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Stonewall Book Awards 2023

The 2023 Stonewall Book Awards went to Love, Violet by Charlotte Sullivan Wild and Charlene Chua and When the Angels Left the Old Country by Sacha Lamb (Children's and Young Adult), The Other Mother by Rachel M. Harper (Literature) and Faltas: Letters to Everyone in My Hometown Who Isn't My Rapist by Cecilia Gentili and The Women's House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison by Hugh Ryan (Nonfiction), with winners in 1 more category. 14 books were Honor Books across 4 categories.

Winners

Children's and Young Adult

  1. Love, Violet by Charlotte Sullivan Wild and Charlene Chuasource (opens in a new tab)
  2. When the Angels Left the Old Country by Sacha Lambsource (opens in a new tab)

Literature

  1. The Other Mother by Rachel M. Harpersource (opens in a new tab)

Nonfiction

  1. Faltas: Letters to Everyone in My Hometown Who Isn't My Rapist by Cecilia Gentilisource (opens in a new tab)
  2. The Women's House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison by Hugh Ryansource (opens in a new tab)

Poetry

  1. Revenge Body by Rachel Wileysource (opens in a new tab)

Honor Books

Children's and Young Adult

  1. I Kissed Shara Wheeler by Casey McQuistonsource (opens in a new tab)
  2. In the Key of Us by Mariama J. Lockingtonsource (opens in a new tab)
  3. Kapaemahu by Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu, Dean Hamer, Joe Wilson and Daniel Sousasource (opens in a new tab)
  4. Kings of B'more by R. Eric Thomassource (opens in a new tab)
  5. Man o' War by Cory McCarthysource (opens in a new tab)
  6. Strong by Rob Kearney, Eric Rosswood and Nidhi Chananisource (opens in a new tab)
  7. The Real Riley Mayes by Rachel Elliottsource (opens in a new tab)
  8. The Summer of Bitter and Sweet by Jen Fergusonsource (opens in a new tab)

Literature

  1. Dead Collections by Isaac Fellmansource (opens in a new tab)
  2. Dominant Genes by SJ Sindusource (opens in a new tab)
  3. How to Identify Yourself with a Wound by KB Brookinssource (opens in a new tab)

Nonfiction

  1. High-Risk Homosexual: A Memoir by Edgar Gomezsource (opens in a new tab)
  2. Refusing Compulsory Sexuality: A Black Asexual Lens on Our Sex-Obsessed Culture by Sherronda J. Brownsource (opens in a new tab)
  3. Voice of the Fish: A Lyric Essay by Lars Hornsource (opens in a new tab)

About the Stonewall Book Awards

Award winners and Honor Books from the Rainbow Round Table's Stonewall Book Awards list. Year is the award year the Round Table uses, announced each January. Categories: Literature (Barbara Gittings Literature Award), Poetry (Barbara Gittings Poetry Award, given separately in 2023 and 2025), Nonfiction (Israel Fishman Nonfiction Award) and Children's and Young Adult (Mike Morgan & Larry Romans Award, first given in 2010). The 2024 Literature & Poetry award was a single combined award and sits under Literature. Some years have two winners in a category. The 2021 page lists a Literature shortlist after the Honor Books; those are recorded as Shortlist. The 2012 annotated Picture of Dorian Gray was an Honor Book in both Literature and Nonfiction and appears once in each. Children's and Young Adult author fields name the writer, then the illustrator when credited.

Organization: American Library Association Rainbow Round Table. Years are award years, which can differ from publication years. Official site (opens in a new tab)

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