Gay Fiction Books of the 1990s
The 300 most-read gay fiction books first published between 1990 and 1999, led by Mercury and Me (1994), Tipping the Velvet (1998) and Brokeback Mountain (1997).
This list collects 300 books from the 1990s by 218 authors, published between 1990 and 1999. Books are ranked by how many readers have shelved, rated or downloaded them.
Mercury and Me
Jim Hutton, Tim Wapshott
Tipping the Velvet
Sarah Waters, Juanita McMahon
Brokeback Mountain
Annie Proulx
Drôle de garçon
Shyam Selvadurai
Close Range
Annie Proulx
Cereus Blooms at Night
Shani Mootoo
A Home at the End of the World
Michael Cunningham
Dream Boy
Jim Grimsley
Frisk
Dennis Cooper
Stuck Rubber Baby
Howard Cruse
B-boy Blues
James Earl Hardy
A l'ami qui ne m'a pas sauvé la vie
Hervé Guibert
Tom of Finland
Tom of Finland, Tom
Epistemology of the Closet
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
Am I blue?
Marion Dane Bauer
Farewell My Concubine
Pi-hua Li, Li, Bihua.
Try
Dennis Cooper
The Great Mirror of Male Love
Ihara Saikaku
The Story of the Night
Colm Tóibín
Small G
Patricia Highsmith
The Farewell Symphony
Edmund White
A Place I’ve Never Been
David Leavitt
Let the Dead Bury Their Dead
Randall Kenan
The Eye in the Door
Pat Barker
The Men From the Boys
William J. Mann
Trouble and Her Friends
Melissa Scott
Drawing Blood
Poppy Z. Brite
Rolling the R's
R. Zamora Linmark
Maybe the Moon
Armistead Maupin
While England Sleeps
David Leavitt
Code
Lawrence Lessig
Just as I am
E. Lynn Harris
Private Eyes (Jonathan Kellerman)
Jonathan Kellerman
Flesh and Blood
Michael Cunningham
No Se Lo Digas a Nadie
Jaime Bayly
The Hardy Boys in A ghost in the closet
Mabel Maney
And This Too Shall Pass
E. Lynn Harris
The Beauty of Men
Andrew Holleran
Nightswimmer
Joseph Olshan
The Page Turner
David Leavitt
Arkansas
David Leavitt, Michel Lederer
The Folding Star
Alan Hollinghurst
Holding the Man
Timothy Conigrave
Now and Then
William Corlett
Die Zimtgärten
Shyam Selvadurai
Allan Stein
Matthew Stadler
Rat Bohemia
Sarah Schulman
Tomato Red
Daniel Woodrell, Megan E. Abbott
The Spell
Alan Hollinghurst
Lawnboy
Paul Lisicky
Damned Strong Love
Lutz van Dijk
How Town
Michael Nava
The Mad Man
Samuel R. Delany
Koolaids
Rabih Alameddine
An Arrow's Flight
Mark Merlis
Putting on the Ritz
Joe Keenan
The Death of Friends
Michael Nava
The Long Firm
Jake Arnott
Boy Culture
Matthew Rettenmund
Comfort & Joy
Jim Grimsley
Tim and Pete
James Robert Baker
Wrong
Dennis Cooper
The Two-bear Mambo
Joe R. Lansdale
An Oblique Approach
David Drake
Flashpoint
Michael Bronski
Vanishing Rooms
Melvin Dixon
My Worst Date
David Leddick
Máscaras
Leonardo Padura
Heaven's Coast
Mark Doty
Breakfast with Scot
Michael Downing
Like People in History
Felice Picano
Meatmen
Winston Leyland
Fag Hag
Robert Rodi
Rent Boy
Gary Indiana
The Judas Kiss
Hare, David, David Hare
Gossip
Christopher Bram
Doc and Fluff
Patrick Califia
The Hidden Law
Michael Nava
American Studies
Mark Merlis
Ready to Catch Him Should He Fall
Neil Bartlett
Loverboys
Ana Castillo
Loaded
Christos Tsiolkas
Body Guard
Claire McNab
Simple Justice
John Morgan Wilson
The Burning Plain
Michael Nava
Pages Passed From Hand to Hand
Mark Mitchell, David Leavitt
Harlan's Race
Patricia Nell Warren
Best Gay Erotica 1999
Felice Picano, Richard Labonté
Best Gay Erotica 1998
Christopher Bram, Richard Labonté
Masters' Counterpoints
Larry Townsend
The Easy Way Out
Stephen McCauley
The Body and Its Dangers, and Other Stories
Allen Barnett
My First Time
Jack Hart
The Magician's Assistant
Ann Patchett
Native
William Haywood Henderson
The Stone of Laughter
Hoda Barakat