Christchurch City Libraries lists literary prize winners and links to catalogue searches, but we may not hold copies of all titles mentioned.
The Lammys are awarded by the Lambda Literary Foundation and celebrate the best lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender books of the year and affirm that LGBTQ stories are part of the literature of the world.
The awards began in 1988 and a Bisexual category was added in 2006. Prior to this the Transgender and Bisexual categories were sometimes combined.
In some years both non-fiction and fiction awards are given, when the number of entries warrants. In other years fiction and nonfiction are judged together under the category of "literature". This list contains all fiction winners and some non-fiction.
Each year's awards celebrate books published in the previous year. Find other Lambda award winners.
See more literary prize winners.
2024
Fiction: Natural beauty Ling Ling Huang
Non-fiction: Creep Myriam Gurba
2023
Fiction: 
Reluctant Immortals Gwendolyn Kiste
Non-fiction: Appropriate Behavior Maria San Filippo
2022
Fiction: We Want What We Want Alix Ohlin
Non-fiction: Borealis Aisha Sabatini Sloan
2021
Fiction: You Exist Too Much Zaina Arafat
2020
Fiction: Exquisite Mariposa Fiona Alison Duncan
Non-fiction: Socialist Realism Trisha Low
2019
Fiction: 
Disoriental, Négar Djavadi, Translated by Tina Kover
Non-Fiction: Out of Step: A Memoir Anthony Moll
2018
Fiction: The Gift Barbara Browning
Non-Fiction: Hunger Roxane Gay
2017
Fiction: Marrow Island Alexis M. Smith
Non-Fiction: Black Dove: Mama, Mi’jo, and Me Ana Castillo
2016
Fiction: The Life and Death of Sophie Stark Anna North
Non-Fiction: Irrrepressible: The Jazz Age Life of Henrietta Bingham, Emily Bingham, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
2015
Fiction: Give It to Me Ana Castillo
Non-Fiction: Fire Shut Up In My Bones Charles M. Blow
2013
- My Education Susan Choi
2012
- In One Person John Irving and
- My Awesome Place: The Autobiography of Cheryl B Cheryl Burke (tie)
2011
Fiction: The Correspondence Artist Barbara Browning
Non-Fiction: The Horizontal Poet Jan Steckel
2010
Fiction: The Lunatic, the Lover, and the Poet Myrlin A. Hermes
Non-Fiction: Border Sexualities, Border Families in Schools Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli
2009
Fiction: Holy Communion Mykola Dementiuk
Love You Two Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli (tie)
Non-Fiction: Leaving India: My Family’s Journey From Five Villages to Five Continents Minal Hajratwala
2008
- Open Jenny Block
2007
- Split Screen Brent Hartinger
2006
- The Bisexual’s Guide to the Universe Michael Szymanski & Nicole Kristal
