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