Lesbian & Sapphic Fiction Books of the 1990s
The 330 most-read lesbian & sapphic fiction books first published between 1990 and 1999, led by Stone Butch Blues (1993), Tipping the Velvet (1998) and Written on the Body (1992).
This list collects 330 books from the 1990s by 205 authors, published between 1990 and 1999. Books are ranked by how many readers have shelved, rated or downloaded them.

Stone Butch Blues
Leslie Feinberg

Tipping the Velvet
Sarah Waters, Juanita McMahon

Written on the Body
Jeanette Winterson

Bastarda
Dorothy Allison

Fall On Your Knees:A Novel
Ann-Marie MacDonald

Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers
Lillian Faderman

The Gilda Stories
Jewelle Gomez, Alexis Pauline Gumbs

The Persistent Desire
Joan Nestle

Changes
Ama Ata Aidoo

Best Lesbian Erotica 2000
Tristan Taormino, Joan Nestle

Affinity
Sarah Waters

Rio Lento
Nicola Griffith

Tom of Finland
Tom of Finland, Tom

Try
Dennis Cooper

A Grave Talent
Laurie R. King

Lost Girls
Melinda Gebbie, Alan Moore

Strangers in Paradise
Terry Moore

A Place I’ve Never Been
David Leavitt

Deliver Us from Evie
Marijane Meaker

People in Trouble
Sarah Schulman

The House You Pass on the Way
Jacqueline Woodson

The Dyke and the Dybbuk
Ellen Galford

Gut Symmetries
Jeanette Winterson

A Queer and Pleasant Danger
Kate Bornstein

Peau
Dorothy Allison

The Hardy Boys in A ghost in the closet
Mabel Maney

In Another Place, Not Here
Dionne Brand

Eat Me
Linda Jaivin

Chelsea Girls
Eileen Myles

Her
Cherry Muhanji

New improved! Dykes to watch out for
Alison Bechdel

The trials of Radclyffe Hall
Diana Souhami

From the notebooks of Melanin Sun
Jacqueline Woodson

The Pagoda
Patricia Powell

Rat Bohemia
Sarah Schulman

Chloe Plus Olivia
Lillian Faderman

Final Edition
Val McDermid

The Penguin Book of Lesbian Short Stories
Margaret Reynolds

Hood
Emma Donoghue

Painted Moon
Karin Kallmaker

Melting Point
Patrick Califia

Amazon
Barbara G. Walker

Bedrock
Lisa Alther

Beyond the Pale
Elana Nachman/Dykewomon

The passion of Alice
Stephanie Grant

Wild Things
Karin Kallmaker

Making History
Eric Marcus

Apparition Alley
Katherine V. Forrest

The Blue Place
Nicola Griffith

Doc and Fluff
Patrick Califia

Crocodile Soup
Julia Darling

Booked for Murder
Val McDermid

Touchwood
Karin Kallmaker

Disappearing Moon Cafe
Sky Lee

Daughters of Darkness
Pam Keesey

Paperback Romance
Karin Kallmaker

Pussy, King of the Pirates
Kathy Acker

The Case of the Not-So-Nice Nurse (Nancy Clue Mysteries)
Mabel Maney

Aquamarine
Carol Anshaw

She Came by the Book
Mary Wings

Body Guard
Claire McNab

Dancing in the Dark
Barbara Grier, Christine Cassidy

Pages Passed From Hand to Hand
Mark Mitchell, David Leavitt

Flaming Iguanas
Erika Lopez

Under the Southern Cross
Claire McNab

Car Pool
Karin Kallmaker

House Rules (High Risk Books)
Heather Lewis

Completely Queer
Steve Hogan

Safe as Houses
Alex Jeffers

My Sweet Untraceable You
Sandra Scoppettone

Past Due
Claire McNab

Soul Kiss
Shay Youngblood

The Intersection of Law and Desire
J. M. Redmann

The Complete Hothead Paisan
Diane DiMassa

Forbidden Passages
Patrick Califia

Love, Zena Beth
Diane Salvatore

Murder by Tradition (A Kate Delafield Mystery)
Katherine V. Forrest

Bread & Wine
Samuel R. Delany

Everything You Have Is Mine
Sandra Scoppettone

Stage Fright
Ellen Hart

Bushfire
Karen Barber

Women on Women
Joan Nestle, Naomi Holoch

Gonna Take a Homicidal Journey
Sandra Scoppettone

Stagestruck
Sarah Schulman

Dream Lover
Lyn Denison

The Wish List
Lee Lynch

Liberty Square
Katherine V. Forrest

Sleeping Bones
Katherine V. Forrest

Bending the Landscape
Nicola Griffith, Stephen Pagel

Venus Envy
Rita Mae Brown

Does Your Mama Know?
Lisa C. Moore

Mercy
David L. Lindsey

Empathy (Little Sister's Classics)
Sarah Schulman

Watermark
Karin Kallmaker

Benediction
Diane Salvatore

Dark Angels
Pam Keesey