Lambda Awards (1989-2006)

Annual awards for excellence in gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered literature

Click on the title to read a short summary of the book, and to place a hold.

The number in parentheses after each book is the year in which it was awarded the Lambda Award.

Babyji by Abha Dawesar (2006)

Choir Boy by Charlie Anders (2006)

Crush by Richard Siken (2006)

Daughters of an Emerald Dusk by Katherine V. Forrest (2006)

Desert Blood: The Juarez Murders by Alicia Gaspar de Alba (2006)

Directed by Desire: The Collected Poems of June Jordan by June Jordan (2006)

Don't Get Too Comfortable: The Indignities of Coach Class, the Torments of Low Thread Count, the Never-Ending Quest for Artisanal Olive Oil, and Other First World Problems by David Rakoff (2006)

February House by Sherill Tippins (2006)

Freedom in This Village: Twenty-Five Years of Black Gay Men's Writing by E. Lynn Harris (2006)

One of These Things Is Not Like the Other by D. Travers Scott (2006)

Qu(e)erying Evangelism: Growing a Community from the Outside In by Cheri Dinovo (2006)

Stolen Moments: Erotic Interludes 2 by Radclyffe (2006)

Swimming in the Monsoon Sea by Shyam Selvadurai (2006)

The Beautifully Worthless by Ali Liebegott (2006)

The Sluts by Dennis Cooper (2006)

The Tricky Part: One Boy's Fall from Trespass into Grace by Martin Moran (2006)

When Heroes Love: The Ambiguity of Eros in the Stories of Gilgamesh and David by Susan Ackerman (2006)

Wild Dogs: A Novel by Helen Humphreys (2006)

Words to Our Now: Imagination and Dissent by Thomas Glave (2006)

You Are Not the One by Vestal McIntyre (2006)

Clay's Way by Blair Mastbaum (2005)

Cry Baby Butch by Judith Frank (2005)

The Master by Colm Tóibín (2005)

A Seahorse Year by Stacey D'Erasmo (2005)

Hancock Park by Katherine V. Forrest (2005)

Flight of Aquavit by Anthony Bidulka (2005)

Name All the Animals by Alison Smith (2005)

Warrior Poet: A Biography of Audre Lorde by Alexis De Veaux (2005)

So Hard to Say by Alex Sanchez (2005)

Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris (2005)

The Ordinary by Jim Grimsley (2005)

The Gender Frontier by Mariette Pathy Allen (2005)

Southland by Nina Revoyr (2004)

Lives of the Circus Animals by Christopher Bram (2004)

Damn Straight by Elizabeth Sims (2004)

Blind Eye by John Morgan Wilson (2004)

Naked in the Promised Land by Lillian Faderman (2004)

Beautiful Shadow by Andrew Wilson (2004)

Boy Meets Boy by David Levithan (2004)

Dykes and Sundry Other Carbon-Based Life-Forms to Watch Out For by Alison Bechdel (2004)

Necrologue by Helen Sandler (2004)

She's Not There by Jennifer Finney (2004)

At Swim, Two Boys by Jamie O’Neill (2003)

Fingersmith by Sarah Waters (2003)

The Snow Garden by Christopher Rice (2003)

Good Bad Woman by Elizabeth Woodcraft (2003)

Immaculate Midnight by Ellen Hart (2003)

Surviving Madness by Betty Berzon (2003)

Ridiculous! by David Kaufman (2003)

Letters in the Attic by Bonnie Shimko (2003)

Skipping Towards Gomorrah by Dan Savage (2003)

Dress Codes by Noelle Howey (2003)

Days of Awe by Achy Obejas (2002)

The Practical Heart by Allan Gurganus (2002)

Conversaciones! by Mariana Romo-Carmona (2002)

Point of Dreams by Melissa Scott and Lisa A. Barnett (2002)

Fraud by David Rakoff (2002)

Finding H.F. by Julia Watts (2002)

Noonday Demon by Andrew Solomon (2002)

Omnigender: A Trans-religious Approach by Virginia Ramey Mollenkott (2002)

Valencia by Michelle Tea (2001)

The World of Normal Boys by K. M. Soehnlein (2001)

Mommy Deadest by Jean Marcy (2001)

The Limits of Justice by John Morgan (2001)

The Danish Girl by David Ebershoff (2001)

Kirith Kirin by Jim Grimsley (2001)

Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters (2000)

Allan Stein by Matthew Stadler (2000)

Hunting the Witch by Ellen Hart (2000)

Justice at Risk by John Morgan Wilson (2000)

The Trials of Radclyffe Hall by Diana Souhami (2000)

The Velveteen Father by Jesse Green (2000)

Minions of the Moon by Richard Bowe (2000)

Trumpet by Jackie Kay (2000)

Cavedweller by Dorothy Allison (1999)

An Arrow's Flight by Mark Merlis (1999)

The Blue Place by Nicola Griffith (1999)

Outburst by R. D. Zimmerman (1999)

Wisecracker by William J. Mann (1999)

The Empress Is a Man by Michael R. Gorman (1999)

Beyond the Pale by Elana Dykewomon (1998)

The Far Euphrates by Aryeh Lev Stollman (1998)

Father Forgive Me by Randye Lordon (1998)

The Magician's Tale by David Hunt (1998)

Blue Windows: a Christian Science Childhood by Barbara Wilson (1998)

The Poetry of Healing by Rafael Campo (1998)

Memory Mambo by Achy Obejas (1997)

Funny Boy by Shyam Selvadurai (1997)

What the Body Told by Rafael Campo (1997)

Robber's Wine by Ellen Hart (1997)

Geography of the Heart by Fenton Johnson (1997)

Sacrament by Clive Barker (1997)

Body Alchemy: Transsexual Portraits by Nancy Garden (1997)

The Life in Day by Doris Grumbach (1997)

Flesh and Blood by Michael Cunningham (1996)

Autobiography of a Family Photo by Jacqueline Woodson (1996)

The Intersection of Law and Desire by J.M. Redmann (1996)

Shadow Man by Melissa Scott (1996)

Slow River by Nicola Griffith (1996)

Tom: The Unknown Tennesse Williams by Lyle Leverich (1996)

Aimee and Jaguar by Erica Fischer (1996)

Folding Star by Alan Hollinghurst (1995)

The Gifts of the Body by Rebecca Brown (1995)

Living Upstairs by Joseph Hansen (1994)

Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson (1994)

Marguerite Yourcenar by Josyane Savigneau (1994)

Genet by Edmund White (1994)

Divine Victim by Mary Wings (1994)

The Fifth Sacred Thing by Starhawk (1994)

Let the Dead Bury Their Dead by Randall Kenan (1993)

Running Fiercely Toward a High Thin Sound by Judith Katz (1993)

The Hidden Law by Michael Nava (1993)

Ammonite by Nicola Griffith (1993)

China Mountain Zhang by Maureen F. McHugh (1993)

The Gilda Stories by Jewelle Gomez (1992)

Revolution of Little Girls by Blanche Boyd (1992)

The Dark Beyond the Stars by Frank M. Robinson (1992)

Murder by Tradition by Katherine V. Forrest (1992)

Country of Old Men: The Last Dave Brandstetter Mystery by Joseph Hansen (1992)

The Zuni Man-Woman by Will Roscoe (1992)

Cancer in Two Voices by Sandra Butler and Barbara Rosenblum (1992)

Gossamer Axe by Gael Baudino (1991)

Gaudi Afternoon by Barbara Wilson (1991)

Ninth Life by Lauren Wright Douglas (1991)

Magic's Prince by Mercedes Lackey (1991)

Secret Matter by Toby Johnson (1991)

How Town by Michael Nava (1991)

Coming Out Under Fire by Allan Berube (1991)

The Safe Sea of Women by Bonnie Zimmerman (1991)

The Body and Its Dangers and Other Stories by Allen Barnett (1991)

The Beverly Malibu by KatherineV. Forrest (1990)

A Simple Suburban Murder by Mark Zubro (1990)

Reports from the Holocaust by Larry Kramer (1990)

In Search of Gay America by Neil Miller (1990)

Somewhere in the Night by Jeffrey N. McMahan (1990)

Eighty-Sixed by David B. Feinberg (1990)

The Bar Stories by Nisa Donnelly (1990)

The Irreversible Decline of Eddie Socket by John Weir (1990)

The Beautiful Room is Empty by Edmund White (1989)

Trash by Dorothy Allison (1989)

Goldenboy by Michael Nava (1989)

Skiptrace by Antoinette Azolakov (1989)

Bird-Eyes by Madelyn Arnold (1989)

Lesbian Ethics by Sarah Hoagland (1989)

The Swimming-Pool Library by Alan Hollinghurst (1989)