Stonewall Book AwardHonor Book

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
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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 (117), Honor Book (185), Finalist (97)
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Years:
All, 2024 (8), 2022 (2), 2021 (5), 2020 (6), 2019 (2), 2018 (7), 2017 (11), 2016 (10), 2015 (9), 2014 (8), 2013 (12), 2012 (10), 2011 (11), 2010 (11), 2009 (7), 2008 (8), 2007 (8), 2006 (8), 2005 (8), 2004 (8), 2003 (8), 2002 (9), 2001 (8)

Honor Book 185

WorkCategoryYear
Desert Queen by Jyoti Rajan GopalMike Morgan and Larry Romans Children's and Young Adult Literature Award2024
Stars in Their Eyes: A Graphic Novel by Jessica WaltonMike Morgan and Larry Romans Children's Literature Award2024
Not He or She, I'm Me by A. M. WildMike Morgan and Larry Romans Children's Literature Award2024
The Otherwoods by Justine Pucella WinansMike Morgan and Larry Romans Children's Literature Award2024
The Long Run by James AckerMike Morgan and Larry Romans Young Adult Literature Award2024
Imogen, Obviously by Becky AlbertalliMike Morgan and Larry Romans Young Adult Literature Award2024
Ander and Santi Were Here by Jonny Garza VillaMike Morgan and Larry Romans Young Adult Literature Award2024
The Spirit Bares Its Teeth by Andrew Joseph WhiteMike Morgan and Larry Romans Young Adult Literature Award2024
Grandad's Camper by Harry WoodgateLiterature2022
Punch Me Up To The Gods: A Memoir by Brian BroomeNon-Fiction2022
Felix Ever After by Kacen CallenderChildren's and Young Adult Literature2021
Darius the Great Deserves Better by Adib KhorramChildren's and Young Adult Literature2021
Beetle & the Hollowbones by Aliza LayneChildren's and Young Adult Literature2021
My Autobiography of Carson McCullers: A Memoir by Jenn ShaplandIsrael Fishman Non-Fiction Award2021
XOXY by Kimberly M. ZieselmanNon-Fiction2021
Pet by Akwaeke EmeziChildren's and Young Adult Literature2020
Like a Love Story by Abdi NazemianChildren's and Young Adult Literature2020
The Best at It by Maulik PancholyChildren's and Young Adult Literature2020
Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia KobabeIsrael Fishman Non-Fiction Award2020
In the Dream House: A Memoir by Carmen Maria MachadoNon-Fiction2020
I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World by Kai Cheng ThomNon-Fiction2020
Ivy Aberdeen's Letter to the World by Ashley Herring BlakeChildren's and Young Adult Literature2019
Picture Us In The Light by Kelly Loy GilbertChildren's and Young Adult Literature2019
As the Crow Flies by Melanie GillmanChildren's and Young Adult Literature2018
The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi LeeChildren's and Young Adult Literature2018
Marriage of a Thousand Lies by S. J. SinduLiterature2018
A Place Called No Homeland by Kai Cheng ThomLiterature2018
The Black Penguin by Andrew EvansNon-Fiction2018
LGBTQ Stats: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer People by the Numbers by Bennett SingerNon-Fiction2018
Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity by C. Riley SnortonNon-Fiction2018
Unbecoming by Jenny DownhamChildren's and Young Adult Literature2017
When the Moon Was Ours by Anna-Marie McLemoreChildren's and Young Adult Literature2017
Pride: Celebrating Diversity & Community by Robin StevensonChildren's and Young Adult Literature2017
DIG by Bryan BorlandLiterature2017
Hide by Matthew GriffinLiterature2017
Guapa by Saleem HaddadLiterature2017
Beautiful Gravity: A Novel by Martin HyattLiterature2017
Tomboy Survival Guide by Ivan CoyoteNon-Fiction2017
Not Straight, Not White: Black Gay Men from the March on Washington to the AIDS Crisis by Kevin MumfordNon-Fiction2017
Rethinking Sexism, Gender, and Sexuality by Rethinking SchoolsNon-Fiction2017
One-Man Show: The Life and Art of Bernard Perlin by Michael SchreiberNon-Fiction2017
Wonders of the Invisible World by Christopher BarzakChildren's and Young Adult Literature2016
Sex is a Funny Word: A Book about Bodies, Feelings, and YOU by Cory SilverbergChildren's and Young Adult Literature2016
Jam on the Vine: A Novel by LaShonda Katrice BarnettLiterature2016
Apocalypse Baby by Virginie DespentesLiterature2016
For Your Own Good by Leah HorlickLiterature2016
Lum by Libby WareLiterature2016
The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle by Lillian FadermanNon-Fiction2016
Marie Equi: Radical Politics and Outlaw Passions by Michael HelquistNon-Fiction2016
Violence against Queer People: Race, Class, Gender, and the Persistence of Anti-LGBT Discrimination by Doug MeyerNon-Fiction2016
Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of an American Family by Amy Ellis NuttNon-Fiction2016
Morris Micklewhite and the Tangerine Dress by Christine BaldacchinoChildren's and Young Adult Literature2015
Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out by Susan KuklinChildren's and Young Adult Literature2015
I'll Give You the Sun by Jandy NelsonChildren's and Young Adult Literature2015
Frog Music by Emma DonoghueLiterature2015
The Two Hotel Francforts by David LeavittLiterature2015
My Real Children by Jo WaltonLiterature2015
Gay Berlin: Birthplace of a Modern Identity by Robert BeachyNon-Fiction2015
Charity and Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America by Rachel Hope ClevesNon-Fiction2015
Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More by Janet MockNon-Fiction2015
Better Nate Than Ever by Tim FederleChildren's and Young Adult Literature2014
Two Boys Kissing by David LevithanChildren's and Young Adult Literature2014
Branded by the Pink Triangle by Ken SetteringtonChildren's and Young Adult Literature2014
The Rebellion of Miss Lucy Ann Lobdell by William KlaberLiterature2014
A Strange and Separate People by Jon MaransLiterature2014
Everything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky Club by Benjamin Alire SáenzLiterature2014
Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father by Alysia AbbottNon-Fiction2014
A Little Gay History: Desire and Diversity Across the World by R. B. ParkinsonNon-Fiction2014
Sparks: The Epic, Completely True Blue, (Almost) Holy Quest of Debbie by S. J. AdamsChildren's and Young Adult Literature2013
Gone, Gone, Gone by Hannah MoskowitzChildren's and Young Adult Literature2013
October Mourning: A Song for Matthew Shepard by Lesléa NewmanChildren's and Young Adult Literature2013
Drama: A Graphic Novel by Raina TelgemeierChildren's and Young Adult Literature2013
The Absolutist by John BoyneLiterature2013
The Song of Achilles by Madeline MillerLiterature2013
Chulito: A Novel by Charles Rice-GonzalezLiterature2013
The Unreal Life of Sergey Nabokov: A Novel by Paul RussellLiterature2013
Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America by Christopher BramNon-Fiction2013
When We Were Outlaws by Jeanne CordovaNon-Fiction2013
Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots?: Flaming Challenges to Masculinity, Objectification, and the Desire to Conform by Mattilda Bernstein SycamoreNon-Fiction2013
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette WintersonNon-Fiction2013
With or Without You by Brian FarreyChildren's and Young Adult Literature2012
a + e 4ever by Ilike MereyChildren's and Young Adult Literature2012
Pink by Lili WilkinsonChildren's and Young Adult Literature2012
Money Boy by Paul YeeChildren's and Young Adult Literature2012
The Temperamentals by Jon MaransLiterature2012
Remembrance of Things I Forgot by Bob SmithLiterature2012
Annabel by Kathleen WinterLiterature2012
Seeing Gertrude Stein: Five Stories by Wanda M. CornNon-Fiction2012
Persistence: All Ways Butch and Femme by Ivan CoyoteNon-Fiction2012
Nina Here Nor There: My Journey Beyond Gender by Nick KriegerNon-Fiction2012
The Picture of Dorian Gray: An Annotated, Uncensored Edition by Oscar WildeLiterature, 2012; Non-Fiction, 20122011
Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John GreenChildren's and Young Adult Literature2011
Freaks and Revelations by Davida Wills HurwinChildren's and Young Adult Literature2011
Love Drugged by James KliseChildren's and Young Adult Literature2011
The Boy in the Dress by David WalliamsChildren's and Young Adult Literature2011
Probation by Tom MendicinoLiterature2011
The More I Owe You: A Novel by Michael SledgeLiterature2011
Holding Still for as Long as Possible by Zoe WhittallLiterature2011
The Right to Be Out: Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in America's Public Schools by Stuart BiegelNon-Fiction2011
A Great Unrecorded History: A New Life of E. M. Forster by Wendy MoffatNon-Fiction2011
Just Kids by Patti SmithNon-Fiction2011
Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist, and Sexual Renegade by Justin SpringNon-Fiction2011
Gay America : Struggle for equality by Linas AlsenasChildren's and Young Adult Literature2010
10,000 Dresses by Marcus EwertChildren's and Young Adult Literature2010
Daddy, Papa, and Me by Lesléa NewmanChildren's and Young Adult Literature2010
Mommy, Mama, and Me by Lesléa NewmanChildren's and Young Adult Literature2010
Sprout by Dale PeckChildren's and Young Adult Literature2010
Beauty Salon by Mario BellatinLiterature2010
God Says No by James HannahamLiterature2010
The Greeks and Greek Love: A Bold New Exploration of the Ancient World by James DavidsonNon-Fiction2010
I Am Your Sister: Collected and Unpublished Writings of Audre Lorde by Audre LordeNon-Fiction2010
Black Bull, Ancestors and Me: My Life as a Lesbian Sangoma by Nkunzi Zandile NkabindeNon-Fiction2010
Barney Frank: The Story of America's Only Left-Handed, Gay, Jewish Congressman by Stuart WeisbergNon-Fiction2010
The Sealed Letter by Emma DonoghueLiterature2009
The Conversion by Joseph OlshanLiterature2009
A Perfect Waiter by Alain Claude SulzerLiterature2009
Swish: My Quest to Become the Gayest Person Ever by Joel DerfnerNon-Fiction2009
Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South by E. Patrick JohnsonNon-Fiction2009
Assisted Loving: True Tales of Double Dating with My Dad by Bob MorrisNon-Fiction2009
Sex Variant Woman: The Life of Jeanette Howard Foster by Joanne PassetNon-Fiction2009
Bow Grip by Ivan E. CoyoteLiterature2008
Dark Reflections by Samuel R. DelanyLiterature2008
The Indian Clerk by David LeavittLiterature2008
The IHOP Papers by Ali LiebegottLiterature2008
Transparent: Love, Family, and Living the T with Transgender Teenagers by Cris BeamNon-Fiction2008
The Grand Surprise: The Journals of Leo Lerman by Leo LermanNon-Fiction2008
Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice by Janet MalcolmNon-Fiction2008
Mississippi Sissy by Kevin SessumsNon-Fiction2008
The Manny Files by Christian BurchLiterature2007
A Scarecrow's Bible by Martin HyattLiterature2007
Rose of No Man's Land by Michelle TeaLiterature2007
The Night Watch by Sarah WatersLiterature2007
Male-Male Intimacy in Early America: Beyond Romantic Friendships by William E BenemannNon-Fiction2007
Gay Power: An American Revolution by David EisenbachNon-Fiction2007
Mama's Boy, Preacher's Son: A Memoir by Kevin JenningsNon-Fiction2007
Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights by Kenji YoshinoNon-Fiction2007
The Wild Creatures by Sam D'AllesandroLiterature2006
Mother of Sorrows by Richard McCannLiterature2006
The First Verse by Barry McCreaLiterature2006
Acqua Calda by Keith McDermottLiterature2006
Queer London by Matt HoulbrookNon-Fiction2006
My One-Night Stand With Cancer: A Memoir by Tania KatanNon-Fiction2006
The Tragedy of Today's Gays by Larry KramerNon-Fiction2006
The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde by Neil McKennaNon-Fiction2006
A Seahorse Year by Stacey D'ErasmoLiterature2005
The Line of Beauty by Alan HollinghurstLiterature2005
Luna by Julie Anne PetersLiterature2005
I Am My Own Wife: A Play by Doug WrightLiterature2005
Both: A Portrait in Two Parts by Douglas CraseNon-Fiction2005
Warrior Poet: A Biography of Audre Lorde by Alexis De VeauxNon-Fiction2005
Beyond Shame: Reclaiming the Abandoned History of Radical Gay Sexuality by Patrick MooreNon-Fiction2005
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David SedarisNon-Fiction2005
The Cutting Room by Louise WelshFiction2004
Lives of the Circus Animals: A Novel by Christopher BramLiterature2004
Keeping You a Secret by Julie Anne PetersLiterature2004
Southland by Nina RevoyrLiterature2004
Intertwined Lives: Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, and Their Circle by Lois W. BannerNon-Fiction2004
Before Stonewall: Activists for Gay and Lesbian Rights in Historical Context by Vern L. BulloughNon-Fiction2004
Ridiculous!: The Theatrical Life and Times of Charles Ludlam by David KaufmanNon-Fiction2004
Beautiful Shadow: A Life of Patricia Highsmith by Andrew WilsonNon-Fiction2004
Middlesex by Jeffrey EugenidesFiction2003
At Swim, Two Boys by Jamie O'NeillFiction2003
Fingersmith by Sarah WatersFiction2003
The Lantern Bearers by Ronald FrameLiterature2003
Dress Codes: Of Three Girlhoods---My Mother's, My Father's, and Mine by Noelle HoweyNon-Fiction2003
Sex-Crime Panic by Neil MillerNon-Fiction2003
Rare and Commonplace Flowers: The Story of Elizabeth Bishop and Lota de Macedo Soares by Carmen L. OliveiraNon-Fiction2003
Glenway Wescott Personally: A Biography by Jerry RoscoNon-Fiction2003
Pages for You: A Novel by Sylvia BrownriggLiterature2002
Guess Again: Short Stories by Bernard CooperLiterature2002
Welsh Boys Too (Parthian Shorts) by John Sam JonesLiterature2002
The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things by J. T. LeRoyLiterature2002
You're Not from Around Here, Are You?: A Lesbian in Small-Town America by Louise A. BlumNon-Fiction2002
Courting Justice: Gay Men and Lesbians v. the Supreme Court by Joyce MurdochNon-Fiction2002
How I Learned to Snap: A Small Town Coming-Out and Coming-of-Age Story by Kirk ReadNon-Fiction2002
The Stranger Next Door: The Story of a Small Community's Battle over Sex, Faith, and Civil Rights by Arlene SteinNon-Fiction2002
Loss Within Loss: Artists in the Age of AIDS by Edmund WhiteNon-Fiction2002
Breakfast with Scot by Michael DowningLiterature2001
The Danish Girl by David EbershoffLiterature2001
The World in Us: Lesbian and Gay Poetry of the Next Wave by Michael LassellLiterature2001
The Night Listener by Armistead MaupinLiterature2001
Lesbian and Gay Voices: An Annotated Bibliography and Guide to Literature for Children and Young Adults by Frances A DayNon-Fiction2001
Losing Matt Shepard by Beth LoffredaNon-Fiction2001
Janet, My Mother, and Me: A Memoir of Growing Up with Janet Flanner and Natalia Danesi Murray by William MurrayNon-Fiction2001
Pedro & Me: Friendship, Loss and What I Learned by Judd WinickNon-Fiction2001

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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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