ShelfEvidentLambda Literary Award for Fiction — Complete Winners List
53 years of winners · Lambda Literary Foundation · Since 1989 · ← Back to award page
| 2025 | Allen Bratton | Unnamed Press | |
| 2025 | Yael van der Wouden | Avid Reader Press | |
| 2024 | Bryan Washington | Riverhead Books | |
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| 2020 | Bryan Washington | Riverhead Books | |
| 2020 | Nicole Dennis-Benn | Liveright Publishing | |
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| 2018 | Carmen Maria Machado | Graywolf Press | |
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| 2009 | Scott Heim | — | |
| 2008 | André Aciman | — | |
| 2007 | Robert Westfield | — | |
| 2006 | Dennis Cooper | — | |
| 2005 | Colm Tóibín | — | |
| 2004 | Christopher Bram | — | |
| 2003 | Jamie O'Neill | — | |
| 2002 | Allan Gurganus | — | |
| 2001 | K. M. Soehnlein | — | |
| 2000 | Matthew Stadler | — | |
| 1999 | Mark Merlis | — | |
| 1998 | Aryeh Lev Stollman | — | |
| 1997 | Shyam Selvadurai | — | |
| 1996 | Michael Cunningham | — | |
| 1995 | Alan Hollinghurst | — | |
| 1994 | Joseph Hansen | — | |
| 1993 | Randall Kenan | — | |
| 1992 | Harlan Greene | — | |
| 1991 | Allen Barnett | — | |
| 1990 | David B. Feinberg | — | |
| 1989 | Edmund White | — |
