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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
Donald Albrecht with Stephen Vider
Dayna Ingram
Cathleen Schine
Stacy Szymaszek
Julie R. Enszer (editor)
Andrea Bramhall
T.L. Hart
Lee Winter
Tig Notaro
Etel Adnan
Gloria Joseph, PhD
Jessie Chandler
Jessica L. Webb
francine j. harris
Joanne Passet
Lynn Ames
Donika Kelly
Cheryl A. Head
Christina Crosby
Jennifer L. Jordan
Ma-Nee Chacaby
Stephanie Adams-Santos
Lynda A. Archer
Lisa Henry
Alexis Hall
Richard Compson Sater
Rajiv Mohabir
P. Kristen Enos with Heidi Ho; Derek Chua, Leesamarie Croal, Casandra Grullon, Beth Varni, and Dan Parent (illustrators)
Jeff Mann
Derrick Austin
Jamie Deacon
Ed Luce
Marshall Thornton
Pene Henson
MB Caschetta
Lucy Jane Bledsoe
Kathy Anderson
Jacqueline Woodson
Garrett Leigh
Lynn C. Miller
Eric Liberge and Arnaud Delalande, David Homel (translator)
Nicole Dennis-Benn
Augusten Burroughs
Dal Maclean
Bryan Borland
Ocean Vuong
L. A. Fields
Aaron Smith
Michael Nava
J. Aaron Sanders

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