List of BDSM literature

The following is a chronological list of notable sadomasochistic literature about or involving BDSM, both fictional and non-fictional. Both written literature and comics are included, but not films or video. Series are listed as one item; where publication date is ill-defined, the earliest date is used.

17th century

1610 Jin Ping Mei

1639 De Usu Flagrorum

1693 The Carnal Prayer Mat

1695 Jin Ping Mei – edited by Zhang Zhupo

18th century

1749 Fanny Hill

1750 Fashionable Lectures

1785 The 120 Days of Sodom

1791 Justine

1795 Aline and Valcour

1795 Philosophy in the Bedroom

1797 Juliette

19th century

1828 The Lustful Turk

1830 Exhibition of Female Flagellants

1866 The Romance of Chastisement

1870 Venus in Furs

1873 The Romance of Lust

1876 The Convent School, or Early Experiences of A Young Flagellant

1878 Experimental Lecture

1887 The Whippingham Papers

1893 Gynecocracy

1899 The Memoirs of Dolly Morton

1899 The Torture Garden

20th century

1907 Sadopaideia

1908 The Way of a Man with a Maid

1928 Belle de Jour

1947 Sweet Gwendoline

1948 Shira

1954 Nights of Horror

1954 Story of O

1956 The Image

1966 Gor

1966 Isabella

1973 Gravity’s Rainbow

1974 Imaginative Sex

1975 Willard and His Bowling Trophies: A Perverse Mystery

1978 Nine and a Half Weeks

1978 Spectator Magazine

1981 Coming to Power

1982 Against Sadomasochism

1983 The Piano Teacher

1983 The Sleeping Beauty Quartet

1984 1982, Janine

1985 Exit to Eden

1988 Macho Sluts

1990 Something Leather

1993 The Ties That Bind

1994 Skin: Talking About Sex, Class & Literature

1995 The River Ophelia

1998 A Defence of Masochism

21st century

2001 Kushiel’s Legacy series

2003 Snakes and Earrings

2004 Terminal Avenue

2007 L’Étudiante

2010 The Marketplace series

2011 Fifty Shades of Grey series

2011 Sunstone

See also

Sadism and masochism in fiction

BDSM in culture and media