My blood runs cold...

In case that NYT top books of the past 25 years has you down, you might want to take a look at Playboy's top 25 Sexiest novels of all time. Sorry, no Topping from Below, but Phillip Roth can't seem to stay away from any top 25. Sad to say, the Playboy list tends to the good authors doing dirty stuff rather than dirty authors crossing over into good stuff, so nothing is too terribly freaky. At the very least they did not claim that de Sade had any merit.