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Novels about prostitution

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novel by Paulo Coelho

novel by Abbé Prévost

Memoirs of a Geisha

1997 novel by Arthur Golden

Josephine Mutzenbacher

Hell Has No Limits

1966 novel by José Donoso

JK Haru is a Sex Worker in Another World

Japanese web novel

The Thief's Journal

1949 autobiographical novel by Jean Genet

Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress

novel by Daniel Defoe

10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World

2019 Turkish novel by Elif Şafak

Tristessa is a 1960 novella by Beat Generation writer Jack Kerouac set in Mexico City. It is based on his relationship with a Mexican prostitute (the title character). The woman's real name was Esperanza ("hope" in Spanish); Kerouac changed her name to Tristessa (a spelling he made up from tristeza which means "sadness" in Spanish).

Cities of the Plain

1998 novel by Cormac McCarthy

novel by Ryū Murakami

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

2019 novel by Ocean Vuong