Six of the best queer fiction books of the century

Danika Ellis spends most of their time talking about sapphic books at the Lesbrary.

At Book Riot Ellis and their colleagues tagged six of the best queer fiction titles of the century (so far), including:

Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo

Girl, Woman, Other is a rich and vivid portrait of 12 people, most of them women and Black. From a lesbian playwright to a nonbinary influencer and a white-passing schoolteacher, the characters’ stories are connected by their shared identities and experiences across decades of life in the United Kingdom. The fast-paced novel is written entirely in lowercase, allowing the prose to flow almost lyrically as it examines Britain’s complicated colonial history. It won Evaristo the Booker Prize in 2019, making her the first Black woman to win that prize. —Vanessa Diaz

Read about another title on the list.

Girl, Woman, Other is among Jessika Bouvier's seven novels about dysfunctional (but charming) families, Erin O. White's five novels that showcase queer domesticity, Emma Specter's thirteen notable feminist books, Sarah Davis-Goff's six top books about women working together, Ore Agbaje-Williams's seven books featuring very, very complicated friendships, Cecile Pin's seven novels featuring displacement in multicultural London, and Kasim Ali's nine top books about interracial relationships.

--Marshal Zeringue