Stonewall Book Awards List

The first and most enduring award for LGBTQIA+ books is the Stonewall Book Awards, sponsored by the American Library Association's Rainbow Round Table. Since Isabel Miller's Patience and Sarah received the first award in 1971, many other books have been honored for exceptional merit relating to the LGBTQIA+ experience.

The Stonewall Book Award-Barbara Gittings Literature Award, the Stonewall Book Award-Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award and the Stonewall Book Award-Mike Morgan and Larry Romans Children’s and Young Adult Literature Award are presented to English language works published the year prior to the announcement date. The award is announced in January and presented to the winning authors or editors at the American Library Association Annual Conference in June or July.

Winners for: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998, 1997, 1996, 1995, 1994, 1993, 1992, 1991, 1990, 1989, 1988, 1987, 1986, 1985, 1984, 1983, 1982, 1981, 1980, 1979, 1978, 1977, 1976, 1975, 1974, 1973, 1972, 1971.

2024

Barbara Gittings Literature & POETRY Award

"Freedom House” by KB Brookins (Deep Vellum)

Israel Fishman Nonfiction Award

“Hijab Butch Blues” by Lamya H (The Dial Press)

Mike Morgan & Larry Romans Children’s & Young Adult Literature Award

  • “Cross My Heart and Never Lie” by Nora Dåsnes and translated by Matt Bagguley (Hippo Park, Astra Books)
  • “Only This Beautiful Moment” by Abdi Nazemian (Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins)

Stonewall Honor Books Literature

  • “More Sure” by A. Light Zachary (Arsenal Pulp Press)
  • “GHOST :: SEEDS” by Sebastian Merrill (Texas Review Press)
  • “Gay Poems for Red States”, by Willie Edward Taylor Carver Jr. (University Press of Kentucky)
  • "The Skin and Its Girl", by Sarah Cypher (Ballantine Books)

Stonewall Honor Books in Non-Fiction

  • “Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant” by Curtis Chin (Little, Brown, and Company)
  • “Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary” by Toshio Meronek and Miss Major Griffin-Gracy (Verso)
  • “Hi Honey, I'm Homo! Sitcoms, Specials, and the Queering of American Culture” by Matt Baume (Smart Pop)
  • "Glitter and Concrete: A Cultural History of Drag in New York City", by Elyssa Maxx Goodman (Hanover Square Press)

Stonewall Honor Books in Children’s and Young Adult Literature

  • “Desert Queen” by Jyoti Rajan Gopal, illustrated by Svabhu Kolhi (Levine Querido)
  • “Not He or She, I'm Me” by A.M. Wild, illustrated by Kah Yangni (Henry Holt and Co.)
  • “The Otherwoods”, by Justine Pucella Winans (Bloomsbury Children's Books)
  • “Stars in Their Eyes” by Jessica Walton, illustrated by Aśka (Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic)
  • “Ander & Santi Were Here” by Jonny Garza Villa (Wednesday Books, an imprint of St. Martin's Publishing)
  • “Imogen, Obviously” by Becky Albertalli (Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins)
  • “The Long Run” by James Acker (Inkyard Press)
  • “The Spirit Bares Its Teeth” by Andrew Joseph White (Peachtree Teen, an imprint of Peachtree Publishing)

2023

Barbara Gittings Literature Award

“The Other Mother” by Rachel M. Harper (Counterpoint Press)

Inaugural Barbara Gittings Literature Award for Poetry

“Revenge Body” by Rachel Wiley (Button Poetry)

Israel Fishman Nonfiction Award

  • “The Women’s House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison” by Hugh Ryan (Bold Type Books)
  • “Faltas: Letters to Everyone in My Hometown Who Isn’t My Rapist” by Cecilia Gentili (Little Puss Press)

Mike Morgan & Larry Romans Children’s & Young Adult Literature Award

  • “Love, Violet” by Charlotte Sullivan Wilde and illustrated by Charlene Chua (Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers, a Division of Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group)
  • “When the Angels Left the Old Country” by Sacha Lamb (Arthur A. Levine, an imprint of Levine Querido)

Stonewall Honor Books Literature

  • “Dead Collections” by Isaac Fellman (Penguin Books)
  • “Dominant Genes” by SJ Sindu (Black Lawrence Press)
  • “How to Identify Yourself with a Wound”, b KB Brookins (Kallisto Gaia Press)

Stonewall Honor Books in Non-Fiction

  • “Refusing Compulsory Sexuality: A Black Asexual Lens on Our Sex-Obsessed Culture” by Sherronda J. Brown (North Atlantic Books)
  • “High-Risk Homosexual: A Memoir” by Edgar Gomez (Soft Skull Press)
  • “Voice of the Fish: A Lyric Essay” by Lars Horn (Graywolf Press)

Stonewall Honor Books in Children’s and Young Adult Literature

  • “In the Key of Us” by Mariama J. Lockington (Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers, a Division of Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group)
  • “Kapaemahu” by Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu, Dean Hamer, and Joe Wilson, illustrated by Daniel Sousa (Kokila, an imprint of Penguin Random House)
  • “The Real Riley Mayes” written and illustrated by Rachel Elliott (Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, and HarperAlley, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers)
  • “Strong” by Rob Kearney and Eric Rosswood, illustrated by Nidhi Chanani (Little, Brown and Company, a division of Hachette Book Group, Inc.)
  • “I Kissed Shara Wheeler” by Casey McQuiston (Wednesday Books)
  • “Kings of B’More” by R. Eric Thomas (Kokila, an imprint of Penguin Random House)
  • “Man o’War” by Cory McCarthy (Dutton Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House)
  • “The Summer of Bitter and Sweet” by Jen Ferguson (Heartdrum, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers)

2022

Barbara Gittings Literature Award

"Sorrowland" by Rivers Solomon (MCDxFSG)

Israel Fishman Nonfiction Award

"Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir" by Akwaeke Emezi (Riverhead Books)

Mike Morgan & Larry Romans Children’s & Young Adult Literature Award

  • “Too Bright to See” by Kyle Lukoff (Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC)
  • “Last Night at the Telegraph Club” by Malinda Lo (Dutton Books, and imprint of Penguin Random House LLC)

Stonewall Honor Books in Literature

  • “Light From Uncommon Stars” by Ryka Aoki (Tor Books)
  • “Black Girl, Call Home” by Jasmine Mans (Berkley)
  • “Stone Fruit” by Lee Lai (Fantagraphic Books)
  • “A Psalm for the Wild-Built” by Becky Chambers (Tor Books)

Stonewall Honor Books in Non-Fiction

  • "Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes: And the Unwritten History of the Trans Experience" by Zoë Playdon (Scribner)
  • "A History of Scars" by Laura Lee (Atria Paperback)
  • "Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993" by Sarah Schulman (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux)
  • "Punch Me Up to the Gods: A Memoir by Brian Broome (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

Stonewall Honor Books in Children’s and Young Adult Literature

  • “Almost Flying,” written by Jake Maia Arlow (Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC)
  • The Darkness Outside Us,'' written by Eliot Schrefer (Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers)
  • “Grandad’s Camper,” illustrated and written by Harry Woodgate (Little Bee Books)

2021

Barbara Gittings Literature Award

"The Thirty Names of Night" by Zeyn Joukhadar (Atria Books)

Israel Fishman Nonfiction Award

"Queer Games Avant-Garde: How LGBTQ Game Makers are Reimagining the Medium of Video Games" by Bonnie Ruberg (they/them) (Duke University Press)

Mike Morgan & Larry Romans Children’s & Young Adult Literature Award

“We Are Little Feminists: Families” designed by Lindsey Blakely, written by Archaa Shrivastav (Little Feminist)

Stonewall Honor Books in Literature

  • “The Death of Vivek Oji” by Akwaeke Emezi, (Riverhead Books)
  • “Memorial” by Bryan Washington, (Riverhead Books)
  • “More Than Organs” by Kay Ulanday Barrett, (Sibling Rivalry Press)
  • “Postcolonial Love Poem” by Natalie Diaz, (Graywolf Press)

Stonewall Honor Books in Literature Shortlist

  • "Boys of Alabama" by Genevieve Hudson, (Liveright Publishing Corporation)
  • "Plain Bad Heroines: A Novel" by Emily M. Danforth & Sara Lautman, ( William Morrow and Company)
  • "The Pull of the Stars" by Emma Donoghue, (Little, Brown and Company)
  • "The Subtweet" by Vivek Shraya, ( ECW Press)
  • "Too Much Lip" by Melissa Lucashenko, (HarperVia)

Stonewall Honor Books in Non-Fiction

  • "My Autobiography of Carson McCullers" by Jenn Shapland, (Tin House Books)
  • "The Fixed Stars: A Memoir" by Molly Wizenberg, (Abrams Press, an imprint of ABRAMS)
  • "Paper Bullets" by Jeffrey H. Jackson, (Algonquin Books, a division of Workman Publishing)
  • "XOXY: A Memoir" by Kimberly M. Zieselman, (Jessica Kingsley Publishers)

Stonewall Honor Books in Children’s and Young Adult Literature

  • “Beetle & The Hollowbones,” illustrated and written by Aliza Layne (Atheneum Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing Division)
  • “Darius the Great Deserves Better,'' written by Adib Khorram (Dial Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC)
  • “Felix Ever After” written by Kacen Callender (Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers)
  • “You Should See Me in a Crown,” written by Leah Johnson (Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc.)

2020

Barbara Gittings Literature Award

Cantoras by Carolina De Robertis (Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of Penguin Random House); ISBN 9780525521693

Israel Fishman Nonfiction Award

How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir by Saeed Jones (Simon & Schuster); ISBN 9781501132735

Mike Morgan & Larry Romans Children’s & Young Adult Literature Award

  • When Aidan Became a Brother by Kyle Lukoff and illustrated by Kaylani Juanita (Lee & Low Books Inc.); ISBN 9781620148372
  • The Black Flamingo by Dean Atta with illustrations by Anshika Khullar (Hodder Children’s Books, an imprint of Hachette Children’s Group, part of Hodder and Stoughton); ISBN 9781444948592

Stonewall Honor Books in Literature

  • Lot: Stories by Bryan Washington (Riverhead Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House); ISBN 9780525533689
  • On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong (Penguin Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House); ISBN 9780525562023
  • Patsy by Nicole Dennis-Benn (Liveright, an imprint of W. W. Norton & Company); ISBN 9781631497896
  • War/Torn by Hasan Namir (Book*hug Press); ISBN 9781771664936

Stonewall Honor Books in Non-Fiction

  • Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe (Lion Forge, an imprint of Oni Press); ISBN 9781549304002
  • I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl’s Notes from the End of the World by Kai Cheng Thom (Arsenal Pulp Press); ISBN 9781551527758
  • In the Dream House: A Memoir by Carmen Maria Machado (Graywolf Press); ISBN 9781644450031
  • She/He/They/Me: For the Sisters, Misters, and Binary Resisters by Robyn Ryle (Sourcebooks); ISBN 9781492666943

Stonewall Honor Books in Children’s and Young Adult Literature

  • Pet by Akwaeke Emezi (Make Me a World, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC); ISBN 9780525647072
  • Like a Love Story by Abdi Nazemian (Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers); ISBN 9780062839367
  • The Best at It by Maulik Pancholy (Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers); ISBN 9780062866417

View the award speeches on ALA's Official Youtube Channel!

2019

Barbara Gittings Literature Award

The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai (Thorndike Prss); ISBN 9781432859701

Israel Fishman Nonfiction Award

Go the Way Your Blood Beats by Michael Amherst (London: Repeater Press); ISBN 9781910924716

Mike Morgan & Larry Romans Children’s & Young Adult Literature Award

  • Julian is a Mermaid by Jessica Love (London: Walker Books and Subsidiaries); ISBN 9781406386424
  • Hurricane Child by Kacen Callender (New York: Scholastic Press); ISBN 9781338129311

Stonewall Honor Books in Literature

  • Forward by Lisa Maas (Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press); ISBN 9781551527222
  • Luisa: Now and Then by Carole Maurel, adapted by Mariko Tamaki, translated from French by Nanette McGuinness (Los Angeles: Life Drawn); ISBN 9781594656439
  • Speak No Evil by Uzodinma Iweala (Harper); ISBN 9780719523908
  • White Houses by Amy Bloom (Random House); ISBN 9781783781744

Stonewall Honor Books in Non-Fiction

Stonewall Honor Books in Children’s and Young Adult Literature

2018

Barbara Gittings Literature Award

Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction and Fantasy from Transgender Writers edited by Cat Fitzpatrick and Casey Plett (New York: Topside Press); ISBN 9781627290180

Israel Fishman Nonfiction Award

Queer Threads: Crafting Identity and Community by John Chaich and Todd Oldham (Los Angeles: Ammo Books); ISBN 9781623261054

Mike Morgan & Larry Romans Children’s & Young Adult Literature Award

  • The 57 Bus by Dashka Slater (New York: Farrar Straus Giroux); ISBN 9780374303235
  • Little & Lion by Brandy Colbert (New York: Little, Brown and Company); ISBN 9780316349000

Stonewall Honor Books in Literature

Stonewall Honor Books in Non-Fiction

Stonewall Honor Books in Children’s and Young Adult Literature

2017

Barbara Gittings Literature Award

Desert Boys, by Chris McCormick (New York: Picador); ISBN: 9781250075505

Israel Fishman Nonfiction Award

How to Survive a Plague: The inside story of how citizens and science tamed AIDS, by David France (New York: Alfred A. Knopf); ISBN: 9780307700636

Mike Morgan & Larry Romans Children’s & Young Adult Literature Award

Stonewall Honor Books in Literature

  • Beautiful gravity: a novel, by Martin Hyatt (New York: ANTIBOOKCLUB); ISBN: 9780997592306
  • Dig, by Bryan Borland (Fairfax, Virginia: Stillhouse Press); ISBN: 9780990516989
  • Guapa, by Saleem Haddad (New York: Other Press); ISBN: 9781590517697
  • Hide: a novel, by Matthew Griffin (New York: Bloomsbury USA); ISBN: 9781632863386

Stonewall Honor Books in Non-Fiction

Stonewall Honor Books in Children’s and Young Adult Literature

2016

Barbara Gittings Literature Award

The Gods of Tango, by Carolina De Robertis (New York: Alfred A. Knopf); ISBN: 9781101874493

Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award

Speak Now: Marriage Equality on Trial, by Kenji Yoshino (New York: Crown Publishers); ISBN: 9780385348805

Mike Morgan and Larry Romans Children’s and Young Adult Literature Award

  • Children's Award: George by Alex Gino (New York: Scholastic Press); ISBN: 9780545812542
  • Young Adult Award: The Porcupine of Truth by Bill Konigsberg, (New York: Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc.); ISBN: 9780545648936

Stonewall Honor Books in Literature

  • Apocalypse Baby, by Virginie Despentes (New York: The Feminist Press at CUNY); ISBN: 9781558618916
  • For Your Own Good, by Leah Horlick (Halfmoon Bay, BC, Canada: Caitlin Press); ISBN: 9781927575673
  • Jam On The Vine, by LaShonda Katrice Barnett (New York: Grove Press); ISBN: 9780802123343
  • Lum: a novel, by Libby Ware (Berkeley, CA: She Writes Press); ISBN: 9781631520037

Stonewall Honor Books in Non-Fiction

Stonewall Honor Books in Children’s and Young Adult Literature

2015

Barbara Gittings Literature Award

Prelude to Bruise, by Saeed Jones (Minneapolis: Coffee House Press); ISBN: 9781566893749

Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award

Living Out Islam: Voices of Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Muslims, by Scott Siraj al-Haqq Kugle (New York: New York University Press); ISBN: 9781479894673

Mike Morgan and Larry Romans Children’s and Young Adult Literature Award

This Day in June, by Gayle E. Pitman (Washington, D.C.: Magination Press, an imprint of the American Psychological Association); ISBN: 9781433816581

Stonewall Honor Books in Literature

  • Bitter Eden, by Tatamkhulu Afrika (New York: Picador USA); ISBN: 9781250043665
  • Frog Music, by Emma Donoghue (New York: Little, Brown and Company); ISBN: 9780316324687
  • The Two Hotel Francforts, by David Leavitt (New York: Bloomsbury); ISBN: 9781596910423
  • My Real Children, by Jo Walton (New York: Tor Book); ISBN: 9780765332653

Stonewall Honor Books in Non-Fiction

Stonewall Honor Books in Children’s and Young Adult Literature

2014

Barbara Gittings Literature Award

Art on Fire, by Hilary Sloin (Ann Arbor, MI : Bywater Books); ISBN: 9781612940311

Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award

American Honor Killings: Desire and Rage Among Men, by David McConnell (New York : Akashic Books); ISBN: 9781617751325
Raising My Rainbow: Adventures in Raising a Fabulous, Gender Creative Son, by Lori Duron (New York: Broadway Books, an imprint of Crown Publishing, a division of Random House, Inc.); ISBN 9780770437725

Mike Morgan and Larry Romans Children’s and Young Adult Literature Award

Beautiful Music for Ugly Children, by Kirstin Cronn-Mills (Woodbury, MN: Flux, an imprint of Llewellyn Worldwide Ltd.); ISBN: 9780738732510
Fat Angie, by e.E. Charlton-Trujillo (Somerville, MA: Candlewick Press); ISBN: 9780763661199

Stonewall Honor Books in Literature

Stonewall Honor Books in Non-Fiction

Stonewall Honor Books in Children’s and Young Adult Literature

  • Better Nate Than Ever, by Tim Federle (New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing Division.); ISBN: 9781442446892
  • Branded by the Pink Triangle, by Ken Setterington (Toronto, Ont. : Second Story Press); ISBN: 9781926920962
  • Two Boys Kissing, by David Levithan (New York : Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books, a division of Random House Inc., New York.); ISBN: 9780307931900

2013

Barbara Gittings Literature Award

The Last Nude, by Ellis Avery (New York : Riverhead Trade); ISBN: 978-1594488139

Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award

Mike Morgan and Larry Romans Children’s and Young Adult Literature Award

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, by Benjamin Alire Saenz (New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers (an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division)); ISBN: 978-1442408920

Stonewall Honor Books in Literature

Stonewall Honor Books in Non-Fiction

Stonewall Honor Books in Children’s and Young Adult Literature

2012

Barbara Gittings Literature Award

Sweet Like Sugar, by Wayne Hoffman (New York : Kensington); ISBN: 978-0758265623

Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award

Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture, by Jonathan D. Katz and David C. Ward (Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Books); ISBN: 978-1588342997
and
A Queer History of the United States (Revisioning American History), by Michael Bronski (Boston, Mass. : Beacon Press); ISBN: 978-0807044391

The Mike Morgan and Larry Romans Children’s and Young Adult Literature Award

Putting Makeup on the Fat Boy, by Bil Wright (New York : Simon & Schuster BFYR (an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing Division)) ; ISBN: 978-1416939962

Stonewall Honor Books in Literature

Stonewall Honor Books in Non-Fiction

Stonewall Honor Books in Children’s and Young Adult Literature

  • Pink, by Lili Wilkinson (New York : HarperTeen (an imprint of HarperCollins)); ISBN: 9780061926532
  • With or Without You, by Brian Farrey (New York : Simon Pulse (an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing Division)); ISBN: 978-1442406995)
  • a + e 4ever, drawn and written by Ilike Merey (Maple Shade, N.J. : Lethe Press); ISBN: 978-1590213902
  • Money Boy, by Paul Yee (Toronto : Groundwood Books (an imprint of House of Anansi Press)); ISBN: 978-1554980949

2011

Barbara Gittings Literature Award

More of This World or Maybe Another by Barb Johnson, (Harper Perennial) ISBN: 978-0061732270

Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award

Inseparable: Desire between Women in Literature by Emma Donoghue, (Knopf) ISBN: 978-0307270948

Children’s and Young Adult Literature Award

Almost Perfect by Brian Katcher (Delacorte Press) ISBN: 978-0385736640

Stonewall Honor Books in Literature

Stonewall Honor Books in Non-Fiction

Stonewall Honor Books in Children and Young Adult Literature

2010

Barbara Gittings Literature Award

Stray Dog Winter: A Novel by David Francis, (MacAdam/Cage) ISBN: 9781596923157

Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award

Unfriendly Fire: How the Gay Ban Undermines the Military and Weakens America by Nathaniel Frank, (St. Martin's Press) ISBN: 9780312373481

Children’s and Young Adult Literature Award

The Vast Fields of Ordinary by Nick Burd, (Penguin Group) ISBN: 9780803733404

Stonewall Honor Books in Literature

  • God Says No by James Hannaham, (McSweeney's) ISBN: 9781934781401
  • Beauty Salon by Mario Bellatin, (City Lights Publishers) ISBN: 9780872864733

Stonewall Honor Books in Non-Fiction

Stonewall Honor Books in Children and Young Adult Literature

2009

Barbara Gittings Literature Award

Light Fell by Evan Fallenberg, (Soho Press) ISBN: 9781569474679

Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award

Dishonorable Passions: Sodomy Laws in America, 1861-2003 by William N. Eskridge, Jr., (Viking) ISBN: 9780670018628

Stonewall Honor Books in Literature

Stonewall Honor Books in Non-Fiction

2008

Barbara Gittings Literature Award

The Teahouse Fire by Ellis Avery, (Riverhead Books) ISBN: 9781594489303

Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award

Dog Years: A Memoir by Mark Doty, (HarperCollins) ISBN: 9780061171000

Stonewall Honor Books in Literature

  • Bow Grip by Ivan E. Coyote, (Arsenal Pulp Press) ISBN: 9781551522135
  • Dark Reflections by Samuel R. Delany, (Carroll & Graf Publishers) ISBN: 9780786719471
  • The Indian Clerk: A Novel by David Leavitt, (Bloomsbury; Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck Publishers) ISBN: 9781596910416
  • The IHOP Papers by Ali Liebegott, (Carroll & Graf Publishers) ISBN: 9780786717941

Stonewall Honor Books in Non-Fiction

2007

Barbara Gittings Literature Award

Grief by Andrew Holleran, (Hyperion) ISBN: 9781401302504

Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award

Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel, (Houghton Mifflin) ISBN: 9780618477944

Stonewall Honor Books in Literature

Stonewall Honor Books in Non-Fiction

2006

Barbara Gittings Literature Award

Babyji: a novel by Abha Dawesar, (Anchor Books) ISBN: 9781400034567

Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award

The fabulous Sylvester: the legend, the music, the seventies in San Francisco by Joshua Gamson, (H. Holt) ISBN: 9780805072501

Stonewall Honor Books in Literature

Stonewall Honor Books in Non-Fiction

2005

Barbara Gittings Literature Award

The Master: A Novel by Colm Tóibín, (Scribner) ISBN: 9780743250405

Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award

Evolution's Rainbow: Diversity, Gender, and Sexuality in Nature and in People by Joan Roughgarden, (University of California Press) ISBN: 9780520240735

Stonewall Honor Books in Literature

Stonewall Honor Books in Non-Fiction

2004

Barbara Gittings Literature Award

The Book of Salt by Monique Truong, (Houghton Mifflin Company) ISBN: 9780618304004

Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award

Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin by John D'Emilio, (Free Press) ISBN: 9780684827803

Stonewall Honor Books in Literature

Stonewall Honor Books in Non-Fiction

2003

Barbara Gittings Literature Award

Letters to Montgomery Clift: a Novel by Noel Alumit, (MacAdam/Cage Pub) ISBN: 1931561028

Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award

How Sex Changed: a History of Transsexuality in the United States by Joanne Meyerowitz, ( Harvard University Press) ISBN: 0674009258

Stonewall Honor Books in Literature

Stonewall Honor Books in Non-Fiction

2002

Barbara Gittings Literature Award

The Laramie Project by Moisés Kaufman and the Tectonic Theatre Project, (Vintage Books) ISBN 0375727191

Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award

The Scarlet Professor: Newton Arvin, a Literary Life Shattered by Scandal by Barry Werth, (Nan A. Talese) ISBN 0385494688

Stonewall Honor Books in Literature

Stonewall Honor Books in Non-Fiction

2001

Literature Award

Affinity by Sarah Waters, (Riverhead Books) ISBN 1573221562

Non-Fiction Award

Gaylaw: Challenging the Apartheid of the Closet by William N. Eskridge, (Harvard University Press) ISBN 0674341619

Stonewall Honor Books in Literature

Stonewall Honor Books in Non-Fiction

2000

Literature Award

Po Man's Child: A Novel by Marci Blackman, (Manic D Press) ISBN 0916397599

Non-Fiction Award

My Lesbian Husband: Landscape of a Marriage by Barrie Jean Borich, (Greywolf Press) ISBN 1555972926

Stonewall Literature Finalists

Stonewall Non-Fiction Finalists

1999

Literature Award

The Hours by Michael Cunningham, (Farrar, Strauss, Giroux) ISBN 0374172897

Non-Fiction Award

Stagestruck: Theater, AIDS, and the Marketing of Gay America by Sarah Schulman, (Duke University Press) ISBN 0822321327; ISBN 0822322641

Stonewall Literature Finalists

Stonewall Non-Fiction Finalists

1998

Literature Award

Working Parts: A Novel by Lucy Jane Bledsoe, (Seal Press) ISBN 187806794X

Non-Fiction Award

The Shared Heart: Portraits and Stories Celebrating Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Young People by Adam Mastoon, (William Morrow and Co./Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books) ISBN 0688149316

Stonewall Literature Finalists

Stonewall Non-Fiction Finalists

1997

Literature Award

Hood by Emma Donoghue, (HarperCollins) ISBN 0060171103

Non-Fiction Award

Geography of the Heart: A Memoir by Fenton Johnson, (Scribner) ISBN 068481417X

Stonewall Literature Finalists

Stonewall Non-Fiction Finalists

1996

Literature Award

Dream Boy by Jim Grimsley, (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill) ISBN 1565121066

Non-Fiction Award

Virtual Equality: The Mainstreaming of Gay and Lesbian Liberation by Urvashi Vaid, (Anchor Books) ISBN 0385472986

Stonewall Literature Finalists

Stonewall Non-Fiction Finalists

1995

Literature Award

Am I Blue?: Coming Out from the Silence edited by Marion Dane Bauer, (HarperCollins) ISBN 0060242531; ISBN 006024254X

Non-Fiction Award

Skin: Talking About Sex, Class & Literature Dorothy Allison, (Firebrand Books) ISBN 1563410451; ISBN 1563410443

Uncommon Heroes: A Celebration of Heroes and Role Models for Gay and Lesbian Americans by Phillip Sherman and Samuel Bernstein, (Fletcher Press) ISBN 0964177900

Stonewall Literature Finalists

Stonewall Non-Fiction Finalists

1994

Literature Award

Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg,(Firebrand Books) ISBN 156341029X

Non-Fiction Award

Family Values: Two Moms and Their Son by Phyllis Burke, (Random House) ISBN 0679421882

Stonewall Literature Finalists

Stonewall Non-Fiction Finalists

1993

Literature Award

Ceremonies: Prose and Poetry by Essex Hemphill, (Plume) ISBN 0452268176

Non-Fiction Award

Making History: The Struggle for Gay and Lesbian Equal Rights, 1945-1990 by Eric Marcus, (HarperCollins) ISBN 0060167084

Stonewall Literature Finalists

Stonewall Non-Fiction Finalists

1992

Literature Award

Halfway Home by Paul Monette, (Crown) ISBN 0517583291

Non-Fiction Award

Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth Century America by Lillian Faderman, (Columbia University Press) ISBN 0231074883

Stonewall Literature Finalists

Stonewall Non-Fiction Finalists

1991

Literature Award

Crime against Nature by Minnie Bruce Pratt, (Firebrand Books) ISBN 0932379729

Non-Fiction Award

Encyclopedia of Homosexuality edited by Wayne Dynes, (Garland) ISBN 0824065441

Stonewall Literature Finalists

Stonewall Non-Fiction Finalists

1990

Literature Award

Eighty-Sixed by David B. Feinberg, (Viking) ISBN 0670823155

Non-Fiction Award

In Search of Gay America: Women and Men in a Time of Change by Neil Miller, (Atlantic Monthly Press) ISBN 0871133040

Stonewall Literature Finalists

Stonewall Non-Fiction Finalists

1989

The Swimming-Pool Library by Andrew Hollinghurst, (Random House) ISBN 0394570251

After Delores by Sarah Schulman, (Dutton) ISBN 052524641X

1988

A Restricted Country by Joan Nestle, (Firebrand Books) ISBN 0932379370

And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic by Randy Shilts, (St. Martin's Press) ISBN 0312009941

1987

The Spirit and the Flesh: Sexual Diversity in American Indian Culture by Walter Williams, (Beacon Press) ISBN 0807046027

1986

Sex and Germs: The Politics of AIDS by Cindy Patton, (South End Press) ISBN 0896082598

1985

Another Mother Tongue: Gay Words, Gay Worlds by Judy Grahn, (Beacon Press) ISBN 0807067164

1984

Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities: The Making of a Homosexual Minority in the United States, 1940-1970 by John D'Emilio, (University of Chicago Press) ISBN 02226142655

1983

No award given.

1982

Surpassing the Love of Men: Romantic Friendship and Love Between Women from the Renaissance to the Present by Lillian Faderman, (Morrow) ISBN 0688003966

Black Lesbians: An Annotated Bibliography by J.R. Roberts, (Naiad Press) ISBN 0930044215

The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in the Movies by Vito Russo, (Harper & Row) ISBN 0060908718

1981

The Cancer Journals by Audre Lorde, (Spinsters, Ink) ISBN 0933216033

Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century by John Boswell, (University of Chicago Press) ISBN 0226067106

1980

Now the Volcano: An Anthology of Latin American Gay Literature edited by Winston Leyland, (Gay Sunshine Press) ISBN 0917342674

1979

Now That You Know: What Every Parent Should Know About Homosexuality by Betty Fairchild and Nancy Hayward, (Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich) ISBN 0151677077

1978

Our Right to Love: A Lesbian Resource Book edited by Ginny Vida, (Prentice-Hall) ISBN 0136444016

1977

Familiar Faces, Hidden Lives: The Story of Homosexual Men in America Today by Howard Brown, (Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich) ISBN 0156301202

1976

No award given.

1975

Homosexuality: Lesbians and Gay Men in Society, History, and Literature edited by Jonathan Katz, (Arno Press) [Series of historically significant reprints]

Series Title: Homosexuality: Lesbians and Gay Men in Society, History, and Literature

1974

Sex Variant Women in Literature: A Historical and Quantitative Survey by Jeannette Foster, (Vantage Press)

1973

No award given.

1972

The Gay Mystique: The Myth and Reality of Male Homosexuality by Peter Fisher, (Stein & Day) ISBN 0812814312

Lesbian/Woman by Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon (Glide Publications) ISBN: 9780912078205

1971

A Place for Us by Isabel Miller, (published in October, 1971 by McGraw Hill as Patience and Sarah ) ISBN: 9780070420359