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Article in categories Diversity and Award Winners

Founded in 1989, the Lambda Literary Awards are given each year to a variety of books of literary merit that include gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender themes. The categories for award-winners are split by audience, genre, and the subdivision of the LGBT acronym predominantly depicted in the work.

This list is not comprehensive; only the titles held by JMRL are given. The entire list may be browsed here.

Gay General Fiction

• After the Blue Hour: A True Fiction by John Rechy (2018)

• Angel of History by Rabih Alameddine (2017)

• God in Pink by Hasan Namir (2016)

• Mundo Cruel: Stories by Luis Negron, translated by Suzanne Jill Levine (2014)

• The Empty Family: Stories by Colm Tóibín (2012)

• Union Atlantic: A Novel by Adam Haslett (2011)

• Call Me by Your Name by André Aciman (2008)

• The Master: A Novel by Colm Tóibín (2005)

• Lives of the Circus Animals: A Novel by Christopher Bram (2004)

• At Swim, Two Boys by Jamie O'Neill (2003)

• The Practical Heart by Allan Gurganus (2002)

• Funny Boy: A Novel by Shyam Selvadurai (1997)

• Flesh and Blood by Michael Cunningham (1996)

• Living Upstairs by Joseph Hansen (1994)

• The Beautiful Room is Empty by Edmund White (1989)

Lesbian General Fiction

• Her Body and other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado (2018)

• Here Comes the Sun by Nicole Dennis-Benn (2017)

• Under the Udla Trees by Chinelo Okparanta (2016)

• Happiness, Like Water: Stories by Chinelo Okparanta (2014)

• The World We Found: A Novel by Thrity Umrigar (2013)

• The Sealed Letter by Emma Donoghue (2009)

• The Night Watch by Sarah Waters (2007)

• Fingersmith by Sarah Waters (2003)

• Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters (2000)

• Cavedweller by Dorothy Allison (1999)

LGBT Debut Fiction

• The Summer We Got Free by Mia McKenzie (2013)

Gay Men's Debut Fiction

• The Irreversible Decline of Eddie Socket: A Novel by John Weir (1990)

• The Swimming-Pool Library by Alan Hollinghurst (1989) (sound recording only)

Lesbian Debut Fiction

• Among Other Things, I've Taken up Smoking by Aoibheann Sweeney (2008)

• The Teahouse Fire by Ellis Avery (2007)

Bisexual Fiction

• Marrow Island by Alexis M. Smith (2017)

• The Life and Death of Sophie Stark by Anna North (2016)

• My Education by Susan Choi (2014)

• In One Person by John Irving (2013)

• Split Screen by Brent Hartinger (2008)

Bisexual Nonfiction

• Hunger by Roxane Gay (2018)

• Black Dove: Mama, Mi’jo, and Me by Ana Castillo (2017)

• Irrepressible: The Jazz Age Life of Henrietta Bingham by Emily Bingham (2016)

• Fire Shut up in my Bones by Charles Blow (2015)

Transgender/Genderqueer

• She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders by Jennifer Finney Boylan (2004)

• The Danish Girl by David Ebershoff (2001)

LGBT Nonfiction

• How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (2018)

• How to Survive a Plague by David France (2017)

• Hold Tight Gently: Michael Callen, Essex Hemphill, and the Battlefield of AIDS by Martin Duberman (2015)

• White Girls by Hilton Als (2014)

Gay Poetry

• Reconnaissance by Carl Phillips (2016)

• Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems by Mark Doty (2009)

• My Alexandria by Mark Doty (1994)

Lesbian Poetry

• Directed by Desire: The Collected Poems of June Jordan, edited by Jan Heller Levi and Sara Miles (2006)

LGBT Graphic Novel

• My Favorite Thing is Monsters by Emil Ferris (2018)

• An Atlas of the Difficult World: Poems, 1988-1991 by Adrienne Rich (1992)

LGBT Childrens/YA

• Like Water by Rebecca Podos (2018)

• Girl Mans Up by M.E. Girard (2017)

• George by Alex Gino (2016)

• If You Could Be Mine by Sara Farizan (2014)

• Two Boys Kissing by David Levithan (2014)

• Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sàenz (2013)

• Putting Makeup on the Fat Boy by Bil Wright (2012)

• Wildthorn by Jane Eagland (2010)

• Out of the Pocket by Bill Konigsberg (2009)

• Full Spectrum edited by David Levithan and Billy Merrell (2007)

• So Hard to Say by Alex Sanchez (2005)

• Boy Meets Boy by David Levithan (2004)

• Hard Love by Ellen Wittlinger (2000)

• The House You Pass on the Way by Jacqueline Woodson (1998)

• From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun by Jacqueline Woodson (1996)

• Losing Uncle Tim by MaryKate Jordan (1990)

Gay Memoir/Biography

• When We Rise by Cleve Jones (2017)

• Prince of Los Cocuyos by Richard Blanco (2015)

• Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh by John Lahr (2015)

• Ardent Spirits: Leaving Home, Coming Back by Reynolds Price (2010)

• Mississippi Sissy by Kevin Sessums (2008)

• Tom: The Unknown Tennessee Williams by Lyle Leverich (1996)

• My Own Country: A Doctor's Story by Abraham Verghese (1995)

Gay Men's Small Press Book Award

• Daddy's Roommate by Michael Willhoite (1991)

Lesbian Memoir/Biography

• The Fact of a Body: a Murder and Memoir by Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich (2018)

• Objects in Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear by Kate Carroll de Gutes (2016)

• Body Geographic by Barrie Jean Borich (2014)

• Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson (2013)

• Fun home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel (2007)

• Name All the Animals: A Memoir by Alison Smith (2005)

• Life in a Day by Doris Grumbach (1997)

Gay Mystery

• Blind Eye by John Morgan Wilson (2004)

• Justice at Risk: A Benjamin Justice Mystery by John Morgan Wilson (2000)

• Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: a Savannah Story by John Berendt (1995)

• Catilina's Riddle by Steven Saylor (1994)

Lesbian Mystery

• The Old Deep and Dark by Ellen Hart (2015)

• Fever of the Bone by Val McDermid (2011) (audio CD only)

• The Art of Detection by Laurie R. King (2007)

• The Blue Place by Nicola Griffith (1999)

LGBT Fiction Anthology

• Columbia Anthology of Gay Literature edited by Byrne R.S. Fone (1999)

LGBT Drama

• Angels in America by Tony Kushner (1994/5)

LGBT Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror

• Autonomous by Annalee Newitz (2018)

• The Devourers by Indra Das (2017)

• The Gracekeepers by Kirsty Logan (2016)

• Galilee by Clive Barker (1999)

• Slow River by Nicola Griffith (1996)

• The Fifth Sacred Thing by Starhawk (1994)

LGBT Studies

• Time on Two Crosses: The Collected Writings of Bayard Rustin, edited by Devon W. Carbado and Donald Weise (2004)

• Conduct Unbecoming: Lesbians and Gays in the U.S. Military: Vietnam to the Persian Gulf by Randy Shilts (1994)

Biography

• February House by Sherill Tippins (2006)

• Warrior Poet: A Biography of Audre Lorde by Alexis De Veaux (2005)

Humor

• Don't Get Too Comfortable by David Rakoff (2006)

• Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris (2005)

• Fraud by David Rakoff (2002)

• Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris (2001)

• Putting on the Ritz by Joe Keenan (1992)

Spirituality

• Keeping Faith: A Skeptic's Journey by Fenton Johnson (2004)

• Gifted by Otherness: Gay and Lesbian Christians in the Church by Louis William Countryman (2002)

Autobiography/Memoir

• Noonday Demon by Andrew Solomon (2002)

Lesbian Studies

• To Believe in Women: What Lesbians Have Done for America - A History by Lillian Faderman

Lesbian Nonfiction

• Eleanor Roosevelt by Blanche Cooke (1993)