Darker was longlisted for the 2019 International DUBLIN Literary Award. Fifty Shades Freed won the Goodreads Choice Award (2012), and Fifty Shades of Grey was selected as one of the 100 Great Reads, as voted by readers, in PBS’s The Great American Read (2018). Fifty Shades of Grey stayed on the New York Times bestseller list for 133 consecutive weeks. Her books have been published in fifty languages and have sold more than 165 million copies worldwide.Į L James has been recognized as one of Time Magazine’s Most Influential People in the World and Publishers Weekly’s Person of the Year. In 2021, she released the #1 New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and international bestseller Freed, the third novel in the As Told by Christian trilogy. She followed with the #1 New York Times bestseller The Mister in 2019. In 2015, she published the #1 bestseller Grey, the story of Fifty Shades of Grey from the perspective of Christian Grey, and in 2017, the chart-topping Darker, the second part of the Fifty Shades story from Christian’s point of view. The result was the controversial and sensuous romance Fifty Shades of Grey and its two sequels, Fifty Shades Darker and Fifty Shades Freed. After twenty-five years of working in television, she decided to pursue a childhood dream and write stories that readers could take to their hearts. This book is intended for mature audiences.Į L James is an incurable romantic and a self-confessed fangirl.

133 Weeks on the New York Times Bestseller List.

One of 100 Great Reads in the Great American Read.

More than 165 Million Copies Sold Worldwide.

An Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller.

When the couple embarks on a daring, passionately physical affair, Ana discovers Christian Grey's secrets and explores her own dark desires. For all the trappings of success-his multinational businesses, his vast wealth, his loving family-Grey is a man tormented by demons and consumed by the need to control. Shocked yet thrilled by Grey's singular erotic tastes, Ana hesitates. Unable to resist Ana's quiet beauty, wit, and independent spirit, Grey admits he wants her, too-but on his own terms. The unworldly, innocent Ana is startled to realize she wants this man and, despite his enigmatic reserve, finds she is desperate to get close to him. When literature student Anastasia Steele goes to interview young entrepreneur Christian Grey, she encounters a man who is beautiful, brilliant, and intimidating. And in spite of all he's said, and what he hasn't said, I don't think I have ever been so happy.' 'And in this quiet moment as I close my eyes, spent and sated, I think I'm in the eye of the storm.

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