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Lambda Literary Awards Finalists & Winners

For over 30 years, the Lambda Literary Awards have recognized the best LGBTQ books published in a given year across dozens of categories.

Below is a directory of all previous Lammy finalists and winners dating back to 1988. You can search by a title or author, and filter by the drop-down fields.

Note that each year’s Lambda Literary Awards celebrates books published between January 1 and December 31 of the previous year. For example, books from the 2020 Lammys will show a publication year of 2019 in this table.

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Publication Year
Category
Book Title
Author Name
Publisher
Award Status
Cassell’s Encyclopedia of Queer Myth, Symbol, and Spirit
Randy P. Conner (editor)
The Essential Gay Mystics
Andrew Harvey
Queer Dharma: Voices of Gay Buddhists
Winston Leyland (editor)
Bruce Bawer
PoMoSexuals: Challenging Assumptions about Gender and Sexuality
Carol Queen and Lawrence Schimel (editors)
Daphne Scholinski and Jane Meredith Adams
Grave Passions
William Mann (editor)
Read My Lips: Sexual Subversions and the End of Gender
Riki Anne Wilchins
The Harvest
Perry Brass
Sex Changes
Pat Califia
Harry M. Benshoff (editor)
Annick Prieur
The Drag Queen of Elfland
Lawrence Schimel (editor)
Does Your Mama Know?
Lisa C. Moore (editor)
Elana Dykewomon
Barbie Unbound
Sarah Strohmeyer
Justin Chinn
Toward the New Degeneracy
Bruce Benderson
Rebecca Alpert
Naked Men: Pioneering Male Nudes 1935-1955
David Leddick
Particular Voices: Portraits of Gay and Lesbian Writers
Robert Giard
Katherine V. Forrest
John Waters: Director’s Cut
John Waters
No Daughter of the South
Cynthia Webb
I Am My Lover: Women Pleasure Themselves
Joani Blank (editor)
Carole laFavor
Men Together
Anderson Jones, David Fields (photographs)
Old Black Magic
Jaye Maiman
Bending the Landscape
Nicola Griffith and Stephen Pagel (editors)
Cold River
Joan Larkin
School of Fish
Eileen Myles
Diesel Fuel
Pat Califia (editor)
Poems Between Women
Emma Donoghue (editor)
Queer Dog: Homo/Pup/Poetry
Gerry Gomez Pearlberg (editor)
Does Your Mama Know?
Lisa C. Moore (editor)
Every Woman I’ve Ever Loved: Lesbian Writers on Their Mothers
Catherine Reid and Holly Iglesias (editors)
Diana Souhami
Queerly Classed
Susan K. Raffo (editor)
Arlene Stein
Life Outside – The Signorile Report on Gay Men
Michelangelo Signorile
Blanche McCrary Boyd
Sexual Ecology: AIDS and the Destiny of Gay Man
Gabriel Rotello
Father Forgive Me
Randye Lordon
Bob Smith
Barbie Unbound
Sarah Strohmeyer
Hot, Throbbing Dykes to Watch Out For
Alison Bechdel
David Sedaris
Erika Lopez
Barbara Wilson
Kim Chernin

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