Stonewall Book AwardIsrael Fishman Non-Fiction Award

Given by Rainbow Round Table (RRT), American Library Association

Other Names: ALA Stonewall Book Award, ALA Stonewall Book Award Honor Book, Stonewall Young Adult Literature Award
24 Works 0 Books
Started in 1971, Stonewall Book Awards recognize LGBTQIA+ books that have "exceptional merit relating to the gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgender experience." Sponsored by the American Library show more Association's Rainbow Round Table. show less
Stages:
All, Winner (116), Honor Book (185), Finalist (97)
Categories:
Years:
All, 2022 (1), 2021 (2), 2020 (2), 2019 (1), 2017 (1), 2016 (1), 2015 (1), 2014 (2), 2013 (1), 2012 (2), 2011 (1), 2010 (1), 2009 (1), 2008 (1), 2007 (1), 2006 (1), 2005 (1), 2004 (1), 2003 (1), 2002 (1)
Announced:
January 22: Winner2024 Recent
January 22: Honor Book2024 Recent

Winner 22

WorkYear
Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir by Akwaeke Emezi2022
The Queer Games Avant-Garde: How LGBTQ Game Makers Are Reimagining the Medium of Video Games by Bo Ruberg2021
How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir by Saeed Jones2020
Go the Way Your Blood Beats: On Truth, Bisexuality and Desire by Michael Amherst2019
How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS by David France2017
Speak Now: Marriage Equality on Trial by Kenji Yoshino2016
Living Out Islam: Voices of Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Muslims by Scott Siraj al-Haqq Kugle2015
Raising My Rainbow: Adventures in Raising a Fabulous, Gender Creative Son by Lori Duron2014
American Honor Killings: Desire and Rage Among Men by David McConnell2014
For Colored Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Still Not Enough: Coming of Age, Coming Out, and Coming Home by Keith Boykin2013
A Queer History of the United States by Michael Bronski2012
Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture by Jonathan D. Katz2012
Inseparable: Desire Between Women in Literature by Emma Donoghue2011
Unfriendly Fire: How the Gay Ban Undermines the Military and Weakens America by Nathaniel Frank2010
Dishonorable Passions: Sodomy Laws in America, 1861-2003 by William N. Eskridge Jr.2009
Dog Years: A Memoir (P.S.) by Mark Doty2008
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel2007
The Fabulous Sylvester: The Legend, the Music, the Seventies in San Francisco by Joshua Gamson2006
Evolution's Rainbow: Diversity, Gender, and Sexuality in Nature and People by Joan Roughgarden2005
Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin by John D’Emilio2004
How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United States by Joanne Meyerowitz2003
The Scarlet Professor: Newton Arvin: A Literary Life Shattered by Scandal by Barry Werth2002

Honor Book 2

WorkYear
My Autobiography of Carson McCullers: A Memoir by Jenn Shapland2021
Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe2020

Descriptions

Started in 1971, Stonewall Book Awards recognize LGBTQIA+ books that have "exceptional merit relating to the gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgender experience." Sponsored by the American Library Association's Rainbow Round Table. (English, Member-written)
Previously ALA Stonewall Book Award Finalist (English, Member-written)

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