Lambda Literary Award for Gay Fiction
Awarded forLiterary award
Sponsored byLambda Literary Foundation
DateAnnual

The Lambda Literary Award for Gay Fiction is an annual literary award, presented by the Lambda Literary Foundation to a work of fiction on gay male themes. As the award is presented based on themes in the work, not the sexuality or gender of the writer, women and heterosexual men may also be nominated for or win the award.

Recipients

Lambda Literary Award for Gay Fiction winners and finalists
Year Author Title Result Ref.
1989 Edmund White The Beautiful Room Is Empty Winner
Robert Ferro Second Son Finalist
Alan Hollinghurst The Swimming Pool Library
Stephen Spender The Temple
Christopher Davis Valley of the Shadow
1990 David B. Feinberg Eighty-Sixed Winner [1]
Dennis Cooper Closer Finalist [1]
Christopher Bram In Memory of Angel Clare
Kevin Killian Shy
Armistead Maupin Sure of You
1991 Allen Barnett The Body and Its Dangers Winner [2]
Michael Cunningham A Home at the End of the World Finalist [2]
David Leavitt A Place I’ve Never Been
Paul Monette Afterlife
John Gilgun Music I Never Dreamed Of
1992 Harlan Greene What the Dead Remember Winner [2]
Dennis Cooper Frisk Finalist [2]
Paul Monette Halfway Home
Philip Gambone Language We Use Up Here
Melvin Dixon Vanishing Rooms
1993 Randall Kenan Let the Dead Bury Their Dead Winner [3]
Christopher Bram Almost History Finalist [3]
Bo Huston Dream Life
Jaime Manrique Latin Moon in Manhattan
Lev Raphael Winter Eyes
1994 Joseph Hansen Living Upstairs Winner [4]
Steven Corbin Fragments that Remain Finalist [4]
Dale Peck Martin and John
Fenton Johnson Scissors, Paper, Rock
Bo Huston The Listener
1995 Alan Hollinghurst The Folding Star Winner [5]
Mark Merlis American Studies Finalist [5]
Norman Wong Cultural Revolution
Joseph Olshan Nightswimmer
Douglas Sadownick Sacred Lips of the Bronx
1996 Michael Cunningham Flesh and Blood Winner [6]
Jim Grimsley Dream Boy Finalist [6]
Christopher Bram Father of Frankenstein
Felice Picano Like People in History
Scott Heim Mysterious Skin
1997 Shyam Selvadurai Funny Boy Winner [7]
Patrick Moore Iowa Finalist [7]
Michael Arditti Pagan’s Father
Andrew Holleran The Beauty of Men
Dale Peck The Law of Enclosures
1998 Aryeh Lev Stollman The Far Euphrates Winner [8]
Christopher Bram Gossip Finalist [8]
Allan Gurganus Plays Well With Others
Edmund White The Farewell Symphony
Neil Bartlett The House on Brooke Street
1999 Mark Merlis An Arrow's Flight Winner [9]
Rabih Alameddine Koolaids: The Art of War Finalist [9]
Michael Cunningham The Hours
Keith Ridgway The Long Falling
Jameson Currier Where the Rainbow Ends
2000 Matthew Stadler Allan Stein Winner [10]
Jim Grimsley Comfort and Joy Finalist [10]
Andrew Holleran In September, the Light Changes
Felice Picano The Book of Lies
Paul Russell The Coming Storm
2001 K. M. Soehnlein The World of Normal Boys Winner [11]
Erasmo Guerra Between Dances Finalist [11]
Bernard Cooper Guess Again
Edmund White The Married Man
Christopher Bram The Notorious Dr. August
2002 Allan Gurganus The Practical Heart Winner [12]
Tom Spanbauer In the City of Shy Hunters Finalist [12]
JT LeRoy The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things
David Leavitt The Marble Quilt
David Ebershoff The Rose City
2003 Jamie O'Neill At Swim, Two Boys Winner [13]
Michael Lowenthal Avoidance Finalist [13]
Jim Grimsley Boulevard
Noel Alumit Letters to Montgomery Clift
David Gerrold The Martian Child
2004 Christopher Bram Lives of the Circus Animals Winner [14]
Philip Gambone Beijing Finalist [14]
Monique Truong The Book of Salt
Paul Russell War Against the Animals
William J. Mann Where the Boys Are
2005 Colm Tóibín The Master Winner [15]
Ted Wojtasik Collage Finalist [15]
Han Ong The Disinherited
Derek McCormack The Haunted Hillbilly
Alan Hollinghurst The Line of Beauty
2006 Dennis Cooper The Sluts Winner [16]
Keith McDermott Acqua Calda Finalist [16]
Aaron Hamburger Faith for Beginners
Harlan Greene The German Officer’s Boy
Kief Hillsbery What We Do Is Secret
2007 Robert Westfield Suspension Winner [17]
Stephen McCauley Alternatives to Sex Finalist [17]
Lisa Carey Every Visible Thing
Neal Drinnan Izzy and Eve
Tom Spanbauer Now Is the Hour
2008 André Aciman Call Me By Your Name Winner [18][19]
Samuel R. Delany Dark Reflections Finalist [19]
Thomas Mallon Fellow Travelers
Andrew W. M. Beierle First Person Plural
Manuel Muñoz The Faith Healer of Olive Avenue
2009 Scott Heim We Disappear Winner [20]
David Francis Stray Dog Winter Finalist [20]
Jay Quinn The Boomerang Kid
Joseph Olshan The Conversion
Thomas Glave The Torturer’s Wife
2010 Vestal McIntyre Lake Overturn Winner [21]
James Morrison Said and Done Finalist [21]
Abdellah Taia Salvation Army
Peter Gadol Silver Lake
Matt Dean The River in Winter
2011 Adam Haslett Union Atlantic Winner [22][23]
Michael Cunningham By Nightfall Finalist [24]
Max Schaefer Children of the Sun
Jonathan Strong Consolation
David McConnell The Silver Hearted
2012 Colm Tóibín The Empty Family Winner [25]
R. Zamora Linmark Leche Finalist
Chris Adrian The Great Night
Alan Hollinghurst The Stranger's Child
Paul Russell The Unreal Life of Sergey Nabokov
2013 Benjamin Alire Sáenz Everything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky Club Winner [26][27]
Trebor Healey A Horse Named Sorrow Finalist [26]
Daniel Arsand Lovers
William Jack Sibley Sighs Too Deep For Words
Kevin Killian Spreadeagle
John Boyne The Absolutist
Barry Webster The Lava in My Bones
Michael Lowenthal The Paternity Test
Richard Kramer These Things Happen
Paul Lisicky Unbuilt Projects
2014 Luis Negrón with Suzanne Jill Levine (trans.) Mundo Cruel Winner [28][29][30]
Glenway Wescott with Jerry Rosco (ed.) A Visit to Priapus and Other Stories Finalist [31]
Rick Whitaker An Honest Ghost
Jasmine Beach-Ferrara Damn Love
Jason K. Friedman Fire Year
Allan Gurganus Local Souls
Caleb Crain Necessary Errors
Manil Suri The City of Devi
Greg Kearney The Desperates
John Stewart Wynne The Red Shoes
2015 Tom Spanbauer I Loved You More Winner [32][33][34]
Judith Frank All I Love and Know Finalist [35]
Christos Tsiolkas Barracuda
Tatamkhulu Afrika Bitter Eden
Michael Carroll Little Reef and Other Stories
Keith Banner Next to Nothing
John R. Gordon Souljah
Michael Nava The City of Palaces
2016 Hasan Namir God in Pink Winner [36][37]
Michael Golding A Poet of the Invisible World Finalist [38]
Andy Sinclair Breathing Lessons
Paul Russell Immaculate Blue
Mark Merlis JD
James Sie Still Life, Las Vegas
Truman Capote The Early Stories of Truman Capote
John Whittier Treat The Rise and Fall of the Yellow House
2017 Rabih Alameddine The Angel of History Winner [39]
Darryl Pinckney Black Deutschland Finalist [40]
Matthew Griffin Hide
Joe Okonkwo Jazz Moon
Sjón Moonstone
Sarah Schulman The Cosmopolitans
Jonathan Corcoran The Rope Swing
Garth Greenwell What Belongs to You
2018 John Rechy After the Blue Hour Winner [41][42][43]
Nnanna Ikpo Fimí Sílè Forever Finalist [44]
Andrew Sean Greer Less
Matthew Lansburgh Outside Is the Ocean
Ahmad Danny Ramadan The Clothesline Swing
Édouard Louis The End of Eddy
John Boyne The Heart’s Invisible Furies
Joan Dempsey This Is How It Begins
2019 Joshua Whitehead Jonny Appleseed Winner [45]
John R. Gordon Drapetomania, or the Narrative of Cyrus Tyler and Abednego Tyler Finalist [46]
Édouard Louis History of Violence
Martin Duberman Luminous Traitor: The Just and Daring Life of Roger Casement
Patrick Nathan Some Hell
Uzodinma Iweala Speak No Evil
David Jackson Ambrose State of the Nation
Joseph Cassara The House of Impossible Beauties
2020 Bryan Washington Lot Winner [47][48][49]
Jean-Baptiste Del Amo with Frank Wynne (trans.) Animalia Finalist [50][51]
De'Shawn Charles Winslow In West Mills
Jaime Manrique Like This Afternoon Forever
João Gilberto Noll with Edgar Garbelotto (trans.) Lord
Will Eaves Murmur
Ocean Vuong On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous
Lindsey Drager The Archive of Alternate Endings
2021 Joon Oluchi Lee Neotenica Winner [52][53][54]
Garth Greenwell Cleanness Finalist [55]
Brandon Taylor Real Life
Douglas Stuart Shuggie Bain
Dennis E. Staples This Town Sleeps
2022 Brontez Purnell 100 Boyfriends Winner [56][57]
Selva Almada Brickmakers Finalist [58]
Jaime Cortez Gordo
Yang Huang My Good Son
Paul Mendez Rainbow Milk
2023 Danny Ramadan The Foghorn Echoes Winner [59]
Marcial Gala, trans. by Anna Kushner Call Me Cassandra Finalist [60][61]
Arinze Ifeakandu God’s Children Are Little Broken Things
João Gilberto Noll, trans. by Edgar Garbelotto Hugs and Cuddles
Rasheed Newson My Government Means To Kill Me
2024 Patrick E. Horrigan American Scholar Finalist [62]
Justin Torres Blackouts
Richard Mirabella Brother & Sister Enter the Forest
Bryan Washington Family Meal
Khashayar J. Khabushani I Will Greet the Sun Again

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