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Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, by John Cleland (1749)

This tale of a prostitute's rise through the social ranks might be the most banned book in history. In 1966 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that because it had some redeeming social value, it could not be deemed obscene.

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10 Erotically Charged Books

By Karen Valby, Michael Sauter, Tina Jordan | Apr 12, 2012

Before it became a ''Fifty Shades of Grey'' area, steamy relationships captured imaginations in titles like ''Fanny Hill,'' ''Story of O,'' and eight more

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