Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Memoir or Biography
{{short description|Annual literary award}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2024}}
{{Infobox award
|name = Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Memoir/Biography
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|awarded_for = Literary award
|sponsor = Lambda Literary Foundation
|date = Annual
|website = {{URL|https://lambdaliterary.org/awards/}}
}}
The Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Memoir/Biography is an annual literary award established in 1994, presented by the Lambda Literary Foundation, to a memoir, biography, autobiography, or works of creative nonfiction by or about lesbians. Works published posthumously and/or written with co-authors are eligible, but anthologies are not.{{Cite web|title=Submissions|url=https://lambdaliterary.org/awards/lammys-submissions/|access-date=2021-12-24|website=Lambda Literary|language=en|archive-date=2022-01-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220101214336/https://lambdaliterary.org/awards/lammys-submissions/|url-status=live}}
Recipients
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|+List of Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Memoir/Biography Recipients ! scope="col" | Year ! scope="col" | Author ! scope="col" | Work ! scope="col" | Result ! scope="col" | {{Abbreviation|Ref.|References}} |
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! rowspan="5" |1994 |{{sortname|Josyane|Savigneau}} |Marguerite Yourcenar |Winner |
| {{sortname|Phyllis|Burke}}
|Family Values | rowspan="4" |Finalist |
| {{sortname|Jewelle|Gomez}}
|Forty-Three Septembers |
| {{sortname|Rose|Gladney}} (editor)
|How Am I To Be Heard: Letters of Lillian Smith |
| {{sortname|David|Sweetman}}
|Mary Renault |
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! rowspan="5" |1995 |{{sortname|Renate|Stendhal}} (editor) |Gertrude Stein: In Words and Pictures |Winner |
| {{sortname|Mab|Segrest}}
|Memoir of a Race Traitor | rowspan="4" |Finalist |
| {{sortname|Elizabeth|Bishop}}
|One Art: Letters |
| Colonel {{sortname|Margarethe|Cammermeyer}} and Chris Fisher
|Serving in Silence |
| {{sortname|Helen|Lefkowitz Horowitz}}
|The Power and the Passion of M. Carey Thomas |
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! rowspan="5" |1996 |{{sortname|Erica|Fischer}} |Aimee & Jaguar |Winner |
| {{sortname|Deb|Price}} and Joyce Murdoch
|And Say Hi to Joyce | rowspan="4" |Finalist |
| {{sortname|Susan E.|Cayliff}}
|Babe |
| {{sortname|Claudia|Brenner}} with Hannah Ashley
|Eight Bullets |
| {{sortname|Dorothy|Allison}}
|Two or Three Things I Know for Sure |
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! rowspan="5" |1997 |{{sortname|Doris|Grumbach}} |Life in a Day |Winner |
| {{sortname|Candace|Gingrich}}
|Accidental Activist | rowspan="4" |Finalist |
| {{sortname|Torie|Osborn}}
|Coming Home to America |
| {{sortname|Helen|Sheehy}}
|Eva Le Gallienne |
| {{sortname|Honor|Moore}}
|The White Blackbird |
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! rowspan="5" |1998 |{{sortname|Barbara|Wilson|Barbara Wilson (author)}} |Blue Windows: a Christian Science Childhood |Winner |
| {{sortname|Margot|Peters}}
|May Sarton: a Biography | rowspan="4" |Finalist |
| {{sortname|Kim|Chernin}}
|My Life as a Boy |
| {{sortname|Daphne|Scholinski}} and Jane Meredith Adams
|The Last Time I Wore a Dress |
| {{sortname|Hermione|Lee}}
|Virginia Woolf |
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! rowspan="5" |1999 |{{sortname|Alison|Bechdel}} |The Indelible Alison Bechdel; Confessions, Comix, and Miscellaneous Dykes to Watch Out for |Winner |
| {{sortname|Joan|Nestle}}
|A Fragile Union | rowspan="4" |Finalist |
| {{sortname|Rodger|Streitmatter}}
|Empty Without You |
| {{sortname|Sally|Cline}}
|Radclyffe Hall: A Woman Called John |
| {{sortname|Kate|Summerscale}}
|The Queen of Whale Cay |
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! rowspan="5" |2000 |{{sortname|Diana|Souhami}} |The Trials of Radclyffe Hall |Winner |
| {{sortname|Kay|Turner}}
|Baby Precious Always Shines | rowspan="4" |Finalist |
| {{sortname|Blanche|Wiesen Cook}}
|Eleanor Roosevelt: Volume 2: 1933–1938 |
| {{sortname|Barrie Jean|Borich}}
|My Lesbian Husband |
| {{sortname|Karla|Jay}}
|Tales of the Lavender Menace |
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! rowspan="5" |2001 |{{sortname|Judith|Barrington|Judith Barrington (poet)}} |Lifesaving |Winner |
| {{sortname|Amber|Hollibaugh}}
|My Dangerous Desires | rowspan="4" |Finalist |
| {{sortname|June|Jordan}}
|Soldier: A Poet’s Childhood |
| {{sortname|Carole|Maso}}
|The Room Lit by Roses |
| {{sortname|Joan|Schenkar}}
|Truly Wilde |
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! rowspan="5" |2007 |{{sortname|Alison|Bechdel}} |Winner |
| {{sortname|Barbara|Sjoholm|Barbara Wilson (author)}}
|Incognito Street | rowspan="4" |Finalist |
| {{sortname|Bettina|Aptheker}}
|Intimate Politics |
| {{sortname|Hilary|Carlip}}
|Queen of the Oddballs |
| {{sortname|Catherine|Friend}}
|Hit by a Farm |
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! rowspan="5" |2008 |{{sortname|Nicola|Griffith}} |And Now We Are Going to Have a Party |Winner |{{Cite web|date=5 June 2008|title=2008 Lambda Award Winners Announced|url=https://www.mcnallyrobinson.com/editorial-818/2008-Lambda-Award-Winners-Announced|url-status=live|access-date=2022-01-12|website=McNally Robinson Booksellers|language=en|archive-date=2022-08-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220819055254/https://www.mcnallyrobinson.com/editorial-818/2008-Lambda-Award-Winners-Announced}}{{Cite web|date=30 April 2007|title=20th Annual Lambda Literary Awards|url=https://lambdaliterary.org/2007/04/lambda-literary-awards-2007-2/|access-date=2022-01-12|website=Lambda Literary|language=en|archive-date=2022-01-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220120014347/https://lambdaliterary.org/2007/04/lambda-literary-awards-2007-2/|url-status=live}} |
| {{sortname|Marusya|Bociurkiw}}
|Comfort Food for Breakups | rowspan="4" |Finalist |
| {{sortname|Amy|Hoffman}}
|An Army of Ex-Lovers |
| {{sortname|Janet|Malcolm}}
|Two Lives: Gertrude & Alice |
| {{sortname|Jacqueline|Taylor}}
|Waiting for the Call |
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! rowspan="5" |2009 |{{sortname|Maureen|Seaton}} |Sex Talks to Girls: A Memoir |Winner |
| {{sortname|Susan|Griffin}}
|Wrestling with the Angel of Democracy | rowspan="4" |Finalist |
| {{sortname|Thea|Hillman}}
|Intersex (For Lack of a Better Word) |
| {{sortname|Joanne|Passet}}
|Sex Variant Woman |
| {{sortname|Abbe|Smith}}
|Case of a Lifetime |
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! rowspan="5" |2010 |{{sortname|Joan|Schenkar}} |The Talented Miss Highsmith: The Secret Life and Serious Art of Patricia Highsmith |Winner |
| {{sortname|Alix|Dobkin}}
|My Red Blood: A Memoir of Growing Up Communist, Coming Onto the Greenwich Village Folk Scene, and Coming Out in the Feminist Movement | rowspan="4" |Finalist |
| {{sortname|Ariel|Schrag}}
|Likewise: The High School Comic Chronicles of Ariel Schrag |
| {{sortname|Mary|Cappello}}
|Called Back: My Reply to Cancer, My Return to Life |
| {{sortname|Terry|Galloway}}
|Mean Little deaf Queer |
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! rowspan="5" |2011 |{{sortname|Barbara|Hammer}} |Hammer!: Making Movies Out of Sex and Life | rowspan="2" |Winner (tie) |
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|{{sortname|Julie Marie|Wade}} |Wishbone: A Memoir in Fractures |
| {{sortname|Katherine A.|Briccetti}}
|Blood Strangers: A Memoir | rowspan="3" |Finalist |
| {{sortname|Chely|Wright}} |
| {{sortname|Amie|Klempnauer Miller}}
|She Looks Just Like You: A Memoir of (Nonbiological Lesbian) Motherhood |
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! rowspan="5" |2012 |{{sortname|Jeanne|Córdova}} |When We Were Outlaws: A Memoir of Love & Revolution |Winner |
| {{sortname|Karleen|Pendleton Jimenez}}
|How to Get a Girl Pregnant | rowspan="4" |Finalist | |
| {{sortname|Catherine|Friend}}
|Sheepish: Two Women, Fifty Sheep, and Enough Wool to Save the Planet | |
| {{sortname|Julie Marie|Wade}}
|Small Fires: Essays |
| {{sortname|Jane|Rule}}
|Taking My Life | |
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! rowspan="6" |2013 |{{sortname|Jeanette|Winterson}} |Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? |Winner |{{Cite web|date=4 June 2013|title=25th Annual Lambda Literary Award Winners Announced!|url=https://lambdaliterary.org/2013/06/25th-annual-lambda-literary-award-winners-announced/|access-date=2022-01-11|website=Lambda Literary|language=en|archive-date=2022-01-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220108192318/https://lambdaliterary.org/2013/06/25th-annual-lambda-literary-award-winners-announced/|url-status=live}}{{Cite web|last=Yates|first=Ryan|date=4 June 2013|title=2013 Lambda Literary Award Winners Announced|url=https://www.autostraddle.com/2013-lambda-literary-award-winners-announced-179194/|url-status=live|access-date=2022-01-11|website=Autostraddle|language=en-US|archive-date=2022-01-12|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220112001728/https://www.autostraddle.com/2013-lambda-literary-award-winners-announced-179194/}} |
| {{sortname|Judy|Grahn}}
|A Simple Revolution: The Making of an Activist Poet | rowspan="5" |Finalist |
| {{sortname|Lisa|Cohen|Lisa Cohen (writer)}}
|All We Know: Three Lives |
| {{sortname|Alison|Bechdel}}
|Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama |
| {{sortname|Luisita|Lopez Torregrosa}}
|Before the Rain |
| {{sortname|Sarah|Schulman}}
|The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination |
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! rowspan="4" |2014 |{{sortname|Barrie Jean|Borich}} |Body Geographic |Winner |{{Cite web|date=3 June 2014|title=Winners of the 26th Annual Lambda Literary Awards Announced|url=https://lambdaliterary.org/2014/06/winners-of-the-26th-annual-lambda-literary-awards-announced/|access-date=2022-01-11|website=Lambda Literary|language=en|archive-date=2021-09-12|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210912131635/https://lambdaliterary.org/2014/06/winners-of-the-26th-annual-lambda-literary-awards-announced/|url-status=live}}{{Cite web|last=bent|date=3 June 2014|title=Full List of 2014 Lambda Literary Award Winners|url=https://www.indiewire.com/2014/06/full-list-of-2014-lambda-literary-award-winners-214124/|url-status=live|access-date=2022-01-11|website=IndieWire|language=en|archive-date=2022-01-12|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220112003115/https://www.indiewire.com/2014/06/full-list-of-2014-lambda-literary-award-winners-214124/}} |
| {{sortname|Donna|Minkowitz}}
|Growing up Golem | rowspan="3" |Finalist |
| {{sortname|Annie|Lanzillotto}}
|L Is for Lion: An Italian Bronx Butch Freedom Memoir |
| {{sortname|Caroline|Paul}} and Wendy MacNaughton
|Lost Cat: A True Story of Love, Desperation, and GPS Technology |
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! rowspan="5" |2015 |{{sortname|Alethia|Jones}} and Virginia Eubanks, with Barbara Smith |Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around: Forty Years of Movement Building with Barbara Smith |Winner |
| {{sortname|Lynette|Loeppky}}
|Cease – a memoir of love, loss and desire | rowspan="4" |Finalist |
| {{sortname|Kelly|Cogswell}}
|Eating Fire: My Life as a Lesbian Avenger |
| {{sortname|Ariel|Gore}}
|The End of Eve |
| {{sortname|Terry|Mutchler}}
|Under This Beautiful Dome: A Senator, A Journalist, and the Politics of Gay Love in America |
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! rowspan="5" |2016 |{{sortname|Kate Carroll|de Gutes}} |Objects in the Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear |Winner |{{Cite web|date=7 June 2016|title=28th Annual Lammy Award Winners Announced|url=https://lambdaliterary.org/2016/06/28th-annual-lammy-award-winners-announced/|access-date=2022-01-11|website=Lambda Literary|language=en|archive-date=2022-01-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220108170932/https://lambdaliterary.org/2016/06/28th-annual-lammy-award-winners-announced/|url-status=live}}{{Cite web|last=Johns|first=Merryn|date=5 July 2016|title=2016 LAMMYS A Huge Success|url=https://www.curvemag.com/diversity-and-inclusion/lgbtqi-awards/2016-lammys-a-huge-success/|access-date=2022-01-11|website=CURVE|language=en-US|archive-date=2023-02-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230221033523/https://www.curvemag.com/blog/lgbtqi-awards/2016-lammys-a-huge-success/|url-status=live}}{{Cite web|last=King|first=Anna|date=7 June 2016|title=The Lambda Literary Awards Crown the Best Queer Books of 2015|url=https://slate.com/human-interest/2016/06/lambda-literary-awards-the-best-lgbtq-books-of-2015.html|access-date=2022-02-04|website=Slate Magazine|language=en|archive-date=2022-02-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220204151802/https://slate.com/human-interest/2016/06/lambda-literary-awards-the-best-lgbtq-books-of-2015.html|url-status=live}} |
| {{sortname|Cat|Cora}}
|Cooking as Fast as I Can: A Chef’s Story of Family, Food, and Forgiveness | rowspan="4" |Finalist |
| {{sortname|Leah Lakshmi |Piepzna-Samarasinha}}
|Dirty River |
| {{sortname|Carrie|Brownstein}} |
| {{sortname|Allison|Gruber}}
|You’re Not Edith |
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! rowspan="4" |2017 |{{sortname|Gloria|Joseph}} |ody, Undone: Living On After Great Pain |Winner |
| {{sortname|Ma-Nee|Chacaby}}
|A Two-Spirit Journey: The Autobiography of a Lesbian Ojibwa-Cree Elder | rowspan="3" |Finalist |
| {{sortname|Tig|Notaro}}
|I’m Just a Person |
| {{sortname|Joanne|Passet}}
|Indomitable: The Life of Barbara Grier |
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! rowspan="5" |2018 |{{sortname|Alexandria|Marzano-Lesnevich}} |The Fact of a Body |Winner |{{Cite web |date=5 June 2018 |title=30th Annual Lambda Literary Award Winners Announced |url=https://lambdaliterary.org/2018/06/lambda-literary-award/ |access-date=2022-01-11 |website=Lambda Literary |language=en |archive-date=2022-01-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220121230859/https://lambdaliterary.org/2018/06/lambda-literary-award/ |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |last=Froemming-Carter |first=Rah |date=5 June 2018 |title=2018 Lambda Literary Award Winners Announced |url=https://bookriot.com/2018-lambda-literary-award-winners-announced/ |access-date=2022-01-11 |website=BOOK RIOT |language=en-US |archive-date=2022-03-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220320095230/https://bookriot.com/2018-lambda-literary-award-winners-announced/ |url-status=live }} |
| {{sortname|Melissa|Febos}}
|Abandon Me: Memoirs | rowspan="4" |Finalist |
| {{sortname|Eileen|Myles}}
|Afterglow |
| {{sortname|Renate|Stendhal}}
|Kiss Me Again, Paris: A Memoir |
| {{sortname|Anne-christine|d'Adesky}}
|The Pox Lover: An Activist’s Decade in New York and Paris |
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! rowspan="8" |2019 |{{sortname|Zahra|Patterson}} |Chronology |Winner |
| {{sortname|Barrie Jean|Borich}}
|Apocalypse, Darling | rowspan="7" |Finalist |
| {{sortname|Julia|Van Haaften}}
|Berenice Abbott: A Life in Photography |
| {{sortname|Sandra Gail|Lambert}}
|A Certain Loneliness: A Memoir |
| {{sortname|Marusya|Bociurkiw}}
|Food Was Her Country: The Memoir of a Queer Daughter |
| {{sortname|Sarah|Viren}}
|MINE: Essays |
| {{sortname|Esther|Newton}}
|My Butch Career: A Memoir |
| {{sortname|Lindsay|Nixon}}
|nîtisânak |
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! rowspan="8" |2020 |{{sortname|Samra|Habib}} |We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir |Winner |{{Cite web|last=Aviles|first=Gwen|date=1 June 2021|title=Lambda Literary announces 25 winning books for annual Lammy Awards|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/select/nbc-out/best-lgbtq-books-lammy-awards-lambda-literary-ncna1215746|url-status=live|access-date=2021-12-24|website=NBC News|language=en|archive-date=2022-03-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220320095220/https://www.nbcnews.com/select/nbc-out/best-lgbtq-books-lammy-awards-lambda-literary-ncna1215746}}{{Cite web|title=2020 Winners|url=https://lambdaliterary.org/awards/2020-winners/|access-date=2021-12-24|website=Lambda Literary|language=en|archive-date=2022-02-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220206094210/https://lambdaliterary.org/awards/2020-winners/|url-status=live}} |
| {{sortname|Benjamin|Moser}}
| rowspan="7" |Finalist | rowspan="7" |{{Cite web|last=Yee|first=Katie|date=10 March 2020|title=Here are the finalists for the 2020 Lambda Literary Awards!|url=https://lithub.com/here-are-the-finalists-for-the-2020-lambda-literary-awards/|url-status=live|access-date=2022-01-11|website=Literary Hub|language=en-US|archive-date=2020-04-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200401020435/https://lithub.com/here-are-the-finalists-for-the-2020-lambda-literary-awards/}}{{Cite web|last=Hart|first=Michelle|date=10 March 2020|title=Here are the Finalists For the 2020 Lambda Literary Awards|url=https://www.oprahdaily.com/entertainment/books/a31261320/lambda-literary-awards-finalists-2020/|access-date=2022-01-11|website=Oprah Daily|language=en-US|archive-date=2022-02-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220215042913/https://www.oprahdaily.com/entertainment/books/a31261320/lambda-literary-awards-finalists-2020/|url-status=live}} |
| {{sortname|Saidiya|Hartman}}
|Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval |
| {{sortname|Edie|Windsor}} with Joshua Lyon
|A Wild and Precious Life |
| {{sortname|Jaquira|Díaz}}
|Ordinary Girls |
| {{sortname|Julia|Koets}}
|The Rib Joint: A Memoir In Essays |
| {{sortname|T Kira|Madden}}
|Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls |
| {{sortname|Elissa|Altman}}
|Motherland: A Memoir of Love, Loathing, and Longing |
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! rowspan="5" |2021 |{{sortname|Jenn|Shapland}} |My Autobiography of Carson McCullers |Winner |{{Cite web|title=2021 Winners|url=https://lambdaliterary.org/awards/2021-winners/|access-date=2021-12-24|website=Lambda Literary|language=en|archive-date=2022-01-09|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220109013027/https://lambdaliterary.org/awards/2021-winners/|url-status=live}}{{Cite web|last=Qiao|first=Vicky|date=2 June 2021|title=Indigenous anthology Love After The End wins Lambda Literary Award|url=https://www.cbc.ca/books/indigenous-anthology-love-after-the-end-wins-lambda-literary-award-1.6050249|url-status=live|access-date=2021-12-23|website=Canadian Broadcasting Company|archive-date=2022-03-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220320095219/https://www.cbc.ca/books/indigenous-anthology-love-after-the-end-wins-lambda-literary-award-1.6050249}}{{Cite web|last=Essen|first=Leah Rachel von|date=2 June 2021|title=Announcing the Winners of the 2021 Lambda Literary Awards|url=https://bookriot.com/2021-lambda-literary-awards/|access-date=2021-12-24|website=BOOK RIOT|language=en-US|archive-date=2022-01-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220120084551/https://bookriot.com/2021-lambda-literary-awards/|url-status=live}} |
| {{sortname|Tania|De Rozario}}
|And The Walls Come Crumbling Down | rowspan="4" |Finalist |
| {{sortname|Tana|Wojczuk}}
|Lady Romeo: The Radical and Revolutionary Life of Charlotte Cushman, America’s First Celebrity |
| {{sortname|Nina|Kennedy|Nina Kennedy (writer)}}
|Practicing for Love: A Memoir |
| {{sortname|Lori|Soderlind}}
|The Change: My Great American, Postindustrial, Midlife Crisis Tour |
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! rowspan="5" |2022 |{{Sortname|Sophie|Santos}} |The One You Want to Marry (And Other Identities I’ve Had) |Winner |{{Cite web |last=Schaub |first=Michael |date=13 June 2022 |title=Lambda Literary Award Winners Are Revealed |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/news-and-features/articles/lambda-literary-award-winners-are-revealed/ |access-date=2022-06-15 |website=Kirkus Reviews |language=en |archive-date=2022-06-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220618035916/https://www.kirkusreviews.com/news-and-features/articles/lambda-literary-award-winners-are-revealed/ |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |last=Segal |first=Corinne |date=13 June 2022 |title=Congratulations to the winners of the 2022 Lambda Literary Awards! |url=https://lithub.com/congratulations-to-the-winners-of-the-2022-lambda-literary-awards/ |access-date=2022-06-15 |website=Literary Hub |language=en-US |archive-date=2022-06-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220615235437/https://lithub.com/congratulations-to-the-winners-of-the-2022-lambda-literary-awards/ |url-status=live }} |
| {{Sortname|Grace|Perry|nolink=1}}
|The 2000s Made Me Gay: Essays on Pop Culture | rowspan="4" |Finalist |
| {{Sortname|Leslie|Cohen}}
|The Audacity of a Kiss: Love, Art, and Liberation |
| {{Sortname|Jonathan Ned|Katz}}
|The Daring Life and Dangerous Times of Eve Adams |
| {{Sortname|Adele|Bertei}}
|Why Labelle Matters |
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! rowspan="5" |2023 |{{Sortname|Kathryn|Schulz}} |Lost & Found: Reflections on Grief, Gratitude, and Happiness |Winner |{{Cite web |title=2023 Winners |url=https://lambdaliterary.org/awards/2023-winners/ |access-date=2023-06-10 |website=Lambda Literary |language=en |archive-date=25 May 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240525004753/https://lambdaliterary.org/awards/2023-winners/ |url-status=live }} |
| {{Sortname|Raquel|Gutiérrez}}
|Brown Neon | rowspan="4" |Finalist | rowspan="4" |{{Cite web |last=Upadhyaya |first=Kayla Kumari |date=15 March 2023 |title=Congratulations to the 2023 Lambda Literary Award Finalists! |url=https://www.autostraddle.com/congratulations-to-the-2023-lambda-literary-award-finalists/ |access-date=2023-03-16 |website=Autostraddle |language=en-US |archive-date=15 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230315193951/https://www.autostraddle.com/congratulations-to-the-2023-lambda-literary-award-finalists/ |url-status=live }} |
| {{Sortname|Putsata|Reang}}
|Ma and Me |
| {{Sortname|Chris|Belcher}}
|Pretty Baby: A Memoir |
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|Another Appalachia: Coming Up Queer and Indian in a Mountain Place |
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! rowspan="5" |2024 | {{Sortname|Amelia|Possanza}} | Lesbian Love Story: A Memoir in Archives |Winner |{{Cite web |last=Sobhan |first=Athena |date=2024-06-12 |title=2024 Lambda Literary Awards - See the Complete List of Winners |url=https://people.com/2024-lambda-literary-awards-see-the-complete-list-of-winners-8662165 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240615095824/https://people.com/2024-lambda-literary-awards-see-the-complete-list-of-winners-8662165 |archive-date=June 15, 2024 |access-date=2024-06-15 |website=People |language=en}} |
| Lamya H
| rowspan="4" |Finalist | rowspan="4" |{{cite web |date=27 March 2024 |title=Announcing the Finalists for the 36th Annual Lambda Literary Awards |url=https://www.them.us/story/lambda-literary-awards-2024-shortlist-announcement |access-date=2024-04-05 |work=them. |archive-date=5 April 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240405165014/https://www.them.us/story/lambda-literary-awards-2024-shortlist-announcement |url-status=live }} |
| Vi Khi Nao
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| To Name the Bigger Lie |
| {{Sortname|Lynnée|Denise}}
| Why Willie Mae Thornton Matters |