Book Awards

The Ruth Benedict Prize

The Ruth Benedict Prize acknowledges excellence in a scholarly book written from an anthropological perspective about a lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgendered topic. The Ruth Benedict Prize is awarded in each of two separate categories: one for a single-authored monograph and another for an edited volume. Click Association for Queer Anthropology for more information about the sponsors of this prize.

2022
Monographs: Knowing women : same-sex intimacy, gender, and identity in postcolonial Ghana by Serena Owusua Dankwa; There's a disco ball between us : a theory of Black gay life by Jafari S. Allen (honorable mention)
2021
Monographs: Hijras, lovers, brothers : surviving sex and poverty in rural India by Vaibhav Saria; honorable mention: Queer Palestine and the empire of critique by Sa’ed Atshan
2020
Monographs: Queer freedom : Black sovereignty by Ana-Maurine Lara; Love in the drug war : selling sex and finding Jesus on the Mexico-US border by Sarah Luna
Edited Volume: Queering knowledge : analytics, devices, and investments after Marilyn Strathern, edited by Paul Boyce, E.J. Gonzalez-Polledo, and Silvia Posocco
2019
Monographs: Queer kinship and family change in Taiwan by Amy Brainer; Transgender refugees and the imagined South Africa : bodies over borders and borders over bodies by B Camminga (honorable mention)
2018
Monographs: Ethno-erotic economies : sexuality, money, and belonging in Kenya by George Paul Meiu; Erotic islands : art and activism in the queer Caribbean by Lyndon K. Gill (honorable mention)
2017
Monographs: The look of a woman : facial feminization surgery and the aims of trans-medicine by Eric Plemons; Queer Maghrebi French : language, temporalities, transfiliations by Denis M. Provencher (honorable mention)
2016
Monographs: Real queer? : sexual orientation and gender identity refugees in the Canadian refugee apparatus by David A. B. Murray; Tourist attractions : performing race and masculinity in Brazil's sexual economy by Gregory Mitchell (honorable mention)
Edited Volume: Queer brown voices : personal narratives of Latina/o LGBT activism, edited by Uriel Quesada, Letitia Gomez, and Salvador Vidal-Ortiz
2015
Monographs: Given to the goddess : South Indian devadasis and the sexuality of religion by Lucinda Ramberg; Under bright lights : gay Manila and the global scene by Bobby Benedicto (honorable mention)
Edited Volume: Sex and sexualities in contemporary Indonesia : sexual politics, health, diversity and representation, edited by Linda Rae Bennett and Sharyn Graham Davies
2014
Monographs: After love : queer intimacy and erotic economies in post-soviet Cuba by Noelle M. Stout; Queer women in urban China : an ethnography by Elisabeth L. Engebretsen (honorable mention)
Edited Volume: Queer excursions : retheorizing binaries in language, gender, and sexuality, edited by Lal Zimman, Jenny Davis, and Joshua Raclaw
2013
Monographs: Queer activism in India : a story in the anthropology of ethics by Naisargi Dave; Sex in transition : rethinking gender and race in South Africa by Amanda Lock Swarr (honorable mention)
Edited Volume: The transgender studies reader 2, edited by Susan Stryker and Aren Aizura
2012
Monographs: Techniques of pleasure : BDSM and the circuits of sexuality by Margot Weiss; Spaces between us : queer settler colonialism and indigenous decolonialization by Scott Lauria Morgensen
Edited Volume: Deviations : a Gayle Rubin reader by Gayle Rubin
2011
Monographs: Falling into the lesbi world : desire and difference in Indonesia by Evelyn Blackwood; Sex panic and the punitive state by Roger N. Lancaster
Edited Volume: Queer Bangkok : 21st century markets, media, and rights by Peter A. Jackson
2010
Monographs: Moving politics : emotion and ACT UP’s fight against AIDS by Deborah Gould; Gay fatherhood : narratives of family and citizenship in America by Ellen Lewin
Edited Volume: Homophobias : lust and loathing across time and space by David A. B. Murray
2009
Monographs: Allah made us : sexual outlaws in an Islamic city by Rudolf Pell Gaudio; Out in the country : youth, media, and queer visibility in rural America by Mary L. Gray
Edited Volume: Out in public : reinventing lesbian/gay anthropology in a globalizing world, edited by Ellen Lewin and William L. Leap
2008
Monographs: Caribbean pleasure industry : tourism, sexuality, and AIDS in the Dominican Republic by Mark Padilla; The archaeology of ethnogenesis :  race and sexuality in colonial San Francisco by Barbara L. Voss
2007
Monographs: Imagining transgender : an ethnography of a category by David Valentine; The politics of passion : women's sexual culture in the Afro-Surinamese diaspora by Gloria Wekker
Edited Volume: Women's sexualities and masculinities in a globalizing Asia, edited by Saskia Wieringa, Evelyn Blackwood, and Abha Bhaiya
2006  Straight to Jesus : sexual and Christian conversions in the ex-gay movement by Tanya Erzen
2005  The gay archipelago : sexuality and nation in Indonesia by Tom Boellstorff
2004
Monograph: Toms and dees : transgender identity and female same-sex relationships in Thailand by Megan Sinnot
Edited Volume: Out in theory : the emergence of lesbian and gay anthropology, edited by Ellen Lewin and William L. Leap
2003  Global divas : Filipino gay men in the diaspora by Martin F. Manalansan IV
2002  The night is young : sexuality in Mexico in the time of AIDS by Hector Carrillo
2001  The stranger next door : the story of a small community's battle over sex, faith, and civil rights by Arlene Stein
2000
Monographs: Margaret Mead made me gay : personal essays, public ideas by Esther Newton; Homosexualities by Stephen O. Murray
Edited Volume: Archaeologies of sexuality, edited by Barbara L. Voss and Robert A. Schmidt
1999  Female desires : same sex relations and transgender practices across cultures, edited by Evelyn Blackwood and Saskia E. Wieringa
1998  Takarazuka : sexual politics and popular culture in modern Japan by Jennifer Robertson
1997
Monograph: Render me, gender me : lesbians talk sex, class, color, nation, studmuffins by Kath Weston; Edited Volume: Two-spirit people : Native American gender identity, sexuality, and spirituality, edited by Sue-Ellen Jacobs, Wesley Thomas, and Sabine Lang
1996  Word's out : gay men's English by William L. Leap; Hidden in the blood : a personal investigation of AIDS in the Yucatan by Carter Wilson
1995  De los otros : intimacy and homosexuality among Mexican men by Joseph Carrier
1994  Cherry Grove, Fire Island : sixty years in America's first gay and lesbian town by Esther Newton
1993  Life is hard : machismo, danger, and the intimacy of power in Nicaragua by Roger Lancaster; Boots of leather, slippers of gold : the history of a lesbian community by Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy and Madeline D. Davis
1992  Lesbian mothers : accounts of gender in American culture by Ellen Lewin
1991  Bodies, pleasures, and passions : sexual culture in contemporary Brazil by Richard Parker
1990  Families we choose : lesbians, gays, kinship by Kath Weston; Neither man nor woman : the Hijras of India by Serena Nanda
1987  The Sambia : ritual and gender in New Guinea by Gilbert Herdt
1986  The spirit and the flesh : sexual diversity in American Indian culture by Walter L. Williams

The American Book Award, present-2006
" . . . a book award that would, for the first time, respect and honor excellence in American literature without restriction or bias with regard to race, sex, creed, cultural origin, size of press or ad budget, or even genre. There would be no requirements, restrictions, limitations, or second places. There would be no categories (i.e., no “best” novel or only one “best” of anything). The winners would not selected by any set quota for diversity (nor would “mainstream white anglo male” authors be excluded), because diversity happens naturally. Finally, there would be no losers, only winners. The only criteria would be outstanding contribution to American literature in the opinion of the judges." Click Before Columbus Foundation, for more information about the sponsor of the American Book Awards.

2022
Reign of terror : how the 9/11 era destabilized America and produced Trump by Spencer Ackerman
The Diné reader : an anthology of Navajo literature, edited by Esther G. Belin, Jeff Burgland, Connie A. Jacobs, Anthony K. Webster
Songs in Ursa Major by Emma Brodie
Liner notes for the revolution : the intellectual life of Black feminist sound by Daphne A. Brooks
What storm, what thunder by Myriam J. A. Chancy
Monkey boy by Francisco Goldman
The other Black girl : a novel by Zakiya Dalila Harris
Economy Hall : the hidden history of a free Black brotherhood by Fatima Shaik
Quanundrum : [i will be your many angled thing] by Edwin Torres
Book of the other : small in comparison by Truong Tran
Yellow rain : poems by Mai Der Vang
Mutiny by Phillip B. Williams
Crying in H Mart : a memoir by Michelle Zauner
Lifetime achievement: Gayl Jones
Walter & Lillian Lowenfels Award for Criticism: Sound recording technology and American literature : from the phonograph to the remix by Jessica E. Teague
Anti-Censorship Award: Jeffrey St. Clair, editor of CounterPunch

2021
Homeland elegies : a novel by Ayad Akhtar
These ghosts are family : a novel by Maisy Card
borderland apocrypha by Anthony Cody
Desert notebooks : a road map for the end of time by Ben Ehrenreich
The young lords : a radical history by Johanna Fernández
In the lateness of the world : poems by Carolyn Forché
Great demon kings : a memoir of poetry, sex, art, death, and enlightenment by John Giorno
Minor feelings : an Asian American reckoning by Cathy Park Hong
{#289-128} : poems by Randall Horton
The dawning of the apocalypse : the roots of slavery, white supremacy, settler colonialism, and capitalism in the long sixteenth century by Gerald Horne
White too long : the legacy of white supremacy in American Christianity by Robert P. Jones
Manhattan my ass, you're in Oakland by Judy Juanita
Dunfords travels everywheres by William Melvin Kelley ; illustrated by Aiki Kelley
Lifetime Achievement: Maryemma Graham
Walter & Lillian Lowenfels Award for Criticism: Everything man : the form and function of Paul Robeson by Shana Redmond
Anti-Censorship Award: Separated : inside an American tragedy by Jacob Soboroff

2020
Felon : poems by Reginald Dwayne Betts
Heart like a window, mouth like a cliff : poems by Sara Borjas
Collected Poems of Bob Kaufman, edited by Neeli Cherkovski, Raymond Foye,Tate Swindell
Crossfire : a litany for survival : poems 1998-2019 by Staceyann Chin
Sabrina & Corina : stories by Kali Fajardo-Anstine
The race card : from gaming technologies to model minorities by Tara Fickle
America for Americans : a history of xenophobia in the United States by Erika Lee
The memory police by Yoko Ogawa
Eyes bottle dark with a mouthful of flowers : poems by Jake Skeets
They called us enemy by George Takei, Justin Eisinger, Steven Scott, and Harmony Becker
On Earth we're briefly gorgeous : a novel by Ocean Vuong
In West Mills : a novel by De'Shawn Charles Winslow
Solitary : my story of transformation and hope by Albert Woodfox with Leslie George
Lifetime Achievement: Eleanor W. Traylor
Criticism Award: Appalachian reckoning : a region responds to Hillbilly elegy, edited byAnthony Harkins and Meredith McCarroll

2019
John Okada : the life and rediscovered work of the author of No-no boy, edited by Frank Abe, Greg Robinson, and Floyd Cheung
Useful phrases for immigrants : stories by May-lee Chai
The house of early sorrows :  a memoir in essays by Louise DeSalvo
New poets of Native nations, edited by Heid E. Erdrich
Teeth never sleep : poems by Ángel García
There there : a novel by Tommy Orange
Dancing in blackness : a memoir by Halifu Osumare
Unlikeness is us : fourteen from the Exeter Book by Christopher Patton
Memento Park : a novel by Mark Sarvas
The new Negro : the life of Alain Locke by Jeffrey C. Stewart
Carbon Ideologies : volume I : No immediate danger; volume II : No good alternative by William T. Vollmann
Ms. Marvel : vol. 9 : Teenage wasteland by G. Willow Wilson ; illustrated by Nico Leon

2018
The best we could do : an illustrated memoir by Thi Bui
God's will for monsters by Rachelle Cruz
The man-not : race, class, genre, and the dilemmas of black manhood by Tommy Curry
Heaven is all goodbyes by Tongo Eisen-Martin
Life of the land : articulations of a native writer by Dana Naone Hall
City of inmates : conquest, rebellion, and the rise of human caging in Los Angeles, 1771-1965 by Kelly Lytle Hernández
The changeling : a novel by Victor Lavalle
Currents : poems by Bojan Louis
Tell me how it ends : an essay in forty questions by Valeria Luiselli
Altermundos : Latin@ speculative literature, film, and popular culture by Cathryn Josefina Merla-Watson and B. V. Olguín
The dawn of Detroit : a chronicle of slavery and freedom in the City of the Straits by Tiya Miles
Nature poem by Tommy Pico
Patriarchy blues by Rena Priest
Shadowboxing : poems & impersonations by Joseph Rios
Beasts of burden : animal and disability liberation by Sunaura Taylor

2017
Adnan's story : the search for truth and justice after Serial by Rabia Chaudry
Invisible men : a contemporary slave narrative in the era of mass incarceration by Flores A. Forbes
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
Passings by Holly Hughes
Him, me, Muhammad Ali : stories by Randa Jarrar
The book of Harlan by Bernice L. McFadden
Sounding thunder : the stories of Francis Pegahmagabow by Brian D. McInnes
Blood at the root : a racial cleansing in America by Patrick Phillips
Race and the totalitarian century: geopolitics in the black literary imagination by Vaughn Rasberry
Year of the rat by Marc Anthony Richardson
Green Island by Shawna Yang Ryan
See you in the streets : art, action, and remembering the Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire by Ruth Sergel
Look : poems by Solmaz Sharif
Memory foam by Adam Soldofsky
The Mexican flyboy by Alfredo Véa
Seeing the light : four decades in Chinatown by Dean Wong

2016
Tributaries by Laura Da'
A curious land : stories from home by Susan Muaddi Darraj
We too sing America : South Asian, Arab, Muslim, and Sikh immigrants shape our multiracial future by Deepa Iyer
Loving day : a novel by Mat Johnson
Counternarratives : stories and novellas by John Keene
F.B. eyes : how J. Edgar Hoover's ghostreaders framed African American literature by William J. Maxwell
Trace : memory, history, race, and the American landscape by Lauret Savoy
The American slave coast : a history of the slave-breeding industry by Ned Sublette and Constance Sublette
Return to Arroyo Grande by Jesús Salvador Treviño
Tomorrow's battlefield : US proxy wars and secret ops in Africa by Nick Turse
Manifestation wolverine : the collected poetry of Ray Young Bear by Ray Young Bear

2015
Rebel music : race, empire, and the new Muslim youth culture by Hisham Aidi
Her beckoning hands : poems by Arlene Biala
Forbidden City, USA : Chinese American nightclubs, 1936-1970 by Arthur Dong
An indigenous people's history of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
The black man of happiness : in pursuit of my 'unalienable right' by Peter J. Harris
A brief history of seven killings : a novel by Marlon James
Transformation of the African American intelligentsia, 1880–2012 by Martin Kilson
This changes everything : capitalism vs. the climate by Naomi Klein
The Moor's account : a novel by Laila Lalami
Los Duros by Manuel Luis Martínez
from unincorporated territory [guma’] by Craig Santos Perez
The universal tone : bringing my story to light by Carlos Santana, with Ashley Kahn and Hal Miller
Southside Buddhist : essays by Ira Sukrungruang
The people's platform : taking back power and culture in the digital age by Astra Taylor
Lifetime Achievement: Anne Waldman

2014
Breach of trust : how Americans failed their soldiers and their country by Andrew Bacevich
Black against empire : the history and politics of the Black Panther Party by Joshua Bloom and Waldo E. Martin
Vital signs by Juan Delgado ; photographs by Thomas McGovern
The five acts of Diego León : a novel by Alex Espinoza
Jim Crow wisdom : memory and identity in Black America since 1940 by Jonathan Scott Holloway
Hyperboreal by Joan Naviyuk Kane
See now then by Jamaica Kincaid
Boyishly by Tanya Olson
Home/bass by Sterling D. Plumpp
Searching for Zion by Emily Raboteau
Eye of witness : a Jerome Rothenberg reader by Jerome Rothenberg with Heriberto Yepez
Kill anything that moves : the real American war in Vietnam by Nick Turse
Wash : a novel by Margaret Wrinkle
Water chasing water by Koon Woon

2013
Blood songs : poems by Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore
The block captain's daughter by Demetria Martinez
The orchardist : a novel by Amanda Coplin
When my brother was an Aztec by Natalie Diaz
The round house by Louise Erdrich
Black patriots and loyalists : fighting for emancipation in the war for independence by Alan Gilbert
Subversives : the FBI's war on student radicals, and Reagan's rise to power by Seth Rosenfeld
A simple revolution : the making of an activist poet by Judy Grahn
Corpse whale by Dg Nanouk Okpik
Singing in magnetic hoofbeat : [essays, prose texts, interviews and a lecture, 1991-2007] by Will Alexander
Cherokee stories of the Turtle Island liars' club : Dakasi elohi anigagoga junilawisdii (turtle, earth, the liars, meeting place) by Christopher B. Teuton
San Francisco Chinatown : a guide to its history and architecture by Philip P. Choy
Ring of bone; collected poems, 1950-1971 by Lew Welch
Crazy brave : a memoir by Joy Harjo
Lifetime Achievement Award: Ivan Argüelles, Greil Marcus, Floyd Salas

2012
Day of honey : a memoir of food, love, and war by Annia Ciezadlo
What have you done to our ears to make us hear echoes? by Arlene Kim
Whorled : poems by Ed Bok Lee
Super black : American pop culture and Black superheroes by Adilifu Nama
Slow violence and the environmentalism of the poor by Rob Nixon
American masculine : stories by Shann Ray
Qaluyaarmiuni Nunamtenek Qanemciput : our Nelson Island stories, translated by Alice Rearden ; Ann Fienup-Riordan, editor
Who's afraid of post-blackness? what it means to be Black now by Touré
The submission by Amy Waldman
The translator's sister by Mary Winegarden
Ardency : a chronicle of the Amistad rebels by Kevin Young
Lifetime Achievement Award : Eugene B. Redmond

2011
John Oliver Killens : a life of Black literary activism by Keith Gilyard
Journey into America : the challenge of Islam by Akbar Ahmed
Suck on the marrow by Camille Dungy
I Hotel by Karen Tei Yamashita (selected volumes here)
African American writers and classical tradition by William W. Cook & James Tatum
Shrouds of White Earth by Gerald Vizenor
Extra Indians by Eric Gansworth
The death of Stalin : selected early poems, 1978-1989 by Ivan Argüelles
The complete plays of Jean Racine : the fratricides by Geoffrey Alan Argent
You have given me a country by Neela Vaswani
Insides she swallowed by Sasha Pimentel Chacón
The Afro-Latin@ reader : history of culture in the United States by Miriam Jimenez Roman & Juan Flores
Bring down the little birds : on mothering, art, work, and everything else by Carmen Gimenez Smith

2010
Digging : the Afro-American soul of American classical music by Amiri Baraka
Flood song by Sherwin Bitsui
A new language, a new world: Italian immigrants in the United States, 1890-1945 by Nancy Carnevale
Zeitoun by Dave Eggers
World ball notebook by Sesshu Foster
Live from Fresno y Los : stories by Stephen D. Gutierrez
The big machine : a novel by Victor Lavalle
This is what they say : a story cycle dictated in northern Alberta in 1928 by François Mandeville ; translated from the Chipewyan by Ron Scollon
Short girls : a novel by Bich Minh Nguyen
Black, brown & beige : Surrealist writings from Africa and the diaspora, edited by Franklin Rosemont and Robin D.G. Kelley
Poems for the millennium, volume three : The University of California book of Romantic & Postromantic poetry, edited by Jerome Rothenberg and Jeffrey C. Robinson
Pacific raven : Hawai`i poems by Kathryn Waddell Takara
Crazy love : new poems by Pamela Uschuk
Lifetime Achievement: Quincy Troupe and Katha Politt

2009
Betrayal : how black intellectuals have abandoned the ideals of the civil rights era by Houston A. Baker, Jr.
Ask for a convertible : stories by Danit Brown
Please by Jericho Brown
The last supper of Chicano heroes : selected works of José Antonio Burciaga, edited by Mimi R. Gladstein and Daniel Chacón
Uncertain peril : genetic engineering and the future of seeds by Claire Hope Cummings
If I die in Juarez by Stella Pope Duarte
All of it singing : new and selected poems by Linda Gregg
Breaking poems by Suheir Hammad
The age of wonder : how the romantic generation discovered the beauty and terror of science by Richard Holmes
A power stronger than itself : The AACM and American experimental music by George E. Lewis
Ghosts of El Grullo by Patricia Santana
My vocabulary did this to me : the collected poetry of Jack Spicer, edited by Peter Gizzi and Kevin Killian
Lifetime Achievement Award: Miguel Algarín

2008
How does it feel to be a problem? : being young and Arab in America by Moustafa Bayoumi
Slavery by another name : the re-enslavement of Black people in America from the Civil War to World War II by Douglas A. Blackmon
Anóoshi lingit aaní ká = Russians in Tlingit America : the battles of Sitka, 1802 and 1804 by Nora Marks Dauenhauer, Richard Dauenhauer, and Lydia T. Black
All that lies between us by Maria Mazziotti Gillan
The collected poetry of Nikki Giovanni, 1968-1998 by Nikki Giovanni
Prairie style by C. S. Giscombe
Where I must go : a novel by Angela Jackson
Each month I sing by L. Luis Lopez
Doing nothing : a history of loafers, loungers, slackers, and bums in America by Tom Lutz
Steer toward rock by Fae Myenne Ng
The ocean in the closet : a novel by Yuko Taniguchi
Don't deny my name : words and music and the black intellectual tradition by Lorenzo Thomas; Aldon Lynn Nielsen, editor
Incognegro : a memoir of exile and apartheid by Frank B. Wilderson III
Al’ America : travels through America's Arab and Islamic roots by Jonathan Curiel
Lifetime Achievement Award:  J. J. Phillips, author of Mojo hand : an orphic tale

2007
How the Irish invented slang : the secret language of the crossroads by Daniel Cassidy
Come Hell or high water : Hurricane Katrina and the color of disaster by Michael Eric Dyson
Butterfly boy : memories of a Chicano mariposa by Rigoberto González
Across a hundred mountains : a novel by Reyna Grande
Blonde Indian : an Alaska Native memoir by Ernestine Hayes
The earth knows my name : food, culture, and sustainability in the gardens of ethnic Americans by Patricia Klindienst
Jimbo's inferno by Gary Panter
Beyond literary Chinatown by Jeffrey F. L. Partridge
Wisdom of the body by Judith Roche
The space between by Kali Vanbaale

2006
The testing of Luther Albright : a novel by MacKenzie Bezos
Shoot the buffalo by Matt Briggs
The white tortilla : reflections of a second-generation Mexican-American by David Diaz
The Columbia guide to contemporary African American fiction by Darryl Dickson-Carr
Feeling Italian : the art of ethnicity in America by Thomas J. Ferraro
Skin tax by Tim Z. Hernandez
Audiotopia : music, race, and America by Josh Kun
Nate by P. Lewis
Gumboot determination : the story of the Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium by Peter Metcalfe
The toughest gang in town : police stories from old San Francisco by Kevin J. Mullen
A broken flute : the Native experience in books for children, edited by Doris Seale and Beverly Slapin
Somewhere else : poems by Matthew Shenoda
Scalding heart by Carlton T. Spiller

The American Book Award, 2005-1993
" . . . a book award that would, for the first time, respect and honor excellence in American literature without restriction or bias with regard to race, sex, creed, cultural origin, size of press or ad budget, or even genre. There would be no requirements, restrictions, limitations, or second places. There would be no categories (i.e., no “best” novel or only one “best” of anything). The winners would not selected by any set quota for diversity (nor would “mainstream white anglo male” authors be excluded), because diversity happens naturally. Finally, there would be no losers, only winners. The only criteria would be outstanding contribution to American literature in the opinion of the judges." Click Before Columbus Foundation, for more information about the sponsor of the American Book Awards.

2005
The contemporary African American novel : its folk roots and modern literary branches by Bernard W. Bell
Rise up singing : Black women writers on motherhood by Cecelie Berry
Can't stop, won't stop : a history of the hip-hop generation by Jeff Chang
Redemption by Julie Chibbaro
Against all enemies : inside America's war on terror by Richard A. Clarke
The red cedar of Afognak : a driftwood journey by Alisha S. Drabek and Karen R. Adams
The horse in the kitchen : stories of a Mexican-American family by Ralph M. Flores
Swimming in the American : a memoir and selected writings by Hiroshi Kashiwagi
Crimes against nature : how George W. Bush and his corporate pals are plundering the country and hijacking our democracy by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
Country of origin : a novel by Don Lee
Long movie of shadows by Lamont B. Steptoe
No lonesome road : selected prose and poems by Don West

2004
Crescent by Diana Abu-Jaber
Enemy aliens : double standards and constitutional freedoms in the war on terrorism by David Cole
Shifting : the double lives of Black women in America by Charisse Jones and Kumea Shorter-Gooden, Ph.D.
Breaking away by Kristin Lattany
Multicultural American literature : comparative Black, Native, Latino/a, and Asian American fictions by A. Robert Lee
What I stole by Diane Sher Lutovich
All over creation by Ruth Ozeki
Prayer to spider woman [Rezo a la mujer araña] by Renato Rosaldo
Freedom is, freedom ain't : jazz and the making of the Sixties by Scott Saul
And all the saints by Michael Walsh

2003
Paradise Alley : a novel by Kevin Baker
Perma Red by Debra Magpie Earling
Secrets : a memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers by Daniel Ellsberg
Under the fifth sun : Latino literature from California, edited by Rick Heide
Akuzilleput Igaqullghet, our words put to paper sourcebook in St. Lawrence Island Yupik Heritage and History, Igor Krupnik, Willis Walunga, and Vera Metcalf, editors; compiled by Igor Krupnik and Lars Krutak
This war called love : nine stories by Alejandro Murguía
The full Rudy : the man, the myth, the mania by Jack Newfield
Italian stories by Joseph Papaleo
What is this thing called jazz? : African American musicians as artists, critics, and activists by Eric Porter
Douglass’ women by Jewell Parker Rhodes
Riding the bus with my sister : a true life journey by Rachel Simon
Raising ourselves : a Gwich'in coming of age story from the Yukon River by Velma Wallis
Editor Award: Max Rodriguez, QBR : The Black Book Review (www.qbr.com)

2002
The sound of dreams remembered : poems 1990-2000 by Al Young
Reading the funnies : essays on comic strips by Donald Phelps
Is there no other way? : the search for a nonviolent future by Michael N. Nagler
Lipstick and other stories by Alex Kuo
Shell shaker by Lee Ann Howe
Interrogations at noon : poems by Dana Gioia
Homeless at Home by Gloria Frym
The living blood by Tananarive Due
Fire in Beulah by Rilla Askew
Body toxic : an environmental memoir by Susanne Antonetta
Colcha by Aaron A. Abeyta
Children's Literature:  Angels in the Vineyards by Jessel Miller

2001
Listening to our grandmothers' stories : the Bloomfield Academy for Chickasaw Females, 1852-1949 by Amanda J. Cobb
Scapegoat : the Jews, Israel, and women's liberation by Andrea Dworkin
When living was a labor camp by Diana García
Kissing the bread : new and selected poems, 1969-1999 by Sandra M. Gilbert
Blowback : the costs and consequences of American empire by Chalmers Johnson
Phoenix eyes and other stories by Russell Charles Leong
The island of lost luggage by Janet McAdams
Bruised hibiscus : a novel by Elizabeth Nunez
Killing time with strangers by W. S. Penn
Packinghouse daughter : a memoir by Cheri Register
Jimmy Corrigan : the smartest kid on Earth by Chris Ware
Seasons of mangoes and brainfire by Carolyne Wright

2000
From the belly of my beauty : poems by Esther G. Belin
Sing when the spirit says sing : selected & new poems 1960-1990 by Jon Eckels
Amok : essays from an Asian American perspective by Emil Guillermo
Barefoot heart : stories of a migrant child by Elva Treviño Hart
It's not nostalgia : poetry and prose by Michael Lally
All souls : a family story from Southie by Michael Patrick MacDonald
The Iceworker sings and other poems by Andrés Montoya
Mothers who think : tales of real-life parenthood, edited by Kate Moses and Camille Peri
Ecology of a cracker childhood by Janisse Ray
Italian American : the racializing of an ethnic identity by David A. J. Richards
Spoken soul : the story of Black English by John Russell Rickford and Russell John Rickford
Why she left us by Rahna Reiko Rizzuto
The trickster shift : humor and irony in contemporary native art by Allan J. Ryan
Year in Nam : a Native American soldier's story by Leroy TeCube
Front row at the White House : my life and times by Helen Thomas
Exotica by David Toop
Heads by Harry (as part of trilogy with Wild meat and the bully burgers and Blu's Hanging) by Lois-Ann Yamanaka

1999
The farming of bones : a novel by Edwidge Danticat
Right here, right now by Trey Ellis
The floating borderlands : twenty-five years of U.S. Hispanic literature, edited by Lauro Flores
What book!? : Buddha poems from beat to hiphop by Gary Gach
Hip hop America by Nelson George
The last paradise by James D. Houston
Ghost dancing by Anna Linzer
Transforming the culture of schools : Yup'ik Eskimo examples by Jerry Lipka, with Gerald V. Mohatt and the Ciulistet Group
Charming Billy by Alice McDermott
The Freshour cylinders by Speer Morgan
The men of Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor
Salvation and other disasters : short stories by Josip Novakovich
First fish, first people : salmon tales of the North Pacific Rim, edited by Judith Roche and Meg McHutchison
Sometimes the soul by Gioia Timpanelli
Survivor's medicine : short stories by E. Donald Two-Rivers
Nobody's son : notes from an American life by Luis Alberto Urrea
Just my soul responding : rhythm and blues, Black consciousness, and race relations by Brian Ward
Children' s Book Award: Home to Medicine Mountain by Chiori Santiago ; illustrated by Judith Lowry

1998
On native ground : memoirs and impressions by Jim Barnes
Bitter grounds by Sandra Benítez
Dog road woman by Allison Adelle Hedge Coke
Blues legacies and Black feminism : Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday by Angela Y. Davis
Underworld by Don DeLillo
The birth of bebop : a social and musical history by Scott DeVeaux
Comfort woman by Nora Okja Keller
The undertaking : life studies from the dismal trade by Thomas Lynch
All saints by Brenda Marie Osbey
Love like gumbo by Nancy Rawles
Safari west by John A. Williams

1997
Et tú ... Raza by Alurista
The post-rapture diner by Dorothy Barresi
Black intellectuals : race and responsibility in American life by William M. Banks
Gospel choirs : psalms of survival for an alien land called home by Derrick Bell
Maker of saints : a novel by Thulani Davis
Derby Dugan's depression funnies by Tom De Haven
Imagine the angels of bread : poems by Martín Espada
Dreams of the centaur : a novel by Monserrat Fontes
The new world border : prophecies, poems, and loqueras for the end of the century by Guillermo Gomez-Pena
Race traitor, edited by Noel Ignatiev and John Garvey
Women of the Beat generation : the writers, artists, and muses at the heart of revolution by Brenda Knight
Among the white moon faces : an Asian-American memoir of the homelands by Shirley Geok-lin Lim
Contours of the heart : South Asians map North America by Sunaina Maira and Rajini Srikanth
Nightland : a novel by Louis Owens

1996
Reservation blues by Sherman Alexie
The physician of London : the second part of the seventeenth-century trilogy of Nicholas Cooke by Stephanie Cowell
Arranged marriage : stories by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Longing by Maria Espinosa
The tunnel by William Gass
The unbearable heart by Kimiko Hahn
Girl hurt by E. J. Miller Laino
Native speaker by Chang-rae Lee
Lies my teacher told me : everything your American history textbook got wrong by James W. Loewen (2018 ed. here)
One by one from the inside out : essays and reviews on race and responsibility in America by Glenn C. Loury
A woman in amber : healing the trauma of war and exile by Agate Nesaule
Palestine : in the Gaza Strip by Joe Sacco (one-volume edition (2002) here)
Sounding off! : music as subversion/resistance/revolution, edited by Ron Sakolsky and Fred Wei-han Ho
Archipelago by Arthur Sze
Astoria : a novel by Robert Viscusi

1995
Life sentences : writers, artists, and AIDS, edited and with an introduction by Thomas Avena
Brotherman : the odyssey of black men in America, edited by Herb Boyd and Robert Allen
Face of an angel by Denise Chávez
Speak now against the day : the generation before the civil rights movement in the South by John Egerton
The light people : a novel by Gordon Henry, Jr.
The winged seed : a remembrance by Li-Young Lee
I am becoming the woman I've wanted by Sandra Haldeman Martz
Green fires : assault on Eden : a novel of the Ecuadorian rainforest by Marnie Mueller
Banished children of Eve by Peter Quinn
Rocking the babies by Linda Raymond
Spidertown: a novel by Abraham Rodriguez, Jr.
Black noise : rap music and black culture in contemporary America by Tricia Rose
Rebellion from the roots : Indian uprising in Chiapas by John Ross
Crossing Ocean Parkway : readings by an Italian American daughter by Marianna De Marco Torgovnick

1994
Aloud : voices from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, edited by Miguel Algarín and Bob Holman
Flood! a novel in pictures by Eric Drooker (4th ed. (2015) here)
The black Atlantic : modernity and double consciousness by Paul Gilroy
Daughters of feminists by Rose Glickman
Bloodlines : odyssey of a native daughter by Janet Campbell Hale
Legends from camp : poems by Lawson Inada
In search of Bernabé by Graciela Limón
Economic empowerment through the Church by Gregory J. Reed
Benedetta in Guysterland by Giose Rimanelli
A different mirror : a history of multicultural America by Ronald Takaki (rev. ed. (2008) here)
Scenes from the movie Giant by Tino Villanueva
Wood-Hoopoe Willie by Virginia Kroll, illustrated by Katherine Roundtree
Volunteer slavery : my authentic Negro experience by Jill Nelson

1993
Snake poems : an Aztec invocation by Francisco X. Alarcón
The rascal king : the life and times of James Michael Curley by Jack Beatty
Paris connections : African-American artists in Paris by Asake Bomani and Belvie Rooks
Elevating the game : black men and basketball by Nelson George
The unquiet earth : a novel by Denise Giardina
Claiming breath by Diane Glancy
Beyond the culture wars : how teaching the conflicts can revitalize American education by Gerald Graff
We gave away a fortune : stories of people who have devoted themselves and their wealth to peace, justice and the environment by Christopher Mogil and Anne Slepian, with Peter Woodrow
Neets'aii Gwiindaii : living in the Chandalar country by Katherine Peter
The history of home by Leroy Quintana
The eye in the ceiling : selected poems by Eugene Redmond
Twice blessed by Ninotchka Rosca
Beyond eurocentrism and multiculturalism by Cornel West

The American Book Award, 1992-1980
" . . . a book award that would, for the first time, respect and honor excellence in American literature without restriction or bias with regard to race, sex, creed, cultural origin, size of press or ad budget, or even genre. There would be no requirements, restrictions, limitations, or second places. There would be no categories (i.e., no “best” novel or only one “best” of anything). The winners would not selected by any set quota for diversity (nor would “mainstream white anglo male” authors be excluded), because diversity happens naturally. Finally, there would be no losers, only winners. The only criteria would be outstanding contribution to American literature in the opinion of the judges." Click Before Columbus Foundation, for more information about the sponsor of the American Book Awards.

1992
Jessie and Jesus by Raymond Andrews
Cousin Claire by Raymond Andrews
Cebu by Peter Bacho
Black thunder : an anthology of contemporary African-American drama, edited by William B. Branch
Madam C. J. Walker : entrepreneur by A'Lelia Perry Bundles
Undocumented love by José Antonio Burciaga
Belonging to the universe : explorations on the frontiers of science and spirituality by Fritjof Capra and David Steindl-Rast with Thomas Capra
Hansberry's drama : commitment amid complexity by Steven Carter
In the realm of a dying emperor by Norma Field
The unknown internment : an oral history of the relocation of Italian Americans during World War II by Stephen Fox
Simians, cyborgs and women : the reinvention of nature by Donna J. Haraway
A Dena'ina legacy, K'tl'egh'i Sukdu : the collected writings of Peter Kalifornsky, edited by James Kari and Alan Boraas
The last fine time by Verlyn Klinkenborg
Calendar of dust by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Beyond deserving by Sandra Scofield
Maus : a survivor's tale. I: My father bleeds history; II: And here my troubles began by Art Spiegelman
To the American Indian : reminiscences of a Yurok woman by Lucy Thompson (Che-ne-wah Weitch-ah-wah)
The journey : Japanese Americans, racism and renewal, painting and text by Sheila Hamanaka ; book design by Steve Frederick
Voices of the self : a study of language competence by Keith Gilyard

1991
Homesick : new & selected stories by Lucia Berlin
Terra firma : poems by Thomas Centolella
Lakota woman by Mary Brave Bird with Richard Erdoes
Haa tuwunaagu yis, for healing our spirit : Tlingit oratory, edited by Nora Marks Dauenhauer and Richard Dauenhauer
Dogeaters by Jessica Hagedorn
In mad love and war by Joy Harjo
Yearning : race, gender and cultural politics by bell hooks
Looking for home : women writing about exile, edited by Deborah Keenan and Roseann Lloyd
Harvest song : collected essays and stories by Meridel Le Sueur
Heroism in the new Black poetry : introductions & interviews by D.H. Melhem
Overtime : punchin' out with the Mill Hunk Herald by The Mill Hunk Herald
The art and imagination of Langston Hughes by R. Baxter Miller
Southern front by Alejandro Murguia
Soldados : Chicanos in Vietnam, edited by Charley Trujillo
Through the arc of the rain forest : a novel by Karen Tei Tamashita
Philadelphia fire : a novel by John Edgar Wideman
Black robes, white justice by Bruce Wright

1990
Spider Woman's granddaughters : traditional tales and contemporary writing by Native American women, edited and with an introduction by Paula Gunn Allen
Black Athena : the Afroasiatic roots of classical civilization (2 vols.) by Martin Bernal
Invocation L.A. : urban multicultural poetry by Michelle T. Clinton, Sesshu Foster, and Naomi Quinonez
Miles, the autobiography by Miles Davis with Quincy Troupe
Hearts of sorrow : Vietnamese-American lives by James M. Freeman
Women on war : essential voices for the nuclear age, edited by Daniela Gioseffi
Vivar a Hostos by Jose Emilio Gonzalez
Italian days by Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Symbolic immortality : the Tlingit potlatch of the nineteenth century by Sergei Kan
People who led to my plays by Adrienne Kennedy
The forbidden stitch : an Asian American women's anthology, edited by Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Mayumi Tsutakawa, and Margarita Donnelly
Mulberry and Peach : two women of China by Hualing Nieh
Every goodbye ain't gone : family portraits and personal escapades by Itabari Njeri
The light at the end of the bog by John Norton
Romans and Blacks by Lloyd A. Thompson
The Harlem Fox : J. Raymond Jones and Tammany, 1920-1970 by John C. Walter
Hand into stone by Elizabeth Woody

1989
Eva Luna by Isabel Allende, translated by Margaret Sayers Peden (Spanish version here)
Chinaman Pacific and Frisco R.R. Co. : short stories by Frank Chin
Homemade love by J. California Cooper
Columbia literary history of the United States, edited by Emory Elliott
The exiles of Erin : 19th century Irish American fiction by Charles Fanning
Memory of fire by Eduardo Galeano, translated by Cedric Belfrage
The signifying monkey : a theory of Afro-American literary criticism by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
The right thing to do by Josephine Gattuso Hendin
Repairing America by William Hohri
Wode Shuofa (My Way of Speaking) by Carolyn Lau (Carolyn Lei-lanilau)
A burst of light by Audre Lorde
Way by Leslie Scalapino
Stone's throw by Jennifer Stone
Floating the river in melancholy by Shuntaro Tanikawa, translated by William I. Eliot and Kazuo Kawamura (bilingual edition)
From the pyramids to the projects : poems of genocide and resistance by Askia Muhammed Toure
The ultraviolet sky by Alma Luz Villanueva

1988
Martín & Meditations on the South Valley by Jimmy Santiago Baca
The long shadow of Little Rock, a memoir by Daisy Bates
Russia and the Negro : blacks in Russian history and thought by Allison Blakely
The reckoning by David Halberstam
Songs of Gold Mountain by Marlon Horn
The boys of Bensonhurst : stories by Salvatore La Puma
Expounding the doubtful points by Wing Tek Lum
Beloved by Toni Morrison
The collected poems of Charles Olson : excluding the Maximus poems by Charles Olson, edited by George Butterick
Thirsting for peace in a raging century : selected poems, 1961-1985 by Edward Sanders
Tight spaces by Kesho Scott, Cherry Muhanji, and Egyirba High
Down and in : life in the underground by Ronald Sukenick
Griever, an American monkey king in China by Gerald Vizenor
The singing creek where the willows grow by Opal Whiteley, presented by Benjamin Hoff

1987
Sin : poems by Ai
Liberazione della Dona : feminism in Italy by Lucia Chiavola Birnbaum
Confessions of Madame Psyche : memoirs and letters of Mei-li Murrow : a novel by Dorothy Bryant
The Mixquiahuala letters by Ana Castillo
Ready from within : Septima Clark and the civil rights movement, edited with an introduction by Cynthia Stokes Brown
Celebrating Bird : the triumph of Charlie Parker by Gary Giddins (Rev. ed. (2013) here)
Face games by Juan Felipe Herrera
The essential Etheridge Knight by Etheridge Knight
Practicing angels, a contemporary anthology of San Francisco Bay area poetry, edited by Michael Mayo
Portrait of a little boy in darkness by Daniel McGuire
Mama by Terry McMillan
American splendor : the life and times of Harvey Pekar : stories by Harvey Pekar
Selected poems, 1958-1984 by John Wieners
Fools crow by James Welch
Circumnavigations by Cyn Zarco

1986
Time's now by Miguel Algarin
The Dream book : an anthology of writings by Italian-American women, edited by Helen Barolini
A daughter of the nobility by Natasha Borovsky
Smiles on Washington Square : a love story of sorts by Raymond Federman
Seeing through the sun by Linda Hogan
My Emily Dickinson by Susan Howe
I hear you knockin' by Jeff Hannusch (a.k.a. Almost Slim)
This bridge called my back : writings by radical women of color, edited by Cherrie Moraga and Gloria Anzaldua (1st ed (1981) here; 4th ed (2015) here)
Yokohama, California by Toshio Mori
The sun is not merciful : short stories by Anna Lee Walters
Irish musicians/American friends by Terence Winch

1985
The house on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
Ground work : before the war by Robert Duncan
Love medicine : a novel by Louise Erdich (new and expanded version here)
Justice at war by Peter Irons
Solo in the box car, third floor E by Angela Jackson
Say Ray by Ron Jones
Queen of the Ebony Isles by Colleen J. McElroy
Poets behind barbed wire, edited and translated by Jiro Nakano and Kay Nakano
Round Valley Songs by William Oandasan
AE by Maureen Owen
Homegirls & handgrenades by Sonia Sanchez
At seventy : a journal by May Sarton
Living up the street : narrative recollections by Gary Soto
Genthe's Photographs of San Francisco's old Chinatown, photographs by Arnold Genthe ; selection & text by John Kuo Wei Tchen

1984
Confirmation, an anthology of AfricanAmerican women by Amiri Baraka and Amina Baraka
The heat bird by Mei-mei Berssenbrugge
Days without weather by Cecil Brown
Breaking silence : an anthology of contemporary Asian American poets by Joseph Bruchac
A Puerto Rican in New York and other sketches by Jesús Colón
O Albany by William Kennedy
The Mama poems by Maurice Kenny
Naked in Deccan : a novel by Vankatesh Kulkarni
Praisesong for the widow by Paule Marshall
Pie-biter, illustrated by Ruthanne Lum McCunn and You-shan Tang, translated by Ellen Lai-shan Yeung
Echoes inside the labyrinth by Thomas McGrath
Citizen 13660 by Miné Okubo
The captive soul of the Messiah : new tales about Reb Nachman by Howard Schwartz
Axe handles : poems by Gary Snyder

1983
Not by the sword by Nash Candelaria
Black women novelists : the development of a tradition, 1892-1976 by Barbara Christian
Queen of Wands by Judy Grahn
Lost highway  : journeys & arrivals of American musicians by Peter Guralnick
Pet food & tropical apparitions by Jessica Hagedorn
Californians by James D. Houston
Obasan by Joy Kogawa
Chinese folk poetry by Cecilia Liang
An Duanaire = An Irish anthology : 1600-1900, poems of the dispossessed, presented by Seán O Tuama ; with translations into English verse by Thomas Kinsella
The legend of food mountain, adapted by Harriet Rohmer ; illustrated by Graciela Carrillo
!Click song by John A. Williams
Thirty an' seen a lot by Evangelina Vigil-Piñón

1982
The book of Jamaica by Russell Banks
Emplumada by Lorna Dee Cervantes
The chickencoop Chinaman ; and, The year of the dragon : two plays by Frank Chin
Enclave by Tato Laviera
Collected poems by E. L. Mayo
Songs for the Harvester of Dreams by Duane Niatum
This Passover or next I will never be in Jerusalem by Hilton Obenzinger
Sangre by Leroy Quintana
Pre-faces & other writings by Jerome Rothenberg
The Shino suite : opus 2 by Ronald Tanaka
Marked by fire by Joyce Carol Thomas
Bodies & Soul by Al Young
Island : poetry and history of Chinese immigrants on Angel Island, 1910-1940, edited by Him Mark Lai, Genny Lim, and Judy Yung

1981
Turn again to me & other poems by Helen Adams
On call by Miguel Algarín
The shameless hussy by alta
The salt eaters by Toni Cade Bambara
Back then tomorrow by Peter Blue Cloud
The choice by Rose Drachler
The liberties by Susan Howe
In time by Robert Kelly
Songs for Jadina : poems by Alan Lau
Traveling light by Lionel Mitchell
Felita by Nicholas Mohr
Scent of apples : a collection of stories by Bienvenido N. Santos

1980
Tortuga by Rudolfo Anaya
Random possession by Mei-mei Berssenbrugge
Mouth on paper by Jayne Cortez
Hello, La Jolla by Ed Dorn
All I asking for is my body by Milton Murayama
Ceremony by Leslie Silko
Snake-back solos by Quincy Troupe
Future preconditional by Douglas Woolf

Lambda Literary Award 2008-1999
The Lambda Literary Awards identify and celebrate the best lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender books of the year and affirm that LGBTQ stories are part of the literature of the world. The Lammys, which receive national and international media attention, bring together 600 attendees—including nominees, celebrities, sponsors, and publishing executives—to celebrate excellence in LGBTQ publishing. It is the most prestigious and glamorous LGBTQ literary event in the world. Winning a Lammy can literally launch a writer's career. Click Lambda Literary Foundation for more information about the sponsor of these awards.

2008
LESBIAN ANTHOLOGY First person queer : who we are (so far), edited by Richard Labonte and Lawrence Schimel
BISEXUAL Split screen by Brent Hartinger
TRANSGENDER Transparent by Cris Beam
LGBT CHILDRENS/YOUNG ADULT Hero by Perry Moore
LESBIAN DRAMA Return to the Caffe Cino, edited by Steve Susoyev and George Birimisa
LESBIAN NONFICTION Gay artists in modern American culture : an imagined conspiracy by Michael S. Sherry
LGBT SCI-FI/FANTASY/HORROR The dust of Wonderland by Lee Thomas
LGBT STUDIES Between women : friendship, desire, and marriage in Victorian England by Sharon Marcus
LESBIAN DEBUT FICTION Among other things, I've taken up smoking by Aoibheann Sweeney
LESBIAN GENERAL FICTION The IHOP papers by Ali Liebegott
LESBIAN MEMOIR/BIOGRAPHY And now we are going to have a party : liner notes to a writer's early life by Nicola Griffith
LESBIAN MYSTERY Wall of silence by Gabrielle Goldsby
LESBIAN ROMANCE Out of love by K. G. MacGregor
GAY DEBUT FICTION A push and a shove by Christopher Kelly
GAY GENERAL FICTION Call me by your name by Andre Aciman
GAY MEMOIR/BIOGRAPHY Mississippi sissy by Kevin Sessums
GAY MYSTERY Murder in the Rue Chartres by Greg Herren
GAY ROMANCE Changing tides by Michael Thomas Ford
ARTS & CULTURE The view from here by Matthew Hays
LGBT EROTICA Homosex : 60 years of gay erotica, edited by Simon Sheppard
SPIRITUALITY The after-death room by Michael McColly
LGBT POETRY Blackbird and Wolf by Henri Cole

2007
ANTHOLOGY Love, Bourbon Street : a celebration of New Orleans, edited by Greg Herren & Paul J. Willis
BISEXUAL The bisexual's guide to the universe : quips, tips, and lists for those who go both ways by Michael Szymanski & Nicole Kristal
TRANSGENDER The transgender studies reader, edited by Susan Stryker & Stephen Whittle
CHILDRENS/YOUNG ADULT The full spectrum : a new generation of writing about gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, questioning, and other identities, edited by David Levithan & Billy Merrell
DRAMA 1001 beds : performances, essays, and travels by Tim Miller
NONFICTION Gay L.A. : a history of sexual outlaws, power politics, and lipstick lesbians by Lillian Faderman & Stuart Timmons
SCI-FI/FANTASY/HORROR Izzy and Eve by Neal Drinnan
STUDIES Their own receive them not : African American lesbians and gays in Black churches by Horace Griffin
LESBIAN DEBUT FICTION The teahouse fire by Ellis Avery
LESBIAN EROTICA Walk like a man by Laurinda D. Brown
LESBIAN GENERAL FICTION The night watch by Sarah Waters
LESBIAN MEMOIR/BIOGRAPHY Fun home : a family tragicomic by Alison Bechdel
LESBIAN MYSTERY The art of detection by Laurie R. King
LESBIAN POETRY Lemon hound by Sina Queyras
LESBIAN ROMANCE Fresh tracks by Georgia Beers
GAY DEBUT FICTION Suspension by Robert Westfield
GAY EROTICA A history of barbed wire by Jeff Mann
GAY GENERAL FICTION Suspension by Robert Westfield
GAY MEMOIR/BIOGRAPHY The bill from my father : a memoir by Bernard Cooper
GAY MYSTERY The Lucky Elephant Restaurant by Garry Ryan
GAY POETRY A history of my tattoo by Jim Elledge
GAY ROMANCE When the stars come out by Rob Byrnes
ARTS & CULTURE Gay L.A. : a history of sexual outlaws, power politics, and lipstick lesbians by Lillian Faderman & Stuart Timmons
HUMOR My lucky star by Joe Keenan

2006
ANTHOLOGIES Freedom in this village : 25 years of black, gay men's writing, edited by E. Lynn Harris
BELLES LETTRES The tricky part : one boy's fall from trespass into grace by Martin Moran
BIOGRAPHY February house by Sherrill Tippins
CHILDREN'S/YOUNG ADULT Swimming in the monsoon sea by Shyam Selvadurai
EROTICA Stolen moments : erotic interludes 2, edited by Stacia Seaman and Radclyffe
GAY MEN'S DEBUT FICTION You are not the one by Vestal McIntyre
GAY MEN'S FICTION The sluts by Dennis Cooper
GAY MEN'S MYSTERY One of these things is not like the other by D. Travers Scott
GAY MEN'S POETRY Crush by Richard Siken
HUMOR Don't get too comfortable by David Rakoff
LESBIAN DEBUT FICTION The beautifully worthless by Ali Leibegott
LESBIAN FICTION Babyji : a novel by Abha Dawesar
LESBIAN MYSTERY Desert blood : the Juárez murders by Alicia Gaspar De Alba
LESBIAN POETRY Directed by desire : collected poems by June Jordan
LGBT STUDIES When heroes love : the ambiguity of eros in the stories of Gilgamesh and David by Susan Ackerman
NONFICTION Words to our now : imagination and dissent by Thomas Glave
ROMANCE Distant shores, silent thunder by Radclyffe
SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY/HORROR Daughters of an emerald dusk by Katherine V. Forrest
SPIRITUALITY Qu(e)erying evangelism : growing a community from the outside in by Cheri DiNovo
TRANSGENDER/GENDERQUEER Choir boy by Charlie Anders

2005
ANTHOLOGIES/FICTION Fresh men : new voices in gay fiction, edited by Donald Weise
ANTHOLOGIES/NONFICTION I do/I don't : queers on marriage, edited by Greg Wharton and Ian Philips
AUTOBIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR Name all the animals by Alison Smith
BIOGRAPHY Warrior Poet : a biography of Audre Lorde by Alexis De Veaux
CHILDREN'S/YOUNG ADULT So hard to say by Alex Sanchez
DRAMA I am my own wife by Doug Wright
EROTICA Best gay erotica 2005 edited by Richard Labonte
GAY MEN'S DEBUT FICTION Clay's way by Blair Mastbaum
GAY MEN'S FICTION The master : a novel by Colm Tóibín
GAY MEN'S POETRY Written in water by Luis Cernuda
GAY MEN'S MYSTERY Flight of aquavit by Anthony Bidulka
HUMOR Dress your family in corduroy and denim by David Sedaris
LESBIAN DEBUT FICTION Crybaby Butch by Judith Frank
LESBIAN FICTION A seahorse year by Stacey D'Erasmo
LESBIAN POETRY Sweet to burn by Beverly Burch
LESBIAN MYSTERY Hancock Park by Katherine V. Forrest
LGBT STUDIES For the love of women : gender, identity and same-sex relations in a Greek provincial town by Elisabeth Kirtsoglou
PHOTOGRAPHY/VISUAL ARTS At ease : Navy men of World War II by Evan Bachner
ROMANCE Almost like being in love by Steve Kluger
RELIGION/SPIRITUALITY Jesus and the shamanic tradition of same-sex love by Will Roscoe
SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY/HORROR The ordinary by Jim Grimsley
TRANSGENDER/GENDERQUEER The gender frontier by Mariette Pathy Allen

2004
ANTHOLOGIES/FICTION Pulp friction : uncovering the golden age of gay male pulps, edited by Michael Bronski
ANTHOLOGIES/NONFICTION Queer crips : disabled gay men and their stories, edited by Bob Guter and John R. Killacky
AUTOBIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR Naked in the promised land by Lillian Faderman
BIOGRAPHY Beautiful shadow : a life of Patricia Highsmith by Andrew Wilson
CHILDREN'S/YOUNG ADULT Boy meets boy by David Levithan
DRAMA Prok by Brian Drader
EROTICA Best lesbian erotica 2004, edited by Tristan Taormino
GAY MEN'S FICTION Lives of the circus animals by Christopher Bram
GAY MEN'S MYSTERY Blind eye by John Morgan Wilson
GAY MEN'S POETRY Sky lounge by Mark Bibbins
HUMOR Dykes and sundry other carbon-based life-forms to watch out for by Alison Bechdel
LESBIAN FICTION Southland by Nina Revoyr
LESBIAN MYSTERY Damn straight by Elizabeth Sims
LESBIAN POETRY The dirt she ate : selected and new poems by Minnie Bruce Pratt
LGBT STUDIES Time on two crosses : the collected writings of Bayard Rustin, edited by Devon W. Carbado and Donald Weise
PHOTOGRAPHY/VISUAL ARTS Women seeing women : a pictorial history of women's photography from Julia Margaret Cameron to Annie Leibovitz, edited by Lonthar Schirmer
ROMANCE Last summer by Michael Thomas Ford; Maybe next time by Karin Kallmaker
SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY Necrologue, edited by Helen Sandler
SPIRITUALITY Keeping Faith by Fenton Johnson
TRANSGENDER/GENDERQUEER She's not there : a life in two genders by Jennifer Finney Boylan

2003
ANTHOLOGIES/FICTION Black like us : a century of lesbian, gay, and bisexual African American fiction, edited by Devon Carbado, Dwight McBride and Done Weise
ANTHOLOGIES/NONFICTION The man I might become : gay men write about their fathers, edited by Bruce Shenitz
AUTOBIOGRAPHY Surviving madness : a therapist's own story by Betty Berzon
BIOGRAPHY Ridiculous! : the theatrical life and times of Charles Ludlam by David Kaufman
CHILDREN'S/YOUNG ADULT Letters in the attic by Bonnie Shimko
EROTICA Best lesbian erotica 2003, edited by Tristan Taormino
GAY MEN'S FICTION At swim, two boys : a novel by Jamie O'Neill
GAY MEN'S MYSTERY The snow garden by Christopher Rice
GAY MEN'S POETRY Hazmat by J. D. McClatchy
HUMOR Skipping towards Gomorrah : the seven deadly sins and the pursuit of happiness in America by Dan Savage
LESBIAN FICTION Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
LESBIAN MYSTERY Good Bad Woman by Elizabeth Woodcraft; Immaculate midnight by Ellen Hart
LESBIAN POETRY Mules of love : poems by Ellen Bass
LGBT STUDIES Sex-crime panic : a journey to the paranoid heart of the 1950s by Neil Miller
ROMANCE The winter of our discoteque by Andrew W. M. Beierle
SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY/HORROR Queer fear II, edited by Michael Rowe
SPIRITUALITY Courage to love : liturgies for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community by Geoffrey Duncan
TRANSGENDER Dress codes : of three girlhoods-- my mother's, my father's, and mine by Noelle Howey
VISUAL ARTS A hidden love : art and homosexuality by Dominique Fernandez

2002
ANTHOLOGIES/FICTION Diva book of short stories, edited by Helen Sandler
ANTHOLOGIES/NONFICTION The greatest taboo : homosexuality in Black communities, edited by Constantine-Simms
AUTOBIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR The noonday demon : an atlas of depression by Andrew Solomon
BIOGRAPHY The scarlet professor : The scarlet professor : Newton Arvin, a literary life shattered by scanda by Barry Werth
CHILDREN'S/YOUNG ADULT Finding H.F. by Julia Watts
EROTICA See Dick deconstruct : literotica for the satirically bent by Ian Philips
GAY MEN'S FICTION The practical heart : four novellas by Allan Gurganus
GAY MEN'S MYSTERY Rag and bone by Michael Nava
GAY MEN'S POETRY Source by Mark Doty
GLBT STUDIES Courting justice : gay men and lesbians v. the Supreme Court by Joyce Murdoch and Deb Price
HUMOR Fraud : essays by David Rakoff
LESBIAN FICTION Days of awe by Achy Obejas
LESBIAN MYSTERY Merchant of Venus by Ellen Hart
LESBIAN POETRY Fox : poems 1998-2000 by Adrienne Rich
PHOTOGRAPHY/VISUAL ARTS Dear friends : American photographs of men together, 1840-1918 by David Deitcher
ROMANCE Pages for you by Silvia Brownrigg
SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY/HORROR Point of dreams by Melissa Scott and Lisa A. Barnett
SMALL PRESS ¡Conversaciones! by Mariana Romo-Carmona
SPIRITUALITY Queer commentary and the Hebrew Bible, edited by Ken Stone; Escaping God's closet : the revelations of a queer priest by Bernard Duncan Mayes
TRANSGENDER/BISEXUAL Omnigender : a trans-religious approach by Virginia Ramey Mollenkott

2001
ANTHOLOGIES/FICTION Men on men 2000 : best new gay fiction for the millennium, edited by David Bergman and Karl Woelz
ANTHOLOGIES/NONFICTION Out of the ordinary : essays on growing up with gay, lesbian, and transgender parents, edited by Noelle Howey and Ellen Samuels
CHILDREN'S/YOUNG ADULT Out of the ordinary : essays on growing up with gay, lesbian, and transgender parents, edited by Noelle Howey and Ellen Samuels
DRAMA Hedwig and the Angry Inch by John Cameron Mithcell, music and lyrics by Stephen Trask (libretto) (piano/vocal selections) (CD)
GAY BIOGRAPHY/AUTOBIOGRAPHY Bosie : a biography of Lord Alfred Douglas by Douglas Murray
GAY FICTION The world of normal boys : a novel by K. M. Soehnlein
GAY MEN'S MYSTERY The limits of justice by John Morgan Wilson
GAY POETRY Pastoral : poems by Carl Phillips
GAY STUDIES The Isherwood century : essays on the life and work of Christopher Isherwood by James J. Berg and Chris Freeman
HORROR/SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY Kirith Kirin by Jim Grimsley
HUMOR Me talk pretty one day by David Sedaris
LESBIAN BIOGRAPHY/AUTOBIOGRAPHY Lifesaving : a memoir by Judith Barrington
LESBIAN FICTION Valencia by Michelle Tea
LESBIAN MYSTERY Mommy deadest by Jean Marcy
LESBIAN POETRY Mercy mercy me by Elena Georgiou
LESBIAN STUDIES Lesbian art in America by Harmony Hammond
SPIRITUALITY/RELIGION Gay spirituality by Toby Johnson; It's never about what it's about : what we learned about living while waiting to die by Krandall Kraus and Paul Borja
SMALL PRESS Kamikaze lust by Lauren Sanders; Between dances : a novel by Erasmo Guerra
TRANSGENDER The Danish girl by David Ebershoff
VISUAL ARTS Faeries : visions, voices and pretty dresses by Keri Pickett

2000
ANTHOLOGIES/FICTION The Vintage book of international lesbian fiction, edited by Naomi Holoch, Joan Nestle, and Nancy Holden
ANTHOLOGIES/NONFICTION Completely queer : the gay and lesbian encyclopedia, edited by Steve Hogan and Lee Hudson; This is what lesbian looks like : dyke activists take on the 21st century, edited by Kris Kleindienst
CHILDREN'S/YOUNG ADULT Hard love by Ellen Wittlinger
DRAMA What I meant was : new plays and selected one-acts by Craig Lucas
GAY MEN'S BIOGRAPHY/AUTOBIOGRAPHY The velveteen father : an unexpected journey to parenthood by Jesse Green
GAY MEN'S FICTION Allan Stein by Matthew Stadler
GAY MEN'S MYSTERY Justice at risk by John Morgan Wilson
GAY MEN'S POETRY The anchorage by Mark Wunderlich; Trappings by Richard Howard
GAY MEN'S STUDIES Pictures and passions : a history of homosexuality in the visual arts by James Saslow
HUMOR That's Mr. Faggot to you by Michael Thomas Ford
LESBIAN BIOGRAPHY/AUTOBIOGRAPHY The trials of Radclyffe Hall by Diana Souhami
LESBIAN FICTION Tipping the velvet by Sarah Waters
LESBIAN MYSTERY Hunting the witch by Ellen Hart
LESBIAN POETRY Rave : poems, 1975-1999 by Olga Broumas
LESBIAN STUDIES To believe in women : what lesbians have done for America--a history by Lillian Faderman
PHOTOGRAPHY/VISUAL ARTS Pictures and passions : a history of homosexuality in the visual arts by James Saslow
RELIGION/SPIRITUALITY Gay spirit warrior by John Stowe
SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY Minions of the moon by Richard Bowe
SMALL PRESS Massage by Henry Flesh
TRANSGENDER Trumpet : a novel by Jackie Kay

1999
ANTHOLOGIES/FICTION The Columbia anthology of gay literature : readings from Western antiquity to the present day, edited by Byrne R.S. Fone
ANTHOLOGIES/NONFICTION Mom : candid memoirs by lesbians about the first woman in their life, edited by Nisa Donnelly; Q & A : queer in Asian America, edited by David L. Eng
CHILDREN'S/YOUNG ADULT Telling tales out of school : gays, lesbians, and bisexuals revisit their school days by Kevin Jennings
DRAMA O solo homo, edited by Holly Hughes
EDITOR'S CHOICE AWARD The Boy by Naeem Murr
GAY MEN'S BIOGRAPHY/AUTOBIOGRAPHY Wisecracker : the life and times of William Haines, Hollywood's first openly gay star by William J. Mann
GAY MEN'S FICTION An arrow's flight by Mark Merlis
GAY MEN'S MYSTERY Outburst by R. D. Zimmerman
GAY MEN'S POETRY 10 commandments : poems by J. D. McClatchy
GAY MEN'S STUDIES The other side of silence : men's lives and gay identities : a twentieth century history by John Loughery
HUMOR Alec Baldwin doesn't love me & other trials of my queer life by Michael Thomas Ford
LESBIAN BIOGRAPHY/AUTOBIOGRAPHY The indelible Alison Bechdel : confessions, comix, and miscellaneous dykes to watch out for by Alison Bechdel
LESBIAN FICTION Cavedweller by Dorothy Allison
LESBIAN MYSTERY The blue place by Nicola Griffith
LESBIAN POETRY Marianne Faithfull's cigarette by Gerry Gomez Pearlberg
LESBIAN STUDIES A fragile union : new & selected writings by Joan Nestle
PHOTOGRAPHY/VISUAL ARTS The male nude by David Leddick; Women in love : portraits of lesbian mothers and their families by Barbara Seyda with Diana Herrera
RELIGION/SPIRITUALITY Ferocious romance : what my encounters with the right taught me about sex, God, and fury by Donna Minkowitz
SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY Bending the landscape II : original gay and lesbian writing : science fiction, edited by Nicola Griffith and Stephen Pagel
SMALL PRESS the bull-jean stories by Sharon Bridgforth
TRANSGENDER The empress is a man : stories from the life of José Sarria by Michael Robert Gorman

Lambda Literary Award 1998-1989
The Lambda Literary Awards identify and celebrate the best lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender books of the year and affirm that LGBTQ stories are part of the literature of the world. The Lammys, which receive national and international media attention, bring together 600 attendees—including nominees, celebrities, sponsors, and publishing executives—to celebrate excellence in LGBTQ publishing. It is the most prestigious and glamorous LGBTQ literary event in the world. Winning a Lammy can literally launch a writer's career. Click Lambda Literary Foundation for more information about the sponsor of these awards.

1998
ANTHOLOGIES/FICTION His 2 : brilliant new fiction by gay writers, edited by Robert Drake with Terry Wolverton
ANTHOLOGIES/NONFICTION Queers in space : communities, public places, sites of resistance, edited by Gordon Brent Ingram, AnneMarie Bouthillette, and Yolanda Retter
CHILDREN'S/YOUNG ADULT The house you pass on the way by Jacqueline Woodson
DRAMA Gross indecency : the three trials of Oscar Wilde by Moises Kaufman
EDITOR'S CHOICE AWARD Billy's boy by Patricia Nell Warren
GAY MEN'S BIOGRAPHY/AUTOBIOGRAPHY The poetry of healing : a doctor's education in empathy, identity, and desire by Rafael Campo
GAY MEN'S FICTION The far Euphrates by Aryeh Lev Stollman
GAY MEN'S MYSTERY The magician's tale by David Hunt
GAY MEN'S POETRY Beautiful signor by Cyrus Cassells
GAY MEN'S STUDIES The gay metropolis, 1940-1996, edited by Charles Kaiser
HUMOR Openly Bob by Bob Smith
LESBIAN BIOGRAPHY/AUTOBIOGRAPHY Blue windows : a Christian Science childhood by Barbara Wilson
LESBIAN FICTION Beyond the pale : a novel by Elana Dykewomon
LESBIAN MYSTERY Father forgive me by Randye Lordon
LESBIAN POETRY Cold River by Joan Larkin; School of fish by Eileen Myles
LESBIAN STUDIES Does your mama know? : an anthology of black lesbian coming out stories, edited by Lisa C. Moore
PHOTOGRAPHY/VISUAL ARTS Naked men : pioneering male nudes 1935-1955 by David Leddick; Particular voices : portraits of gay and lesbian writers by Robert Giard
SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY Bending the landscape : original gay and lesbian writing : science fiction, edited by Nicola Griffith and Stephen Pagel
SMALL PRESS Does your mama know? : an anthology of black lesbian coming out stories, edited by Lisa C. Moore
SPIRITUALITY/RELIGION Like bread on the seder plate by Rebecca Alpert
TRANSGENDER PoMoSexuals : challenging assumptions about gender and sexuality, edited by Carol Queen and Lawrence Schimel; The last time I wore a dress by Daphne Scholinski and Jane Meredith Adams

1997
ANTHOLOGIES/FICTION Women on women 3 : an anthology of American lesbian short fiction, edited by Joan Nestle & Naomi Holoch
ANTHOLOGIES/NONFICTION Taking liberties : gay men's essays on politics, culture, and sex, edited by Michael Bronski
CHILDREN'S/YOUNG ADULT Good moon rising by Nancy Garden
DRAMA Split britches, edited by Sue-Ellen Case
EDITOR'S CHOICE AWARD Tennessee Williams' letters to Donald Windham, 1940-1965, edited by Donald Windham
GAY MEN'S BIOGRAPHY/AUTOBIOGRAPHY Geography of the heart : a memoir by Fenton Johnson
GAY MEN'S FICTION Funny boy : a novel by Shyam Selvadurai
GAY MEN'S MYSTERY Death of friends by Michael Nava
GAY MEN'S POETRY What the body told by Rafael Campo
GAY MEN'S STUDIES Boys like us : gay writers tell their coming out stories, edited by Patrick Merla
HUMOR The homo handbook : getting in touch with your inner homo by Judy Carter
LESBIAN BIOGRAPHY/AUTOBIOGRAPHY Life in a day by Doris Grumbach
LESBIAN FICTION Memory mambo : a novel by Achy Obejas
LESBIAN MYSTERY Robber's wine by Ellen Hart
LESBIAN POETRY All-American girl by Robin Becker; Furious cooking : poems by Maureen Seaton
LESBIAN STUDIES Love between women : early Christian responses to female homoeroticism by Bernadette J. Brooten
PHOTOGRAPHY/VISUAL ARTS Nothing but the girl : the blatant lesbian image : a portfolio and exploration of lesbian erotic photography by Susie Bright & Jill Posener
SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY Sacrament by Clive Barker
SMALL PRESS Body alchemy : transsexual portraits by Loren Cameron
SPIRITUALITY The good book : reading the Bible with mind and heart by Peter Gomes
TRANSGENDER Body alchemy : transsexual portraits by Loren Cameron

1996
ANTHOLOGIES/FICTION Tasting life twice : literary lesbian fiction by new American writers, edited by E. J. Levy
ANTHOLOGIES/NONFICTION The gay and lesbian literary heritage : a reader's companion to the writers and their works, from antiquity to the present, edited by Claude J. Summers (2d ed. (2014) here)
CHILDREN'S/YOUNG ADULT From the notebooks of Melanin Sun by Jacqueline Woodson
DRAMA Slavs! (Thinking about the longstanding problems of virtue and happiness) by Tony Kushner; Go fish by Guinevere Turner and Rose Troche
EDITOR'S CHOICE AWARD Forbidden passages : writings banned in Canada, introduced by Pat Califia and Janine Fuller
GAY MEN'S BIOGRAPHY/AUTOBIOGRAPHY Tom : the unknown Tennessee Williams by Lyle Leverich
GAY MEN'S FICTION Flesh and blood by Michael Cunningham
GAY MEN'S MYSTERY Closet by R. D. Zimmerman
GAY MEN'S POETRY Atlantis : poems by Mark Doty
GAY MEN'S STUDIES De los otros : intimacy and homosexuality among Mexican men by Joseph Carrier
HUMOR The butches of Madison County by Ellen Orleans
LESBIAN BIOGRAPHY/AUTOBIOGRAPHY Aimée & Jaguar by Erica Fischer
LESBIAN FICTION Autobiography of a family photo : a novel by Jacqueline Woodson
LESBIAN MYSTERY Intersection of law and desire by J. M. Redmann
LESBIAN POETRY Dark fields of the Republic : poems, 1991-1995 by Adrienne Rich
LESBIAN STUDIES Dyke life : from growing up to growing old, a celebration of the lesbian experience, edited by Karla Jay
PHOTOGRAPHY/VISUAL ARTS Paris was a woman : portraits from the Left Bank by Andrea Weiss
SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY Shadow man by Melissa Scott
SMALL PRESS The new fuck you, edited by Eileen Myles and Liz Kotz
SPIRITUALITY Wrestling with the angel : faith and religion in the lives of gay men, edited by Brian Bouldrey

1995
ANTHOLOGIES/FICTION Chloe plus Olivia : an anthology of lesbian literature from the seventeenth century to the present, edited by Lillian Faderman
ANTHOLOGIES/NONFICTION Sister & brother : lesbians & gay men write about their lives together, edited by Joan Nestle and John Preston
CHILDREN'S/YOUNG ADULT Am I blue? : coming out from the silence, edited by Marion Dane Bauer
DRAMA Angels in America : Perestroika by Tony Kushner
EDITOR'S CHOICE AWARD Memoir of a race traitor by Mab Segrest
GAY MEN'S BIOGRAPHY/AUTOBIOGRAPHY My own country : a doctor's story of a town and its people in the age of AIDS by Abraham Verghese
GAY MEN'S FICTION The folding star by Alan Hollinghurst
GAY MEN'S MYSTERY Midnight in the garden of good and evil : a Savannah story by John Berendt
GAY MEN'S POETRY Collected poems by Thom Gunn
GAY MEN'S STUDIES Gay New York : gender, urban culture, and the makings of the gay male world, 1890-1940 by George Chauncey
HUMOR The dyke and the dybbuk : a novel by Ellen Galford
LESBIAN BIOGRAPHY/AUTOBIOGRAPHY Gertrude Stein : in words and pictures : a photobiography, edited by Renate Stendhal
LESBIAN FICTION The gifts of the body by Rebecca Brown
LESBIAN MYSTERY A small sacrifice : a Jane Lawless mystery by Ellen Hart
LESBIAN POETRY Winter numbers : poems by Marilyn Hacker
LESBIAN STUDIES Skin : talking about sex, class & literature by Dorothy Allison
PHOTOGRAPHY/VISUAL ARTS Family : a portrait of gay and lesbian America by Nancy Andrews
SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY Trouble and her friends by Melissa Scott
SMALL PRESS Her tongue on my theory : images, essays, and fantasies by Kiss & Tell

1994
ANTHOLOGIES The lesbian and gay studies reader, edited by by Henry Abelove, Michele Aina Barale and David Halperin
CHILDREN'S/YOUNG ADULT The cat came back by Hilary Mullins
DRAMA Angels in America : Millenium approaches by Tony Kushner
EDITOR'S CHOICE AWARD A star-bright lie by Coleman Dowell
GAY MEN'S BIOGRAPHY/AUTOBIOGRAPHY Genet : a biography by Edmund White
GAY MEN'S FICTION Living upstairs by Joseph Hansen
GAY MEN'S MYSTERY Catilina's riddle by Steven Saylor
GAY MEN'S POETRY Collected poems by James Schuyler; 1990 by Michael Klein
GAY MEN'S STUDIES Conduct unbecoming : lesbians and gays in the U.S. military : Vietnam to the Persian Gulf by Randy Shilts
HUMOR Spawn of dykes to watch out for by Alison Bechdel
LESBIAN BIOGRAPHY/AUTOBIOGRAPHY Marguerite Yourcenar : inventing a life by Josyanne Savigneau
LESBIAN FICTION Written on the body by Jeannette Winterson
LESBIAN MYSTERY Divine victim by Mary Wings
LESBIAN POETRY The marvelous arithmetics of distance : poems 1987-1992 by Audre Lorde
LESBIAN STUDIES Boots of leather, slippers of gold : the history of a lesbian community by Elizabeth Kennedy and Madeline Davis
SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY The fifth sacred thing by Starhawk
SMALL PRESS Stone butch blues : a novel by Leslie Feinberg; Sojourner : black gay voices in the age of AIDS by Other Countries

1993
CHILDREN'S/YOUNG ADULT When heroes die by Penny Raife Durant
EDITOR'S CHOICE AWARD Gay ideas : outing and other controversies by Richard Mohr
GAY MEN'S ANTHOLOGIES A member of the family : gay men write about their families, edited by John Preston
GAY MEN'S FICTION Let the dead bury their dead and other stories by Randall Kenan
GAY MEN'S MYSTERY The hidden law by Michael Nava
GAY MEN'S NONFICTION Becoming a man : half a life story by Paul Monette
GAY MEN'S POETRY Counting myself lucky : selected poems, 1963-1992 by Edward Field
GAY MEN'S SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY China Mountain Zhang by Maureen F. McHugh
HUMOR Dykes to watch out for : the sequel : added attraction! "Serial monogamy", a documentary by Alison Bechdel
LESBIAN ANTHOLOGIES The persistent desire : a femme-butch reader, edited by Joan Nestle
LESBIAN FICTION Running fiercely toward a high thin sound : a novel by Judith Katz
LESBIAN MYSTERY The two-bit tango : a mystery by Elizabeth Pincus; Crazy for loving by Jaye Maiman
LESBIAN NONFICTION Eleanor Roosevelt by Blanche Cook
LESBIAN POETRY Undersong : chosen poems, old and new by Audre Lorde
LESBIAN SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY Ammonite by Nicola Griffith
SMALL PRESS  Memories that smell like gasoline by David Wojnarowicz

1992
CHILDREN'S/YOUNG ADULT The duke who outlawed jelly beans : and other stories by Johnny Valentine ; illustrated by Lynette Schmidt
EDITOR’S CHOICE Odd girls and twilight lovers : a history of lesbian life in twentieth-century America by Lillian Faderman
GAY MEN’S ANTHOLOGY Brother to brother : new writings by Black gay men, edited by Essex Hemphill
GAY MEN'S FICTION What the dead remember by Harlan Greene
GAY MEN'S MYSTERY A country of old men : the last Dave Brandstetter mystery by Joseph Hansen
GAY MEN’S NONFICTION The Zuni man-woman by Will Roscoe
GAY MEN'S POETRY The Road before us : 100 gay Black poets, edited by Assoto Saint
GAY MEN’S SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY The dark beyond the stars by Frank M. Robinson
HUMOR Putting on the Ritz by Joe Keenan
LESBIAN ANTHOLOGY Chicana lesbians : the girls our mothers warned us about, edited by Carla Trujillo
LESBIAN FICTION The revolution of little girls by Blanche Boyd; The Gilda stories : a novel by Jewelle Gomez
LESBIAN MYSTERY Murder by tradition by Katherine V. Forrest
LESBIAN NONFICTION Cancer in two voices by Sandra Butler and Barbara Rosenblum
LESBIAN POETRY An atlas of the difficult world : poems, 1988-1991 by Adrienne Rich
LESBIAN SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY The Gilda stories : a novel by Jewelle Gomez
SMALL PRESS BOOK AWARD Gay roots : twenty years of Gay sunshine : an anthology of gay history, sex, politics, and culture, edited by Winston Leyland

1991
AIDS The way we live now : American plays & the AIDS crisis, edited by Elizabeth Osbourn
EDITOR’S CHOICE The encyclopedia of homosexuality, edited by Wayne Dynes
GAY MEN’S ANTHOLOGY Men on men 3 : best new gay fiction, edited by George Stambolian
GAY MEN’S DEBUT FICTION Dancing on Tisha b'Av by Lev Raphael
GAY MEN'S FICTION The body and its dangers by Allen Barnett
GAY MEN'S MYSTERY Howtown by Michael Nava
GAY MEN’S NONFICTION Coming out under fire : the history of gay men and women in World War Two by Alan Berube
GAY MEN'S POETRY Decade dance by Michael Lassell
GAY MEN’S SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY Magic's price by Mercedes Lackey; Secret matter by Toby Johnson
GAY MEN’S SMALL PRESS BOOK AWARD Daddy's roommate by Michael Willhoite
HUMOR New, improved! Dykes to watch out for by Alison Bechdel
LESBIAN ANOTHOLOGY Women on women : an anthology of American lesbian short fiction, edited by Joan Nestle & Naomi Holoch
LESBIAN DEBUT FICTION Her : a novel by Cherry Muhanji
LESBIAN FICTION Out of time by Paula Martinac
LESBIAN MYSTERY Gaudí afternoon by Barbara Wilson; Ninth life by Lauren Wright Douglas
LESBIAN NONFICTION The safe sea of women : lesbian fiction, 1969-1989 by Bonnie Zimmerman
LESBIAN POETRY Going back to the river : poems by Marilyn Hacker
LESBIAN SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY Gossamer axe by Gael Baudino
LESBIAN SMALL PRESS BOOK AWARD Different mothers : sons and daughters of lesbians talk about their lives, edited by Louise Rafkin

1990
AIDS Reports from the holocaust : the making of an AIDS activist by Larry Kramer
EDITOR’S CHOICE Lifting belly Gertrude Stein, edited by Rebecca Mark
GAY MEN’S ANTHOLOGIES Hidden from history : reclaiming the gay and lesbian past, edited by Martin B. Duberman et. al.
GAY MEN’S DEBUT FICTION The irreversible decline of Eddie Socket : a novel by John Weir
GAY MEN'S FICTION Eighty-sixed by David B. Feinberg
GAY MEN'S MYSTERY Simple suburban murder by Mark Richard Zubro
GAY MEN’S NONFICTION In search of gay America : women and men in a time of change by Neil Miller
GAY MEN’S SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY Somewhere in the night by Jeffrey N. McMahan
HUMOR Gay comics, edited by Robert Triptow
LESBIAN ANTHOLOGY Hidden from history : reclaiming the gay and lesbian past, edited by Martin B. Duberman et. al.; Intricate passions : a collection of erotic short fiction, edited by Tee Corinne; Out the other side : contemporary lesbian writing, edited by C. McEwen & S. O’Sullivan
LESBIAN DEBUT FICTION The names of the moons of Mars by Patricia R. Schwartz
LESBIAN FICTION The bar stories : a novel after all by Nisa Donnelly
LESBIAN MYSTERY The Beverly Malibu by Katherine V. Forrest
LESBIAN NONFICTION Really reading Gertrude Stein : a selected anthology with essays, edited by Judy Grahn
LESBIAN SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY What did Miss Darrington see? : an anthology of feminist supernatural fiction, edited by Jessica A. Salmonson
POETRY Poets for life : seventy-six poets respond to AIDS, edited by Michael Klein
SMALL PRESS BOOK AWARD My life as a mole and five other stories by Larry Mitchell ; illustrated by Bill Rice
YOUNG ADULT/CHILDREN’S BOOK AWARD Losing Uncle Tim by MaryKate Jordan

1989
AIDS Borrowed time : an AIDS memoir by Paul Monette
EDITOR’S CHOICE Why can't Sharon Kowalski come home? by Karen Thompson and Julie Andrzejewski
GAY MEN’S DEBUT FICTION The swimming-pool library by Alan Hollinghurst
GAY MEN'S FICTION The beautiful room is empty by Edmund White
GAY MEN'S MYSTERY/SCIENCE FICTION Goldenboy : a Henry Rios mystery by Michael Nava
GAY MEN’S NONFICTION Borrowed time : an AIDS memoir by Paul Monette
GAY MEN’S SMALL PRESS BOOK AWARD Goldenboy : a Henry Rios mystery by Michael Nava; The delight of hearts : or what you will not find in any book, edited by Ahmad al-Tifashi and Winston Leyland
LESBIAN DEBUT FICTION Bird-eyes by Madelyn Arnold
LESBIAN FICTION Trash : stories by Dorothy Allison
LESBIAN MYSTERY/SCIENCE FICTION Skiptrace by Antoinette Azolakov
LESBIAN NONFICTION Lesbian ethics : toward new value by Sarah Lucia Hoagland
LESBIAN SMALL PRESS BOOK AWARD Trash : stories by Dorothy Allison
POETRY Gay & lesbian poetry in our time : an anthology, edited by Carl Morse & Joan Larkin

The National Jewish Book Awards
The National Jewish Book Awards is the longest running awards program of its kind in the field of Jewish literature and is recognized as the most prestigious. The awards, presented by category, are designed to give recognition to outstanding books, to stimulate writers to further literary creativity and to encourage the reading of worthwhile titles. Click Jewish Book Council for more information about the sponsors of this award.

2022
Jewish Book of the Year: Koshersoul : the faith and food journey of an African American Jew by Michael W. Twitty
American Jewish Studies: American shtetl : the making of Kiryas Joel, a Hasidic village in upstate New York by Nomi M. Stolzenberg, David N. Myers
Autobiography and Memoir: Chosen : a memoir of stolen boyhood by Stephen Mills
Biography: The escape artist : the man who broke out of Auschwitz to warn the world by Jonathan Freed­land
Book Club Award: Shayna by Miriam Ruth Black
Children's Picture Book: The very best sukkah : a story from Uganda by Shoshana Nambi ; illustrated by Moran Yogev
Contemporary Jewish Life and Practice: On repentance and repair : mak­ing amends in an unapologetic world by Danya Ruttenberg
Debut Fiction: Abomination by Ashley Goldberg
Education and Jewish Identity:  My second favorite country by Silvan Zakai
Fiction: Signal fires by Dani Shapiro
Food writing & Cookbooks: Cooking alla Giudia : a celebration of the Jewish food of Italy by Benedetta Jasmine Guetta
Hebrew fiction in translation: Love by Maayan Eitan
History: An unchosen people : Jewish political reckoning in interwar Poland by Ken­neth B. Moss
Holocaust: The escape artist : the man who broke out of Auschwitz to warn the world by Jonathan Freedland
Holocaust memoir award: One hundred Saturdays : Stella Levi and the search for a lost world by Michael Frank ; illustrated by Maira Kalman
Middle grade literature: The prince of Steel Pier by Stacy Nockowitz
Modern Jewish Thought and Experience: Figuring Jerusalem : politics and poetics in the sacred center by Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi
Poetry: Today in the Taxi by Sean Singer
Scholarship: The heresy of Jacob Frank : from Jewish messianism to esoteric myth by Jay Michaelson
Sephardic Culture: One hundred Saturdays : Stella Levi and the search for a lost world by Michael Frank
Visual arts: Let there be light : the real story of her creation by Liana Finck
Women's Studies: A ​"Jewish Marshall Plan" : the American Jewish presence in post-Holocaust France by Laura Hobson Faure
Young Adult Literature: It's my whole life : Charlotte Salomon : an artist in hiding during World War II by Susan Wider

2021
Jewish Book of the Year: To repair a broken world : the life of Henrietta Szold, founder of Hadassah
American Jewish Studies: A Fortress in Brooklyn: Race, Real Estate, and the Mak­ing of Hasidic Williamsburg by Nathaniel Deutsch and Michael Casper
Autobiography and Memoir: The empathy diaries by Sherry Turkle
Biography: To repair a broken world : the life of Henrietta Szold, founder of Hadassah
Book Club Award: The hidden palace by Helene Wecker
Children's Picture Book: Dear Mr. Dickens by Nancy Churnin ; illustrated by Bethany Stancliffe
Contemporary Jewish Life and Practice: People love dead Jews : reports from a haunted present by Dara Horn
Debut Fiction: A play for the end of the world : a novel by Jai Chakrabarti
Education and Jewish Identity: Jewish cultural studies by Simon J. Bronner
Fiction: The Netanyahus : an account of a minor and ultimately even negligible episode in the history of a very famous family by Joshual Cohen
Food writing & Cookbooks: Bene appétit : the cuisine of Indian Jews by Esther David
History: The house of fragile things : Jewish art collectors and the fall of France by James McAuley
Holocaust: The ravine : a family, a photograh, a Holocaust massacre revealed by Wendy Lower
Middle grade literature: Linked by Gordon Korman
Modern Jewish Thought and Experience: Torah in a time of plague : historical and contemporary Jewish responses, edited by Erin Leib Smokler
Poetry: The book of Anna by Joy Ladin
Scholarship: Jews and their Roman rivals : pagan Rome's challenge to Israel by Katell Berthelot
Sephardic Culture: The memory work of Jewish Spain by Daniela Flesler and Adrián Pérez Melgosa
Women's Studies: The light of days : the untold story of women resistance fighters in Hitler's ghettos by Judy Batalion
Writing Based on Archival Material: International Jewish humanitarianism in the age of the Great War by Jaclyn Granick
Young Adult Literature: Rebel daughter by Lori Banov Kaufman

2020
Jewish Book of the Year: Morality : restoring the common good in divided times by Jonathan Sacks
American Jewish Studies: The art of the Jewish family : a history of women in early New York in five objects by Laura Leibman
Autobiography and Memoir: When time stopped : a memoir of my father's war and what remains by Ari­ana Neumann
Biography: From left to right : Lucy S. Daw­id­ow­icz, the New York intel­lec­tu­als, and the pol­i­tics of Jew­ish history by Nan­cy Sinkoff
Book Club Award: The lost shtetl by Max Gross
Children's Picture Book: Wel­com­ing Eli­jah : a Passover tale with a tail by Lesléa New­man ; illustrated by Susan Gal
Contemporary Jewish Life and Practice: Judaism for the world : reflec­tions on God, life, and love by Arthur Green
Debut Fiction: Flo­rence Adler swims forever by Rachel Bean­land
Education and Jewish Identity: A Hebrew infu­sion by Sarah Bunin Benor, Jonathan B. Krasner, and Sharon Avni
Fiction: Apeirogon : a novel by Colum McCann
Food writing & Cookbooks: Now for some­thing sweet by the Mon­day Morn­ing Cook­ing Club
History: The art of the Jewish family : a history of women in early New York in five objects by Laura Leibman
Holocaust: The unan­swered let­ter : one Holo­caust fam­i­ly's des­per­ate plea for help by Faris Cas­sell
Middle grade literature: The black­bird girls by Anne Blankman
Modern Jewish Thought and Experience: Morality : restoring the common good in divided times by Jonathan Sacks
Poetry: Nau­tilus and bone by Lisa Richter
Scholarship: Time and dif­fer­ence in Rab­binic Judaism by Sar­it Kat­tan Gribetz
Sephardic Culture: Forg­ing ties, forg­ing pass­ports : migra­tion and the mod­ern Sephar­di diaspora by Devi Mays
Women's Studies: The art of the Jewish family : a history of women in early New York in five objects by Laura Leibman
Writing Based on Archival Material: Blood libel : on the trail of an Anti­se­mit­ic myth by Mag­da Teter
Young Adult Literature: The way back by Gavriel Sav­it

2019
Jewish Book of the Year: Amer­i­ca’s Jew­ish women : a his­to­ry from colo­nial times to today by Pamela Nadell
American Jewish Studies: The foun­da­tions of Amer­i­can Jew­ish liberalism by Kenneth D. Wald
Anthologies and Collections: What we talk about when we talk about Hebrew : and what it means to Americans by Naomi B. Sokoloff and Nancy E. Berg
Autobiography and Memoir: Inher­i­tance : a mem­oir of geneal­o­gy, pater­ni­ty, and love by Dani Shapiro
Book Club Award: The world that we knew : a novel by Alice Hoff­man
Children's Literature: Gittel's journey : an Ellis Island story by Lesléa Newman, illustrated by Amy June Bates
Contemporary Jewish Life and Practice: How to fight anti-Semitism by Bari Weiss
Debut Fiction: Naamah by Sarah Blake
Education and Jewish Identity: Anti­semitism : here and now by Deb­o­rah E. Lipstadt
Fiction: Fly already by Etgar Keret
Food writing & Cookbooks: Jew­ish cui­sine in Hun­gary : a cul­tur­al his­to­ry with 83 authen­tic recipes by Andras Koerner
History: The guard­ed gate : big­otry, eugen­ics, and the law that kept two gen­er­a­tions of Jews, Ital­ians, and oth­er Euro­pean immi­grants out of America by Daniel Okrent
Holocaust: The unwant­ed : Amer­i­ca, Auschwitz, and a vil­lage caught in between by Michael Dobbs
Lifetime Achievement: The Hebrew Bible : a trans­la­tion with commentary by Robert Alter
Modern Jewish Thought and Experience: Lega­cy of blood : Jews, pogroms, and rit­u­al mur­der in the lands of the Soviets by Elis­sa Bemporad
Poetry: Deaf repub­lic : poems by Ilya Kaminsky
Scholarship: Rashi’s com­men­tary on the Torah : can­on­iza­tion and resis­tance in the recep­tion of a Jew­ish classic by Eric Lawee
Sephardic Culture: Lethal provo­ca­tion : the Con­stan­tine mur­ders and the pol­i­tics of French Algeria by Joshua Cole
Visual arts: Edith Halpert, the Down­town Gallery, and the rise of Amer­i­can art by Rebecca Shaykin
Women's Studies: Sarah Schenir­er and the Bais Yaakov movement by Naomi Seidman
Writing Based on Archival Material: A mor­tu­ary of books : the res­cue of Jew­ish cul­ture after the Holocaust by Elisabeth Gallas, translated by Alex Skinner
Young Adult: Some­day we will fly by Rachel DeWoskin

2018
Jewish Book of the Year: Hunting the truth : memoirs of Beate and Serge Klarsfeld, translated by Sam Taylor
American Jewish Studies: The new American Judaism : how Jews practice their religion today by Jack Wertheimer
Autobiography and Memoir: My country, my life : fighting for Israel, searching for peace by Ehud Barak
Book Club Award: The girl from Berlin by Ronald H. Balson
Children's Literature: All three stooges by Erica S. Perl
Contemporary Jewish Life and Practice: The going : a meditation on Jew­ish law by Leon Wiener Dow
Debut Fiction: The Book of Dirt by Bram Presser
Education and Jewish Identity: The Tal­mud : a biography by Barry Scott Wimpfheimer
Fiction: The last watch­man of old Cairo by Michael David Lukas
History: Rise and kill first : the secret his­to­ry of Israel's tar­get­ed assassinations by Ronen Bergman
Holocaust: Anatomy of a genocide : the life and death of a town called Buczacz by Omer Bartov
Modern Jewish Thought and Experience: Does Judaism con­done vio­lence? Holiness and ethics in the Jewish tradition by Alan L. Mittleman
Poetry: Holy moly carry me : poems by Erika Meitner
Scholarship: Historical Atlas of Hasidism by Marcin Wodziński
Sephardic Culture: Domin­ion built of praise : pan­e­gyric and legit­i­ma­cy among Jews in the medieval Mediterranean by Jonathan Decter
Women's Studies: Never a native by Alice Shalvi
Writing Based on Archival Material: Rescue board : the untold story of America's efforts to save the Jews of Europe by Rebec­ca Erbelding

2017
Jewish Book of the Year: Lioness : Golda Meir and the nation of Israel by Francine Klagsbrun
American Jewish Studies: Jews on the frontier : religion and mobility in nineteenth-century America by Shari Rabin
Anthologies and Collections: Makers of Jewish modernity : thinkers, artists, leaders, and the world they made, edited by Jacques Picard, Jacques Revel, Michael P. Steinberg, and Idith Zertal
Biography, Autobiography, and Memoir: The choice : embrace the possible by Edith Eger
Book Club Award: The weight of ink by Rachel Kadish
Children's Literature: The language of angels : a story about the reinvention of Hebrew by Richard Michelson; Illustrated by Karla Gudeon
Contemporary Jewish Life and Practice: The Torah of music : reflections on a tradition of singing and song by Joey Weisenberg
Debut Fiction: Barren island by Carol Zoref
Education and Jewish Identity: The origin of the Jews : the quest for roots in a rootless age by Steven Weitzman
Fiction: A horse walks into a bar by David Grossman; translated by Jessica Cohen
History: The many deaths of Jew Suss : the notorious trial and execution of an eighteenth-century court Jew by Yair Mintzker
Holocaust: The book smugglers : partisans, poets, and the race to save Jewish treasures from the nazis by David E. Fishman
Modern Jewish Thought and Experience: Consumer culture and the making of modern Jewish identity by Gideon Reuveni
Poetry: Waiting for the light by Alicia Suskin Ostriker
Scholarship: Pious irreverence : confronting God in rabbinic Judaism by Dov Weiss
Sephardic Culture: Across legal lines : Jews and Muslims in modern Morocco by Jessica M. Marglin
Visual arts: Arthur Szyk : soldier in art by Irvin Ungar
Women's Studies: Coming of age in medieval Egypt : female adolescence, Jewish law, and ordinary culture by Eve Krakowski
Writing Based on Archival Material: Confessions of the shtetl : converts from Judaism in Imperial Russia, 1817-1906 Ellie R. Schainker
Young Adult: Refugee by Alan Gratz

2016
Jewish Book of the Year: Israel : a concise history of a nation reborn by Daniel Gordis
JBC Modern Jewish Literary Achievement Award: Moonglow by Michael Chabon
American Jewish Studies: Kosher USA : how coke became kosher and other tales of modern food by Roger Horowitz
Anthologies and Collections: Makers of Jewish modernity : thinkers, artists, leaders, and the world they made, edited by Jacques Picard, Jacques Revel, Michael P. Steinberg, and Idith Zertal
Biography, Autobiography, and Memoir: But you did not come back by Marceline Loridan-Ivens; translated by Sandra Smith
Book Club Award: And after the fire by Lauren Belfer
Children's Literature: I dissent : Ruth Bader Ginsburg makes her mark by Debbie Levy; illustrated by Elizabeth Baddeley
Contemporary Jewish Life and Practice: Changing the world from the inside out : a Jewish approach to personal and social change by Rabbi David Jaffe
Debut Fiction: Anna and the Swallow Man by Gavriel Savit
Education and Jewish Identity: Next generation Judaism : how college students and Hillel can help reinvent Jewish organizations by Mike Uram
Fiction: The Gustav sonata by Rose Tremain
History: The angel : the Egyptian spy who saved Israel by Uri Bar-Joseph
Holocaust: Holocaust, genocide, and the law : a quest for justice in a post-Holocaust world by Michael Bazyler
Modern Jewish Thought and Experience: Never better! : the modern Jewish picaresque by Miriam Udel
Poetry: Almost complete poems by Stanley Moss
Scholarship: Anti-Jewish riots in the Crown of Aragon and the royal response, 1391-1392 by Benjamin R. Gampel
Sephardic Culture: Extraterritorial dreams : European citizenship, Sephardi Jews, and the Ottoman twentieth century by Sarah Abrevaya Stein
Women's Studies: The sacred calling : four decades of women in the rabbinate, edited by Rabbi Rebecca Einstein Schorr and Rabbi Alysa Mendelson Graf
Writing Based on Archival Material: Jewish Salonica : between the Ottoman Empire and modern Greece by Devin E. Naar
Young Adult: On Blackberry Hill by Rachel Mann

2015
Jewish Book of the Year: Anonymous soldiers : the struggle for Israel, 1917-1947 by Bruce Hoffman
Literary Achievement Award: The complete works of Primo Levi, edited by Ann Goldstein
American Jewish Studies: Beyond sectarianism : the realignment of American Orthodox Judaism by Adam S. Ferziger
Anthologies and Collections: Dear Mendl, dear Reyzl : Yiddish letter manuals from Russia and America by Alice Nakhimovsky and Roberta Newman
Biography, Autobiography, Memoir: After the Holocaust the bells still ring by Joseph Polak
Children's Literature: Oskar and the eight blessings by Tanya Simon and Richard Simon ; illustrated by Marc Siegel
Contemporary Jewish Life and Practice: All who go do not return : a memoir by Shulem Deen
Debut Fiction Goldberg Prize: The boatmaker : a novel by John Benditt
Education and Jewish Identity: Pastrami on Rye : an overstuffed history of the Jewish deli by Ted Merwin
Fiction: The last flight of Poxl West : a novel by Daniel Torday
History: Doomed to succeed : the U.S.-Israel relationship from Truman to Obama by Dennis Ross Farrar
Holocaust: The crime and the silence : confronting the massacre of Jews in wartime Jedwabne by Anna Bikont ; translated by Alissa Valles
Modern Jewish Thought and Experience: Not in God's name : confronting religious violence by Rabbi Jonathan Sacks
Poetry: Gabriel : a poem by Edward Hirsch
Scholarship: What's divine about divine law? : early perspectives by Christine Hayes
Sephardic Culture: Double diaspora in Sephardic literature : Jewish cultural production before and after 1492 by David A. Wacks
Visual Arts: Skies of parchment, seas of ink : Jewish illuminated manuscripts, edited by Marc Michael Epstein
Women's Studies: Birth, sex and abuse : women's voices under Nazi rule by Beverley Chalmers
Writing Based on Archival Material: The burdens of brotherhood : Jews and Muslims from North Africa to France by Ethan B. Katz
Young Adult Literature: The hired girl by Laura Amy Schlitz

2014
Jewish Book of the Year: Jewish Lives Series, ​Ileene Smith, editorial director; Steven J. Zipperstein and Anita Shapira, series editor
American Jewish Studies: The rag race : how Jews sewed their way to success in America and the British Empire by Adam D. Mendelsohn
Biography, Autobiography, Memoir: The impossible exile : Stefan Zweig at the end of the world by George Prochnik
Children's and Young Adult Literature: Spinoza : the outcast thinker by Devra Lehmann
Contemporary Jewish Life and Practice: A guide to the complex : contemporary halakhic debates by Shlomo M. Brody
Education and Jewish Identity: A philosophy of havruta : understanding and teaching the art of text study in Pairs by Elie Holzer with Orit Kent
Fiction: The betrayers : a novel by David Bezmozgis
History: The golden age shtetl : a new history of Jewish life in East Europe by Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern
Holocaust: Violins of hope : violins of the Holocaust : instruments of hope and liberation in mankind's darkest hour by James A. Grymes
Illustrated Children's Book: The patchwork Torah by Allison Ofanansky ; illustrated by Elsa Oriol
Modern Jewish Thought and Experience: The Koren Ani Tefillah Siddur by Jay Goldmintz and Jonathan Sacks
Outstanding Debut Fiction: The mathematician's shiva by Stuart Rojstaczer
Scholarship: Outside the Bible : ancient Jewish writings related to Scripture, edited by Louis H. Feldman, James L. Kugel, and Lawrence H. Schiffman
Sephardic Culture: Sephardi lives : a documentary history, 1700–1950, edited by Julia Cohen and Sarah Abrevaya Stein
Women's Studies: A question of tradition : women poets in Yiddish, 1586-1987 by Kathryn Hellerstein
Writing Based on Archival Material: Becoming Ottomans : Sephardi Jews and imperial citizenship in the modern era by Julia Phillips Cohen

2013
Jewish Book of the Year: Like dreamers : the story of the Israeli paratroopers who reunited Jerusalem and divided a nation by Yossi Klein Halevi
American Jewish Studies: FDR and the Jews by Richard Breitman and Allan J. Lichtman
Anthologies and Collections: 1929 : mapping the Jewish world, edited by Hasia R. Diner and Gennady Estraikh
Biography, Autobiography, Memoir: An American bride in Kabul by Phyllis Chesle
Children's and Young Adult Literature: The war within these walls by Aline Sax ; illustrated by Caryl Strzelecki
Contemporary Jewish Life and Practice: Kaddish : women's voices by Michal Smart and Barbara Ashkenas
Education and Jewish Identity: Educating in the divine image : gender issues in Orthodox Jewish day schools by Chaya Rosenfeld Gorsetman and Elana Maryles Sztokman
Fiction: Between friends by Amos Oz; translated by Sondra Silverston
History: My promised land : the triumph and tragedy of Israel by Ari Shavit
Holocaust: The geographical encyclopedia of the Holocaust in Hungary, edited by Randolph L. Braham
Illustrated Children's Book: Hanukkah bear by Eric A. Kimmel ; illustrated by Mike Wohnoutka
Modern Jewish Thought and Experience: The Koren Sacks Pesach Machzor by Rabbi Jonathan Sacks
Outstanding Debut Fiction: The lion seeker by Kenneth Bonert
Poetry: Who touches everything by Peter Waldor
Scholarship: Maimonides : life and thought by Moshe Halbertal
Sephardic Culture: Mixing musics : Turkish Jewry and the urban landscape of a sacred song by Maureen Jackson
Visual Arts: Kabbalah in art and architecture by Alexander Gorlin
Women's Studies: Ballots, babies, and banners of peace : American Jewish women's activism, 1890-1940 by Melissa R. Klapper
Writing Based on Archival Material: Becoming Soviet Jews : the Bolshevik experiment in Minsk by Elissa Bemporad

2012
Jewish Book of the Year: City of promises : a history of the Jews of New York by Deborah Dash Moore, Howard B. Rock, Annie Polland, Daniel Soyer, and Jeffrey S. Gurock
American Jewish Studies: Messianism, secrecy, and mysticism : a new interpretation of early American Jewish life by Laura Arnold Leibman
Anthologies and Collections: Jewish jocks : an unorthodox hall of fame, edited by Franklin Foer and Marc Tracy
Biography, Autobiography, Memoir: Howard Fast : life and literature in the left lane by Gerald Sorin
Children's and Young Adult Literature: Meet at the ark at eight by Ulrich Hub ; illustrated by Jörg Mühle
Contemporary Jewish Life and Practice: Davening : a guide to meaningful Jewish prayer by Rabbi Zalman M. Schachter-Shalomi with Joel Segel
Education and Jewish Identity: Development, learning and community : educating for identity in pluralistic Jewish high schools by Jeffrey S. Kress
Fiction: The innocents by Francesca Segal
History: Israel : a history by Anita Shapira
Holocaust: Collect and record! : Jewish Holocaust documentation in early postwar Europe by Laura Jockusch
Illustrated Children's Book: The shema in the mezuzah : listening to each other by Rabbi Sandy Eisenberg Sasso ; illustrated by Joani Keller Rothenberg
Modern Jewish Thought and Experience: Koren Talmud Bavli by Adin Steinsaltz
Outstanding Debut Fiction: The sensualist : a novella by Daniel Torday
Scholarship: The chosen few : how education shaped Jewish history, 70-1492 by Maristella Botticini and Zvi Eckstein
Sephardic Culture: Poverty and welfare among the Portuguese Jews of early modern Amsterdam by Tirtsah Levie Bernfeld
Women's Studies: The men's section : Orthodox Jewish men in an egalitarian world by Elana Maryles Sztokman
Writing Based on Archival Material: The history of the Holocaust in Romania by Jean Ancel ; translated by Yaffah Murciano ; edited by Leon Volovici

2011
Jewish Book of the Year: Jerusalem : the biography by Simon Sebag Montefiore
American Jewish Studies: The Benderly boys & American Jewish education by Jonathan B. Krasner
Anthologies and Collections: Gender and Jewish history, edited by Marion A. Kaplan and Deborah Dash Moore
Biography, Autobiography, and Memoir: MetaMaus : a look inside a modern classic, Maus by Art Spiegelman
Children's and Young Adult Literature: Deadly by Julie Chibbaro
Contemporary Jewish Life and Practice: A guide to Jewish practice, volume 1 : everyday living by Rabbi David A. Teutsch
Fiction: Until the dawn's light by Aharon Appelfeld ; translated by Jeffrey M. Green
History: The anatomy of Israel's survival by Hirsh Goodman
Holocaust: Nazis on the run : how Hitler's henchmen fled justice by Gerald Steinacher
Illustrated Children's Book: The golem's latkes, adapted by Eric A. Kimmel ; illustrated by Aaron Jasinski
Modern Jewish Thought and Experience: The choice to be : a Jewish path to self and spirituality by Rabbi Jeremy Kagan
Outstanding Debut Fiction: Boxer, beetle by Ned Beauman
Poetry: Wait by C. K. Williams
Scholarship: Becoming the people of the Talmud : oral Torah as written tradition in medieval Jewish cultures by Talya Fishman
Sephardic Culture: Ottoman brothers : Muslims, Christians, and Jews in early twentieth-century Palestine by Michelle U. Campos
Visual Arts: Alias Man Ray : the art of reinvention by Mason Klein
Women's Studies: The JPS Bible commentary : Ruth by Dr. Tamara Cohn Eskenazi and Dr. Tikva Frymer-Kensky
Writing Based on Archival Material: Odessa : genius and death in a city of dreams by Charles King

2010
American Jewish Studies: The Rebbe : the life and afterlife of Menachem Mendel Schneerson by Samuel Heilman and Menachem Friedman
Anthologies and Collections: The Cambridge guide to Jewish history, religion, and culture, edited by Judith Baskin and Kenneth Seeskin
Biography and Memoir: Dreyfus : politics, emotion, and the scandal of the century by Ruth Harris
Contemporary Jewish Life and Practice: Walking Israel : a personal search for the soul of a nation by Martin Fletcher
Education and Jewish Identity: Sacred strategies : transforming synagogues from functional to visionary by Isa Aron, Steven M. Cohen, Lawrence A. Hoffman, and Ari Y. Kelman
Fiction: To the end of the land by David Grossman
Holocaust: Remembering survival : inside a Nazi slave-labor camp by Christopher Browning
Illustrated Children's Book: The rooster prince of Breslov by Ann Redisch Stampler ; illustrated by Eugene Yelchin
Modern Jewish Thought and Experience: The Koren Mesorat HaRav Kinot : the complete Tisha B'Av service with commentary by Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik
Outstanding Debut Fiction: Rich boy by Sharon Pomerantz
Scholarship: From continuity to contiguity : toward a new Jewish literary thinking by Dan Miron
Sephardic Culture: Yehuda Halevi by Hillel Halkin
Women's Studies: Memoirs of a grandmother : scenes from the cultural history of the Jews of Russia in the nineteenth century by Pauline Wengeroff ; edited, explicated, and introduced by Shulamit Magnus
Writing Based on Archival Material: The Balfour Declaration : the origins of the Arab-Israeli conflict by Jonathan Schneer
Children's and Young Adult: Under a red sky : memoir of a childhood in Communist Romania by Haya Leah Molnar
History: Early Modern Jewry : a new cultural history by David B. Ruderman
Jewish Book of the Year: When they come for us, we'll be gone : the epic struggle to save Soviet Jewry by Gal Beckerman
Lifetime Achievement Award: Cynthia Ozick

2009
Jewish Book of the Year: Louis D. Brandeis : a life by Melvin I. Urofsky
Lifetime Achivement: Ruth Gruber Schocken
American Jewish Studies: We remember with reverence and love : American Jews and the myth of silence after the Holocaust, 1945-1962 by Hasia Diner
Anthologies and Collections: Rethinking European Jewish history, edited by Jeremy Cohen and Moshe Rosman
Biography, Auto, and Memoir: The fall of a sparrow : the life and times of Abba Kovner by Dina Porat ; translated by Elizabeth Yuval
Children's and Young Adult: The other half of life : a novel based on the true story of the MS St. Louis by Kim Ablon Whitney
Contemporary Jewish Life and Practice: Saving Israel : how the Jewish people can win a war that may never end by Daniel Gordis
Fiction: Gratitude : a novel by Joseph Kertes
History: Family properties : race, real estate, and the exploitation of Black urban America by Beryl Satter
Holocaust: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum encyclopedia of camps and ghettos, 1933-1945, volume 1 : Early camps, youth camps, and concentration camps and subcamps under the SS-Business Administration Main Office (WVHA), edited by Geoffrey P. Megargee
Illustrated Children's Book: JPS illustrated children's bible by Ellen Frankel ; illustrated by Avi Katz
Jewish Family Literature: Celebrating the Jewish year : the Spring and Summer holidays : Passover, The Omer, Shavuot, Tisha b'Av by Paul Steinberg; edited by Janet Greenstein Potter
Modern Jewish Thought and Experience: Covenant & conversation, a weekly reading of the Jewish Bible : Genesis, the book of beginnings by Rabbi Sir Jonathan Sacks
Poetry: The book of seventy by Alicia Suskin Ostriker
Scholarship: Subversive sequels in the Bible : how Biblical stories mine and undermine each other by Judy Klitsner
Sephardic Culture: We look like the enemy : the hidden story of Israel's Jews from Arab lands by Rachel Shabi
Visual Arts: Action/abstraction : Pollock, de Kooning, and American art, 1940-1976, edited by Norman L. Kleeblatt
Women's Studies: Mitzvah girls : bringing up the next generation of Hasidic Jews in Brooklyn by Ayala Fader
Writing Based on Archival Material: The Holocaust in the Soviet Union by Yitzhak Arad ; translated by Ora Cumming

The National Jewish Book Awards
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2008
American Jewish Studies: Exiles on main street : Jewish American writers and American literary culture by Julian Levinson
Biography, Autobiography, and Memoir: Marie Syrkin : values beyond the self by Carole Kessner
Children's and Young Adult Literature: The diary of Laura's twin by Kathy Kacer
Contemporary Jewish Life & Practice: Conscience : the duty to obey and the duty to disobey by Rabbi Harold Schulweis
Education and Jewish Identity: What we now know about Jewish education, edited by Roberta Louis Goodman, Paul A. Flexner, and Linda Dale Bloomberg
Jewish Book of the Year Award: The Torah : a women's commentary by Dr. Tamara Eskenazi and Rabbi Andrea L. Weiss
Fiction: Songs for the butcher's daughter : a novel by Peter Manseau
History: 1948 : a history of the first Arab-Israeli war by Benny Morris
Holocaust: The Holocaust by bullets : a priest's journey to uncover the truth behind the murder of 1.5 million Jews by Father Patrick Desbois
Illustrated Children's Book: The mysterious guests : a Sukkot story by Eric A. Kimmel; illustrated by Katya Krenina
Jewish Family Literature: Genesis : the book with seventy faces : a guide for the family by Esther Takac
Modern Jewish Thought & Experience: Emil L. Fackenheim : a Jewish philosopher's response to the Holocaust by David Patterson
Scholarship: The Kuzari and the shaping of Jewish identity, 1167-1900 by Adam Shear
Sephardic Culture: Greece : a Jewish history by K. E. Fleming
Women's Studies: A Jewish woman's prayer book by Aliza Lavie
Writing Based On Archival Material: Robbing the Jews : the confiscation of Jewish property in the Holocaust, 1933-1945 by Martin Dean

2007
American Jewish Studies: Spiritual radical : Abraham Joshua Heschel in America, 1940-1972 by Edward K. Kaplan
Anthologies and Collections: Antisemitism : the generic hatred : essays in memory of Simon Wiesenthal, edited by Michael Fineberg, Shimon Samuels and Mark Weitzman
Biography, Autobiography, and Memoir: A guest in my own country : a Hungarian life by György Konrád
Children's and Young Adult Literature: Homeland : the illustrated history of the state of Israel by Marv Wolfman, Mario Ruiz, and William Rubin
Contemporary Jewish Life & Practice: Inventing Jewish ritual by Vanessa Ochs
Eastern European Studies: An anthology of Jewish-Russian literature : two centuries of dual identity in prose and poetry, edited by Maxim D. Shrayer
Jewish Book of the Year Award: How to read the Bible : a guide to Scripture, then and now by James L. Kugel
Fiction: A pigeon and a boy by Meir Shalev
History: Churchill's promised land : Zionism and statecraft by Michael Makovsky
Holocaust: Hitler's beneficiaries : plunder, racial war, and the Nazi welfare state by Götz Aly
Illustrated Children's Books: Even higher by Richard Ungar
Jewish Family Literature: The power of song : and other Sephardic tales by Rita Roth ; illustrated by Alexa Ginsburg
Modern Jewish Thought & Experience: My people's prayer book : traditional prayers, modern commentaries, edited by Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman
Poetry: The dream of the poem : Hebrew poetry from Muslim and Christian Spain, 950-1492, edited by Peter Cole
Reference: The Cambridge history of Judaism, volume 4 : the late Roman-Rabbinic period, edited by Steven T. Katz
Scholarship: Ben : sonship and Jewish mysticism by Moshe Idel
Sephardic Culture: Aromas of Aleppo : the legendary cuisine of Syrian Jews by Poopa Dweck
Visual Arts: Gilded lions and jeweled horses : the synagogue to the carousel : Jewish carving traditions by Murray Zimiles
Women's Studies: Feminism encounters traditional Judaism : resistance and accommodation by Tova Hartman

2006
American Jewish Studies: Emma Lazarus by Esther Schor
Anthologies and Collections: Writing a modern Jewish history by Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
Biography and Autobiography: The lost : a search for six of six million by Daniel Mendelsohn
Children's and Young Adults' Literature: The book thief by Markus Zusak
Contemporary Jewish Life and Practice: Fragmented families : patterns of estrangement and reconciliation by Ellen B. Sucov
Eastern European Studies: Caviar and ashes : a Warsaw generation's life and death in Marxism, 1918-1968 by Marci Shore
Education and Jewish Identity: Building Jewish roots : the Israel experience by Faydra Shapiro
Fiction: The world to come : a novel by Dara Horn
History: Becoming Eichmann : rethinking the life, crimes, and trial of a "desk murderer" by David Cesarani
Holocaust: The Jewish enemy : Nazi propaganda during World War II and the Holocaust by Jeffrey Herf
Illustrated Children's Book: The white ram : a story of Abraham and Isaac by Mordicai Gerstein
Jewish Book of the Year Award: A code of Jewish ethics, volume 1 by Joseph Telushkin
Jewish Family Literature: Lilith's ark : teenage tales of biblical women by Deborah Bodin Cohen
Modern Jewish Thought and Experience: The rabbi's wife : the rebbetzin in American Jewish life by Shuly Rubin Schwartz
Scholarship: Resurrection and the restoration of Israel : the ultimate victory of the God of life by Jon D. Levenson
Sephardic Culture: Folktales of the Jews, volume 1 : Tales from the Sephardic dispersion by Dan Ben-Amos
Women's Studies: Why aren't Jewish women circumcised? : gender and covenant in Judaism by Shaye J. D. Cohen

2005
American Jewish History: The chosen : the hidden history of admission and exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton by Jerome Karabel
Anthologies and Collections: Who we are : on being (and not being) a Jewish American writer, edited by Derek Rubin
Biography and Autobiography: Ester and Ruzya : how my grandmothers survived Hitler's war and Stalin's peace by Masha Gessen
Children's and Young Adults' Literature: Real time : a novel by Pnina Moed Kass
Contemporary Jewish Life and Practices: The book of customs : a complete handbook for the Jewish year by Scott-Martin Kosofsky
Eastern European Studies: The Jewish century by Yuri Slezkine
Jewish Book of the Year Award: A tale of love and darkness by Amos Oz
Fiction: The final solution : a story of detection by Michael Chabon
Holocaust: History on trial : my day in court with David Irving by Deborah Lipstadt
Illustrated Children's Book: The travels of Benjamin of Tudela : through three continents in the twelfth century by Uri Shulevitz
Jewish Family Literature: A box of candles by Laurie A. Jacobs ; illustrated by Shelly Ephraim
Jewish History: Salonica, city of ghosts : Christians, Muslims, and Jews, 1430-1950 by Mark Mazower
Modern Jewish Thought and Experience: After emancipation : Jewish religious responses to modernity by David Ellenson
Poetry: Everything is burning : poems by Gerald Stern
Reference: Tree of souls : the mythology of Judaism by Howard Schwartz
Scholarship: Language, eros, being : kabbalistic hermeneutics and poetic imagination by Elliott R. Wolfson
Sephardic Culture: The Schocken book of modern Sephardic literature, edited by Ilan Stavans
Visual Arts: Jewish women and their salons : the power of conversation, edited by Emily D. Blski and Emily Braun
Women's Studies: The modern Jewish girl's guide to guilt, edited by Ruth Andrew Ellenson

2004
Anthologies and Collections: I am Jewish : personal reflections inspired by the last words of Daniel Pearl, edited by Ruth Pearl and Judea Pearl
Children's and Young Adults' Literature: Wonders and miracles : a Passover companion : illustrated with art spanning three thousand years by Eric Kimmel
Contemporary Jewish Life and Practices: The blessing of a broken heart by Sherri Mandell
Jewish Book of the Year Award: American Judaism : a history by Jonathan Sarna
Fiction: Portrait of my mother, who posed nude in wartime : stories by Marjorie Sandor
Holocaust: The origins of the Final Solution : the evolution of Nazi Jewish policy, September 1939-March 1942 by Christopher R. Browning
Illustrated Children's Book: Luba : the angel of Bergen-Belsen, as told to Michelle R. McCann by Luba Tryszynska-Frederick
Jewish Education: Textual knowledge : teaching the Bible in theory and in practice by Barry W. Holtz
Jewish History: And the dead shall rise : the murder of Mary Phagan and the lynching of Leo Frank by Steve Oney
Modern Jewish Thought and Experience: The Zohar : Pritzker edition, volume 1, edited by Daniel C. Matt
Scholarship: The Jewish study Bible, edited by Marc Brettler and Adelle Berlin
Visual Arts: Diaspora : homelands in exile by Frédéric Brenner
Women's Studies: Gender and Israeli society : women's time, edited by Hannah Naveh

2002-2003
Jewish History: Constantine's sword : the church and the Jews : a history by James Carroll
Anthologies: Cultures of the Jews : a new history by David Biale
Children's Literature: Jewish holidays all year round : a family treasury by Ilene Cooper
Contemporary Jewish Life and Practices: To do the right and the good : a Jewish approach to modern social ethics by Elliot Dorff
Contemporary Jewish Thought and Experience: A Jew in America : my life and a people's struggle for identity by Arthur Hertzberg
Jewish Book of the Year Award: Six days of war : June 1967 and the making of the modern Middle East by Michael B. Oren
Fiction: The Russian debutante's handbook by Gary Shteyngart
First Time Author: In the image : a novel by Dara Horn
Holocaust: Resilience and courage : women, men, and the Holocaust by Nechama Tec
Jewish History: Irving Howe : a life of passionate dissent by Gerald Sorin
Scholarship: The Oxford handbook of Jewish studies, edited by Martin Goodman
Special Recognition: Hana's suitcase : a true story by Karen Levine
Women's Studies: Reading the women of the Bible by Tivka Simone Frymer-Kensky

2001
Autobiography/Memoir: The Rebbe's daughter : memoirs of a Hasidic childhood by Malkah Shapiro ; translated by Nehemia Polen
Children's Literature: Forged in freedom : shaping the Jewish-American experience by Norman H. Finkelstein
Children's Picture Book: The littlest pair by Sylvia Rouss ; illustrated by Holly Hannon
Eastern European Studies: Stalin's secret pogrom : the postwar inquisition of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, edited and with introductions by Joshua Rubenstein and Vladimir P. Naumov ; translated by Laura Esther Wolfson
Fiction: Everything is illuminated : a novel by Jonathan Safran Foer
Holocaust: Salvaged pages : young writers' diaries of the Holocaust by Alexandra Zapruder
Jewish Education: Reclaiming goodness : education and the spiritual quest by Hanan Alexander
Jewish Thought: When a Jew dies : the ethnography of a bereaved son by Samuel Heilman
Jewish-Christian Relations: Jazz age Jews by Michael Alexander
Non-Fiction: Etz Hayim : Torah and commentary, edited by David Lieber and Jules Harlow
Reference: The encyclopedia of Jewish life before and during the Holocaust ; Shmuel Spector, editor-in-chief; Geoffrey Wigoder, consulting editor
Scholarship: Imperialism and Jewish society, 200 B.C.E to 640 C.E. by Seth Schwartz
Sephardic Studies: The Jewish cultural tapestry : international Jewish folk traditions by Steven M. Lowenstein
Yiddish Language and Culture: Yiddish : a nation of words by Miriam Weinstein

2000
Autobiography/Memoir: A scholar's odyssey by Cyrus H. Gordon
Children's Literature: The day the Rabbi disappeared : Jewish holiday tales of magic by Howard Schwartz
Children's Picture Book: Moishe's miracle : a Hanukkah story by Laura Krauss Melmed ; illustrated by David Slonim
Fiction: The human stain by Philip Roth
Holocaust: Hitler's Austria : popular sentiment in the Nazi era, 1938-1945 by Evan Bukey
Israel: One Palestine, complete : Jews and Arabs under the British Mandate by Tom Segev
Jewish History: One Palestine, complete : Jews and Arabs under the British Mandate by Tom Segev
Jewish Thought: A letter in the scroll : understanding our Jewish identity and exploring the legacy of the world's oldest religion by Jonathan Sacks
Jewish-Christian Relations: Under his very windows : the Vatican and the Holocaust in Italy by Susan Zuccotti
Lifetime Literary Achievement Award: Elie Wiesel
Non-Fiction: Jew vs. Jew : the struggle for the soul of American Jewry by Samuel G. Freedman
Reference: Reader's guide to Judaism, edited by Michael Terry
Scholarship: The modern Jewish canon : a journey through language and culture by Ruth R. Wisse
Sephardic and Ashkenazic Culture and Customs: Synagogues without Jews : and the communities that built and used them by Rivka Dorfman and Ben-Zion Dorfman
Sephardic Studies: Reluctant Cosmopolitans : the Portuguese Jews of seventeenth-century Amsterdam by Daniel M. Swetschinski
Women's Studies: Reproducing Jews : a cultural account of assisted contraception in Israel by Susan Martha Kahn
Yiddish Language and Culture: The Moscow State Yiddish Theater : Jewish culture on the Soviet stage by Jeffrey Veidlinger

1999
Autobiography/Memoir: King David's harp : autobiographical essays by Jewish Latin American writers, edited by Stephen Sadow
Children's Literature: With all my heart, with all my mind : thirteen stories about growing up Jewish, edited by Sandy Asher
Children's Picture Book: Joseph had a little overcoat by Simms Taback
Eastern European Studies: Polin : studies in Polish Jewry, edited by Israel Bartal and Antony Polonsky
Fiction: The wedding jester by Steve Stern
Holocaust: Reading the Holocaust by Inga Clendinnen
Israel: The multiple identities of the Middle East by Bernard Lewis
Jewish Education: Transmission and transformation : a Jewish perspective on moral education by Carol K. Ingall
Jewish History: Berlin metropolis : Jews and the new culture, 1890-1918, edited by Emily D. Bilski
Jewish Thought: The religious thought of Hasidism : text and commentary by Norman Lamm
Jewish-Christian Relations: Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews : a Jewish life and the emergence of Christianity by Paula Fredriksen
Lifetime Literary Achievement Award: Herman Wouk
Non-Fiction: Yosl Rakover talks to God by Zvi Kolitz ; translated by Carol Brown Janeway
Reference: The Hebrew folktale : history, genre, meaning by Eli Yassif
Scholarship: Living letters of the law : ideas of the Jew in medieval Christianity by Jeremy Cohen
Sephardic and Ashkenazic Culture and Customs: A drizzle of honey : the lives and recipes of Spain's secret Jews by David Gitilitz and Linda Kay Davidson
Sephardic Studies: Heretics or daughters of Israel? : the crypto-Jewish women of Castile by Renée Levine Melammed
Women's Studies: Heretics or daughters of Israel? : the crypto-Jewish women of Castile by Renée Levine Melammed
Yiddish Language and Culture: Poyln : Jewish life in the old country by Alter Kacyzne

1998
Autobiography/Memoir: Jacob, Menahem, and Mimoun : a family epic by Marcel Benabou ; translated by Steven Rendall
Children's Literature: Heeding the call : Jewish voices in America's civil rights struggle by Norman Finkelstein
Children's Picture Book: You never know : a legend of the Lamed-Vavniks by Francine Prose ; illustrated by Mark H. Podwal
Fiction: The iron tracks by Aharon Appelfeld; translated by Yaacov Jeffrey Green
Holocaust: Between dignity and despair : Jewish life in Nazi Germany by Marion A. Kaplan
Israel: Israel's place in the Middle East : a pluralist perspective by Nissim Rejwan
Jewish Education: First fruit : a Whizin anthology of Jewish family education, edited by Adrianne Blank and Ron Wolfson
Jewish History: Hebrews of the Portuguese nation : conversos and community in early modern Amsterdam by Miriam Bodian
Jewish Thought: Engendering Judaism : an inclusive theology and ethics by Rachel Adler
Jewish-Christian Relations: Abraham Geiger and the Jewish Jesus by Susannah Heschel
Lifetime Literary Achievement Award: Philip Roth
Non-Fiction: Kaddish by Leon Wieseltier
Scholarship: Entering the High Holy Days : a guide to the origins, themes, and prayers by Reuven Hammer
Sephardic and Ashkenazic Culture and Customs: A time to be born : customs and folklore of Jewish birth by Michele Klein
Sephardic Studies: The geonim of Babylonia and the shaping of medieval Jewish culture by Robert Brody
Women's Studies: Jewish women in America : an historical encyclopedia, edited by Paula E. Hyman and Deborah Dash Moore

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1997
Autobiography/Memoir: Miriam's kitchen : a memoir by Elizabeth Ehrlich
Children's Literature: The golem : a version by Barbara Rogasky ; illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman
Children's Picture Book: Marven of the great north woods by Kathryn Lasky ; illustrated by Kevin Hawkes
Fiction: The actual by Saul Bellow
Holocaust: Nazi Germany and the Jews by Saul Friedlander
Israel: Rubber bullets : power and conscience in modern Israel by Yaron Ezrahi
Jewish Education: Succeeding at Jewish education : how one synagogue made it work by Joseph Reimer
Jewish History: German-Jewish history in modern times, volume 2 : Emancipation and acculturation, 1780-1871, edited by Michael Brenner, Stefi Jersch-Wenzel, and Michael A. Meyer
Jewish Thought: Stalking Elijah : adventures with today's Jewish mystical masters by Rodger Kamenetz
Jewish-Christian Relations: The kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara by David I. Kertzer
Lifetime Literary Achievement Award: Cynthia Ozick
Non-Fiction: Unfinished people : Eastern European Jews encounter America by Ruth Gay
Scholarship: Revelation Restored : divine writ and critical responses by David Weiss
Sephardic and Ashkenazic Culture and Customs: The book of Jewish food : an odyssey from Samarkand to New York by Claudia Roden
Visual Arts: Judaica at the Smithsonian : cultural politics as cultural model by Grace Cohen Grossman with Richard Eighme Ahlborn

1996
Autobiography/Memoir: Fragments : memories of a childhood, 1939-1948 by Binjamin Wilkomirski
Children's Literature: Next year in Jerusalem : 3,000 years of Jewish stories by Howard Schwartz
Fiction: Gangsters : a love story by Evan Zimroth
Holocaust: Auschwitz, 1270 to the present by Deborah Dwork and Robert Jan van Pelt
Israel: The controversy of Zion : Jewish nationalism, the Jewish state, and the unresolved Jewish dilemma by Geoffrey Wheatcroft
Jewish History: Founder of Hasidism : a quest for the historical Ba'al Shem Tov by Moshe Rosman
Jewish Thought: Moses and civilization : the meaning behind Freud's myth by Robert A. Paul
Jewish-Christian Relations: The mystery of Romans : the Jewish context of Paul's letter by Mark D. Nanos
Lifetime Literary Achievement Award: Allen Ginsberg
Non-Fiction: Shalom, friend : the life and legacy of Yitzhak Rabin by The Jerusalem Report Staff, edited by David Phillip Horovitz
Scholarship: Your voice like a ram's horn : themes and texts in traditional Jewish teaching by Marc Saperstein
Sephardic Studies: Secrecy and deceit : the religion of the crypto-Jews by David M. Gitlitz
Visual Arts: And I shall dwell among them : historic synagogues of the world by Neil Folberg

1995
Autobiography/Memoir: In this dark house : a memoir by Louise Kehoe
Children's Literature: Under the domim tree by Gila Almagor
Fiction: Mazel by Rebecca Goldstein
Holocaust: We are children just the same : Vedem, the secret magazine by the boys of Terezín, selected and edited by Marie Křížková, Kurt Kotouč, and Zdeněk Ornest
Israel: Beyond the promised land : Jews and Arabs on the hard road to a new Israel by Glenn Frankel
Jewish Folklore and Anthropology: Chosen tales : stories told by Jewish storytellers, edited by Peninnah Schram
Jewish History: The wonders of America : reinventing Jewish culture 1880-1950 by Jenna Weissman Joselit
Jewish-Christian Relations: Spiritual pilgrimage : texts on Jews and Judaism, 1979-1995 by Pope John Paul II
Non-Fiction: Genesis : the beginning of desire by Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg
Scholarship: Through a speculum that shines : vision and imagination in medieval Jewish wisdom by Elliot R. Wolfson
Sephardic Studies: The origins of the Inquisition in fifteenth century Spain by Benzion Netanyahu (2d ed. (2001) here)
Visual Arts: Jewish art by Grace Cohen Grossman

1994
Autobiography/Memoir: A spy in Canaan : my secret life as a Jewish-American businessman spying for Israel in Arab lands by Howard A. Shack
Children's Literature: Golden windows and other stories of Jerusalem by Adèle Geras
Children's Picture Book: The always prayer shawl by Sheldon Oberman ; illustrated by Ted Lewin
Contemporary Jewish Life: A people divided : Judaism in contemporary America by Jack Wertheimer
Fiction: The prince of West End Avenue : a novel by Alan Isler
Holocaust: Ordinary men : Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the final solution in Poland by Christopher R. Browning
Israel: Elusive prophet : Ahad Ha'am and the origins of Zionism by Steven Zipperstein
Jewish Education: Studies in Jewish education, volume 5 : educational issues and classical Jewish texts, edited by Howard Deitcher and Abraham J. Tannenbaum
Jewish Folklore and Anthropology: Folk literature of the Sephardic Jews : volume III : Judeo-Spanish ballads from oral tradition, II; Carolingian Ballads, 1; Roncesvalles, edited by Samuel G. Armistead and Joseph H. Silverman
Jewish History: Antisemitism in America by Leonard Dinnerstein
Jewish Thought: The kiss of God : spiritual and mystical death in Judaism by Michael Fishbane
Scholarship: Jewish law : history, sources, principles by Menachem Elon
Sephardic Studies: North African Jewry in the twentieth century : the Jews of Morocco, Tunisia, and Algeria by Michael Laskier
Visual Arts: Jewish papercuts : a history and guide by Joseph and Yehudit Shadur

1993
Autobiography/Memoir: On clowns : the dictator and the artist : essays by Norman Manea
Children's Literature: Letters from Rifka by Karen Hesse
Children's Picture Book: Elijah's angel : a story for Chanukah and Christmas by Michael J. Rosen; illustrated by Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson
Contemporary Jewish Life: Against all odds : holocaust survivors and the successful lives they made in America by William Helmreich
Fiction: Mr. Mani by A.B. Yehoshua
Holocaust: The texture of memory : Holocaust memorials and meaning by James E. Young
Israel: Land and power : the Zionist resort to force, 1881-1948 by Anita Shapira
Jewish Folklore and Anthropology: Hasidic people : a place in the new world by Jerome R. Mintz
Jewish History: Jews in Christian America : the pursuit of religious equality by Naomi W. Cohen
Jewish Thought: Women as ritual experts : the religious lives of elderly Jewish women in Jerusalem by Susan Starr Sered
Scholarship: Jewish education and society in the High Middle Ages by Ephraim Kanarfogel
Sephardic Studies: The Jews of Spain : a history of the Sephardic experience by Jane S. Gerber
Visual Arts: The Jews : a treasury of art and literature, edited by Sharon R. Keller

1992
Autobiography/Memoir: Mostly Morgenthaus : a family history by Henry Morganthau III
Children's Literature: The man from the other side by Uri Orlev ; translated by Hillel Halkin
Children's Picture Book: Chicken man by Michelle Edwards
Contemporary Jewish Life: Tradition in a rootless world : women turn to Orthodox Judaism by Lynn Davidman
Fiction: The Rosendorf quartet : a novel by Nathan Shaham ; translated by Dalya Bilu
Holocaust: Escaping the Holocaust : illegal immigration to the land of Israel, 1939-1944 by Dalia Ofer
Israel: The road not taken : early Arab-Israeli negotiations by Itamar Rabinovitch
Jewish History: The making of the Jewish middle class : women, family, and identity in Imperial Germany by Marion A. Kaplan
Jewish Thought: Freud's Moses: Judaism terminable and interminable by Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi
Scholarship: From tradition to commentary : Torah and its interpretation in the Midrash Sifre to Deuteronomy by Steven D. Fraade
Sephardic Studies: The compunctious poet : cultural ambiguity and Hebrew poetry in Muslim Spain by Ross Brann
Visual Arts: Painting a place in America : Jewish artists in New York, 1900-1945, edited by Norman L. Kleeblatt and Susan Chevlowe

1991
Autobiography/Memoir: Daydreams and nightmares : reflections on a Harlem childhood by Irving Louis Horowitz
Children's Literature: Becoming Gershona by Nava Semel ; tranlsated by Seymour Simckes
Children's Picture Book: Hannukah! by Roni Schotter ; illustrated by Marylin Hafner
Contemporary Jewish Life: Maintaining consensus : the Canadian Jewish polity in the postwar world by Daniel J. Elazar and Harold M. Waller
Fiction: The gift of Asher Lev by Chaim Potok
Holocaust: The Holocaust : the fate of European Jewry, 1932-1945 by Leni Yahlil ; translated by Ina Friedman and Haya Galai
Israel: The Vatican and Zionism : conflict in the Holy Land, 1895-1925 by Sergio Minerbi ; translated by Arnold Schwartz
Jewish History: The pursuit of heresy : Rabbi Moses Hagiz and the Sabbatian controversies by Elisheva Carlebach
Jewish Thought: Sacred fragments : recovering theology for the modern Jew by Neil Gillman
Scholarship: History, religion, and antisemitism by Gavin Langmuir
Visual Arts: Ketubah : Jewish marriage contracts of Hebrew Union College, Skirball Museum, and Klau Library by Shalom Sabar

1990
Autobiography/Memoir: From that time and place : a memoir, 1938-1947 by Lucy Dawidowicz
Children's Literature: Number the stars by Lois Lowry
Children's Picture Book: Berchik by Esther Silverstein Blanc ; illustrated by Tennessee Dixon
Contemporary Jewish Life: Prayer & community : the havurah in American Judaism by Riv-Ellen Prell
Fiction: Five seasons by A. B. Yehoshua ; translated by Hillel Halkin
Holocaust: A cup of tears : a diary of the Warsaw Ghetto by Abraham Lewin, edited by Antony Polansky
Israel: A mandate for terror : the United Nations and the PLO by Harris O. Schoenberg
Jewish History: The road to modern Jewish politics : political tradition and political reconstruction in the Jewish community of tsarist Russia by Eli Lederhendler
Jewish Thought: Jewish preaching, 1200-1800 : an anthology by Marc Saperstein
Scholarship: Be fertile and increase, fill the earth and master it : the ancient and medieval career of a Biblical text by Jeremy Cohen
Visual Arts: The Jews in America, edited by David Cohen

1989
Autobiography/Memoir: Fear no evil by Natan Sharansky (Anatoly Shcharansky)
Children's Literature: The devil's arithmetic by Jane Yolen
Children's Picture Book: Just enough is plenty : a Hanukkah tale by Barbara Diamond Goldin ; illustrated by Seymour Chwast
Contemporary Jewish Life: Broken alliance : the turbulent times between Blacks and Jews in America by Jonathan Kaufman
Fiction: The immortal Bartfuss by Aharon Apelfeld
Holocaust: Blowback : America's recruitment of Nazis and its effects on the Cold War by Christopher Simpson
Israel: Stealing home : Israel bound and rebound by Haim Chertok
Jewish History: Response to modernity : a history of the Reform Movement in Judaism by Michael A. Meyer
Jewish Thought: Commandments and concerns : Jewish religious education in secular society by Michael Rosenak
Scholarship: Kabbalah : new perspectives by Moshe Idel
Visual Arts: A Sign and a witness : 2,000 years of Hebrew books and illuminated manuscripts by Leonard Gold

1988
Children's Literature: The return by Sonia Levitin
Children's Picture Book: Exodus, adapted from the Bible by Miriam Chaikin ; illustrated by Charles Mikolaycak
Contemporary Jewish Life: Mixed blessings : marriage between Jews and Christians by Paul Cowan and Rachel Cowan
Fiction: The counterlife by Philip Roth
Holocaust: The Italians and the Holocaust : persecution, rescue, and survival by Susan Zuccotti
Israel: Ben-Gurion : the burning ground, 1886-1948 by Shabtai Teveth
Jewish History: European Jewry and the First Crusade by Robert Chazan
Jewish Thought: The orphaned adult : confronting the death of a parent by Marc D. Angel
Scholarship: Medieval Jewish seals from Europe by Daniel M. Friedenberg
Visual Arts: The Jewish image in American film by Lester D. Friedman

1987
Children's Literature: Monday in Odessa by Eileen Bluestone Sherman
Children's Picture Book: Poems for Jewish holidays by Myra C. Livingston ; illustrated by Lloyd Bloom
Holocaust: The Nazi doctors : medical killing and the psychology of genocide by Robert J. Lifton
Israel: A walker in Jerusalem by Samuel Heilman
Jewish History: Power & powerlessness in Jewish history by David Biale Schocken
Jewish Thought: Galut : modern Jewish reflection on homelessness and homecoming by Arnold M. Eisen
Scholarship: Sifre : a Tannaitic commentary on the Book of Deuteronomy by Reuven Hammer
Visual Arts: Jewish folk art : from biblical days to modern times by Joy Ungerleider

1986
Biography: Chaim Weizmann : the making of a Zionist leader by Jehuda Reinharz
Children's Literature: In kindling flame : the story of Hannah Senesh, 1921-1944 by Linda Atkison
Children's Picture Book: Brothers : a Hebrew legend by Florence B. Freedman ; illustrated by Robert Andrew Parker
Fiction: The unloved : from the diary of Perla S. : a novel by Arnost Lutig ; translated by Vera Kalina-Levine
Holocaust: The destruction of the European Jews by Raul Hilberg (3d ed. (2003) here)
Israel: The other Arab-Israeli conflict : making America's Middle East policy, from Truman to Reagan by Steven L. Spiegel
Jewish History: Religious conflict in social context : the resurgence of Orthodox Judaism in Frankfurt am Main, 1838-1877 by Robert Liberles
Jewish Thought: A living covenant : the innovative spirit in traditional Judaism by David Hartman
Scholarship: Biblical interpretation in ancient Israel by Michael Fishbane
Visual Arts: Synagogues of Europe : architecture, history, meaning by Carol Herselle Krinsky

1985
Biography: Martin Buber's life and work: volume 3: the later years, 1945-1965 by Maurice S. Friedman
Children's Literature: Good if it goes by Gary Provost and Gail Provost
Children's Picture Book: Mrs. Moskowitz and the Sabbath candlesticks, written and illustrated by Amy Schwartz
Fiction: Invisible mending : a novel by Frederick Busch
Holocaust: The abandonment of the Jews : America and the Holocaust, 1941-1945 by David S. Wyman
Israel: From time immemorial : the origins of the Arab-Jewish conflict over Palestine by Joan Peters
Jewish History: Encounter with emancipation : the German Jews in the United States, 1830-1914 by Naomi W. Cohen
Jewish Thought: Halakhic man by Joseph B. Soloveitchik ; translated by Lawrence Kaplan
Scholarship: The wars of the Lord : volume 1 : book one, the immortality of the soul by Levi Ben Gershom ; translated by Seymour Feldman
Visual Arts: The Rothschild Mahzor : Florence, 1492 by Evelyn M. Cohen
Yiddish Literature: Fun ash un fayer iz dayn kroyn (From ash and fire is your crown) by Shea Tenenbaum

1984
Biography: Ben-Gurion, prophet of fire by Dan Kurzman
Children's Literature: The Jewish kids catalog by Chaya M. Burstein
Fiction: An admirable woman : a novel by Arthur A. Cohen
Holocaust: The quality of witness : a Romanian diary, 1937-1944 by Emil Dorian and Margueritte Dorian
Israel: Israel in the mind of America by Peter Grose
Jewish History: Tsar Nicholas I and the Jews : the transformation of Jewish society in Russia, 1825-1855 by Michael Stanislwaski
Jewish Thought: Post-Holocaust dialogues : critical studies in modern Jewish thought by Steven T. Katz
Scholarship: A Mediterranean society; the Jewish communities of the Arab world as portrayed in the documents of the Cairo Geniza, volume 4: daily life by S. D. Goitein
Visual Arts: A vanished world by Roman Vishniac
Yiddish Literature: Tsu di himlen arof (To the heavens above) by Chaim Leib

The National Jewish Book Awards
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1983
Children's Literature: King of the seventh grade by Barbara Cohen
Children's Picture Book: Yussel's prayer : a Yom Kippur story by Barbara Cohen ; illustrated by Michael J. Deraney|
Fiction: Temple : a novel by Robert Greenfield
Holocaust: None is too many : Canada and the Jews of Europe, 1933-1948 by Irving Abella and Harold Troper
Israel: Among lions : the battle for Jerusalem, June 5-7, 1967 by J. Robert Moskin
Jewish History: Zakhor : Jewish history and Jewish memory by Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi
Jewish Thought: Hispano-Jewish culture in transition : the career and controversies of Ramah by Bernard Septimus
Scholarship: The friars and the Jews : the evolution of medieval anti-Judaism by Jeremy Cohen
Visual Arts: Israel in antiquity : from David to Herod by Andrew S. Ackerman and Susan L. Braunstein
Yiddish Literature: Kanader Tidisher zamlbukh (Canadian Jewish anthology) by Chaim Spilberg and Yaacov Zippe

1982
Children's Literature: The night journey by Kathryn Lasky ; illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman
Fiction: Ellis Island & other stories by Mark Helprin
Holocaust: Vichy France and the Jews by Michael Marrus and Robert O. Paxton
Israel: Egypt and Israel by Howard M. Sachar
Jewish History: The world of a Renaissance Jew  : the life and thought of Abraham ben Mordecai Farissol by David Ruderman
Jewish Thought: The art of Biblical narrative by Robert Alter
Visual Arts: Art of the Holocaust by Janet Blatter and Sybil Milton
Yiddish Literature: Never say die! : a thousand years of Yiddish in Jewish life and letters, edited by Joshua A. Fisherman

1981
Children's Literature: A Russian farewell by Leonard Everett Fisher
Fiction: O my America : a novel by Johanna Kaplan
Holocaust: The politics of genocide : the Holocaust in Hungary by Randolph L. Braham
Jewish History: Jewish self-government in medieval Egypt : the origins of the office of head of the Jews, ca. 1065-1126 by Mark R. Cohen
Jewish Thought: Introduction to the Code of Maimonides (Mishneh Torah) by Isadore Twersky
Visual Arts: Purim : the face and the mask : essays and catalogue of an exhibition at the Yeshiva University Museum, February-June 1979 by Shifra Epstein, Joseph Dov Soloveitchik, Norman Lamm, and others
Yiddish Literature: Pathways in Yiddish literature by Hyman Bass
Yiddish Poetry: Caviar at the funeral : poems by Louis Simpson

1980
Children's Literature: Dita Saxova by Arnošt Lustig
Cumulative Contribution to Yiddish Poetry: Charles Reznikoff
Fiction: The apathetic bookie joint by Daniel Fuchs
Holocaust: Less than slaves : Jewish forced labor and the quest for compensation by Benjamin B. Ferencz
Israel: The Habima, Israel's national theater, 1917-1977 : a study of cultural nationalism by Emanuel Levy
Jewish History: The Jews of Georgian England, 1714-1830 : tradition and change in a liberal society by Todd M. Endelman
Jewish Thought: Gershom Scholem : Kabbalah and counter-history by David Biale
Yiddish Literature: Tzwishn shmeichl un trern (Between smiles and tears) by Peretz Miransky

1979
Children's Literature: Joshua : fighter for Bar Kochba by Irena Narell
Cumulative Contribution to Jewish Historic Research and Thought: Salo W. Baron
Fiction: Leah's journey by Gloria Goldreich
Holocaust: Deliverance day : the last hours at Dachau by Michael Selzer
Israel: Raquela : a woman of Israel by Ruth Gruber
Jewish Thought: Love and sex : a modern Jewish perspective by Robert Gordis
Translation of a Jewish Classic: An elegant composition concerning relief after adversity by Nissim Ben Jacob Ibn Shahin, translated by  William M. Brinner
Yiddish Poetry: In droisen fun der Velt (Outside of the world) by Moishe Steingart

1978
Children's Literature: Never to forget : the Jews of the holocaust by Milton Meltzer
Fiction: The Yeshiva by Chaim Grade
Hebrew Poetry: El eretz aheret (To another land) by T. Carmi
Holocaust: The survivor : an anatomy of life in the death camps by Terrence Des Pres
Israel: Letters to an American Jewish friend : a Zionist's polemic by Hillel Halkin
Jewish History: On the edge of destruction : Jews of Poland between the two World Wars by Celia S. Heller
Jewish Thought: The Jewish mind by Raphael Patai

1977
Children's Literature: Rifka grows up by Chaya M. Burstein
English Poetry: From the backyard of the diaspora by Myra Sklarew
Fiction: Bloodshed and three novellas by Cynthia Ozick
Holocaust: Sefer Sheelot u-Teshuvot Mi-Maamakim, part 4 by Ephraim Oshry
Israel: A history of Israel : from the rise of Zionism to our time by Howard M. Sachar (3rd ed., rev. and updated (2007) here)
Jewish History: World of our fathers by Irving Howe
Jewish Thought: Maimonides : Torah and philosophic quest by David Hartman
Translation of a Jewish Classic: Maimonides' Introduction to the Talmud : a translation of the Rambam's introduction to his Commentary on the Mishna by Zvi L. Lampel

1976
Children's Literature: Haym Salomon : liberty's son by Shirley Milgrim
Fiction: Other people's lives by Johanna Kaplan
Holocaust: Yerusholayim de-Lita : Jerusalem of Lithuania : illustrated and documented by Leyzer Ran
Israel: American Zionism from Herzl to the Holocaust by Melvin I. Urofsky
Jewish History: The myth of the Jewish race by Raphael Patai and Jennifer Patai
Jewish Thought: Contemporary Reform response by Solomon B. Freehof
Translation of a Jewish Classic: Pĕsiḳta dĕ-Rab̲ Kahăna : R. Kahana's compilation of discourses for Sabbaths and festal days by William G. Braude and Israel J. Kapstein
Yiddish Poetry: A shoton trogt main kroin (A shadow wears my crown) by M. Husid

1975
Children's Literature: The Holocaust : a history of courage and resistance by Bea Stadtler
Cumulative Contribution to Jewish History: Solomon Zeitlin
Fiction: White eagle, dark skies by Jean Karsavina
Hebrew Poetry: Metim ve-Ohavim (The dead and the lovers) by Reuven Ben-Yosef
Holocaust: Judenrat; the Jewish councils in Eastern Europe under Nazi occupation by Isaiah Trunk
Israel: The forgotten friendship : Israel and the Soviet Bloc, 1947-53 by Arnold Krammer
Jewish Thought: Major themes in modern philosophies of Judaism by Eliezer Berkovtis
Translation of a Jewish Classic: The book of Isaiah, translated by Max Arzt, Bernard J. Bamberger, Harry Freedman, H. L. Ginsberg, Solomon Grayzel Solomon, and Harry M. Orlinsky

1974
Children's Literature: Uncle Misha's partisans by Yuri Suhl
Fiction: Judah the Pious by Francine Prose
Israel: The question of Palestine, 1914-1918; British-Jewish-Arab relations by Isaiah Friedman
Jewish History: The Jews of Poland; a social and economic history of the Jewish community in Poland from 1100 to 1800 by Bernard D. Weinryb
Jewish Thought: The mask Jews wear : the self-deceptions of American Jewry by Eugene Borowitz
Translation of English Poetry: Songs of Jerusalem and myself by Yehuda Amichai ; translated by Harold Schimmel

1973
Children's Literature: The upstairs room by Johanna Reiss
Fiction: Somewhere else by Robert Kotlowitz
Holocaust: Veiterdike Lider fun Hurban un Lider fun Gloiben un Yanish Korshaks Letzte Gange (More poems of the Holocaust and poems of faith and Yanush Korshak's last walk) by Aaron Zeitlin
Jewish History: A Jewish princedom in feudal France : 768-900 by Arthur J. Zuckerman
Jewish Thought: Two living traditions : essays on religion and the Bible by Samuel Sandmel
Jewish Thought: Souls on fire : portraits and legends of Hasidic masters by Elie Wiesel
Yiddish Poetry: Yiddishe landshaft (Jewish landscape) by Meir Sticker

1972
Children's Literature: The master of miracle : a new novel of the Golem by Sulamith Ish-Kishor
Fiction: The pagan rabbi and other stories by Cynthia Ozick
Hebrew Poetry: Igrotai el dorot aherim (Letters to other generations) by Eisig Silberschlag
Holocaust: The politics of rescue; the Roosevelt administration and the holocaust, 1938-1945 by Henry L. Feingold
Jewish Thought: Jewish worship by Abraham E. Millgram

1971
Children's Literature: Journey to America by Sonia Levitin
English Poetry: Traveler through time by Ruth Finer Mintz
Holocaust: Sheelot u-Teshuvot Mi-Maamakim by Ephraim Oshry
Jewish Thought: The religion of ethical nationhood : Judaism's contribution to world peace by Mordechai M. Kaplan

1970
Children's Literature: The story of Masadah by Yigael Yadin, retold for young readers by Gerald Gottlieb
Children's Literature: Martin Buber : wisdom in our time by Charlie May Simon
Fiction: Waiting for the news by Leo Litwak
Holocaust: Lexicon of the Yiddish theater : martyrs volume by Zalman Zylbercweig
Jewish Thought: Israel : an echo of eternity by Abraham Joshua Heschel
Yiddish Poetry: Elbiker dorsht (Eternal thirst) by Eliezer Greenberg

1969
English Poetry: The marriage wig and other poems by Ruth Whitman
Fiction: Memory of Autumn by Charles Angoff
Hebrew Poetry: Derech Eretz (Respect) by Reuven Ben-Meir
Holocaust: The holocaust : the destruction of European Jewry, 1933-1945 by Nora Levin
Holocaust: The Jewish catastrophe in Europe by Judah Pilch
Jewish Thought: Quest for past and future : essays in Jewish theology by Emil L. Fackenheim
Yiddish Poetry: Di Gnod fun Vort by Rachel H. Korn

1968
Holocaust: And the crooked shall be made straight : the Eichmann trial, the Jewish catastrophe, and Hannah Arendt's narrative by Jacob Robinson
Jewish Thought: The origins of the modern Jew; Jewish identity and European culture in Germany, 1749-1824 by Michael A. Meyer
Yiddish Poetry: Lider fun Hurban un Lider fun Gloiben (Poems of the Holocaust and poems of faith) by Aaron Zeitlin

1967
Children's Literature: The story of Israel by Meyer Levin
Fiction: The well by Chaim Grade
Hebrew Poetry: Shirim be-Sulam miner (Poems in a minor key) by Leonard D. Freidland
Holocaust: Algemeyne entsiklopedye : Yidn VII General Encycolpedia : Jews VII, edited by Abraham Kin, Mordecai Dosover, and Isiah Trunk
Jewish Thought: Understanding Genesis by Nahum M. Sarna
Yiddish Poetry: A Yid fun Lublin (A Jew from Lublin) by Jacob Glatstein

1966
Children's Literature: The Dreyfus affair by Betty Schechter
English Poetry: The darkening green by Ruth Finer Mintz
Fiction: The stronghold : a novel by Meyer Levin
Hebrew Poetry: Ma'avar Yabok (Crossing the Yabok) by Simon Halkin
Holocaust: Analytical Franco-Jewish gazetteer, 1939-1945 by Zosa Szajkowksi
Jewish Thought: The higher freedom : a new turning point in Jewish history by David Polish
Yiddish Poetry: Licht fun Dorenboin (A light from the thornbush) by Kadia Molodowsky

1965
Children's Literature: World lost and found : discoveries in biblical archaeology by Dov Peretz Elkins and Azriel Eisenberg
Fiction: The town beyond the wall by Elie Wiesel
Jewish Thought: Ancient Jewish philosophy : a study in metaphysics and ethics by Israel Efros
Yiddish Poetry: Di emesse hasunah (Some wedding) by Aleph Katz

1964
Children's Literature: A boy of Old Prague by Sulamith Ish-Kishor ; illustrated by Ben Shahn
Fiction: The King's persons by Joanne Gereenberg
Hebrew Poetry: Ha-Rei Boer ba-Esh (The mirror burns in fire) by Arnold Band
Jewish Thought: Judaism : profile of a faith by Ben Zion Bokser
Yiddish Poetry: Amerike un Ich (America and I) by Aaron Glanz-Leyeles

1963
Children's Literature: Return to Freedom by Josephine Kamm ; illustrated by William Stobbs
English Poetry: By the waters of Manhattan : selected verse by Charles Reznikoff
Fiction: The slave : a novel by Issac Bashevis Singer
Jewish History: The promised city : New York's Jews, 1870-1914 by Moses Rischin
Yiddish Poetry Der Mensch fun Fier (The Man of Fire) by Chaim Grade

1962
Children's Literature: Ten and a kid by Sadie Rose Weilerstein
English Poetry: Work and Days, and other poems by Irving Feldman
Fiction: The wedding band by Samuel Yellen
Hebrew Poetry: Mapat erev by Gabriel Preil
Yiddish Poetry: Nigun Eingehert (In melody absorbed) by Israel Emiot

1961
Children's Literature: Discovering Israel by Regina Tor
Fiction: The human season by Edward L. Wallant
Hebrew Poetry: K'mo hayom rad (As the day wanes) by Ephraim E. Lisitzky
Yiddish Poetry: Megilath Russland (Scroll of Russia) by Joseph Rubinstein

1960
Children's Literature: Keys to a magic door : the life and times of I. L. Peretz by Sylvia Rothchild ; illustrated by Bernard Krigstein
English Poetry: The spoken choice by Amy K. Blank
Fiction: Goodbye Columbus by Philip Roth
Hebrew Poetry: Kimron yamai (Arch of my days) by Eisig Silberschlag
Yiddish Poetry: Gildene Shekia (Golden sunset) by Ephraim Auerbach

1959
Children's Literature: Border hawk : August Bondi by Lloyd Alexander ; illustrated by Bernard Krigstein
English Poetry: Come under the wings : a midrash on Ruth by Grace Goldin
Fiction: Exodus by Leon Uris
Hebrew Poetry: Tzil va-Tzel (Sound and shadow) by Moshe Ben-Meir
Yiddish Poetry: Lid tzu lid (Poem to poem) by Benjamin I. Bialostotzky

1958
Children's Literature: Jewish junior encyclopedia by Naomi Ben Asher and Hayim Leaf
Cumulative Contribution to Yiddish Poetry: I. J. Schwartz
Fiction: The assistant by Bernard Malamud
Hebrew Poetry: Bein ha-Esh veha-Esha (Between the man and the woman) by Aaron Zeitlin

1957
Cumulative Contribution to Children's Literature: Elma F. Levinger
Fiction: Raquel : the Jewess of Toledo by Lion Feuchtwanger
Hebrew Poetry: Avraham Abulfia by Moshe Feinstein
Yiddish Poetry: Fun Mein Gantzer Mei : 1919-1956 (Of all my toil : collected poems, 1919-1956) by Jacob Glatstein

1956
Cumulative Contribution to Children's Literature: Sadie Rose Weilerstein
Cumulative Contribution to Yiddish Poetry: Naftali Gross
Hebrew Poetry: Aderet HaShanim (Mantle of years) by Hillel Bavli

1955
Children's Literature: King Solomon's navy by Nora Benjamin Kubie
Fiction: Blessed is the land by Louis Zara
Hebrew Poetry: Ner Mul Kochavim (Candle Under the Stars) by Gabriel Preil
Yiddish Poetry: Lider fun a Midbarnik (Poems of a Hermit) by Alter Asselin

1954
Children's Literature: The Jewish people : book three by Deborah Pessin
Cumulative Contribution to English Poetry: Harry H. Fein
Fiction: In the morning light by Charles Angoff
Hebrew Poetry: Be-Ohalei Kush (In Negro tents) by Ephraim E. Lisitzky
Yiddish Poetry: Banachtiger Dialog (Night dialogue) by Eliezer Greenberg

1953
Children's Literature: Stories of King David by Lillian S. Freehof
Cumulative Contribution to English Poetry: Isidore Goldstick
Cumulative Contribution to Hebrew Poetry: A. S. Schwarz
Fiction: The Juggler by Michael Blankfort
Yiddish Poetry: The changelings : collected poems by Mark Schweid

1952
Children's Literature: All-of-a-kind family by Sydney Taylor (1989 printing here)
Cumulative Contribution to English Poetry: A. M. Klein
Cumulative Contribution to Hebrew Poetry: Hillel Bavli
Editing and Translationg Yiddish Poetry: Antologia fun der Hebraishe Poesie (Anthology of Hebrew Poetry) by Mordechai Jaffee
Fiction: Quiet street by Zelda Popkin

1951
English Poetry: Jerusalem has many faces by Judah Stampfer
Fiction: The testament of the lost son by Soma Morgenstein
Hebrew Poetry: Shirim u'Poemot (Songs and Poems) by Aaron Zeitlin
Yiddish Poetry: Der Fuller Krug (The Brimming Jug) by Ber Lappin

1950
Fiction: The wall by John Hersey
Jewish Thought: The Jews in medieval Germany : a study of their legal and social status by Guido Kisch (2d ed. (1970) here)

1949
Fiction: My glorious brothers by Howard Fast
Jewish Thought: Philo : foundations of religious philosophy in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam by Harry Austryn Wolfson

Armitage-Jameson Prize for Western Women's History

The CWWH awards the Armitage-Jameson Prize annually for the most outstanding monograph or edited volume published in western women's, gender, and sexuality history. The Prize is named in honor of Susan Armitage and Elizabeth Jameson for their pioneering work in the field of western women's history. For more information about Coalition for Western Women's History, sponsor of this award, click Coalition for Western Women's History.

2021  Tiny you : a western history of the anti-abortion movement by Jennifer L. Holland
2020  Reproduction on the reservation : pregnancy, childbirth, and colonialism in the long twentieth century by Brianna Theobald
2018  Abolitionists, doctors, ranchers, and writers : a family journey through American history by Lynne Marie Getz
2017  Legal codes and talking trees : indigenous women's sovereignty in the Sonoran and Puget Sound borderlands, 1854-1946 by Katrina Jagodinsky
2016  Home rule : households, expansion, and national expansion on the eighteenth century Kentucky frontier by Honor Sachs
2015  Written as I remember it : teachings (þm̃s taþaw) from the life of a Sliammon elder by Elsie Paul ; edited by Paige Raibmon and Harmony Johnson
2014  From coveralls to zoot suits : the lives of Mexican American women on the World War II home front by Elizabeth R. Escobedo
2013  Across God's frontiers : Catholic sisters in the American West, 1850-1920 by Anne M. Butler; Pregnancy, motherhood, and choice in twentieth century Arizona by Mary S. Melcher (honorable mention)
2012  Recollecting : lives of aboriginal women of the Canadian Northwest and Borderlands, edited by Sarah Carter and Patricia McCormick
2011  Frontier feminist : Clarina Howard Nichols and the politics of motherhood by Marilyn S. Blackwell & Kristen Oertel
2010  White mother to a dark race : settler colonialism, maternalism, and the removal of indigenous children in the American West and Australia, 1880-1940 by Margaret Jacobs

National Women's Studies Association-University of Illinois Press First Book Prize
This prize is for the best dissertation or first book manuscript by a single author in the field of women's and gender studies. Applicants must be National Women's Studies Association members. Click National Women's Studies Association for more information about the sponsors of this award.

2023  Jezebel By Another Name: Black Women, Carceral Geography, and the Practice of Marronage in Chicago by Michaela Machicote; and Slave of a Slave No More: Gender, Domestic Labor, and Black Feminist Theories of Domestic Life, 1967-1987 by Cinnamon Williams
2022  Kēdzéntēdé Kedzedı̨̄ : aunties, disestablishment, and the making of Communiversitea by Amanda Deanna Darroch Mudry Buffalo (doctoral dissertation); and Across seven seas, I followed you here: caste, marriage migration and multiculturalism in the Indian diaspora by Harshita Yalamarty (doctoral dissertation)
2021  Grieving geographies, mourning waters : race, gender, and environment on the coast of Oaxaca, Mexico by Meztli Yoalli Rodríguez Aguilera (doctoral dissertation)
2019  Re-membering the maternal goddess : Rastafari women’s intellectual history and activism in the Pan-African world by Shamara Wyllie Alhassan
2018   Assembling Asian America : psychological technologies and queer subjectivities by Wen Liu; Indians on Indian lands : intersections of race, caste, and indigeneity by Nishant Upadhyay
2017  Gender, race, and performance space : women's activism in Jamaican and South African theatre by Nicosia M. Shakes; Objects of desire : feminist inquiry, transnational feminism, and global fashion by Elizabeth Verklan (honorable mention)
2015  Postcolonial homophobia : United States imperialism in Haiti and the transnational circulation of antigay sexual politics by Erin L. Durban-Albrecht
2014  Migrant care worker activism in Canada : from the politics of everyday resistance to the politics from below by Ethel Tungohan
2013  Chicana environmentalisms : decolonizing the body, nature, and spirit by Christina Holmes
2012  How women do politics : peacebuilding, resistance, and survival in Palestine by Sophie Richter-Devroe
2011  Sex tourism in Bahia : ambiguous entanglements by Erica Williams

Alison Piepmeier Book Prize
This award is given for a groundbreaking monograph in women, gender, and sexuality studies that makes significant contributions to feminist disability studies scholarship. Click National Women's Studies Association for more information about the sponsors of this award.

2023  Activist Affordances: How Disabled People Improvise More Habitable Worlds by Arseli Dokumaci; Prenatal Genetic Testing, Abortion, and Disability Justice by Amber Knight and Joshua Miller (honorable mention)
2022 The political economy of stigma : HIV, memoir, medicine, and crip positionalities by Allyson Day
2021 Committed : remembering native kinship in and beyond institutions by Susan Burch
2019 Infrahumanisms : science, culture, and the making of modern non/personhood by Megan Glick
2018 The right to maim : debility, capacity, disability by Jasbir K. Puar; The pedagogy of pathologization : dis/abled girls of color in the school-prison nexus by Subini Ancy Annamma
2017 Curative violence : rehabilitating disability, gender, and sexuality in modern Korea by Eunjung Kim

Stonewall Book Award 2006-present
The first and most enduring award for LGBTQIA+ books is the Stonewall Book Awards, sponsored by the American Library Association's Rainbow Round Table (formerly the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Round Table). Click Rainbow Round Table for more information about it.

2023
Barbara Gittings Literature Award:  The Other Mother by Rachel M. Harper
Barbara Gittings Literature Award for Poetry:  Revenge Body by Rachel Wiley  
Israel Fishman Nonfiction Award:

• The Women's House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison by Hugh Ryan. 
• Faltas: Letters to Everyone in My Hometown Who Isn't a Rapist by Cecilia Gentili

Mike Morgan & Larry Romans Children’s & Young Adult Literature Award:

• Love, Violet by Charlotte Sullivan Wilde and illustrated by Charlene Chua
• When the Angels Left the Old Country by Sacha Lamb

Stonewall Honor Books in Literature:

• Dead Collections by Isaac Fellman 
• Dominant Genes by SJ Sindu 
• How to Identify Yourself with a Wound by KB Brookins 

Stonewall Honor Books in Non-Fiction:

• Refusing Compulsory Sexuality: A Black Asexual Lens on Our Sex-Obsessed Culture by Sherronda J. Brown
• High-Risk Homosexual: A Memoir by Edgar Gomez
• Voice of the Fish: A Lyric Essay by Lars Horn

Stonewall Honor Books in Children’s and Young Adult Literature:

• In the Key of Us by Mariama J. Lockington
• Kapaemahu by Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu, Dean Hamer, and Joe Wilson, illustrated by Daniel Sousa
• The Real Riley Mayes written and illustrated by Rachel Elliott
• Strong by Rob Kearney and Eric Rosswood, illustrated by Nidhi Chanani
• I Kissed Shara Wheeler by Casey McQuiston
• Kings of B’More by R. Eric Thomas
• Man o’War by Cory McCarthy
• The Summer of Bitter and Sweet by Jen Ferguson

2022
Barbara Gittings Literature Award:  Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon
Israel Fishman Nonfiction Award:  Dear Senthuran : a Black spirit memoir by Akwaeke Emezi
Mike Morgan & Larry Romans Children’s & Young Adult Literature Award:  Too bright to see by Kyle Lukoff; Last night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo
Stonewall Honor Books in Literature:
Light from uncommon stars by Ryka Aoki
Black girl, call home : poems by Jasmine Mans
Stone fruit by Lee Lai
A psalm for the wild-built by Becky Chambers
Stonewall Honor Books in Non-Fiction:
The hidden case of Ewan Forbes : and the unwritten history of the trans experience by Zoë Playdon
A history of scars by Laura Lee
Let the record show : a political history of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993 by Sarah Schulman
Punch me up to the gods : a memoir by Brian Broome
Stonewall Honor Books in Children’s and Young Adult Literature:
Almost flying by Jake Maia Arlow
The darkness outside us by Eliot Schrefer
Grandad's camper, illustrated and written by Harry Woodgate

2021
Barbara Gittings Literature Award: The thirty names of night : a novel by Zeyn Joukhadar
Israel Fishman Nonfiction Award: The queer games avant-garde : how LBGTQ game makers are reimagining the medium of video games by Bonnie Ruberg
Mike Morgan & Larry Romans Children’s & Young Adult Literature Award: Families, designed by Lindsey Blakely, written by Archaa Shrivastav
Stonewall Honor Books in Literature:
The death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi
Memorial by Bryan Washington
More than organs by Kay Ulanday Barrett
Postcolonial love poem by Natalie Diaz
Stonewall Honor Books in Non-Fiction:
My autobiography of Carson McCullers by Jenn Shapland
The fixed stars : a memoir by Molly Wizenberg
Paper bullets : two artists who risked their lives to defy the Nazis by Jeffrey H. Jackson
XOXY : a memoir by Kimberly M. Zieselman
Stonewall Honor Books in Children’s and Young Adult Literature
Beetle & The Hollowbones, illustrated and written by Aliza Layne
Darius the Great deserves better by Adib Khorram
Felix ever after by Kacen Callender
You should see me in a crown by Leah Johnson

2020
Barbara Gittings Literature Award: Cantoras by Carolina De Robertis
Israel Fishman Nonfiction Award: How we fight for our lives : a memoir by Saeed Jones
Mike Morgan & Larry Romans Children’s & Young Adult Literature Award: When Aidan became a brother by Kyle Lukoff and illustrated by Kaylani Juanita; The black flamingo by Dean Atta with illustrations by Anshika Khullar
Stonewall Honor Books in Literature:
Lot : stories by Bryan Washington
On Earth we're briefly gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
Patsy by Nicole Dennis-Benn
War/Torn by Hasan Namir
Stonewall Honor Books in Non-Fiction
Gender queer : a memoir by Maia Kobabe
I hope we choose love : a trans girl's notes from the end of the world by Kai Cheng Thom
In the Dream House: A Memoir by Carmen Maria Machado
She/he/they/me : for the sisters, misters, and binary resisters by Robyn Ryle
Stonewall Honor Books in Children’s and Young Adult Literature
Pet by Akwaeke Emezi
Like a love story by Abdi Nazemian
The best at it by Maulik Pancholy

2019
Barbara Gittings Literature Award: The great believers by Rebecca Makkai
Israel Fishman Nonfiction Award: Go the way your blood beats : on truth, bisexuality, and desire by Michael Amherst
Mike Morgan & Larry Romans Children’s & Young Adult Literature Award: Julián is a mermaid by Jessica Love; Hurricane child by Kacen Callender
Stonewall Honor Books in Literature:
Forward by Lisa Maas
Luisa now and then by Carole Maurel, adapted by Mariko Tamaki, translated from French by Nanette McGuinness
Speak no evil : a novel by Uzodinma Iweala
White houses by Amy Bloom
Stonewall Honor Books in Non-Fiction:
Black. Queer. Southern. Women : an oral history by E. Patrick Johnson
Raising Rosie : our story of parenting an intersex child by Eric and Stephani Lohman
Tinderbox : the untold story of the Up Stairs Lounge fire and the rise of gay liberation by Robert W. Fieseler
The world only spins forward : the ascent of Angels in America by Isaac Butler and Dan Kois
Stonewall Honor Books in Children’s and Young Adult Literature:
Ivy Aberdeen's letter to the world by Ashley Herring Blake
Picture us in the light by Kelly Loy Gilbert

2018
Barbara Gittings Literature Award: Meanwhile, elsewhere : science fiction and fantasy from transgender writers, edited by Cat Fitzpatrick and Casey Plett
Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award: Queer threads : crafting identity and community by John Chaich and Todd Oldham
Mike Morgan and Larry Romans Children's and Young Adult Literature Award: The 57 bus by Dashka Slater; Little & Lion by Brandy Colbert
Stonewall Honor Books in Literature:
Marriage of a thousand lies by SJ Sindu
A place called No Homeland by Kai Cheng Thom
An unkindness of ghosts by Rivers Solomon
When I grow up, I want to be a list of further possibilities by Chen Chen
Stonewall Honor Books in Non-Fiction:
Black on both sides : a racial history of trans identity by C. Riley Snorton
The black penguin by Andrew Evans
LGBTQ stats : lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer people by the numbers by Bennett Singer and David Deschamps
Stonewall Honor Books in Children's and Young Adult Literature
As the crow flies, written and illustrated by Melanie Gillman
The gentleman's guide to vice and virtue by Mackenzi Lee

2017
Barbara Gittings Literature Award: Desert boys by Chris McCormick
Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award: How to survive a plague : the story of how activists and scientists tamed AIDS by David France
Mike Morgan and Larry Romans Children's and Young Adult Literature Award
Children's Award: Magnus Chase and the gods of Asgard : the hammer of Thor by Rick Riordan
Young Adult Award: If I was your girl by Meredith Russo
Stonewall Honor Books in Literature:
Beautiful gravity: a novel by Martin Hyatt
Dig by Bryan Borland
Guapa by Saleem Haddad
Hide: a novel by Matthew Griffin
Stonewall Honor Books in Non-Fiction:
Not straight, not white: black gay men from the march on Washington to the AIDS crisis by Kevin J. Mumford
One-man show: the life and art of Bernard Perlin
Rethinking sexism, gender, and sexuality, edited by Annika Butler-Wall, Kim Cosier, et. al
Tomboy survival guide by Ivan E. Coyote
Stonewall Honor Books in Children's and Young Adult Literature
When the moon was ours by Anna-Marie McLemore
Unbecoming by Jenny Downham
Pride : celebrating diversity & community by Robin Stevenson

2016
Barbara Gittings Literature Award: The gods of tango : a novel by Carolina De Robertis
Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award: Speak now : marriage equality on trial : the story of Hollingsworth v. Perry by Kenji Yoshino
Mike Morgan and Larry Romans Children's and Young Adult Literature Award
Children's Award: George by Alex Gino
Young Adult Award: The porcupine of truth by Bill Konigsberg
Stonewall Honor Books in Literature:
Apocalypse baby by Virginie Despentes; translated by Siân Reynolds
For your own good by Leah Horlick
Jam on the vine : a novel by LaShonda Katrice Barnett
Lum: a novel by Libby Ware
Stonewall Honor Books in Non-Fiction:
Becoming Nicole : the transformation of an American family by Amy Ellis Nutt
The gay revolution : the story of the struggle by Lillian Faderman
Marie Equi : radical politics and outlaw passions by Michael Helquist
Violence against queer people : race, class, gender, and the persistence of anti-LGBT discrimination by Doug Meyer
Stonewall Honor Books in Children's and Young Adult Literature
Sex is a funny word by Cory Silverberg and Fiona Smyth
Wonders of the invisible world by Christopher Barzak

2015
Barbara Gittings Literature Award: Prelude to bruise by Saeed Jones
Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award: Living out Islam : voices of gay, lesbian, and transgender Muslims by Scott Siraj al-Haqq Kugle
Mike Morgan and Larry Romans Children's and Young Adult Literature Award: This day in June by Gayle E. Pitman
Stonewall Honor Books in Literature:
Bitter Eden by Tatamkhulu Afrika
Frog music : a novel by Emma Donoghue
The two Hotel Francforts : a novel by David Leavitt
My real children by Jo Walton
Stonewall Honor Books in Non-Fiction:
Gay Berlin : birthplace of a modern identity by Robert Beachy
Redefining realness : my path to womanhood, identity, love & so much more by Janet Mock
Hold tight gently : Michael Callen, Essex Hemphill, and the battlefield of AIDS by Martin Duberman
Charity and Sylvia : a same-sex marriage in early America by Rachel Hope Cleves
Stonewall Honor Books in Children's and Young Adult Literature:
Beyond magenta : transgender teens speak out by Susan Kuklin
I'll give you the sun by Jandy Nelson (Spanish version)
Morris Micklewhite and the tangerine dress by Christine Baldacchio ; illustrated by Isabelle Malenfant

2014
Barbara Gittings Literature Award: Art on fire by Hilary Sloin
Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award: American honor killings : desire and rage among men by David McConnell; Raising my rainbow : adventures in raising a fabulous, gender creative son by Lori Duron
Mike Morgan and Larry Romans Children's and Young Adult Literature Award: Beautiful music for ugly children by Kirstin Cronn-Mills; Fat Angie by e.E. Charlton-Trujillo
Stonewall Honor Books in Literature:
A strange and separate people by Jon Marans
Everything begins & ends at the Kentucky Club by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
The rebellion of Miss Lucy Ann Lobdell by William Klaber
Stonewall Honor Books in Non-Fiction:
A little gay history : desire and diversity across the world by R. B. Parkinson
Fairyland : a memoir of my father by Alysia Abbott
Stonewall Honor Books in Children's and Young Adult Literature:
Better Nate than ever by Tim Federle
Branded by the pink triangle by Ken Setterington
Two boys kissing by David Levithan

2013
Barbara Gittings Literature Award: The last nude by Ellis Avery
Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award: For colored boys who have considered suicide when the rainbow is still not enough : coming of age, coming out, and coming home, edited by Keith Boykin
Mike Morgan and Larry Romans Children's and Young Adult Literature Award: Aristotle and Dante discover the secrets of the universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Stonewall Honor Books in Literature:
The absolutist by John Boyne
The song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
Chulito by Charles Rice-González
The unreal life of Sergey Nabokov : a novel by Paul Russell
Stonewall Honor Books in Non-Fiction:
Eminent outlaws : the gay writers who changed America by Christopher Bram
When we were outlaws : a memoir of love & revolution by Jeanne Córdova
Why are faggots so afraid of faggots? : flaming challenges to masculinity, objectification, and the desire to conform, edited by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
Why be happy when you could be normal? by Jeanette Winterson
Stonewall Honor Books in Children's and Young Adult Literature:
Drama, written and illustrated by Raina Telgemeier
Gone, gone, gone by Hannah Moskowitz
October mourning : a song for Matthew Shepard by Leslea Newman
Sparks : the epic, completely true blue, (almost) holy quest of Debbie by S. J. Adams

2012
Barbara Gittings Literature Award: Sweet like sugar by Wayne Hoffman
Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award: Hide/Seek : difference and desire in American portraiture by Jonathan D. Katz and David C. Ward; and A queer history of the United States by Michael Bronski
Mike Morgan and Larry Romans Children's and Young Adult Literature Award: Putting makeup on the fat boy by Bil Wright
Stonewall Honor Books in Literature:
The temperamentals : a new play by Jon Marans
Remembrance of things I forgot : a novel by Bob Smith
Annabel : a novel by Kathleen Winter
The picture of Dorian Gray : an annotated, uncensored edition by Oscar Wilde ; edited by Nicholas Frankel
Stonewall Honor Books in Non-Fiction:
Nina here nor there : my journey beyond gender by Nick Krieger
Persistence : all ways butch and femme, edited by Ivan E. Coyote and Zena Sharman
Seeing Gertrude Stein : five stories by Wanda M. Corn and Tirza True Latimer
Stonewall Honor Books in Children's and Young Adult Literature:
Pink by Lili Wilkinson
With or without you by Brian Farrey
A + E 4ever : a graphic novel, drawn and written by Ilike Merey
Money boy by Paul Yee

2011
Barbara Gittings Literature Award: More of this world or maybe another by Barb Johnson
Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award: Inseparable : desire between women in literature by Emma Donoghue
Children's and Young Adult Literature Award: Almost perfect by Brian Katcher
Stonewall Honor Books in Literature:
Probation by Tom Mendicino
The more I owe you : a novel by Michael Sledge
Holding still for as long as possible by Zoe Whittall
Stonewall Honor Books in Non-Fiction:
The right to be out : sexual orientation and gender identity in America's public schools by Stuart Biegel (2d ed. (2018) here)
A great unrecorded history : a new life of E.M. Forster by Wendy Moffa
Just kids by Patti Smith
Secret historian : the life and times of Samuel Steward, professor, tattoo artist, and sexual renegade by Justin Spring
Stonewall Honor Books in Children and Young Adult Literature:
Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green and David Levithan (Spanish version)
Freaks and revelations : a novel by Davida Wills Hurwin
Love drugged by James Klise
The boy in the dress by David Walliams ; illustrated by Quentin Blake

2010
Barbara Gittings Literature Award: Stray dog winter : a novel by David Francis
Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award: Unfriendly fire : how the gay ban undermines the military and weakens America by Nathaniel Frank
Children's and Young Adult Literature Award: The vast fields of ordinary by Nick Burd
Stonewall Honor Books in Literature:
God says no by James Hannaham
Beauty salon by Mario Bellatin
Stonewall Honor Books in Non-Fiction:
Barney Frank : the story of America's only left-handed, gay, Jewish congressman by Stuart E. Weisberg
Black bull, ancestors and me : my life as a lesbian sangoma by Nkunzi Zandile Nkabinde
The Greeks and Greek love : a radical reappraisal of homosexuality in Ancient Greece by James Davidson
I am your sister : collected and unpublished writings of Audre Lorde, edited by Rudolph P. Byrd
Stonewall Honor Books in Children and Young Adult Literature:
10,000 dresses by Marcus Ewert
Daddy, papa, and me by Lesléa Newman
Gay America : struggle for equality by Linas Alsenas
Mommy, mama, and me by Lesléa Newman
Sprout by Dale Peck

2009
Barbara Gittings Literature Award: Light fell by Evan Fallenberg
Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award: Dishonorable passions : sodomy laws in America, 1861-2003 by William N. Eskridge, Jr.
Stonewall Honor Books in Literature:
The conversion by Joseph Olshan
A perfect waiter : a novel by Alain Claude Sulzer
The sealed letter by Emma Donoghue
Stonewall Honor Books in Non-Fiction:
Assisted loving : true tales of double dating with my dad by Bob Morris
Sex variant woman : the life of Jeannette Howard Foster by Joanne Ellen Passet
Sweet tea : Black gay men of the South by E. Patrick Johnson
Swish : my quest to become the gayest person ever by Joel Derfner

2008
Barbara Gittings Literature Award: The teahouse fire by Ellis Avery
Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award: Dog years : a memoir by Mark Doty
Stonewall Honor Books in Literature:
Bow grip by Ivan E. Coyote
Dark reflections by Samuel R. Delany
The Indian clerk : a novel by David Leavitt
The IHOP papers by Ali Liebegott
Stonewall Honor Books in Non-Fiction:
Transparent : love, family, and living the T with transgender teenagers by Cris Beam
The grand surprise : the journals of Leo Lerman, edited by Stephen Pascal
Two lives : Gertrude and Alice by Janet Malcolm
Mississippi sissy by Kevin Sessums

2007
Barbara Gittings Literature Award: Grief by Andrew Holleran
Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award: Fun Home : a family tragicomic by Alison Bechdel
Stonewall Honor Books in Literature:
The Manny files by Christian Burch
The night watch by Sarah Waters
Rose of No Man's Land : a novel by Michelle Tea
A scarecrow's bible by Martin Hyatt
Stonewall Honor Books in Non-Fiction:
Covering : the hidden assault on our civil rights by Kenji Yoshino
Gay power : an American revolution by David Eisenbach
Male-male intimacy in early America : beyond romantic friendships by William Benemann
Mama's boy, preacher's son : a memoir by Kevin Jennings

2006
Barbara Gittings Literature Award: Babyji : a novel by Abha Dawesar
Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award: The fabulous Sylvester : the legend, the music, the seventies in San Francisco by Joshua Gamson
Stonewall Honor Books in Literature:
Acqua calda by Keith McDermott
The first verse : a novel by Barry McCrea
Mother of sorrows by Richard McCann
The wild creatures : collected stories of Sam D'Allesandro, edited by Kevin Killian
Stonewall Honor Books in Non-Fiction:
My one-night stand with cancer by Tania Katan
Queer London : perils and pleasures in the sexual metropolis, 1918-1957 by Matt Houlbrook
The secret life of Oscar Wilde by Neil McKenna
The tragedy of today's gays by Larry Kramer

Stonewall Book Award 2005-1991
The first and most enduring award for LGBTQIA+ books is the Stonewall Book Awards, sponsored by the American Library Association's Rainbow Round Table (formerly the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Round Table). Click Rainbow Round Table for more information about it.

2005
Barbara Gittings Literature Award: The master : a novel by Colm Tóibín
Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award: Evolution's rainbow : diversity, gender, and sexuality in nature and people by Joan Roughgarden
Stonewall Honor Books in Literature:
I am my own wife : a play by Doug Wright
The line of beauty : a novel by Alan Hollinghurst
Luna : a novel by Julie Anne Peters
A seahorse year by Stacey D'Erasmo
Stonewall Honor Books in Non-Fiction:
Beyond shame : reclaiming the abandoned history of radical gay sexuality by Patrick Moore
Both : a portrait in two parts by Douglas Crase
Dress your family in corduroy and denim by David Sedaris
Warrior poet : a biography of Audre Lorde by Alexis De Veaux

2004
Barbara Gittings Literature Award: The book of salt by Monique T. D. Truong
Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award: Lost prophet : the life and times of Bayard Rustin by John D'Emilio
Stonewall Honor Books in Literature:
Cutting room by Louise Welsh
Keeping you a secret by Julie Ann Peters
Lives of the circus animals : a novel by Christopher Bram
Southland by Nina Revoyr
Stonewall Honor Books in Non-Fiction:
Beautiful shadow : a life of Patricia Highsmith by Andrew Wilson
Before Stonewall : activists for gay and lesbian rights in historical context, edited by Vern L. Bullough
Intertwined lives : Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, and their circle by Lois W. Banner
Ridiculous! : the theatrical life and times of Charles Ludlam by David Kaufman

2003
Barbara Gittings Literature Award: Letters to Montgomery Clift : a novel by Noel Alumit
Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award: How sex changed : a history of transsexuality in the United States by Joanne Meyerowitz
Stonewall Honor Books in Literature:
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Lantern bearers : a novel by Ronald Frame
At swim, two boys : a novel by Jamie O'Neil
Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
Stonewall Honor Books in Non-Fiction:
Dress codes : of three girlhoods-- my mother's, my father's, and mine by Noelle Howey
Sex-crime panic : a journey to the paranoid heart of the 1950s by Neil Miller
Rare and commonplace flowers : the story of Elizabeth Bishop and Lota de Macedo Soares by Carmen L. Oliveria, translated by Niel K. Besner
Glenway Wescott personally : a biography by Jerry Roscoe

2002
Barbara Gittings Literature Award: The Laramie Project by Moisés Kaufman and the Tectonic Theatre Project
Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award: The scarlet professor : Newton Arvin, a literary life shattered by scandal by Barry Werth
Stonewall Honor Books in Literature:
Pages for you by Sylvia Brownrigg
Guess again : short stories by Bernard Cooper
Welsh boys too by John Sam Jones
The heart Is deceitful above all things by J. T. LeRoy
Stonewall Honor Books in Non-Fiction:
You're not from around here, are you? : a lesbian in small-town America by Louise A. Blum
Courting justice : gay men and lesbians v. the Supreme Court by Joyce Murdoch and Deb Price
How I learned to snap : a small-town coming-out and coming-of-age story by Kirk Read
The stranger next door : the story of a small community's battle over sex, faith, and civil rights by Arlene Stein
Loss within loss : artists in the age of AIDS, edited by Edmund White with The Estate Project for Artists with AIDS

2001
Literature Award: Affinity by Sarah Waters
Non-Fiction Award: Gaylaw : challenging the apartheid of the closet by William N. Eskridge
Stonewall Honor Books in Literature:
Breakfast with Scot : a novel by Michael Downing
The Danish girl : a novel by David Ebershoff
The world in us : lesbian and gay poetry of the next wave : an anthology, edited by Michael Lassell and Elena Georgiou
The night listener : a novel by Armistead Maupin
Stonewall Honor Books in Non-Fiction:
Lesbian and gay voices : an annotated bibliography and guide to literature for children and young adults by Frances Ann Day
Losing Matt Shepard : life and politics in the aftermath of anti-gay murder by Beth Loffreda
Janet, my mother, and me : a memoir of growing up with Janet Flanner and Natalia Danesi Murray by William Murray
Pedro and me : friendship, loss, and what I learned by Judd Winick

2000
Literature Award: Po man's child : a novel by Marci Blackman
Non-Fiction Award: My lesbian husband : landscape of a marriage by Barrie Jean Borich
Stonewall Literature Finalists:
Comfort & joy : a novel by Jim Grimsley
Mr. Dalloway : a novella by Robin Lippincott
Lawnboy by Paul Lisicky
Last rights : poems by Marvin K. White
Stonewall Non-Fiction Finalists:
Victory deferred : how AIDS changed gay life in America by John-Manuel Andriote
Biological exuberance : animal homosexuality and natural diversity by Bruce Bagemihl
Firebird : a memoir by Mark Doty
Lorca : a dream of life by Leslie Stainton

1999
Literature Award: The hours by Michael Cunningham
Non-Fiction Award: Stagestruck : theater, AIDS, and the marketing of gay America by Sarah Schulman
Stonewall Literature Finalists:
Science fiction, edited by Nicola Griffith and Stephen Pagel
Switch by Carol Guess
An arrow's flight by Mark Merlis
Imagine being more afraid of freedom than slavery : poems by Pamela Sneed
Stonewall Non-Fiction Finalists:
Strong women, deep closets : lesbians and homophobia in sport by Pat Griffin
The other side of silence : men's lives and gay identities : a twentieth century history by John Loughery
A fragile union : new & selected writings by Joan Nestle
The truth that never hurts : writings on race, gender, and freedom by Barbara Smith

1998
Literature Award: Working parts : a novel by Lucy Jane Bledsoe
Non-Fiction Award: The shared heart : portraits and stories celebrating lesbian, gay, and bisexual young people by Adam Mastoon
Stonewall Literature Finalists:
Prozac highw@y : a novel by Persimmon Blackbridge
Beyond the pale : a novel by Elana Dykewomon
In awe by Scott Heim
The escape artist : a novel by Judith Katz
Stonewall Non-Fiction Finalists:
Hospital time by Amy Hoffman
Queerly classed, edited by Susan Raffo
Lonely hunters : an oral history of lesbian and gay southern life, 1948-1968 by James T. Sears
Sex and sensibility : stories of a lesbian generation by Arlene Stein

1997
Literature Award: Hood by Emma Donoghue
Non-Fiction Award: Geography of the heart : a memoir by Fenton Johnson
Stonewall Literature Finalists:
The beauty of men : a novel by Andrew Holleran
Funny boy : a novel by Shyam Selvadurai
Toward amnesia by Sarah Van Arsdale
Bailey's beads by Terry Wolverton
Stonewall Non-Fiction Finalists:
Straight news : gays, lesbians, and the news media by Edward Alwood
Free your mind : the book for gay, lesbian, and bisexual youth--and their allies by Ellen Bass and Kate Kaufman
Heaven's coast : a memoir by Mark Doty
Cracks in the iron closet : travels in gay and lesbian Russia by David Tuller

1996
Literature Award: Dream boy by Jim Grimsley
Non-Fiction Award: Virtual equality : the mainstreaming of gay and lesbian liberation by Urvashi Vaid
Stonewall Literature Finalists:
Two or three things I know for sure by Dorothy Allison
Baby be-bop by Francesca Lia Block
Stuck rubber baby by Howard Cruse
The promise of rest by Reynolds Price
Stonewall Non-Fiction Finalists:
Joining the tribe : growing up gay & lesbian in the '90s by Linnea Due
The invention of heterosexuality by Jonathan Ned Katz
S/He by Minnie Bruce Pratt
The gay and lesbian literary heritage, edited by Claude J. Summers

1995
Literature Award: Am I blue? : coming out from the silence, edited by Marion Dane Bauer
Non-Fiction Award: Skin : talking about sex, class & literature by Dorothy Allison; Uncommon heroes : a celebration of heroes and role models for gay and lesbian Americans by Phillip Sherman and Samuel Bernstein
Stonewall Literature Finalists:
The other man was me : a voyage to the New World by Rafael Campo
Chloe plus Olivia : an anthology of lesbian literature from the seventeenth century to the present, edited by Lillian Faderman
The dyke and dybbuk : a novel by Ellen Galford
Winter numbers : poems by Marilyn Hacker
Stonewall Non-Fiction Finalists:
Gay New York : gender, urban culture, and the makings of the gay male world, 1890-1940 by George Chauncey
Images in the dark : an encyclopedia of gay and lesbian film and video by Raymond Murray
Sister & brother : lesbians & gay men write about their lives together, edited by Joan Nestle and John Preston

1994
Literature Award: Stone butch blues : a novel by Leslie Feinberg
Non-Fiction Award: Family values : two moms and their son by Phyllis Burke
Stonewall Literature Finalists:
She's always liked the girls best : lesbian plays by Claudia Allen
Scissors, paper, rock by Fenton Johnson
The last generation by Cherrie Moraga
Growing up gay : a literary anthology, edited by Bennett L. Singer
Stonewall Non-Fiction Finalists:
Stonewall by Martin B. Duberman
Lesbian culture : an anthology : the lives, work, ideas, art and visions of lesbians past and present, edited by Julia Penelope and Susan J. Wolfe
The lesbian and gay parenting handbook : creating and raising our families by April Martin
Lesbians, gay men, and the law by William B. Rubenstein

1993
Literature Award: Ceremonies : prose and poetry by Essex Hemphill
Non-Fiction Award: Making history : the struggle for gay and lesbian equal rights, 1945-1990 : an oral history by Eric Marcus
Stonewall Literature Finalists:
Almost history : a novel by Christopher Bram
The easy way out by Stephen McCauley
Vital ties : a novel by Karen Kringle
Written on the body by Jeanette Winterson
Stonewall Non-Fiction Finalists:
Positively gay : new approaches to lesbian and gay life by Betty Berzon
The earth house by Jeanne DuPrau
Becoming a man : half a life story by Paul Monette
Mother Clap's molly house : the gay subculture in England, 1700-1830 by Rictor Norton
A member of the family : gay men write about their families, edited by John Preston

1992
Literature Award: Halfway home by Paul Monette
Non-Fiction Award: Odd girls and twilight lovers : a history of lesbian life in twentieth-century America by Lillian Faderman
Stonewall Literature Finalists:
The two mujeres by Sara Levi Calderón
Brother to brother : new writings by black gay men, edited by Essex Hemphill
Hawkwings by Karen Lee Osborne
A stone gone mad by Jacquelyn Holt Park
An atlas of the difficult world : poems, 1988-1991 by Adrienne Rich
The road before us : 100 gay black poets, edited by Assoto Saint
Piece of my heart : a lesbian of colour anthology, edited by Makeda Silvera
The man who fell in love with the moon : a novel by Tom Spanbauer
Stonewall Non-Fiction Finalists:
Cancer in two voices by Sandra Butler and Barbara Rosenblum
Violence against lesbians and gay men by Gary David Comstock
Cures : a gay man's odyssey by Martin Duberman
The Zuni man-woman by Will Roscoe
Are you two ... together? : a gay and lesbian travel guide to Europe by Lindsy Van Gelder and Pamela Robin Brandt

1991
Literature Award: Crime against nature by Minnie Bruce Pratt
Non-Fiction Award: Encyclopedia of homosexuality, edited by Wayne Dynes
Stonewall Literature Finalists:
A home at the end of the world by Michael Cunningham
Music I never dreamed of by John Gilgun
A place I've never been by David Leavitt
Out of time by Paula Martinac
Landscape : memory by Matthew Stadler
Stonewall Non-Fiction Finalists:
Coming out under fire : the history of gay men and women in World War Two by Allan Berube
Gay and lesbian library service, edited by Cal Gough and Ellen Greenblatt
Passions of the cut sleeve : the male homosexual tradition in China by Bret Hinch
My country, my right to serve : experiences of gay men and women in the military, World War II to the present by Mary Ann Humphrey
Understanding sexual identity : a book for gay teens and their friends by Janice E. Rench
The trouble with Harry Hay : founder of the modern gay movement by Stuart Timmons
The safe sea of women : lesbian fiction, 1969-1989 by Bonnie Zimmerman

Stonewall Book Award 1990-1971
The first and most enduring award for LGBTQIA+ books is the Stonewall Book Awards, sponsored by the American Library Association's Rainbow Round Table (formerly the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Round Table). Click Rainbow Round Table for more information about it.

1990
Literature Award: Eighty-sixed by David B. Feinberg
Non-Fiction Award: In search of gay America : women and men in a time of change by Neil Miller
Stonewall Literature Finalists:
In memory of Angel Clare : a novel by Christopher Bram
A place at the table by Edith Konecky
Equal affections : a novel by David Leavitt
In a different light : an anthology of lesbian writers, edited by Carolyn Weathers and Jenny Wrenn
Stonewall Non-Fiction Finalists:
When someone you know is gay by Susan and Daniel Cohen
Hidden from history : reclaiming the gay and lesbian past, edited by Martin Bauml Duberman, Martha Vicinus, and George Chauncey, Jr.
Not a passing phase : reclaiming lesbians in history, 1840-1985 by Lesbian History Group
Personal dispatches : writers confront AIDS, edited by John Preston

1989
The swimming-pool library by Andrew Hollinghurst
After Delores by Sarah Schulman

1988
A restricted country by Joan Nestle
And the band played on : politics, people, and the AIDS epidemic by Randy Shilts

1987
The spirit and the flesh : sexual diversity in American Indian culture by Walter Williams

1986
Sex and germs : the politics of AIDS by Cindy Patton

1985
Another mother tongue : gay words, gay worlds by Judy Grahn

1984
Sexual politics, sexual communities : the making of a homosexual minority in the United States, 1940-1970 by John D'Emilio

1983
No award given

1982
Surpassing the love of men : romantic friendship and love between women, from the Renaissance to the present by Lillian Faderman
Black lesbians : an annotated bibliography by J. R. Roberts
The celluloid closet : homosexuality in the movies by Vito Russo

1981
The cancer journals by Audre Lorde
Christianity, social tolerance, and homosexuality : gay people in Western Europe from the beginning of the Christian era to the fourteenth century by John Boswell

1980
Now the volcano : an anthology of Latin American gay literature, edited by Winston Leyland

1979
Now that you know : what every parent should know about homosexuality by Betty Fairchild and Nancy Hayward

1978
Our right to love : a lesbian resource book, edited by Ginny Vida

1977
Familiar faces, hidden lives : the story of homosexual men in America today by Howard Brown

1976
No award given

1975
Homosexuality : lesbians and gay men in society, history, and literature, edited by Jonathan Katz
Documents of the homosexual rights movement in Germany, 1836-1927
Eros : an anthology of friendship, edited by Alistair Sutherland and Patrick Anderson
Miss Marianne Woods and Miss Jane Pirie against Dame Helen Cumming Gordon by Mary Ann Woods and Jane Pirie

1974
Sex variant women in literature; a historical and quantitative survey by Jeannette Foster

1973
No award given.

1972
The gay mystique : the myth and reality of male homosexuality by Peter Fisher
Lesbian/woman by Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon

1971
A place for us by Isabel Miller

Lambda Literary Award 2019-present
The Lambda Literary Awards identify and celebrate the best lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender books of the year and affirm that LGBTQ stories are part of the literature of the world. The Lammys, which receive national and international media attention, bring together 600 attendees—including nominees, celebrities, sponsors, and publishing executives—to celebrate excellence in LGBTQ publishing. It is the most prestigious and glamorous LGBTQ literary event in the world. Winning a Lammy can literally launch a writer's career. Click Lambda Literary Foundation for more information about the sponsor of these awards.

2023
Lesbian fiction: Gods of Want: stories by K-Ming Chang
Gay fiction: The Foghorn Echoes by Danny Ramadan
Bisexual fiction: Reluctant Immortals by Gwendolyn Kiste
Transgender fiction: The Call-Out by Cat Fitzpatrick
Bisexual Nonfiction: Appropriate Behavior by Maria San Filippo
Transgender Nonfiction: The Third Person by Emma Grove
LGBTQ+ Nonfiction: The Black Period: on personhood, race and origin by Hafizah Augustus Geter
Lesbian Poetry: As She Appears by Shelley Wong
Gay Poetry: Some Integrity by Padraig Regen
Bisexual Poetry: Real Phonies and Genuine Fakes: poems by Nicky Beer
Transgender Poetry: MissSettl by Kamden Ishmael Hilliard
Lesbian Memoir/Biography: Lost & Found: a memoir by Kathryn Schulz
Gay Memoir/Biography: High-Risk Homosexual: a memoir by Edgar Gomez
Lesbian Romance: The Rules of Forever by Nan Campbell
Gay Romance: I'm So Not Over You by Kosoko Jackson
LGBTQ+ Anthology: OutWrite: The Speeches that Shaped LGBTQ Literary Culture by Julie R. Enszer and Elena Gross
LGBTQ+ Children's Books: Mighty Red Riding Hood: a fairly queer tale by Wallace West
LGBTQ+ Middle Grade: Nikhil Out Loud by Maulik Pancholy
LGBTQ+ Young Adult: The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School by Sonora Reyes
LGBTQ+ Comics: Mamo by Sas Milledge
LGBTQ+ Drama: Iphigenia and the Furies (On Taurian Land) & Antigone: 方 by Ho Ka Kei (Jeff Ho)
LGBTQ+ Romance & Erotica: Kiss Her Once for Me by Alison Cochrun
LGBTQ+ Mystery: Dirt Creek: a novel by Hayley Scrivenor
LGBTQ+ Speculative Fiction: The Wicked and the Willing by Lianyu Tan
LGBTQ+ Studies: Keeping it Unreal: Black Queer Fantasy and Superhero Comics by Darieck Scott

2022
Lesbian fiction: Skye falling : a novel by Mia McKenzie
Gay fiction: 100 boyfriends by Brontez Purnell
Bisexual fiction: We want what we want : stories by Alix Ohlin
Transgender fiction: Summer fun : a novel by Jeanne Thornton
Bisexual nonfiction: Borealis : an essay by Aisha Sabatini Sloan
Transgender nonfiction: Belly of the beast : the politics of anti-fatness as anti-blackness by Da’Shaun L. Harrison
LGBTQ nonfiction: Let the record show : a political history of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993 by Sarah Schulman
Lesbian poetry: Last days by Tamiko Beyer
Gay poetry: Punks : new and selected poems by John Keene
Bisexual poetry: Gumbo ya ya by Aurielle Marie
Transgender poetry: Crossbones on my life by Mason J.
Lesbian memoir/biography: The one you want to marry (and other identities I’ve had) : a memoir by Sophie Santos
Gay memoir/biography: Punch me up to the gods : a memoir by Brian Broome
Lesbian romance: The headmistress by Milena McKay
Gay romance: Excellent sons : a love story in three acts by Larry Benjamin
LGBTQ anthology: Mouths of rain : an anthology of Black lesbian thought, edited by Briona Simone Jones
LGBTQ children's/middle grade: Calvin by JR and Vanessa Ford ; illustrated by Kayla Herren
LGBTQ young adult: The heartbreak bakery by A. R. Capetta
LGBTQ comics: Stone Fruit by Lee Lai
LGBTQ drama: Mrs. Harrison by R. Eric Thomas
LGBTQ erotica: Big Joe by Samuel R. Delany
LGBTQ mystery: The savage kind by John Copenhaver
LGBTQ speculative fiction: No gods, no monsters by Cadwell Turnbull
LGBTQ studies: Vice patrol : cops, courts, and the struggle over urban gay life before Stonewall by Anna Lvovsky

2021
Transgender Poetry: I love you and I’m not dead by Sade LaNay
Transgender Nonfiction: The Black trans prayer book, edited by J Mase III & Dane Figueroa Edidi
Transgender Fiction: The thirty names of night by Zeyn Joukhadar
LGBTQ Nonfiction: The lonely letters by Ashon T. Crawley
LGBTQ Anthology: Love after the end : an anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer speculative fiction, edited by Joshua Whitehead
LGBTQ Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror: Everyone on the Moon is essential personnel by Julian K. Jarboe
LGBTQ Erotica: The nerves by Lee Suksi
LGBTQ Comics: Apsara Engine by Bishakh Som
LGBTQ Children's/Middle Grade: King and the dragonflies by Kacen Callender
LGBTQ Young Adult: Flamer by Mike Curato
LGBTQ Drama: The book of mountains and seas by Yilong Liu
LGBTQ Mystery: I hope you're listening by Tom Ryan
LGBTQ Studies: Becoming human : matter and meaning in an antiblack world by Zakiyyah Iman Jackson
Lesbian Romance: Written in the Stars : a novel by Alexandria Bellefleur
Lesbian Poetry: Funeral Diva by Pamela Sneed
Lesbian Mystery: Galileo by Ann McMan
Lesbian Memoir/Biography: My autobiography of Carson McCullers by Jenn Shapland
Lesbian Fiction: Fiebre Tropical by Juli Delgado Lopera
Gay Romance: The ghost and Charlie Muir by Felice Stevens
Gay Poetry: Guillotine by Eduardo C. Corral
Gay Memoir/Biography: A dutiful boy : a memoir of a gay Muslim's journey to acceptance by Mohsin Zaidi
Gay Fiction: Neotenica by Joon Oluchi Lee
Bisexual Poetry: Salt body shimmer : poems by Aricka Foreman
Bisexual Nonfiction: Wow, no thank you.: essays by Samantha Irby
Bisexual Fiction: You exist too much by Zaina Arafat

2020
Transgender Poetry: HULL by Xandria Phillips
Transgender Nonfiction: We both laughed in pleasure : the selected diaries of Lou Sullivan, 1961-1991, edited by Ellis Martin and Zach Ozma
Transgender Fiction: Little blue encyclopedia (for Vivian) by Hazel Jane Plante
Studies: All our trials : prisons, policing, and the feminist fight to end violence by Emily L. Thuma
Science Fiction/ Fantasy/Horror: The deep by Rivers Solomon, with Daveed Diggs, William Hutson, and Jonathan Snipes
Nonfiction: In the dream house : a memoir by Carmen Maria Machado
Erotica: Whore Foods by LA Warman
Comics: Cannonball by Kelsey Wroten
Children’s/Young Adult: Hazel's theory of evolution by Lisa Jenn Bigelow
Children’s/Young Adult: The grief keeper by Alexandra Villasante
Lesbian Romance: Aurora's angel : a dark fantasy romance by Emily Noon
Lesbian Poetry: & more black by t'ai freedom ford
Lesbian Mystery: Galileo by Ann McMan
Lesbian Memoir/Biography: We have always been here : a queer Muslim memoir by Samra Habib
Lesbian Fiction: Patsy by Nicole Dennis-Benn
Gay Romance: Joseph Chapman : my molly life by James Lovejoy
Gay Poetry: SLINGSHOT by Cyrée Jarelle Johnson
Gay Mystery: Carved in bone : a Henry Rios novel by Michael Nava
Gay Memoir/Biography: How we fight for our lives : a memoir by Saeed Jones
Gay Fiction: Lot by Bryan Washington
Bisexual Poetry: Pet Sounds by Stephanie Young
Bisexual Nonfiction: Socialist Realism by Trisha Low
Bisexual Fiction: Exquisite Mariposa by Fiona Alison Duncan

2019
Transgender Nonfiction: Histories of the Transgender Child by Julian Gill-Peterson
Transgender Poetry: lo terciario / the tertiary by Raquel Salas Rivera
Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror: The Breath of the Sun by Isaac R. Fellman
Studies: Toxic Silence: Race, Black Gender Identity, and Addressing the Violence Against Black Transgender Women in Houston by William T. Hoston
Transgender Fiction: Little Fish by Casey Plett
Lesbian Romance: Beowulf For Cretins: A Love Story by Ann McMan
Nonfiction: Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry by Imani Perry
Lesbian Poetry: Each Tree Could Hold a Noose or a House by Ru Puro
Lesbian Memoir/Biography: Chronology by Zahra Patterson
Lesbian Mystery: A Study in Honor: A Novel by Claire O'Dell
Graphic Novel: The Lie and How We Told It by Tommi Parrish
Lesbian Fiction: The Tiger Flu by Larissa Lai
Gay Mystery: Late Fees: A Pinx Video Mystery by Marshall Thornton
Gay Poetry: Indecency by Justin Phillip Reed
Gay Romance: Crashing Upwards by S. C. Wynne
Erotica: Miles & Honesty in SCFSX! by Blue Delliquanti & Kazimir Lee
Gay Fiction: Jonny Appleseed by Joshua Whitehead
Gay Memoir/Biography: No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in America by Darnell L. Moore
Bisexual Nonfiction: Out of Step: A Memoir by Anthony Moll
Bisexual Poetry: We Play a Game by Duy Doan
Children's/Young Adult: Hurricane Child by Kacen Callender
Drama: Draw the circle by Mashuq Mushtaq Deen
Anthology: Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture by Roxane Gay
Bisexual Fiction: Disoriental by Négar Djavadi, translated by Tina Kover
Anthology: As You Like It: The Gerald Kraak Anthology African Perspectives on Gender, Social Justice and Sexuality, Volume II by Jacana Media

Lambda Literary Award 2009-2018
The Lambda Literary Awards identify and celebrate the best lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender books of the year and affirm that LGBTQ stories are part of the literature of the world. The Lammys, which receive national and international media attention, bring together 600 attendees—including nominees, celebrities, sponsors, and publishing executives—to celebrate excellence in LGBTQ publishing. It is the most prestigious and glamorous LGBTQ literary event in the world. Winning a Lammy can literally launch a writer's career. Click Lambda Literary Foundation for more information about the sponsor of these awards.

2018
Transgender Nonfiction: Black on both sides : a racial history of trans identity by C. Riley Snorton
Transgender Poetry: recombinant by Ching-In Chen
Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror: Autonomous by Annalee Newitz
Studies: Punishing disease : HIV and the criminalization of sickness by Trevor Hoppe
Transgender Fiction: Transcendent 2 : the year's best transgender speculative fiction, edited by Bogi Takács
Lesbian Romance: Beowulf for cretins : a love story by Ann McMan
Nonfiction: How we get free : Black feminism and the Combahee River Collective by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Lesbian Poetry: Rock/salt/stone by Rosamond S. King
Lesbian Memoir/Biography: The fact of a body : a murder and a memoir by Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich
Lesbian Mystery: Huntress by A. E. Radley
Lesbian Romance: Tailor-Made by Yolanda Wallace
Graphic Novel: My favorite thing is monsters by Emil Ferris
Lesbian Fiction: Her body and other parties : stories by Carmen Maria Machado
Gay Mystery: Night drop by Marshall Thornton
Gay Poetry: While standing in line for death by CA Conrad
Gay Romance: Love and Other Hot Beverages by Laurie Loft
Erotica: His seed by Steve Berman
Gay Fiction: After the blue hour : a true fiction by John Rechy
Gay Memoir/Biography: Lives of great men : living and loving as an African gay man by Chiké Frankie Edozien
Bisexual Nonfiction: Hunger : a memoir of (my) body by Roxane Gay
Children's/Young Adult: Like water by Rebecca Podos
Drama: The gulf by Audrey Cefaly
Anthology: ¡Cuéntamelo! Oral histories by LGBT Latino immigrants by Juliana Delgado Lopera
Bisexual Fiction: The gift by Barbara Browning

2017
LESBIAN FICTION Here comes the sun : a novel by Nicole Dennis-Benn
GAY FICTION The angel of history by Rabih Alameddine
BISEXUAL FICTION Marrow Island by Alexis M. Smith
BISEXUAL NONFICTION Black dove : mamá, mi’jo, and me by Ana Castillo
TRANSGENDER FICTION Small beauty by jia qing wilson-yang
TRANSGENDER NONFICTION Life beyond my body : a transgender journey to manhood in China by Lei Ming and Lura Frazey
LESBIAN POETRY The complete works of Pat Parker, edited by Julie R. Enszer; play dead by francine j. harris
GAY POETRY Thief in the interior by Phillip B. Williams
TRANSGENDER POETRY Reacquainted with life by KOKUMO
LESBIAN MYSTERY Pathogen by Jessica L. Webb
GAY MYSTERY Speakers of the dead : a Walt Whitman mystery by J. Aaron Sanders
LESBIAN MEMOIR/BIOGRAPHY The wind is spirit : the life, love and legacy of Audre Lorde by Gloria Joseph
GAY MEMOIR/BIOGRAPHY When we rise : my life in the movement by Cleve Jones
LESBIAN ROMANCE The scorpion's empress by Yoshiyuki Ly
GAY ROMANCE Into the blue by Pene Henson
EROTICA Soul to keep by Rebekah Weatherspoon
ANTHOLOGY The remedy : queer and trans voices on health and health care by Zena Sharman
CHILDREN'S/YOUNG ADULT Girl mans up by M-E. Girard
DRAMA Barbecue ; Bootycandy by Robert O'Hara
NONFICTION How to survive a plague : the story of how activists and scientists tamed AIDS by David France
GRAPHIC NOVEL Wuvable Oaf : blood & metal by Ed Luce
SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY/HORROR The devourers by Indra Das
STUDIES Sex museums : the politics and performance of display by Jennifer Tyburczy

2016
LESBIAN FICTION Under the Udala trees by Chinelo Okparanta
GAY FICTION God in pink by Hasan Namir
BISEXUAL FICTION The life and death of Sophie Stark by Anna North
BISEXUAL NONFICTION Irrepressible : the Jazz Age life of Henrietta Bingham by Emily Bingham
TRANSGENDER FICTION Tiny pieces of skull; or, a lesson in manners by Roz Kaveney
LESBIAN DEBUT FICTION A love like blood by Victor Yates
LESBIAN NONFICTION "No one helped" : Kitty Genovese, New York City, and the myth of urban apathy by Marcia M. Gallo
TRANSGENDER NONFICTION Born on the edge of race and gender : a voice for cultural competency by Willy Wilkinson
LESBIAN POETRY Life in a box is a pretty life by Dawn Lundy Martin
GAY POETRY Crevasse by Nicholas Wong; Reconnaissance by Carl Phillips
TRANSGENDER POETRY succubus in my pocket by kari edwards
LESBIAN MYSTERY Ordinary mayhem by Victoria Brownworth; Tarnished gold by Ann Aptaker
GAY MYSTERY Boystown 7 : bloodlines by Marshall Thornton
LESBIAN MEMOIR/BIOGRAPHY Objects in mirror are closer than they appear by Kate Carroll de Gutes
GAY MEMOIR/BIOGRAPHY James Merrill : life and art by Langdon Hammer
LESBIAN ROMANCE Making a comeback by Julie Blair
GAY ROMANCE When skies have fallen by Debbie McGowan
LESBIAN EROTICA The muse by Meghan O'Brien
GAY EROTICA Érotiques suprèmes by Miodrag Kojadinovic
LESBIAN ANTHOLOGY (Fiction) Beyond : the queer sci-fi & fantasy comic anthology, edited by Sfé R. Monster and Taneka Stotts
LESBIAN ANTHOLOGY (Nonfiction) Glitter and grit : queer performance from the Heels on Wheels femme galaxy, edited by Damien Luxe, Heather M. Ács, and Sabina Ibarrola
LESBIAN CHILDREN'S/YOUNG ADULT George by Alex Gino
LESBIAN DRAMA Bright half life by Tanya Barfield
LGBT GRAPHIC NOVELS The less than epic adventures of TJ & Amal by EK Weaver
LGBT SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY/HORROR The gracekeepers by Kirsty Logan
LGBT STUDIES A taste for brown bodies : gay modernity and cosmopolitan desire by Hiram Pérez

2015
BISEXUAL FICTION Give it to me : a novel by Ana Castillo
BISEXUAL NONFICTION Fire shut up in my bones : a memoir by Charles M. Blow
GAY EROTICA The King by Tiffany Reisz
GAY GENERAL FICTION I loved you more : a novel by Tom Spanbauer
GAY MEMOIR/BIOGRAPHY The Prince of Los Cocuyos by Richard Blanco; Tennessee Williams : mad pilgrimage of the flesh by John Lahr
GAY MYSTERY Blackmail, my love : a murder mystery by Katie Gilmartin
GAY POETRY [insert] boy by Danez Smith
GAY ROMANCE Salvation : a novel of the Civil War by Jeff Mann
LESBIAN EROTICA Lesbian sex bible by Diana Cage
LESBIAN GENERAL FICTION Yabo by Alexis De Veaux
LESBIAN MEMOIR/BIOGRAPHY Ain't gonna let nobody turn me around : forty years of movement building with Barbara Smith, edited by Alethia Jones and Virginia Eubanks, with Barbara Smith
LESBIAN MYSTERY The old deep and dark : a Jane Lawless mystery by Ellen Hart
LESBIAN POETRY Mysterious acts by my people by Valerie Wetlaufer
LESBIAN ROMANCE The farmer's daughter by Robbi McCoy
LESBIAN ANTHOLOGY Understanding and teaching U. S. lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender history by Leila J. Rupp and Susan K. Freeman
LESBIAN CHILDREN'S/YOUNG ADULT Five, six, seven, Nate! by Tim Federle
LGBT DEBUT The walk-in closet by Abdi Nazemian
LESBIAN DRAMA Bootycandy by Robert O’Hara
LGBT GRAPHIC NOVELS Second Avenue caper by Joyce Brabner; art by Mark Zingarelli
LESBIAN NONFICTION Hold tight gently : Michael Callen, Essex Hemphill, and the battlefield of AIDS by Martin Duberman
LGBT SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY/HORROR Bitter waters by Chaz Brenchley
LGBT STUDIES Delectable Negro : human consumption and homoeroticism within U. S. slave culture, edited by Vincent Woodard, Justin A. Joyce and Dwight McBride
TRANSGENDER FICTION A safe girl to love by Casey Plett
TRANSGENDER NONFICTION Man alive : a true story of violence, forgiveness and becoming a man by Thomas Page McBee

2014
TRANSGENDER FICTION Wanting in Arabic : poems by Trish Salah
BISEXUAL FICTION My education by Susan Choi
GAY GENERAL FICTION Mundo cruel : stories by Luis Negron; translated by Suzanne Jill Levine
LESBIAN GENERAL FICTION Happiness, like water : stories by Chinelo Okparanta
LESBIAN DEBUT FICTION Descendants of Hagar by Nik Nicholson
TRANSGENDER NONFICTION The end of San Francisco by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
BISEXUAL NONFICTION The B word : bisexuality in contemporary film and television by Maria San Filippo
LESBIAN NONFICTION White girls by Hilton Als
GAY POETRY Unpeopled Eden by Rigoberto Gonzalez
LESBIAN POETRY Rise in the fall by Ana Bozicevic
GAY MYSTERY The prisoner of the Riviera : a Francis Bacon mystery by Janice Law
LESBIAN MYSTERY High desert by Katherine V. Forrest
GAY MEMOIR/BIOGRAPHY A heaven of words : last journals by Glenway Wescott, edited by Jerry Rosco
LESBIAN MEMOIR/BIOGRAPHY Body geographic by Barrie Jean Borich
GAY ROMANCE Into this river I drown by TJ Klune
LESBIAN ROMANCE Clean slate by Andrea Bramhall
GAY EROTICA The Padisah's son and the fox : an erotic novella by Alex Jeffers
LESBIAN EROTICA Wild girls, wild nights : true lesbian sex stories, edited by Sacchi Green
LESBIAN ANTHOLOGY Queer Africa : new and collected fiction, edited by Karen Martin and Makhosazana Xaba; Who's yer daddy? : gay writers celebrate their mentors and forerunners, edited by Jim Elledge and David Groff
LESBIAN CHILDREN'S/YOUNG ADULT If you could be mine by Sara Farizan; Two boys kissing by David Levithan
LESBIAN DRAMA Tom at the farm by Michel Marc Bouchard
LGBT GRAPHIC NOVEL Calling Dr. Laura : a graphic memoir by Nicole J. Georges
LGBT SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY/HORROR Death by silver by Melissa Scott and Amy Griswold
STUDIES Safe space : gay neighborhood history and the politics of violence by Christina B. Hanhardt

2013
TRANSGENDER FICTION The collection : short fiction from the transgender vanguard, edited by Tom Léger and Riley MacLeod
TRANSGENDER NONFICTION Transfeminist perspectives in and beyond transgender and gender studies, edited by Anne Enke
BISEXUAL LITERATURE In one person : a novel by John Irving; My awesome place : the autobiography of Cheryl B by Cheryl Burke
GAY GENERAL FICTION Everything begins and ends at the Kentucky Club by Benjamin Alire Saenz
GAY MEMOIR/BIOGRAPHY Fire in the belly : the life and times of David Wojnarowicz by Cynthia Carr
GAY MYSTERY Lake on the mountain : a Dan Sharp mystery by Jeffrey Round
GAY POETRY He do the gay man in different voices by Stephen S. Mills
GAY ROMANCE Kamikaze boys by Jay Bell
GAY EROTICA The facialist by Mykola Dementiuk
LESBIAN GENERAL FICTION The world we found : a novel by Thrity N. Umrigar
LESBIAN MEMOIR/BIOGRAPHY Why be happy when you could be normal? by Jeanette Winterson
LESBIAN MYSTERY Ill will by J. M. Redmann
LESBIAN POETRY Sea and fog by Etel Adnan
LESBIAN ROMANCE Month of Sundays by Yolanda Wallace
LESBIAN EROTICA The harder she comes : butch/femme erotica by D. L. King
LESBIAN ANTHOLOGY No straight lines : four decades of queer comics, edited by Justin Hall
LESBIAN CHILDREN'S/YOUNG ADULT Aristotle and Dante discover the secrets of the universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
LESBIAN DEBUT FICTION The summer we got free by Mia McKenzie
LESBIAN DRAMA The myopia and other plays by David Greenspan and Marc Robinson
LESBIAN NONFICTION Flagrant conduct : the story of Lawrence v. Texas : how a bedroom arrest decriminalized gay Americans by Dale Carpenter
LGBT SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY/HORROR Green thumb by Tom Cardamone
LGBT STUDIES Performing queer Latinidad : dance, sexuality, politics by Ramón H. Rivera-Servera

2012
LESBIAN DEBUT FICTION Zipper mouth by Laurie Weeks
LESBIAN GENERAL FICTION Six metres of pavement : a novel by Farzana Doctor
LESBIAN MEMOIR/BIOGRAPHY When we were outlaws : a memoir of love & revolution by Jeanne Córdova
LESBIAN MYSTERY Dying to live by Kim Baldwin & Xenia Alexiou
LESBIAN POETRY Love cake by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
LESBIAN ROMANCE Taken by surprise by Kenna White
LESBIAN EROTICA Story of L by Debra Hyde
GAY DEBUT FICTION Quarantine : stories by Rahul Mehta
GAY GENERAL FICTION The empty family : stories by Colm Tóibín
GAY MEMOIR/BIOGRAPHY The Jack Bank : a memoir of a South African childhood by Glen Retief
GAY MYSTERY Red white black and blue by Richard Stevenson
GAY POETRY A fast life : the collected poems of Tim Dlugos, edited by David Trinidad
GAY ROMANCE Every time I think of you by Jim Provenzano
GAY EROTICA All together by Dirk Vanden
TRANSGENDER FICTION Take me there : trans and genderqueer erotica, edited by Tristan Taormino
TRANSGENDER NONFICTION Tango : my childhood, backwards and in high heels by Justin Vivian Bond
BISEXUAL FICTION The correspondence artist by Barbara Browning
BISEXUAL NONFICTION The horizontal poet by Jan Steckel
LESBIAN ANTHOLOGY Gay Latino studies : a critical reader, edited by Michael Hames-García and Ernesto Javier Martínez
LESBIAN CHILDREN'S/YOUNG ADULT Putting makeup on the fat boy by Bil Wright
LESBIAN DRAMA A menopausal gentleman : the solo performances of Peggy Shaw by Peggy Shaw
LESBIAN NONFICTION A queer history of the United States by Michael Bronski
LGBT SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY/HORROR The German by Lee Thomas
LGBT STUDIES Sister arts : the erotics of lesbian landscapes, by Lisa L. Moore

2011
BISEXUAL FICTION The lunatic, the lover, and the poet by Myrlin A. Hermes
BISEXUAL NONFICTION Border sexualities, border families in schools, by Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli
TRANSGENDER FICTION Holding still for as long as possible by Zoe Whittall
TRANSGENDER NONFICTION Balancing on the mechitza : transgender in Jewish community, edited by Noach Dzmura
LESBIAN ANTHOLOGY Gender outlaws : the next generation, edited by Kate Bornstein & S. Bear Bergman
LESBIAN CHILDREN'S/YOUNG ADULT Wildthorn by Jane Eagland
LESBIAN DRAMA Oedipus at Palm Springs : a Five Lesbian Brothers play by Maureen Angelos
LESBIAN NONFICTION King Kong theory by Virginie Despentes
LGBT SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY/HORROR Diana Comet and other improbable stories by Sandra McDonald
LGBT STUDIES Another country : queer anti-urbanism by Scott Herring; Assuming a body : transgender and rhetorics of materiality by Gayle Salamon
LESBIAN DEBUT FICTION Sub Rosa by Amber Dawn
LESBIAN EROTICA Sometimes she lets me : best butch/femme erotica, edited by Tristan Taormina
LESBIAN FICTION Inferno (a poet's novel) by Eileen Myles
LESBIAN MEMOIR/BIOGRAPHY Hammer! : making movies out of sex and life by Barbara Hammer; Wishbone : a memoir in fractures by Julie Marie Wade
LESBIAN MYSTERY Fever of the bone by Val McDermid
LESBIAN POETRY The nights also by Anna Swanson
LESBIAN ROMANCE River walker by Cate Culpepper
GAY DEBUT FICTION Bob the book by David Pratt
GAY EROTICA Teleny and Camille by Jon Macy
GAY FICTION Union Atlantic : a novel by Adam Haslett
GAY MEMOIR/BIOGRAPHY Secret historian : the life and times of Samuel Steward, professor, tattoo artist, and sexual renegade by Justin Spring
GAY MYSTERY Echoes by David Lennon
GAY POETRY Pleasure by Brian Teare
GAY ROMANCE Normal Miguel by Erik Orrantia

2010
LESBIAN ANTHOLOGY Portland queer : tales of the Rose City, edited by Ariel Gore
LESBIAN CHILDREN'S/YOUNG ADULT Sprout by Dale Peck
LESBIAN DRAMA The collected plays of Mart Crowley by Mart Crowley
LESBIAN NONFICTION The Greeks and Greek love by James Davidson
LGBT SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY/HORROR Palimpsest by Catherynne M. Valente
LGBT STUDIES The straight state : sexuality and citizenship in twentieth-century America by Margot Canaday
BISEXUAL FICTION Holy Communion by Mykola Dementiuk; Love you two by Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli
BISEXUAL NONFICTION Leaving India : my family's journey from five villages to five continents by Minal Hajratwala
TRANSGENDER Lynnee Breedlove's one freak show by Lynn Breedlove
LESBIAN DEBUT FICTION The creamsickle by Rhiannon Argo
GAY DEBUT FICTION Blue boy by Rakesh Satyal
LESBIAN EROTICA Lesbian cowboys, edited by Sacchi Green & Rakelle Valencia
GAY EROTICA Impossible princess by Kevin Killian
LESBIAN FICTION A field guide to deception by Jill Malone
GAY FICTION Lake Overturn by Vestal McIntyre
LESBIAN MEMOIR/BIOGRAPHY The talented Miss Highsmith : the secret life and serious art of Patricia Highsmith by Joan Schenkar
GAY MEMOIR/BIOGRAPHY Ardent spirits : leaving home, coming back by Reynolds Price
LESBIAN MYSTERY Death of a dying man by J. M. Redmann
GAY MYSTERY What we remember by Michael Thomas Ford
LESBIAN POETRY Zero at the bone by Stacie Cassarino
GAY POETRY Sweet core orchard by Benjamin S. Grossberg
LESBIAN ROMANCE The sublime and spirited voyage of original sin by Colette Moody
GAY ROMANCE Drama queers! by Frank Anthony Polito

2009
LGBT ANTHOLOGIES Our Caribbean : a gathering of lesbian and gay writing from the Antilles, edited by Thomas Glave
BISEXUAL Open : love, sex, and life in an open marriage by Jenny Block
TRANSGENDER Intersex (for lack of a better word) by Thea Hillman
LGBT CHILDRENS/YOUNG ADULT Out of the Pocket by Bill Konigsberg
LESBIAN DRAMA The second coming of Joan of Arc by Carolyn Gage
LESBIAN NONFICTION Loving the difficult by Jane Rule
LGBT SCI-FI/FANTASY/HORROR Turnskin by Nicole Kimberling
LGBT STUDIES Criminal intimacy : prison and the uneven history of modern American sexuality by Regina Kunzel
LESBIAN DEBUT FICTION The bruise by Magdalena Zurawski
LESBIAN EROTICA In deep waters 2 : cruising the strip by Radclyffe and Karin Kallmaker
LESBIAN GENERAL FICTON The sealed letter by Emma Donoghue; All the pretty girls by Chandra Mayor
LESBIAN MEMOIR/BIOGRAPHY Sex talks to girls : a memoir by Maureen Seaton
LESBIAN MYSTERY Whacked by Josie Gordon
LESBIAN POETRY love belongs to those who do the feeling by Judy Grahn
LESBIAN ROMANCE The kiss that counted by Karin Kallmaker
GAY DEBUT FICTION Finlater by Shawn Stewart Ruff
GAY EROTICA Best gay erotica 2009 by Richard Labonte & James Lear
GAY GENERAL FICTION We disappear by Scott Heim
GAY MEMOIR/BIOGRAPHY Edward Carpenter : a life of liberty and love by Sheila Rowbotham
GAY MYSTERY First you fall by Scott Sherman
GAY POETRY Fire to fire : new and selected poems by Mark Doty; Now you're the enemy : poems by James Allen Hall
GAY ROMANCE Got 'til it's gone by Larry Duplechan

Click Native American and Indigenous Studies Association for more information on the sponsors of these awards.

2023  PUBLICATIONS PRIZES
Best First Book: The Great Power of Small Nations: Indigenous Diplomacy in the Gulf South by Elizabeth Ellis; and Cooling the Tropics: Ice, Indigeneity, and Hawaiian Refreshment by Hi’ilei Julia Kawehipuaakahaopulani Hobart
Best Subsequent Book: Rethinking Zapotec Time: Cosmology, Ritual, and Resistance in Colonial Mexico by David Tavárez
Most Thought-Provoking Article:  “Ke ala i ka Mauliola: Native Hawaiian Youth Experiences with Historical Trauma,” International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2022, Vol. 19(19):12564 by Lorinda Riley, Anamalia Su’esu’e, Kristina Hulama, Scott Kaua Neumann and Jane Chung-Do;  and  “Disaster Militarism and Indigenous Responses to Super Typhoon Yutu in the Mariana Islands” Environmental Communication, 2022, Vol. 16(5), 612-629 by Tiara R. Na’puti  

2022  PUBLICATIONS PRIZES
Best First Book: Remembering our intimacies : mo’olelo, aloha ‘Āina, and ea by Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio
Best Subsequent Book: Red scare : the state's indigenous terrorist by Joanne Barker
Most Thought-Provoking Article: "Moving to a new country again : the Osage Nation's search for order and unity through change," Native American and Indigenous Studies, Vol. 8 (2), Fall 2021 pp. 62-91 by Meredith Drent and Jean Dennison; "Sensory Access at Sx̌ʷəx̌ʷnitkʷ : blockages, fluidities and futures," Journal of Environmental Media, Vol. 2 (Supplement), 2021 pp 9.1-9.16 by Skayu Louis (honorable mention)

2021  PUBLICATIONS PRIZES
Best First Book: Hungry listening : resonant theory for indigenous sound studies by Dylan Robinson
Best Subsequent Book: Storying violence : unraveling colonial narratives in the Stanley Trial by Gina Starblanket and Dallas Hunt
Most Thought-Provoking Article: Palmer, M. A. (2020). Rendering settler sovereign landscapes: Race and property in the Empire State. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 38(5), 793–810. https://doi.org/10.1177/0263775820922233; Lilomaiava-Doktor, S. (2020). Oral Traditions, Cultural Significance of Storytelling, and Samoan Understandings of Place or Fanua. Native American and Indigenous Studies 7(1), 121-151.

2020  PUBLICATIONS PRIZES
Best First Book: The kingdom and the republic : sovereign Hawai'i and the early United States by Noelani Arista
Best Subsequent Book: Incarcerated stories : indigenous women migrants and violence in the settler-capitalist state by Shannon Speed; Law’s indigenous ethics by John Borrows
Most Thought-Provoking Article: Jacobsen, Kristina and Shirley Ann Bowman. "'Don’t even talk to me if you’re Kinya’áanii' [Towering House] : adopted clans, kinship, and ‘blood’ in Navajo Country," Native American and Indigenous Studies, vol. 6 no. 1, 2019, p. 43-76; and Hobart, Hi’ilei Julia. "At Home on the Mauna: Ecological Violence and Fantasies of Terra Nullius on Maunakea’s Summit." Native American and Indigenous Studies, vol. 6 no. 2, 2019, p. 30-50.

2017  PUBLICATIONS PRIZES
Best First Book: In divided unity : Haudenosaunee reclamation at Grand River by Theresa McCarthy
Best Subsequent Book: The world and all the things upon it : native Hawaiian geographies of exploration by David Chang
Most Thought-Provoking Article: Diaz, Vicente, "In the wake of Mata ‘pang’s canoe : the cultural and political possibilities of indigenous discursive flourish," in Critical indigenous studies : engagements from first world locations, edited by Aileen Moreton-Robinson, 2016
Best Student Paper Presented at the 2017 NAISA Conference: "Loea Mele : a brief study of 20th century Kanaka Maoli discussions of Mele" by Kahikina de Silva

2015  PUBLICATIONS PRIZES
Best first book: The beginning and end of rape : confronting sexual violence in native America by Sarah Deer
Best subsequent book: The white possessive : property, power, and indigenous sovereignty by Aileen Moreton Robinson
Most thought-provoking article: Chang, David, "'We will be comparable to the Indian peoples’ : recognizing likeness between Native Hawaiians and American Indians, 1834–1923″ American Quarterly, vol. 67 no. 3, 2015, p. 859-886.
Best student papers presented at the 2015 meeting: "He moena pāwehe makana : weaving anti-capitalist resistance into Kanaka Maoli critiques of settler colonialism" by David Uahikea Maile, “; "Relationship with land as method and theory in indigenous women's research" by Waaseyaa'sin Christine Sy, ; "Cultivating Aloha ʻĀina : a case study in indigenous/anarchist practice" by Mary "Tuti" Baker

2014  PUBLICATIONS PRIZES
Best first book: Mohawk interruptus : political life across the borders of settler states by Audra Simpson
Best subsequent book: Métis : race, recognition, and the struggle for indigenous peoplehood by Chris Andersen
Most thought provoking article: Simpson, Leanne Betasamosake, "Land as pedagogy : Nishnaabeg intelligence and rebellious transformation,” Decolonization : indigeneity, education & society, vol. 3 no. 3, 2014, p. 1-25
Best student papers presented at the 2014 meeting: "A doubtful outlaw in the Old I. T. : the indigenous repoliticization of Ned Christie in Robert J. Conley's 'Ned Chritsie's war'" by Jenna Hunnef; and "Becoming Native American : facializing indigeneity in Canada through genetic signification and subjection" by Jessica Kolopenuk

2013  PUBLICATIONS PRIZES
Best First Book: Native American DNA : tribal belonging and the false promise of genetic science by Kimberly TallBear
Best Subsequent Book: The inconvenient Indian : a curious account of native people in North America by Thomas King
Most Thought Provoking Article: Lomawaima, K. Tsianina, "The mutuality of Citizenship and Sovereignty : the Society of American Indians and the battle to inherit America," Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 25 no. 2, 2013, p. 333-351

2012  PUBLICATIONS PRIZES
Best First Book: Once were Pacific : Maori connections to Oceania by Alice Te Punga Somerville
Best Subsequent Book: Trans-indigenous : methodologies for global native literary studies by Chadwick Allen
Most Thought Provoking Article: Wolfe, Patrick, "Against the intentional fallacy : legocentrism and continuity in the rhetoric of Indian dispossesion," American Indian Culture & Research Journal, vol. 36 no. 1, 2012, p. 3-45
Best student papers presented at the 2012 meeting:  "Decolonizing the Empire State: The Everett Report & Haudenosaunee Sovereignty in Early 20th Century New York" by Andrew Epstein

2011 PUBLICATIONS PRIZES
Best First Book: The transit of empire : indigenous critiques of colonialism by Jodi Byrd
Best Subsequent Book: When did Indians become straight? : kinship, the history of sexuality, and native sovereignty by Mark Rifkin
Most Thought Provoking Article: Brooks, Lisa, "The constitution of the White Earth Nation : a new innovation in a longstanding indigenous literary tradition" Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 23 no. 4, 2011, p. 48-76

2010 PUBLICATIONS PRIZES
Best First Book: Lumbee Indians in the Jim Crow South : race, identity, and the making of a nation by Malinda Maynor Lowery
Best Subsequent Book: Firsting and lasting : writing Indians out of existence in New England by Jean M. O’Brien
Most Thought Provoking Article: Medak-Saltzman, Danika. "Transnational indigenous exchange : rethinking global interactions of indigenous peoples at the 1904 St. Louis Exposition," American Quarterly, vol. 62 no. 3, 2010, p. 591-615

Emily Toth Award for Best Single Work in Women’s Studies
This award honors Emily Toth, a pioneer in both women's studies and in popular culture. Appropriate submissions demonstrate scholarship that makes a significant contribution to these fields. Click Popular Culture Association for more information about the sponsor of this award.

2023  "All-Electric" Narratives: Time-Saving Appliances and Domesticity in American Literature, 1945-2020 by Rachele Dini; honorable mention: A Place at the Nayarit: How a Mexican Restaurant Nourished a Community by Natalia Molina
2022  The computer's voice : from Star Trek to Siri by Liz Faber; honorable mention: Liner notes for the revolution : the intellectual life of Black feminist sound by Daphne Brooks
2021  Looking for Miss America : a pageant’s 100-year quest to define womanhood by Margot Mifflin; Aesthetics of excess : the art and politics of Black and Latin embodiment by Jillian Hernandez (honorable mention)
2020  Quinceañera style : social belonging and Latinx consumer identities by Rachel González;  Bond girls : body, fashion and gender by Monica Germanà (runner-up)
2019  Not all dead white men : classics and misogyny in the digital age by Donna Zuckerburg
2018  Women at the wheel : a century of buying, driving, and fixing cars by Katherine J. Parkin
2017  "Keep the damned women out" : the struggle for coeducation by Nancy Weiss Malkiel; Splattered ink : postfeminist gothic fiction and gendered violence by Sarah E. Whitney
2016  Funk the erotic : transaesthetics and black sexual cultures by LaMonda Horton-Stallings
2015  Warrior women : gender, race, and the transnational Chinese action star by Lisa Funell; Pretty/funny : women comedians and body politics by Linda Maria Mizejewski (honorable mention)
2014  Redefining rape : sexual violence in the era of suffrage and segregation by Estelle B. Freedman; Fashion and age : dress, the body and later life by Julia Twigg
2013  Beyond Rosie the Riveter : women of World War II in American popular graphic art by Donna Knaff
2012  Battling pornography : the American feminist anti-pornography movement, 1976-1986 by Carolyn Bronstein
2011  Reading is my window : books and the art of reading in women's prisons by Megan Sweeney
2010  The modern period : menstruation in twentieth-century America by Lara Freidenfelds
2009  Hellions : pop culture's rebel women by Maria Raha
2008  Pimps up, ho's down : hip hop's hold on young Black women by T. Denban Sharpley-Whiting; You never call! you never write! : a history of the Jewish mother by Joyce Antler

The International Latino Book Awards

The International Latino Book Awards is a major reflection that the fastest growing group in the USA has truly arrived. The awards are now by far the largest Latino cultural awards in the USA and has honored the greatness of more than 3,470 authors and publishers over the past two decades. The size of the awards is proof that books by and about Latinos are in high demand. Latinos will purchase over $750 million in books in English and Spanish. Click International Latino Book Awards for more information about them.

2022
The Victor Villaseñor Best Latino Focused Nonfiction Book Award – English
Latin American Documentary Narratives by Liliana Chávez Díaz
The Victor Villaseñor Best Latino Focused Nonfiction Book Award – Spanish or Bilingual
Our Grandfather's were Braceros and We Too... by Rosa Martha Zárate Macías Y Abel Astorga Morales
Best Biography -- English
The Artist as Eyewitness: Antonio Bernal papers, 1884-2019 edited by Charlene Villaseñor Black
Best Biography -- Spanish or Bilingual
Suma Paz: La utopía de Mario Calderón y Elsa Alvarado by Elvira Sánchez Blake
Best History Book
Images of America: Mexican Americans of Wichita's North End by Anita Mendoza, José Enrique Navarro, and Jay M. Price
The Raul Yzaguirre Best Political/Current Affairs Book
Writing 50 Years (más o monos) Amongst the Gringos by Roberto Cintli Rodríguez
Best Arts Book
¡Printing the Revolution! The Rise and Impact of Chicano Graphics, 1965 to Now by E. Carmen Ramos
Best Nonfiction - Multi-Author
Mexican American Baseball in the South Bay by Richard A Santillán, xRon Gonzáles, Monica Ortez, et al
The Rudolfo Anaya Best Latino Focused Fiction Book Award – English 
L.A. Weather by Maria Amparo Escandón

The Rudolfo Anaya Best Latino Focused Fiction Book Award – Spanish 
La maestra Bernarda by Andrea Amosson
The Isabel Allende Most Inspirational Fiction Book Award
How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water, A Novel by Angie Cruz
The Isabel Allende Most Inspirational Fiction Book Award
Usted Es Suya by María Mercedes Benito
Best Academic Themed Book - College Level
26 Años de Esclavitud: Juan Miranda y otros ‘Negros Españoles’ en la Nueva York Colonial by Beatriz Carolina Peña
Best Culturally Themed Academic Book
Food Studies in Latin American Literature: Perspectives on the Gastronarrative, Edited by Rocío del Aguila and Vanesa Miseres
The Juan Felipe Herrera Best Poetry Book Award - One Author – English
Chingona Rules by Melissa Castillo Planas