Navigate Books of the Month: Intro 10 books with "sex" in their titles Tomcat in Love by Tim O'Brien The Black Dahlia by James Ellroy Nerve: Literate Smut edited by Genevieve Field and Rufus Griscom SEXlife magazine Breakup: The End of a Love Story by Catherine Texier Devil Babe's Big Book of Fun by Isabel Samaras Previous Books of the Month: July: AMERICA June: SUMMER May: WOMEN

It can be trivial, or it can be profound. It can make you happy, or it can make you miserable. Sex is so complicated, you could almost write a book about it--or several.   10 BOOKS WITH "SEX" IN THEIR TITLES PUBLISHED IN THE LAST YEAR The All-New Dieter's Guide to Weight Loss During Sex by Richard Smith (Workman) American Sex Machines: The Hidden History of Sex at the US Patent Office by Hoag Levins (Adams) Brace Yourself, Bridget!: The Official Irish Sex Manual by Feeny and Plaid (St. Martins Press) Celibacy Is Better Than Really Bad Sex: And Other Rules for Single Women by Patti Putnicki and Joe Azar (Corkscrew Press) Four Jacobean Sex Tragedies edited by Martin Wiggins (Oxford University Press) Finger-Licking Good: The Ins and Outs of Lesbian Sex by Tamsin Wilton (Cassell Academic) How to Have Sex in Public Without Being Noticed by Marcel Feigel and Brian Heaton (Ten Speed Press) I Shudder at Your Touch: 22 Tales of Sex and Horror edited by Michele Slung (New American Library) Multiply and Replenish: Mormon Essays on Sex and Family edited by Brent Corcoran (Signature Books) Presidential Sex: From the Founding Fathers to Bill Clinton by Wesley O. Hagood (Birch Lane Press)   originally published August 26, 1998