Lesbian & Sapphic Fiction Books of the 1980s
The 93 most-read lesbian & sapphic fiction books first published between 1980 and 1989, led by Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe (1987), Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (1985) and Annie on My Mind (1982).
This list collects 93 books from the 1980s by 74 authors, published between 1980 and 1989. Books are ranked by how many readers have shelved, rated or downloaded them.
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
Fannie Flagg
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
Jeanette Winterson
Annie on My Mind
Nancy Garden
Borderlands/La Frontera
Gloria Anzaldúa
Zami
Audre Lorde
Heather Has Two Mommies
Lesléa Newman, Laura Cornell
More Tales of the City
Armistead Maupin
Coming to Power
SAMOIS (Organization)
Curious Wine
Katherine V. Forrest
Lesbian Love Stories
Irene Zahava
A Village Affair
Joanna Trollope
After Delores
Sarah Schulman
Report for Murder
Val McDermid
Trash
Dorothy Allison
The truth about Lorin Jones
Alison Lurie, Sophie Mayoux
Macho Sluts
Patrick Califia, Wendy Chapkis
Common Murder
Val McDermid
Suqūṭ al-Imām
Nawal El Saadawi, Nawāl Sadāwī
Crush
Jane Futcher
Outlander
Jane Rule
Amateur City
Katherine V. Forrest
Daughters of a Coral Dawn
Katherine V. Forrest
Girls, Visions, and Everything
Sarah Schulman
Murder at the Nightwood Bar
Katherine V. Forrest
On Strike Against God
Joanna Russ, Alec Pollak
Southern Discomfort
Rita Mae Brown
Memory Board
Jane Rule
Hallowed Murder
Ellen Hart
The Ladies
Doris Grumbach
Worlds Apart
Camilla Decarnin, Eric Garber
Choices
Nancy Toder
Other Women
Lisa Alther
Contract with the World
Jane Rule
Good Behaviour
Molly Keane
After the Fire
Jane Rule
Blow Your House Down
Pat Barker
The Beverly Malibu
Katherine V. Forrest
An Emergence of Green
Katherine V. Forrest
A Wild Patience Has Taken Me This Far
Adrienne Rich
The Haunted House
Rebecca Brown
In Every Port
Karin Kallmaker
Sisters of the Road
Barbara Wilson
In Search of Gay America
Neil Miller
The Conversations of Cow
Suniti Namjoshi
Lessons in Murder
Claire McNab
Intricate Passions
Paula Gunn Allen, Becky Birtha
August
Judith Rossner
Pleasures
Robbi Sommers
Bird-eyes
Madelyn Arnold
She Came Too Late
Mary Wings
The Black and White of It
Ann Allen Shockley
Inland Passage
Jane Rule
The Demeter flower
Shelley Singer
A letter to Harvey Milk
Lesléa Newman
Fatal Reunion
Claire McNab
Leave a Light on for Me
Jean Swallow
Other Sappho
Ellen Frye
The Always Anonymous Beast
Lauren Wright Douglas
Paz
Camarin Grae
Breaking Up
Norma Klein
Writing of Women
Phyllis Rose
The Swashbuckler
Lee Lynch
Yellowthroat
Penny Hayes
Say Jesus and come to me
Ann Allen Shockley
The Bar Stories
Nisa Donnelly
Work for a Million
Eve Zaremba
Charleyhorse
Cecil Dawkins
The fires of Bride
Ellen Galford
Lovers' Choice
Becky Birtha
Snow
Jenifer Levin
Dreams and Swords
Katherine V. Forrest
Time of Grace
Clare Harkness
Cherished Love
Evelyn Kennedy
Toothpick House
Lee Lynch
The Hide and Seek Files
Caeia March
All the Muscle You Need
Diana McRae
Surviving Sisters
Gail Pass
Clicking Stones
Nancy Tyler Glenn
Det Hendte Ingenting
Ebba Haslund
Relatively Norma
Anna Livia
Kindred Spirits
Jeffrey M. Elliot
Keep to Me, Stranger
Sarah Aldridge
Madame Aurora
Sarah Aldridge
Heartscape
Sue Gambill
The Winged dancer
Camarin Grae
Memories and Visions
Susanna J. Sturgis
Spring Forward/fall Back
Sheila Ortiz Taylor
Misfortune's Friend
Sarah Aldridge
Dark Horse
Frances Lucas
Shoulders
Georgia Cotrell
Searching for Spring
Patricia A. Murphy
The Love of Two Women
Jean Vivian
Raging Mother Mountain
Pat Emmerson