Stonewall Book Award — Complete Winners List

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


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