Stonewall Book Award — Complete Winners List

39 years of winners · American Library Association Rainbow Round Table · Since 1971 · ← Back to award page

Year	Title	Author	Publisher
2026	Halfway to Somewhere	Jose Pimienta	Random House Graphic
2025	Sex with a Brain Injury: On Concussion and Recovery	—	Flatiron Books
2024	Hijab Butch Blues: A Memoir	—	Algonquin Books
2023	Faltas: Letters to Everyone in My Hometown Who Isn't My Rapist	—	Feminist Press
2022	Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir	Akwaeke Emezi	Riverhead Books
2021	The Queer Games Avant-Garde: How 52 Game Makers Are Reimagining the Medium	—	Duke University Press
2020	How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir	Saeed Jones	Simon & Schuster
2019	Go the Way Your Blood Beats: An Anthology of Lesbian and Gay Fiction by African American Writers	—	Henry Holt
2018	Queer Threads: Crafting Identity and Community	—	Artisan
2017	How to Survive a Plague	David France	Knopf
2016	Speak Now: Marriage Equality on Trial	—	Crown Publishers
2015	Living Out Islam: Voices of Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Muslims	—	New York University Press
2014	Raising My Rainbow: Adventures in Raising a Fabulous, Gender Creative Son	—	Broadway Books
2013	For Colored Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Still Not Enough: Coming of Age, Coming Out, and Coming Home	—	Bolden/Agate Books
2012	A Queer History of the United States	—	Beacon Press
2011	Inseparable: Desire Between Women in Literature	Emma Donoghue	Knopf
2010	Unfriendly Fire: How the Gay Ban Undermines the Military and Weakens America	—	Thomas Dunne Books
2009	Light Fell	Evan Fallenberg	—
2008	The Teahouse Fire	Ellis Avery	—
2007	Grief	Andrew Holleran	—
2006	Babyji	Abha Dawesar	—
2005	The Master	Colm Tóibín	—
2004	The Book of Salt	Monique Truong	—
2003	Letters to Montgomery Clift	Noel Alumit	—
2002	The Laramie Project	Moisés Kaufman and Tectonic Theatre Project	—
2001	Affinity	Sarah Waters	—
2000	Po Man's Child	Marci Blackman	—
1999	The Hours	Michael Cunningham	—
1998	Working Parts	Lucy Jane Bledsoe	—
1997	Hood	Emma Donoghue	—
1996	Dream Boy	Jim Grimsley	—
1995	Am I Blue? Coming Out from the Silence	Marion Dane Bauer	—
1994	Stone Butch Blues	Leslie Feinberg	—
1993	Ceremonies: Prose and Poetry	Essex Hemphill	—
1992	Halfway Home	Paul Monette	—
1991	Crime Against Nature	Minnie Bruce Pratt	—
1990	Eighty-Sixed	David B. Feinberg	—
1989	The Swimming Pool Library	Alan Hollinghurst	—
1971	Patience and Sarah	Isabel Miller	—