Rachel Kramer Bussel

Rachel Kramer Bussel is an award-winning author, editor and columnist of erotic books. She is a graduate of New York University School of Law with a degree in political science and the University of California with a degree in women's Studies. Bussel has worked as a senior editor for Penthouse Variations and a blogger for the Huffington Post.

The best place to start is the Best Sex Writing series, the earliest of Rachel Kramer Bussel's multi-book series: it opens with Best Sex Writing 2005 (2005) and runs to 7 books across 2005–2015, ending with Best Sex Writing of the Year (2015). Rachel Kramer Bussel's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.

Rachel Kramer Bussel has 120 books catalogued in this guide, published between 2004 and 2024. 11 of them belong to 2 named series — the largest being the Best Sex Writing series with 7 books — and 109 are standalone titles, collections or anthologies.

Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. Rachel Kramer Bussel's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Best Sex Writing (2005–2015, 7 books) and New Smut Project (2015–2022, 4 books).

This guide splits Rachel Kramer Bussel's 120 books into 2 named series and 109 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Best Sex Writing (7 books, 2005–2015); New Smut Project (4 books, 2015–2022).