Fifty Shades of Grey: The most iconic and addictive Romance series of all time from the #1 Sunday Times bestseller

Name: Fifty Shades of Grey: The most iconic and addictive Romance series of all time from the #1 Sunday Times bestseller
Rating: 4.080692768096924 (11550 reviews)

E L James

Mar 2012 · Fifty Shades Book 1 · Random House

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When literature student Anastasia Steele interviews successful entrepreneur Christian Grey, she finds him very attractive and deeply intimidating. Convinced that their meeting went badly, she tries to put him out of her mind - until he turns up at the store where she works part-time, and invites her out.

Unworldly and innocent, Ana is shocked to find she wants this man. And, when he warns her to keep her distance, it only makes her want him more.

As they embark on a passionate love affair, Ana discovers more about her own desires, as well as the dark secrets Christian keeps hidden away from public view. . .

Praise for Fifty Shades of Grey

'The cream of the crop' Independent

'Not only reviving the book market, but also reader’s marriages' Daily Mail

'A phenomenon.' Telegraph

'Revolutionised the genre of erotic fiction.' Observer

MORE THAN 150 MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE When literature student Anastasia Steele interviews successful entrepreneur Christian Grey, she finds him very attractive and deeply intimidating. Convinced that their meeting went badly, she tries to put him out of her mind - until he turns up at the s...

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11.6K reviews

A Google user

August 3, 2012

I cannot believe that it's possible for a 21 to 22 year old woman could have been so sheltered. Especially in this day and era. This book is a Harlequin Mills and Boon series book crossed with BDSM only the author rehashes the same problems. The author is naive about sex. It's common enough to play in the bedroom with toys gags etc. A normal 22 year old knows what spanking is. If they make a movie better make it one, there's not enought substantial content for three.

Peter Rake

April 6, 2013

There will always be an audience for ponographic material, one just needs a pornograph to play it on, and this is usually the sexual obsessive personality's mind. I am not a prude, look for my Book when it comes out in the next few weeks, but gratuitous anything is very boring. EL James will probably make a motza, and this is more pornographic than the book itself. How that will be done it I do not know, I have yet to meet anyone that gives a positive view.

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A Google user

July 31, 2012

I picked up the book to see what the fuss was about, and regretted it almost immediately. The writing is atrocious and repetitive, the characters are 2d, and the sex scenes that have had women raving about were so dull that I skipped most of them in an attempt to find some of plot. The plot itself, if you take out the never ending sex scenes, you could fit on the back of a cereal box. Seriously, if you like books and literature don't waste your money on this trash!

About the author

After 25 years in TV, incurable romantic E L James decided to pursue a childhood ambition – writing stories. Her first published novel, the provocative Fifty Shades of Grey, smashed sales records worldwide, topping the New York Times bestseller list for 133 weeks. Together with its sequels Fifty Shades Darker and Fifty Shades Freed, and the companion trilogy Grey, Darker and Freed, it went on to sell more than 160 million copies in over 50 languages.

One of Times magazine’s “Most Influential People of the Year” and Publisher’s Weekly’s “Person of the Year”, E L James was a producer on all of the Fifty Shades movies, which together made more than a billion dollars at the box office.

Fifty Shades Freed won the Goodreads Choice Award 2012 and Fifty Shades of Grey was voted one of the 100 Great Reads by PBS’s The Great American Read in 2018. Darker was long-listed for the 2019 International Dublin Literary Award, and James’ romance, The Mister, once more topped bestseller charts around the world. She followed it up in 2023 with the USA Today and Sunday Times bestselling sequel The Missus.

E L James lives with her husband, the screenwriter and novelist Niall Leonard, and their two beloved dogs in leafy west London.

After 25 years in TV, incurable romantic E L James decided to pursue a childhood ambition – writing stories. Her first published novel, the provocative Fifty Shades of Grey, smashed sales records worldwide, topping the New York Times bestseller list for 133 weeks. Together with its sequels Fifty ...

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