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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
Victor Yates
Austin Bunn
Mark S. Luckie
Paul Brownsey
Ioannis Pappos
Meliza Bañales
James Driggers
Libby Ware
Dia Felix
Dan Lopez
Alden Jones
Elizabeth Earley
Bob Sennett
Abdi Nazemian
Vinton Rafe McCabe
Megan Milks
Abigail Tarttelin
Derek Palacio
Jane Hoppen
Charles L. Ross
Andrea Routley
My Brother’s Name: A Novel
Laura Krughoff
Prick Queasy
Ronald Palmer
Guy Mark Foster
Nik Nicholson
The Affairs of Others: A Novel
Amy Grace Loyd
Lania Knight
Mia McKenzie
William Sterling Walker
Jeanne Thornton
Carter Sickels
Lydia Perovic
E.J. Levy
Kristen Ringman
Lysley Tenorio
Alex Leslie
Garth Greenwell
Quarantine: Stories
Rahul Mehta
Justin Chin
Dirty One
Michael Graves
Have You Seen Me
Katherine Scott Nelson
Tom Mendicino
Chris Corkum
David Pratt
Tom Schabarum
Rob Stephenson
Rakesh Satyal
James Hannaham
Lance Reynald
Shaming the Devil: Collected Short Stories
G. Winston James

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