Read with Pride

 

The first and most enduring award for LGBTQIA+ books is the Stonewall Book Awards, sponsored by the American Library Association's Rainbow Round Table. Since Isabel Miller's Patience and Sarah received the first award in 1971, many other books have been honored for exceptional merit relating to the gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgender experience.

Here are the winners for 2021!

Barbara Gittings Literature Award

"The Thirty Names of Night" by Zeyn Joukhadar 

Israel Fishman Nonfiction Award

"Queer Games Avant-Garde: How LGBTQ Game Makers are Reimagining the Medium of Video Games" by Bonnie Ruberg (they/them)

Mike Morgan & Larry Romans Children’s & Young Adult Literature Award

“We Are Little Feminists: Families” designed by Lindsey Blakely, written by Archaa Shrivastav  

Stonewall Honor Books in Literature

“The Death of Vivek Oji” by Akwaeke Emezi

“Memorial” by Bryan Washington

“More Than Organs” by Kay Ulanday Barrett

“Postcolonial Love Poem” by Natalie Diaz

Stonewall Honor Books in Literature Shortlist

"Boys of Alabama" by Genevieve Hudson

"Plain Bad Heroines: A Novel" by Emily M. Danforth & Sara Lautman

"The Pull of the Stars" by Emma Donoghue

"The Subtweet" by Vivek Shraya

"Too Much Lip" by Melissa Lucashenko

Stonewall Honor Books in Non-Fiction

"My Autobiography of Carson McCullers" by Jenn Shapland

"The Fixed Stars: A Memoir" by Molly Wizenberg

"Paper Bullets: Two Artists Who Risked Their Lives to Defy the Nazis" by Jeffrey H. Jackson

"XOXY: A Memoir" by Kimberly M. Zieselman

Stonewall Honor Books in Children’s and Young Adult Literature

“Beetle & The Hollowbones,” illustrated and written by Aliza Layne

“Darius the Great Deserves Better,'' written by Adib Khorram 

“Felix Ever After” written by Kacen Callender

“You Should See Me in a Crown,” written by Leah Johnson

If you’re looking for more to add to your To-Be-Read list, check out the Rainbow Roundtable book and media review page at https://www.glbtrt.ala.org/reviews/ and the Over the Rainbow Books list from the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Round Table of the American Library Association at https://www.glbtrt.ala.org/overtherainbow/!