Plot: Blood-sucking night creatures win new converts.

Why it's on the list: Rice's novels capture lust and the thirst for a transforming exchange of bodily fluids without once mentioning genital union. She's sold more than 75 million copies of vampire erotica.

Excerpt: She gasped as I broke the flesh, the warm current coming into me, her breasts crushed against me, her body arching up, helpless, from the couch. And I could see her eyes, even as I shut my own, see that taunting, provocative mouth. I was drawing on her, hard, lifting her, and I could feel her weakening, her hands dropping limp at her sides. "Tight, tight," I whispered over the hot stream of her blood, her heart thundering in my ears, her blood swelling my satiated veins.