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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.

Publication Year
Category
Book Title
Author Name
Publisher
Award Status
Tommy Pico
Audra North
Matthew Lansburgh
Édouard Louis
Marshall Thornton
Marshall Thornton
Joan Dempsey
Sacchi Green
John Rechy
Nnanna Ikpo
Parvez Sharma
Ahmad Danny Ramadan
Victor Corona
Jonathan Alexander
Andrew Sean Greer
Alan Bennett
Kate Sherwood
John Boyne
Kenny Fries
Chiké Frankie Edozien
José Antonio Rodríguez
Monica Meneghetti
April Daniels
Christina Lauren
Roxane Gay
Kay Haring, Robert Neubecker (illustrator)
Tom MacRae, Jonathan Butterell & Dan Gillespie Sells
Audrey Cefaly
Scott C. Sickles
Julene Tripp Weaver
Nina Packebush
Paula Vogel
Steve Berman
L.A. Witt
Sarah Dooley
Siri Caldwell
D.L. King
Trey Anthony
Rebecca Podos
Will Kostakis
Martin Wilson
Samuel Peterson
Makhosazana Xaba & Karen Martin
J.E. Sumerau
Zoey Leigh Peterson
Andrea Lawlor
Georgette Gouveia
Barbara Browning
Charlie Craggs

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