Cleis Press imprint: 438 books

Confessions of an Erotica Reader I love lesbian sex. I love talking about sex. I love mentally undressing the sexy women in my life. I love planning what I’m going to do when my partner gets home. I love having sex, curling my hand inside my partner and feeling the intensity of her pleasure....

Cleis Press's Best Lesbian Erotica and Best Gay Erotica series top best-seller lists across America every year. These books raise and exceed the standards and expectations of readers of erotic fiction with each new edition. Now fans of women's erotica will discover writing that is equally hot, sexy,...

Rough yet romantic, racy yet a nice and slow one-handed read, Best Gay Erotica 2013 is yet another jewel in the crown of Cleis Press’s gay erotica.

Cleis Press presents romantic, couples-focused erotica with a BDSM slant that's both naughty and nice — bondage, spanking, domination, submission, power-play, pain and pleasure, or whatever your dirty mind can think of. Bring on the rope and rough stuff, the dens and dungeons, the corsets and clamps...

Cleis Press' most lauded editor, Sacchi Green assumes the helm of one the most-heralded and best-selling series, Best Lesbian Erotica. This match made in book publishing heaven is also a fan fave whose readers range from 18 to 80 and who can't get enough of the Lambda Award–winning Sacchi Green's...

Cleis Press’s Best Lesbian Erotica and Best Women’s Erotica series top bestseller lists, raising and exceeding the standards and expectations of readers of erotic fiction with each new edition. Now the African-American women’s erotica market will discover the same level of literate, provocative...

Designated the "Queen of Lesbian Pulp" for her landmark novels beginning in 1957, Ann Bannon’s work defined lesbian fiction for the pre-Stonewall generation. Following the release of Cleis Press’s new editions of Beebo Brinker and Odd Girl Out, Women in the Shadows picks up with Beebo’s relationship...

Winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Erotica in 2003 and 2004, Cleis’ Best Lesbian Erotica series is the gold standard for erotic lesbian fiction, and this year's collection is no exception. Best Lesbian Erotica 2009 journeys into the world of hot women-on-women action with edgy, unusual stories...

Cleis’ Best Erotica series is the best-selling gay erotica series in America and with good reason. It sets the standard for erotic writing with searing action and stories that are smart, edgy, authentic, and wickedly inventive. Designed for your reading pleasure, Best Gay Erotica 2009 includes 20...

Hailed as "mesmerizing" by the Insight Out Bookclub, the world's largest LGBT reading group, Cleis' Best Lesbian Erotica is the standard bearer for the genre. Kathleen Warnock has taken the series to new heights of ecstasy with the 2014 entry which is sensational, sensual as well as being...

The classic 1950s novel from the Queen of Lesbian Pulp. "For contemporary readers the books offer a valuable record of gay and lesbian life in the 1950s. Most are set in Greenwich Village, and Ms. Bannon's descriptions of bars, clubs and apartment parties vividly evoke a vanished community....

"We're the buttfuckers of rock-and-roll, We want to sock it to your hole!" With these words written in a notebook, Jon Ginoli sets off on a journey of self-discovery and musical passion to become the founding member of Pansy Division, the first out and proud queercore punk rock band to hit...

One of Argentina's 30,000 "disappeared," Alicia Partnoy was abducted from her home by secret police and taken to a concentration camp where she was tortured, and where most of the other prisoners were killed. Her writings were smuggled out of prison and published anonymously in human rights...

Queer as Folk meets Dykes to Watch Out For in Robert Kirby's whimsical story of "twenty-something" gay boys falling in love in and out of love in New York City. Kirby's chronicle of sexual mishaps and bittersweet romance is syndicated widely in gay newspapers in the U.S.