Fifty Shades of Grey

When literature student Anastasia Steele interviews the young, "shadowy" billionaire Christian Grey, she is pulled into a world of extreme wealth and "stifling" control. Christian doesn't do "romance"—he does ownership. He presents Ana with a formal contract to be his "submissive," a document that outlines exactly how he will "possess" her time, her body, and her diet. The story is a gothic-romance reimagining of the power dynamics between a creator and their "subject," set against the rainy, moody backdrop of Seattle.