The book world is buzzing that E.L. James’s Fifty Shades of Grey has sold twenty million copies, and news outlets are finally saying it’s okay to read those kinds of books (thank you, news outlets—we were doing just fine on our own).
But since you might be tired of all the hoopla about explicit sex in books (in other words, you’re Fifty-ed out), let’s take a different tack and ask, “what book has the best sexual tension without spelling out specifically what happened when the tension was sprung?”
