# Lambda Literary Award for Gay Romance

The Lambda Literary Award for Gay Romance is an annual literary award, presented by the Lambda Literary Foundation, to a novel, novella, or short story collection "by a single author that focus on a central love relationship between two or more characters, not including anthologies. The submission guidelines mention several sub-genres are included, " including traditional, historical, gothic, Regency, and paranormal romance".

## Recipients

Lambda Literary Award for Gay Romance winners and finalists :
| Year | Author | Title | Result |
| 2007 | Rob Byrnes | When the Stars Come Out | Winner |
| 2007 | Andy Zeffer | Going Down in La-La Land | Finalist |
| 2007 | Timothy James Beck | Someone Like You | Finalist |
| 2007 | Scott & Scott | Surf ‘N Turf | Finalist |
| 2007 | Lawrence Schimel | Two Boys in Love | Finalist |
| 2008 | Michael Thomas Ford | Changing Tides | Winner |
| 2008 | Robert Taylor | A Few Hints and Clews | Finalist |
| 2008 | Robin Reardon | A Secret Edge | Finalist |
| 2008 | Seth Rudetsky | Broadway Nights | Finalist |
| 2008 | Frederick Smith | Right Side of the Wrong Bed | Finalist |
| 2009 | Larry Duplechan | Got ’til it’s Gone | Winner |
| 2009 | Laura Baumbach and Josh Lanyon | Mexican Heat | Finalist |
| 2009 | N. L. Gassert | The Protector | Finalist |
| 2010 | Frank Anthony Polito | Drama Queers! | Winner |
| 2010 | H. Leigh Aubrey | A Keen Edge | Finalist |
| 2010 | Dan Stone | The Rest of Our Lives | Finalist |
| 2010 | J. P. Bowie | Time After Time | Finalist |
| 2010 | Erastes | Transgressions | Finalist |
| 2011 | Erik Orrantia | Normal Miguel | Winner |
| 2011 | Michael Thomas Ford | The Road Home | Finalist |
| 2011 | Neil Plakcy | Three Wrong Turns in the Desert | Finalist |
| 2012 | Jim Provenzano | Every Time I Think of You | Winner |
| 2012 | Jay Bell | Something Like Summer | Finalist |
| 2012 | Mel Bossa | Split | Finalist |
| 2012 | Barry Brennessel | Tinseltown | Finalist |
| 2013 | Jay Bell | Kamikaze Boys | Winner |
| 2013 | J. H. Trumble | Don’t Let Me Go | Finalist |
| 2013 | Barry Brennessel | The Celestial | Finalist |
| 2013 | Brad Boney | The Nothingness of Ben | Finalist |
| 2013 | William Masswa | Toughskins | Finalist |
| 2014 | TJ Klune | Into This River I Drown | Winner |
| 2014 | L. A. Witt | Covet Thy Neighbor | Finalist |
| 2014 | Alexis Hall | Glitterland | Finalist |
| 2014 | Edmond Manning | King Mai | Finalist |
| 2014 | L. A. Fields | My Dear Watson | Finalist |
| 2014 | L. C. Chase | Pickup Men | Finalist |
| 2014 | Madison Parker | Play Me, I’m Yours | Finalist |
| 2014 | Lynley Wayne | Rocky’s Road | Finalist |
| 2014 | Larry Benjamin | Unbroken | Finalist |
| 2014 | J. H. Trumble | Where You Are | Finalist |
| 2015 | Jeff Mann | Salvation: A Novel of the Civil War | Winner |
| 2015 | Barry Lowe | Everything’s Coming Up Roses: Four Tales of M/M Romance | Finalist |
| 2015 | Timothy Lambert and R.D. Cochrane | Foolish Hearts: New Gay Fiction | Finalist |
| 2015 | Georgina Li | Like They Always Been Free | Finalist |
| 2015 | Jim Provenzano | Message of Love | Finalist |
| 2015 | Lloyd A. Meeker | The Companion | Finalist |
| 2015 | David Reddish | The Passion of Sergius & Bacchus, A Novel of Truth | Finalist |
| 2016 | Debbie McGowan | When Skies Have Fallen | Winner |
| 2016 | Vanessa North | Blueberry Boys | Finalist |
| 2016 | Ralph Josiah Bardsley | Brothers | Finalist |
| 2016 | Alexis Hall | For Real | Finalist |
| 2016 | L. A. Witt | General Misconduct | Finalist |
| 2016 | Garrett Leigh | Misfits | Finalist |
| 2016 | Jay Bell | Something Like Stories, Volume One | Finalist |
| 2016 | Brad Boney | Yes | Finalist |
| 2017 | Pene Henson | Into the Blue | Winner |
| 2017 | Lisa Henry | Adulting 101 | Finalist |
| 2017 | Jamie Deacon | Caught Inside | Finalist |
| 2017 | Jeff Mann | Country | Finalist |
| 2017 | Marshall Thornton | Femme | Finalist |
| 2017 | Alexis Hall | Pansies | Finalist |
| 2017 | Richard Compson Sater | Rank | Finalist |
| 2017 | Garrett Leigh | Rented Heart | Finalist |
| 2018 | Laurie Loft | Love and Other Hot Beverages | Winner |
| 2018 | L. A. Witt | At the Corner of Rock Bottom & Nowhere | Finalist |
| 2018 | Bryan T. Clark | Come to The Oaks: The Story of Ben and Tobias | Finalist |
| 2018 | Audra North | Midlife Crisis | Finalist |
| 2018 | Johnny Diaz | Six Neckties | Finalist |
| 2018 | Tom Mendicino | Stealing Home | Finalist |
| 2018 | Adrienne Wilder | Wild | Finalist |
| 2018 | Christine d’Abo | Working It | Finalist |
| 2019 | S. C. Wynne | Crashing Upwards | Winner |
| 2019 | Reesa Herberth and Michelle Moore | Detour | Finalist |
| 2019 | Kris Jacen | Learn with Me | Finalist |
| 2019 | Kayleigh Sky | No Luck | Finalist |
| 2019 | Christina Lee and Riley Hart | Of Sunlight and Stardust | Finalist |
| 2019 | Melanie Hansen | Point of Contact | Finalist |
| 2019 | Angela McCallister | The CEO’s Christmas Manny | Finalist |
| 2019 | Jenny Holiday | Undue Influence: A Persuasion Retelling | Finalist |
| 2020 | James Lovejoy | Joseph Chapman: My Molly Life | Winner |
| 2020 | Chris Delyani | Best Man | Finalist |
| 2020 | Rick R. Reed | Blue Umbrella Sky | Finalist |
| 2020 | Marshall Thornton | Code Name: Liberty | Finalist |
| 2020 | Jay Hogan | Digging Deep | Finalist |
| 2020 | Bryan T. Clark | Escaping Camp Roosevelt | Finalist |
| 2020 | Garrett Leigh | Kiss Me Again | Finalist |
| 2020 | R. A. Thorn | My Baby Chased Away the Blues | Finalist |
| 2021 | Felice Stevens | The Ghost and Charlie Muir | Winner |
| 2021 | Adriana Herrera | Finding Joy | Finalist |
| 2021 | Lance Ringel | Flower of Iowa | Finalist |
| 2021 | Erin C. McRae and Racheline Maltese | Ink and Ice | Finalist |
| 2021 | Cat Sebastian | Two Rogues Make a Right | Finalist |
| 2022 | Larry Benjamin | Excellent Sons: A Love Story in Three Acts | Winner |
| 2022 | Sander Santiago | Best of the Wrong Reasons | Finalist |
| 2022 | John Patrick | Dublin Bay | Finalist |
| 2022 | Lance Ringel | Floridian Nights | Finalist |
| 2022 | Farhad J. Dadyburjor | The Other Man | Finalist |
| 2023 | Kosoko Jackson | I’m So Not Over You | Winner |
| 2023 | Marie Sinclair | Forever After | Finalist |
| 2023 | A. M. Johnson | Forever, Con Amor | Finalist |
| 2023 | Felice Stevens | Just One Night | Finalist |
| 2023 | Fearne Hill | Two Tribes | Finalist |
| 2024 | Cat Sebastian | We Could Be So Good | Winner |
| 2024 | E. H. Lupton | Dionysus in Wisconsin | Finalist |
| 2024 | M. A. Wardell | Mistletoe & Mishigas | Finalist |
| 2024 | Jay Hogan | The Art of Husbandry | Finalist |
| 2024 | KJ Charles | The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen | Finalist |