Stonewall Book Award

The Stonewall Book Award is a set of three literary awards that annually recognize "exceptional merit relating to the gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgender experience" in English-language books published in the U.S. They are sponsored by the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Round Table (GLBTRT) of the American Library Association (ALA) and have been part of the American Library Association awards program, now termed ALA Book, Print & Media Awards, since 1986 as the single Gay Book Award.

The three award categories are fiction and nonfiction in books for adults, distinguished in 1990, and books for children or young adults, from 2010. The awards are named for , Israel Fishman, and (jointly) Mike Morgan and Larry Romans. In full they are the Stonewall Book Award-Barbara Gittings Literature Award, the Stonewall Book Award-Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award, and the Stonewall Book Awards – Mike Morgan & Larry Romans Children's & Young Adult Literature Award.

2020 Barbara Gittings Literature Award Winner: Cantoras by Carolina De Robertis

Honor books: Lot: Stories by Bryan Washington on Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong Patsy by Nicole Dennis-Benn War/Torn by Hasan Namir

Israel Fishman Nonfiction Award Winner: How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir by Saeed Jones

Honor Books: Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl’s Notes from the End of the World by In the Dream House: A Memoir by Carmen Maria Machado She/He/They/Me: For the Sisters, Misters, and Binary Resisters by Robyn Ryle

2019 Barbara Gittings Literature Award Winner: The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai

Honor Books: Forward by Lisa Maas Luisa: Now and Then by Carole Maurel, adapted by , translated from French by Nanette McGuinness Speak No Evil by Uzodinma Iweala White Houses by Amy Bloom

Israel Fishman Nonfiction Award Winner: Go the Way Your Blood Beats by Michael Amherst

Honor Books: Black. Queer. Southern. Women: An Oral History by E. Patrick Johnson Raising Rosie: Our Story of Parenting and 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

2018 Barbara Gittings Literature Award Winner: Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction and Fantasy from Transgender Writers edited by Cat Fitzpatrick and Casey Plett

Honor Books: 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

Israel Fishman Nonfiction Award Winner: Queer Threads: Crafting Identity and Community by John Chaich and Todd Oldham

Honor Books: 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

2017 Barbara Gittings Literature Award Winner: Desert Boys by Chris McCormick

Honor Books: Beautiful gravity: a novel by Martin Hyatt Dig by Bryan Borland Guapa by Saleem Haddad Hide: a novel by Matthew Griffin

Israel Fishman Nonfiction Award Winner: How to Survive a Plague: The inside story of how citizens and science tamed AIDS by David France

Honor Books: 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 by Michael Schreiber Rethinking sexism, gender, and sexuality edited by Annika Butler-Wall, Kim Cosier, et. al. Tomboy Survival Guide by Ivan E Coyote

2016 Barbara Gittings Literature Award Winner: The Gods of Tango by Carolina De Robertis

Honor Books: Apocalypse Baby by Virginie Despentes For Your Own Good by Leah Horlick Jam On the Vine by LaShonda Katrice Barnett Lum: a novel by Libby Ware

Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award Winner: Speak Now: Marriage Equality on Trial by Kenji Yoshino

Honor Books: Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of an American Family by Amy Ellis Nutt The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle by 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

2015 Barbara Gittings Literature Award Winner: Prelude to Bruise by Saeed Jones

Honor Books: Bitter Eden by Tatamkhulu Afrika Frog Music by The Two Hotel Francforts by David Leavitt My Real Children by Jo Walton

Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award Winner: Living Out Islam: Voices of Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Muslims by Scott Siraj al-Haqq Kugle

Honor Books: Gay Berlin by Robert Beachy Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More by Hold Tight Gently: Michael Callen, Essex Hemphill, and the Battlefield of AIDS by Martin Duberman Charity & Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America by Rachel Hope Cleves

2014 Barbara Gittings Literature Award Winner: Art on Fire by Hilary Sloin

Honor Books: A Strange and Separate People by Jon Marans Everything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky Club by Benjamin Alire Saenz The Rebellion of Miss Lucy Ann Lobdell by William Klaber

Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award Winners: 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

Honor Books: A Little Gay History: Desire and Diversity Across the World by R.B. Parkinson Fairyland: A Memoir of my Father by Alysia Abbott

2013 Barbara Gittings Literature Award Winner: The Last Nude by Ellis Avery

Honor Books: The Absolutist by John Boyne The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller Chulito by Charles Rice-Gonzalez The Unreal Life of Sergey Nabokov by Paul Russell

Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award Winner: 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

Honor Books: Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America by Christopher Bram When We Were Outlaws: A Memoir of Love & Revolution by Jeanne Cordova 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

2012 Barbara Gittings Literature Award Winner: Sweet Like Sugar by Wayne Hoffman

Honor Books: 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, author, and Nicholas Frankel, editor

Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award Winners: Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture by Jonathan D. Katz and David C. Ward A Queer History of the (Revisioning American History) by Michael Bronski

Honor Books: 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 The Picture of Dorian Gray: An Annotated, Uncensored Edition by Oscar Wilde, author, and Nicholas Frankel, editor

2011 Barbara Gittings Literature Award Winner: More of This World or Maybe Another by Barb Johnson

Honor Books: Probation by Tom Mendicino The More I Owe You by Michael Sledge Holding Still for As Long as Possible by

Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award Winner: Inseparable: Desire between Women in Literature by Emma Donoghue

Honor Books: The Right To Be Out: Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in America’s Public Schools by Stuart Biegel A Great Unrecorded History: A New Life of E.M. Forster by Wendy Moffat Just Kids by Patti Smith Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist, and Sexual Renegade by Justin Spring

2010 Barbara Gittings Literature Award Winner: Stray Dog Winter: A Novel by David Francis

Honor Books: God Says No by James Hannaham Beauty Salon by Mario Bellatin

Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award Winner: Unfriendly Fire: How the Gay Ban Undermines the Military and Weakens America by Nathaniel Frank

Honor Books: Barney Frank: The Story of America's Only Left-Handed, Gay, Jewish Congressman by Stuart E. Weisberg Black Bull, Ancestors and Me 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