Category
page 1Novels about prostitution

Eleven Minutes
novel by Paulo Coelho

Manon Lescaut
novel by Abbé Prévost

Memoirs of a Geisha
1997 novel by Arthur Golden
Josephine Mutzenbacher
erotic novel

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
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

Piercing
novel by Ryū Murakami

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
2019 novel by Ocean Vuong