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2021
Winner
The Thirty Names of Night by Zeyn Joukhadar
 
Honor
More Than Organs by Kay Ulanday Barrett
Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Diaz
The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi
Memorial by Bryan Washington
​2020
Winner
Cantoras by Carolina de Robertis
 
Honor
Patsy by Nicole Dennis-Benn
War/Torn by Hasan Namir
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
Lot (Stories) by Bryan Washington
2019
Winner
The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
 
Honor
White Houses by Amy Bloom
Speak No Evil by Uzodinma Iweala
Forward by Lisa Maas
Luisa: Now and Then by Carole Maurel & Mariko Tamaki
2018
Winner
Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction and Fantasy from Transgender Writers by Cat Fitzpatrick & Casey Plett
 
Honor
When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities by Chen Chen
Marriage Of A Thousand Lies by SJ Sindu
An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon
A Place Called No Homeland by Kai Cheng Thom
2017
Winner
Desert Boys by Chris McCormick
 
Honor
Dig by Bryan Borland
Hide: a novel by Matthew Griffin
Guapa by Saleem Haddad
Beautiful gravity: a novel by Martin Hyatt
2016
Winner
The Gods of Tango by Carolina de Robertis
 
Honor
Jam On The Vine by LaShonda Katrice Barnett
Apocalypse Baby by Virginie Despentes
For Your Own Good by Leah Horlick
Lum: a novel by Libby Ware
2015
Winner
Prelude to Bruise by Saeed Jones
 
Honor
Bitter Eden by Tatamkhulu Afrika
Frog Music by Emma Donoghue
The Two Hotel Francforts by David Leavitt
My Real Children by Jo Walton
2014
Winner
Art on Fire by Hilary Sloin
 
Honor
The Rebellion of Miss Lucy Ann Lobdell by William Klaber
A Strange and Separate People by Jon Marans
Everything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky Club by Benjamin Alire Saenz
2013
Winner
The Last Nude by Ellis Avery
 
Honor
The Absolutist by John Boyne
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
Chulito by Charles Rice-Gonzalez
The Unreal Life of Sergey Nabokov by Paul Russell
2012
Winner
Sweet Like Sugar by Wayne Hoffman
 
Honor
The Temperamentals: a new play by Jon Marans
Remembrance of Things I Forgot: A Novel by Bob Smith
The Picture of Dorian Gray: An Annotated, Uncensored Edition by Oscar Wilde & Nicholas Frankel
Annabel by Kathleen Winter
2011
Winner
More of This World or Maybe Another by Barb Johnson
 
Honor
Probation by Tom Mendicino
The More I Owe You by Michael Sledge
Holding Still for As Long as Possible by Zoe Whitall
2010
Winner
Stray Dog Winter by David Francis
 
Honor
Beauty Salono by Mario Bellatin
God Says No by James Hannaham
2009
Winner
Light Fell by Evan Fallenberg
 
Honor
The Sealed Letter by Emma Donoghue
The Conversions by Joseph Olshan
A Perfect Waiter: A Novel by Alain Claude Sulzer
2008
Winner
The Teahouse Fire by Ellis Avery
 
Honor
Bow Grip by Ivan E Coyote
Dark Reflections by Samuel R Delany
The Indian Clerk by David Leavitt
The IHOP Papers by Ali Liebegott
2007
Winner
Grief: a Novel by Andrew Holleran
 
Honor
The Manny Files by Christian Burch
A Scarecrow's Bible by Martin Hyatt
Rose of No Man's Land: A Novel by Michelle Tea
The Night Watch by Sarah Waters
2006
Winner
Babyji by Abha Dawesar
 
Honor
The wild creatures: collected stories of Sam D'Allesandro by Sam D'Allesandro & Kevin Killian
Mother of sorrows by Richard McCann
The first verse: a novel by Barry McCrea
Acqua calda by Keith McDermott
2005
Winner
The Master by Colm Toibin
 
Honor
A Seahorse Year by Stacey D'Erasmo
The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
Luna: A Novel by Julie Anne Peters
I Am My Own Wife: a Play by Doug Wright
2004
Winner
The Book of Salt by Monique Truong
 
Honor
Lives of the Circus Animals: a Novel by Christopher Bram
Keeping You a Secret by Julie Anne Peters
Southland by Nina Revoyr
The Cutting Room by Louise Welsh
2003
Winner
Letters to Montgomery Clift : a Novel by Noel Alumit
 
Honor
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Lantern Bearers: Novel by Ronald Frame
At Swim, Two Boys by Jamie O'Neill
Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
2002
Winner
The Laramie Project by Moises Kaufman
 
Honor
Pages for You by Sylvia Brownrigg
Guess Again: Short Stories by Bernard Cooper
Welsh Boys Too by John Sam Jones
The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things by JT LeRoy

Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Book Award - Literature

2001
Winner
Affinity by Sarah Waters
 
Honor
Breakfast with Scot: A Novel by Michael Downing
The Danish Girl: A Novel by David Ebershoff
The World in Us: Lesbian and Gay Poetry of the Next Wave: An Anthology by Michael Lassell & Elena Georgiou
The Night Listener by Armistead Maupin
2000
Winner
Po Man's Child: A Novel by Marci Blackman
 
Honor
Comfort & Joy: A Novel by Jim Grimsley
Mr. Dalloway by Robin Lippincott
Lawnboy by Paul Lisicky
Last Rights: Poems by Marvin K White
1999
Winner
The Hours by Michael Cunningham
 
Honor
Science Fiction by Nicola Griffith & Stephen Pagel
Switch by Carol Guess
An Arrow's Flight by Mark Merlis
Imagine Being More Afraid of Freedom Than Slavery: Poems by Pamela Sneed

Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Book Award - Literature

1998
Winner
Working Parts: A Novel by Lucy Jane Bledsoe
 
Honor
Prozac Highway: A Novel by Persimmon Blackbridge
Beyond the Pale: A Novel by Elana Dykewomon
In Awe by Scott Heim
The Escape Artist: A Novel by Judith Katz
1997
Winner
Hood by Emma Donoghue
 
Honor
The Beauty of Men by Andrew Holleran
Funny Boy by Shyam Selvadurai
Toward Amnesia by Sarah Van Arsdale
Bailey's Beads by Terry Wolverton
1996
Winner
Dream Boy by Jim Grimsley
 
Honor
Two or Three Things I Know for Sure by Dorothy Allison
Baby Be-Bop by Francesca Lia Block
Stuck Rubber Baby by Howard Cruse
The Promise of Rest by Reynolds Price
1995
Winner
Am I Blue?: Coming Out from the Silence by Marion Dane Bauer
 
Honor
The Other Man Was Me: A Voyage to the New World by Rafael Campo
Chloe Plus Olivia: An Anthology of Lesbian and Bisexual Literature from the Seventeenth Century to the Present by Lillian Faderman
The Dyke and Dybbuk: A Novel by Ellen Galford
Winter Numbers: Poems by Marilyn Hacker
1994
Winner
Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg
 
Honor
She's Always Liked the Girls Best by Claudia Allen
Scissors, Paper, Rock by Fenton Johnson
The Last Generation by Cherrie Moraga
Growing up Gay: A Literary Anthology by Bennett L Singer

Gay and Lesbian Book Award - Literature

1993
Winner
Ceremonies: Prose and Poetry by Essex Hemphill
 
Honor
Almost History by Christopher Bram
Vital Ties by Karen Kringle
The Easy Way Out by Stephen McCauley
Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson
1992
Winner
Halfway Home by Paul Monette
 
Honor
Brother to Brother: New Writings by Black Gay Men by Essex Hemphill
A Stone Gone Mad by Jacquelyn Holt Park
The Two Mujeres by Sara Levi Calderon
Hawkwings by Karen Lee Osborne
An Atlas of the Difficult World: Poems 1988-1991 by Adrienne Rich
The Road Before Us: 100 Gay Black Poets by Assoto Saint
Piece of My Heart: A Lesbian of Colour Anthology by Makeda Silvera
The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon by Tom Spanbauer
1991
Winner
Crime against Nature by Minnie Bruce Pratt
 
Honor
A Home at the End of the World: A Novel by Michael Cunningham
Music I Never Dreamed of by John Gilgun
A Place I've Never Been by David Leavitt
Out of Time by Paula Martinac
Landscape: Memory by Matthew Stadler
1990
Winner
Eighty-Sixed by David B Feinberg
 
Honor
In Memory of Angel Clare by Christopher Bram
A Place at the Table by Edith Konecky
Equal Affections by David Leavitt
In a Different Light: An Anthology of Lesbian Writers by Carolyn Weathers & Jenny Wrenn

Gay and Lesbian Book Award

Winners
1989
The Swimming-Pool Library by Alan Hollinghurst
After Delores by Sarah Schulman
 
1988
A Restricted Country by Joan Nestle
And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic by Randy Shilts
 
1987
The Spirit and the Flesh: Sexual Diversity in American Indian Culture by Walter Williams

Gay Book Award

Winners
​1986
Sex and Germs: The Politics of AIDS by Cindy Patton
 
1985
Another Mother Tongue: Gay Words, Gay Worlds by Judy Grahn
 
1984
Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities: The Making of a Homosexual Minority in the United States, 1940-1970 by John D'Emilio
 
1982
Surpassing the Love of Men: Romantic Friendship and Love Between Women from the Renaissance to the Present by Lillian Faderman
Black Lesbians: An Annotated Bibliography by JR Roberts
The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in the Movies by Vito Russo
 
1981
Christianity, Social Tolerance and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century by John Boswell
 
1980
Now the Volcano: An Anthology of Latin American Gay Literature by Winston Leyland
 
1979
Now That You Know: What Every Parent Should Know About Homosexuality by Betty Fairchild & Nancy Hayward
 
1978
Our Right to Love: A Lesbian Resource Book by Ginny Vida
 
1977
Familiar Faces, Hidden Lives: The Story of Homosexual Men in America Today by Howard Brown
 
1975
Homosexuality: Lesbians and Gay Men in Society, History, and Literature by Jonathan Ned Katz
 
1974
Sex Variant Women in Literature: A Historical and Quantitative Survey by Jeannette Howard Foster
 
1972
The Gay Mystique: The Myth and Reality of Male Homosexuality by Peter Fisher
Lesbian/Woman by Del Martin & Phyllis Lyon
 
1971
Patience and Sarah by Isabel Miller