man who betrayed the one woman he's ever loved and can't stop loving. Three years ago, he simply refused to entertain thoughts of permanency with any woman. A hedonist at heart, he didn’t want to corrupt the much younger, Madigan DeLeon, by continuing his affair with her. With the hidden scars of his past, he didn’t believe in happily-ever-after. By the time he realized how much Madigan meant to him, he’d driven her away. Then, one night, after being clean for a number of years, Zach briefly falls off the bandwagon. He believes his lovemaking to Madi is a drug-induced hallucination. The resulting consequences tell another story.
Zach is the only man Madi has ever loved but he hurt her so deeply she feared she'd never recover. Suddenly, Madi is thrust back into Zach’s life by her mother’s machinations. Brought home under the false pretenses of repairing her damaged relationship with her mother, Madi instead finds herself running a private sex club called Wicked Allure. Forced to confront her anger at his betrayal and grief at the loss of what might’ve been, Madi faces the realization that she’s never stopped loving Zach. Searching the deepest recesses of their hearts, in a place where pride and pain has no room, Madi and Zach must decide if their bond is strong enough to take a second chance at love. Or if resuming their sexual relationship is an irresistible wicked allure and the ghosts of their former relationship will finally, and forever, sever all ties between them. I'm doing a promotion and have a coupon for a free smashwords ebook for anyone who's interested.

What a great idea, I have read most of them. I just finished Beautiful Disaster / Jamie McGuire (Hot) and Loving David/ Gina Hummer (REALLY HOT) Add to your summer reading lists!!!

Leslie,

I checked out the sample of your book on Smashwords...is that the only place it's available?

WITHOUT a doubt, read the Anne Rice ( written under the pen name A.N Roquelaure) Beauty The Claiming of Sleeping beauty Beautys Punishment Beautys Release. If 50 shades got you hot, Beauty will cause an inferno!

Blackdagger Brotherhood by JR Ward and also her Fallen Angel series OMG sooo good! And also Feverseries by Karen Moning is GREAT!

After reading the 50 Shaades Series I was so disapointed that I had nothing left to read. I LOVED the books, but found myself searching the internet to find my next book just as good. I found this page and saw Beautiful Disaster. I decided to read it, and also LOVED it. I've read it about 5 times now. Now I'm on the search again for the next book that will be just as good as those!!!!

I just read Beautiful Disaster in one sitting...LOVED it!. I really didn't feel a connection at all to Fifty, but was an amazing read that I couldn't put down.

Sasha White's Bound series was great! And so is Megan Hart's Dirty/Broken series!

Thoughtless must be on the list! I know it's not erotic but it's hot and even better than Beautiful Disaster, IMO :)

Thoughtless and Effortless have to be read. Beautiful books and a must read !!!!

WOW FIFTY SHADES AFTER READING THESE BOOKS, I THOUGHT WILL WOMEN WANT TO CHANGE THERE HUSBANDS TO BE CHRISTIAN GREY, AND ARE MORE WOMEN OUT THERE LOOKING FOR FIFTY SHADES, I SAY YES. BUT THE BOOK TO READ AFTER FIFTY SHADES IS... BARED TO YOU... IT IS GREAT,AND YOU WILL NOT PUT IT DOWN. YOU WILL BE TURNING IN YOUR CHAIR, AND BLUSHING AND WAKING UP IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT TO FINISH THE CHAPTER YOU STARTED.

These are great suggestions, and unless ive missed it, i cant believe that nobody suggested the wicked series by shayla black!! There are 8 books in the series and she is currently writing two more additions(according to her website) Ive read many of the suggestions here given my addiction to fifty shades....shayla black, maya banks and sylvia day leave fifty shades for dead. The wicked ties series, whilst not a continuation, has all the characters intertwined and each book has the characters making cameo appearances. Storylines are as great as fiction can be, sex scenes are incredibly well written and the characters are much more complex. Ive read about 35 books since fifty shades and wicked ties wins hands down! Ps. I found beautiful disaster boring btw.