Stonewall Book AwardFinalist

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
97 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:
All, Literature (49), Non-Fiction (48)
Years:
All, 2000 (8), 1999 (8), 1998 (8), 1997 (8), 1996 (8), 1995 (7), 1994 (8), 1993 (9), 1992 (13), 1991 (12), 1990 (8)
Announced:
January 22: Winner2024 Recent
January 22: Honor Book2024 Recent

Finalist 97

WorkCategoryYear
Victory Deferred: How AIDS Changed Gay Life in America by John-Manuel AndrioteLiterature2000
Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversity by Bruce BagemihlLiterature2000
Firebird by Mark DotyLiterature2000
Lorca: A Dream of Life by Leslie StaintonLiterature2000
Comfort & Joy by Jim GrimsleyNon-Fiction2000
Mr. Dalloway: A Novella by Robin LippincottNon-Fiction2000
Lawnboy by Paul LisickyNon-Fiction2000
Last Rights by Marvin K. WhiteNon-Fiction2000
Bending the Landscape: Science Fiction by Nicola GriffithLiterature1999
Switch by Carol GuessLiterature1999
An Arrow's Flight: A Novel by Mark MerlisLiterature1999
Imagine Being More Afraid of Freedom Than Slavery: Poems by Pamela SneedLiterature1999
Strong Women, Deep Closets: Lesbians and Homophobia in Sport by Pat GriffinNon-Fiction1999
The Other Side of Silence: Men's Lives & Gay Identities - A Twentieth-Century History by John LougheryNon-Fiction1999
A Fragile Union: New and Selected Writings by Joan NestleNon-Fiction1999
The Truth That Never Hurts: Writings on Race, Gender, and Freedom by Barbara SmithNon-Fiction1999
Prozac Highway: A Novel by Persimmon BlackbridgeLiterature1998
Beyond the Pale by Elana DykewomonLiterature1998
In Awe by Scott HeimLiterature1998
The Escape Artist: A Novel by Judith KatzLiterature1998
Hospital Time by Amy HoffmanNon-Fiction1998
Queerly Classed: Gay Man & Lesbians Write About Class by Susan RaffoNon-Fiction1998
Lonely Hunters: An Oral History Of Lesbian And Gay Southern Life, 1948-1968 by James T. SearsNon-Fiction1998
Sex and Sensibility: Stories of a Lesbian Generation by Arlene SteinNon-Fiction1998
Toward Amnesia by Sarah Van ArsdaleLiterature1997
The Beauty of Men by Andrew HolleranLiterature1997
Funny Boy by Shyam SelvaduraiLiterature1997
Bailey's Beads by Terry WolvertonLiterature1997
Straight News by Edward AlwoodNon-Fiction1997
Free Your Mind: The Book for Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Youth and Their Allies by Ellen BassNon-Fiction1997
Heaven's Coast: A Memoir by Mark DotyNon-Fiction1997
Cracks in the Iron Closet: Travels in Gay & Lesbian Russia by David TullerNon-Fiction1997
Two or Three Things I Know for Sure by Dorothy AllisonLiterature1996
Baby Be-Bop by Francesca Lia BlockLiterature1996
Stuck Rubber Baby by Howard CruseLiterature1996
The Promise of Rest by Reynolds PriceLiterature1996
Joining the Tribe: Growing Up Gay and Lesbian in the '90s by Linnea DueNon-Fiction1996
The Invention of Heterosexuality by Jonathan Ned KatzNon-Fiction1996
S/He by Minnie Bruce PrattNon-Fiction1996
The Gay and Lesbian Literary Heritage: A Readers Companion to the Writers and Their Works, from Antiquity to the Present by Claude J. SummersNon-Fiction1996
The Other Man Was Me: A Voyage to the New World by Rafael CampoLiterature1995
Chloe Plus Olivia: An Anthology of Lesbian Literature from the 17th Century to the Present by Lillian FadermanLiterature1995
The Dyke and the Dybbuk by Ellen GalfordLiterature1995
Winter Numbers: Poems by Marilyn HackerLiterature1995
Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Makings of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940 by George ChaunceyNon-Fiction1995
Images in the Dark: An Encyclopedia of Gay and Lesbian Film and Video by Raymond MurrayNon-Fiction1995
Sister and Brother: Lesbians and Gay Men Write About Their Lives Together by Joan NestleNon-Fiction1995
She's Always Liked the Girls Best: Lesbian Plays : Roomers/Raincheck/Hannah Free/Movie Queens by Claudia AllenLiterature1994
Scissors, Paper, Rock by Fenton JohnsonLiterature1994
The Last Generation: Prose and Poetry by Cherrie MoragaLiterature1994
Growing Up Gay/Growing Up Lesbian: A Literary Anthology by Bennett L. SingerLiterature1994
Stonewall by Martin Bauml DubermanNon-Fiction1994
Lesbian and Gay Parenting Handbook: Creating and Raising Our Families by April MartinNon-Fiction1994
Lesbian Culture: An Anthology : The Lives, Work, Ideas, Art and Visions of Lesbians Past and Present by Julia PenelopeNon-Fiction1994
Lesbians, Gay Men, and the Law (The New Press Law in Context Series) by William B. RubensteinNon-Fiction1994
Almost History by Christopher BramLiterature1993
Vital Ties: A Novel by Karen KringleLiterature1993
Easy Way Out by Stephen McCauleyLiterature1993
Written on the Body by Jeanette WintersonLiterature1993
Positively Gay by Betty BerzonNon-Fiction1993
The Earth House by Jeanne DuPrauNon-Fiction1993
Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story by Paul MonetteNon-Fiction1993
Mother Clap's Molly House: The Gay Subculture in England 1700-1830 by Rictor NortonNon-Fiction1993
Member of the Family: Gay Men Write About Their Families by John PrestonNon-Fiction1993
The Two Mujeres by Sara Levi CalderónLiterature1992
Brother to Brother: New Writings by Black Gay Men by Essex HemphillLiterature1992
Hawkwings by Karen Lee OsborneLiterature1992
A Stone Gone Mad by Jacquelyn Holt ParkLiterature1992
An Atlas of the Difficult World: Poems 1988-1991 by Adrienne RichLiterature1992
The Road Before Us: 100 Gay Black Poets by Assoto SaintLiterature1992
Piece of My Heart: A Lesbian of Colour Anthology by Makeda SilveraLiterature1992
The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon by Tom SpanbauerLiterature1992
Cancer in Two Voices by Sandra ButlerNon-Fiction1992
Violence Against Lesbians and Gay Men by Gary David ComstockNon-Fiction1992
Cures: a Gay Man's Odyssey by Martin Bauml DubermanNon-Fiction1992
Are You Two Together? by Lindsy Van GelderNon-Fiction1992
The Zuni Man-Woman by Will RoscoeNon-Fiction1992
A Home at the End of the World by Michael CunninghamLiterature1991
Music I Never Dreamed of by John GilgunLiterature1991
A Place I've Never Been by David LeavittLiterature1991
Out of Time by Paula MartinacLiterature1991
Landscape: Memory (Plume Contemporary Fiction) by Matthew StadlerLiterature1991
Coming out under fire by Allan BérubéNon-Fiction1991
Gay and Lesbian Library Service by Cal GoughNon-Fiction1991
Passions of the Cut Sleeve: The Male Homosexual Tradition in China by Bret HinschNon-Fiction1991
My Country, My Right to Serve: Experiences of Gay Men and Women in the Military, World War II to the Present by Mary Ann HumphreyNon-Fiction1991
Understanding Sexual Identity: A Book for Gay and Lesbian Teens and Their Friends by Janice E. RenchNon-Fiction1991
The Trouble with Harry Hay: Founder of the Modern Gay Movement by Stuart TimmonsNon-Fiction1991
The Safe Sea of Women: Lesbian Fiction 1969-1989 by Bonnie ZimmermanNon-Fiction1991
In a Different Light: Visual Culture, Sexual Identity, Queer Practice by Nayland BlakeLiterature1990
In Memory of Angel Clare by Christopher BramLiterature1990
A Place at the Table by Edith KoneckyLiterature1990
Equal Affections by David LeavittLiterature1990
When Someone You Know Is Gay by Susan CohenNon-Fiction1990
Hidden from History: Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past by Martin Bauml DubermanNon-Fiction1990
Not a Passing Phase: Reclaiming Lesbians in History 1840-1985 by Lesbian History GroupNon-Fiction1990
Personal Dispatches: Writers Confront AIDS by John PrestonNon-Fiction1990

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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