Some adult-only bedtime reading that is more likely to keep you up than put you to sleep.

Now that you're all grown up, the phrase "bedtime story" may have different implications than it did when you were tiny tots. Scan our list of 10 pillow books -- must-haves for your bedside bookshelf.

1. The Complete Kama Sutra

translated by Alain Danielou
Pillow book of pillow books, this classic Indian love manual is still as fresh and frisky today as it was centuries ago. Several versions of this guide are out there, from the original text to illustrated versions and abridged editions (aka "the good bits"). Browse your bookstore for the version that best turns on your motor or check out our pick.

2. Lady Chatterly's Lover

by D.H. Lawrence
This erotic literary masterpiece was actually banned in Britain until 1960. It traces a steamy affair between a sexually unfulfilled upper-class wife and her husband's gamekeeper. Much better than the normal handyman fantasy.

3. Delta of Venus

by Anais Nin
A frank look at sexual encounters about a hundred steps above "Penthouse Forum," this erotic novel by Henry Miller's pal Nin just may set your pants on fire.

4. Forever...

by Judy Blume
Yep, the same book that titillated you as a junior-high student. Believe us when we tell you that the same stuff that turned you on then still works.

5. Tropic of Cancer

by Henry Miller
Miller made a name for himself by exploiting his own sexual adventures. Millions already have had their fancies tickled by his books. Why not jump on the bandwagon?

6. The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon

by Sei Shonagon
If you were captivated by Memoirs of a Geisha, check out the original. Written in the tenth century, this book depicts a courtesan's life in her own words. Highly passionate, this memoir will leave both of you breathless.

7. The Best American Erotica 2001

edited by Susie Bright
Let your fingers do the walking and choose each evening's bedtime story from this collection of short fiction.

8. Story of O

by Pauline Reage
Don't take it too seriously, and the story of a fashion photographer who succumbs to erotic degradation is fun. For an evening of steamy bedroom reading -- especially if the idea (or reality) of submission turns you on -- this novel is ideal.

9. Vox: A Novel

by Nicholson Baker
Baker's fictional transcript of anonymous phone sex is full of both male and female fantasies. Turn it into your own bedtime theater by taking turns reading both sides of the conversation.

10. Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure

by John Cleland
A romping "memoir" written in 1749, the story was called "a most licentious and inflaming book" at the time. A prostitute's rise to respectability is bawdy, eighteenth-century fun at its best.

-- The Nest Editors

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