Award overlap
Books That Won Both the Lambda Literary Awards and the Stonewall Book Awards
11 books won both the Lambda Literary Awards and the Stonewall Book Awards between 2006 and 2024, most recently Only This Beautiful Moment (2024/2024). 111 more were recognized by both without winning both.
Years are award years. Lambda Literary Awards · Stonewall Book Awards
Won both
| Book | Author | Lambda Literary Awards | Stonewall Book Awards |
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| Only This Beautiful Moment | Abdi Nazemian |
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| The Thirty Names of Night | Zeyn Joukhadar |
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| How We Fight for Our Lives | Saeed Jones |
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| Hurricane Child | Kacen Callender |
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| How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS | David France |
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| George | Alex Gino |
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| Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe | Benjamin Alire Sáenz |
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| A Queer History of the United States | Michael Bronski |
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| Putting Makeup on the Fat Boy | Bil Wright |
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| The Teahouse Fire | Ellis Avery |
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| Babyji | Abha Dawesar |
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Recognized by both
| Book | Author | Lambda Literary Awards | Stonewall Book Awards |
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| American Teenager: How Trans Kids Are Surviving Hate and Finding Joy in a Turbulent Era | Nico Lang |
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| Be Not Afraid of My Body | Darius Stewart |
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| Here We Go Again | Alison Cochrun |
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| Murray Out of Water | Taylor Tracy |
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| Time and Time Again | Chatham Greenfield |
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| Glitter and Concrete: A Cultural History of Drag in New York City | Elyssa Maxx Goodman |
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| Hi Honey, I'm Homo! | Matt Baume |
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| Hijab Butch Blues | Lamya H |
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| Faltas: Letters to Everyone in My Hometown Who Isn't My Rapist | Cecilia Gentili |
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| High-Risk Homosexual | Edgar Gomez |
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| Kapaemahu | Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu, Dean Hamer, Joe Wilson, Daniel Sousa |
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| Love, Violet | Charlotte Sullivan Wild, Charlene Chua |
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| The Summer of Bitter and Sweet | Jen Ferguson |
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| The Women's House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison | Hugh Ryan |
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| Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir | Akwaeke Emezi |
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| Let the Record Show | Sarah Schulman |
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| Punch Me Up to the Gods: A Memoir | Brian Broome |
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| Stone Fruit | Lee Lai |
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| More Than Organs | Kay Ulanday Barrett |
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| My Autobiography of Carson McCullers | Jenn Shapland |
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| The Subtweet | Vivek Shraya |
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| You Should See Me in a Crown | Leah Johnson |
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| Cantoras | Carolina De Robertis |
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| In the Dream House | Carmen Maria Machado |
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| Lot | Bryan Washington |
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| On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous | Ocean Vuong |
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| Patsy | Nicole Dennis-Benn |
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| Pet | Akwaeke Emezi |
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| Black. Queer. Southern. Women.: An Oral History | E. Patrick Johnson |
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| A Place Called No Homeland | Kai Cheng Thom |
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| An Unkindness of Ghosts | Rivers Solomon |
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| Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity | C. Riley Snorton |
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| Marriage of a Thousand Lies | SJ Sindu |
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| Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction and Fantasy from Transgender Writers | Cat Fitzpatrick, Casey Plett |
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| Queer Threads: Crafting Identity and Community | John Chaich, Todd Oldham |
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| When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities | Chen Chen |
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| Beautiful Gravity | Martin Hyatt |
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| Dig | Bryan Borland |
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| Hide | Matthew Griffin |
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| If I Was Your Girl | Meredith Russo |
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| Not Straight, Not White: Black Gay Men from the March on Washington to the AIDS Crisis | Kevin J. Mumford |
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| One-Man Show: The Life and Art of Bernard Perlin | Michael Schreiber |
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| Apocalypse Baby | Virginie Despentes |
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| Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of an American Family | Amy Ellis Nutt |
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| Jam on the Vine | LaShonda Katrice Barnett |
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| Lum | Libby Ware |
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| The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle | Lillian Faderman |
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| Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out | Susan Kuklin |
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| Bitter Eden | Tatamkhulu Afrika |
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| Charity & Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America | Rachel Hope Cleves |
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| Hold Tight Gently: Michael Callen, Essex Hemphill, and the Battlefield of AIDS | Martin Duberman |
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| Living Out Islam: Voices of Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Muslims | Scott Siraj al-Haqq Kugle |
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| Prelude to Bruise | Saeed Jones |
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| Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More | Janet Mock |
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| The Two Hotel Francforts | David Leavitt |
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| A Strange and Separate People | Jon Marans |
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| Beautiful Music for Ugly Children | Kirstin Cronn-Mills |
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| Better Nate Than Ever | Tim Federle |
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| Everything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky Club | Benjamin Alire Sáenz |
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| Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father | Alysia Abbott |
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| Fat Angie | e.E. Charlton-Trujillo |
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| Two Boys Kissing | David Levithan |
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| Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America | Christopher Bram |
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| The Absolutist | John Boyne |
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| The Last Nude | Ellis Avery |
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| The Unreal Life of Sergey Nabokov | Paul Russell |
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| When We Were Outlaws: A Memoir of Love & Revolution | Jeanne Córdova |
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| Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? | Jeanette Winterson |
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| Persistence: All Ways Butch and Femme | Ivan E. Coyote, Zena Sharman |
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| Pink | Lili Wilkinson |
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| Seeing Gertrude Stein: Five Stories | Wanda M. Corn, Tirza True Latimer |
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| The Temperamentals | Jon Marans |
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| Holding Still for As Long As Possible | Zoe Whittall |
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| Inseparable: Desire Between Women in Literature | Emma Donoghue |
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| Just Kids | Patti Smith |
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| Love Drugged | James Klise |
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| More of This World or Maybe Another | Barb Johnson |
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| Probation | Tom Mendicino |
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| Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist and Sexual Renegade | Justin Spring |
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| The More I Owe You | Michael Sledge |
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| The Right to Be Out: Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in America's Public Schools | Stuart Biegel |
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| 10,000 Dresses | Marcus Ewert |
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| God Says No | James Hannaham |
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| Sprout | Dale Peck |
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| Stray Dog Winter | David Francis |
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| The Greeks and Greek Love | James Davidson |
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| The Vast Fields of Ordinary | Nick Burd |
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| Unfriendly Fire: How the Gay Ban Undermines the Military and Weakens America | Nathaniel Frank |
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| Assisted Loving: True Tales of Double Dating with My Dad | Bob Morris |
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| Dishonorable Passions: Sodomy Laws in America, 1861-2003 | William N. Eskridge Jr. |
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| Light Fell | Evan Fallenberg |
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| Sex Variant Woman: The Life of Jeannette Howard Foster | Joanne Ellen Passet |
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| Swish: My Quest to Become the Gayest Person Ever | Joel Derfner |
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| The Conversion | Joseph Olshan |
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| The Sealed Letter | Emma Donoghue |
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| Dark Reflections | Samuel R. Delany |
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| Dog Years: A Memoir | Mark Doty |
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| Mississippi Sissy | Kevin Sessums |
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| The IHOP Papers | Ali Liebegott |
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| Transparent | Cris Beam |
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| Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice | Janet Malcolm |
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| A Scarecrow's Bible | Martin Hyatt |
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| Gay Power: An American Revolution | David Eisenbach |
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| Rose of No Man's Land | Michelle Tea |
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| The Manny Files | Christian Burch |
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| The Night Watch | Sarah Waters |
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| Acqua Calda | Keith McDermott |
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| Mother of Sorrows | Richard McCann |
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| My One-Night Stand with Cancer | Tania Katan |
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| The Fabulous Sylvester: The Legend, the Music, the Seventies in San Francisco | Joshua Gamson |
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| The First Verse | Barry McCrea |
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