Stonewall Book Awards 2021

by American Library Association

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20 books

Stonewall Book Awards is the first and most enduring award for LGBTQIA+ books, sponsored by the American Library Association's Rainbow Round Table. The Stonewall Book Award is a set of three literary awards that annually recognize exceptional merit relating to the gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgender experience in English-language books published in the U.S.

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Literature

Award

The Thirty Names of Night

Zeyn Joukhadar, 2020

Honor Books

The Death of Vivek Oji

Akwaeke Emezi, 2021

Memorial

Bryan Washington, 2021

More Than Organs

Kay Ulanday Barrett, 2020

Postcolonial Love Poem

Natalie Diaz, 2020

Honor Books Shortlist

Boys of Alabama: A Novel

Genevieve Hudson, 2020

Plain Bad Heroines

Emily M. Danforth, 2020

The Pull of the Stars

Emma Donoghue, 2020

The Subtweet

Vivek Shraya, 2020

Too Much Lip

Melissa Lucashenko, 2020

Non-fiction

Award

The Queer Games Avant-Garde

How LGBTQ Game Makers Are Reimagining the Medium of Video Games

Bonnie Ruberg, 2020

Honor Books

My Autobiography of Carson McCullers

Jenn Shapland, 2021

The Fixed Stars

Molly Wizenberg, 2021

Paper Bullets

Two Artists Who Risked Their Lives to Defy the Nazis

Jeffrey H. Jackson, 2020

XOXY

A Memoir (Intersex Woman, Mother, Activist)

Kimberly M. Zieselman, 2020

Children’s & Young Adult

Award

We Are Little Feminists

Little Feminist, 2020

Honor Books

Beetle & the Hollowbones

Aliza Layne, 2020

Darius the Great Deserves Better

Adib Khorram, 2020

Felix Ever After

Kacen Callender, 2021

You Should See Me in a Crown

Leah Johnson, 2020