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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
Kokumo
Juliana Delgado Lopera
Joamette Gil
Jai Arun Ravine
Barbara Browning
Andrea Lawlor
Avi Ben-Zeev and Pete Bailey
Charlie Craggs
Chase Joynt and Mike Hoolbloom
J.E. Sumerau
Candace Walsh & Barbara Straus Lodge
Cat Fitzpatrick & Casey Plett (editors)
Michael Thomas Ford, Staven Andersen (illustrator)
Andrea Hairston
jia qing wilson-yang
Sassafras Lowrey
Ras Mashramani, Rasheedah Phillips, Alex Smith, and M. Eighteen Téllez
Jonathan Goldberg
Jennifer Tyburczy
Qwo-Li Driskill
Gregory Woods
Julia Serano
Omar G. Encarnación
A.C. Wise
Lei Ming
Meredith Russo
David Lennon
Andrew J. Jolivette
Morgan Mann Willis
Timothy Stewart-Winter
Kai Cheng Thom
Kevin Mumford
Susan Wittig Albert
Karma Kingsley
Lila Bruce
Marianne K. Martin
Kiki Archer
Yoshiyuki Ly
Barbara Ann Wright
Rachel Spangler
Ariel Goldberg
Indra Das
Arisa White
Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Dayna Ingram
David Greven
Vi Khi Nao
Donald Albrecht with Stephen Vider

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