# Lambda Literary Award for Gay Fiction

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