Year
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Author
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Title
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Publisher
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Result
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Ref.
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1997
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Bernadette Brooten
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Love Between Women
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Winner
|
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Honor Moore
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White Blackbird
|
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Finalist
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Leslie Feinberg
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Transgender Warriors
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Finalist
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1998
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Margot Peters
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May Sarton
|
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Winner
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Amy Hoffman
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Hospital Time
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Finalist
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Sherrie Inness
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The Lesbian Menace
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|
Finalist
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1999
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Jack Halberstam
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Female Masculinity
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Winner
|
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Alison Bechdel
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The Incredible Bechdel
|
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Finalist
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Jill Johnston
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Admission Accomplished
|
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Finalist
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2000
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Hilary Lapsley
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Margaret Mead and Ruth Benedict: The Kinship of Women
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University of Massachusetts Press
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Winner
|
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Joan Larkin (ed.)
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A Woman Like That: Lesbian and Bisexual Writers Tell Their Coming Out Stories
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Avon
|
Finalist
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Lillian Faderman
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To Believe in Women
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Houghton Mifflin
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Finalist
|
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2001
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Amber Hollibaugh
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My Dangerous Desires
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Duke University Press
|
Winner
|
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Bonnie J. Morris
|
Girl Reel
|
Coffee House Press
|
Finalist
|
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Carole Maso
|
The Room Lit by Roses
|
Counterpoint
|
Finalist
|
|
2002
|
Laura L. Doan
|
Fashioning Sapphism
|
Columbia University Press
|
Winner
|
|
Adrienne Rich
|
Arts of the Possible
|
W. W. Norton
|
Finalist
|
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Suzanna Danuta Walters
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All the Rage
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University of Chicago Press
|
Finalist
|
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2003
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Terry Wolverton
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Insurgent Muse: Life and Art at the Women’s Building
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City Lights
|
Winner
|
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Magie Dominic
|
The Queen of Peace Room
|
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
|
Finalist
|
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Suzanna Rodriguez
|
Wild at Heart
|
Ecco/HarperCollins
|
Finalist
|
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2004
|
Lillian Faderman
|
Naked in the Promised Land
|
Houghton Mifflin
|
Winner
|
|
Andrew Wilson
|
Beautiful Shadow: A Life of Patricia Highsmith
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Bloomsbury
|
Finalist
|
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Casey Charles
|
The Sharon Kowalski Case: Lesbian and Gay Rights on Trial
|
University Press of Kansas
|
Finalist
|
|
2005
|
Alison Smith
|
Name All the Animals
|
Scribner
|
Winner
|
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Alexis De Veaux
|
Warrior Poet: A Life of Audre Lorde
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W. W. Norton
|
Finalist
|
|
Evelyn C. White
|
Alice Walker
|
W. W. Norton
|
Finalist
|
|
2006
|
Tania Katan
|
My One-Night Stand with Cancer
|
Alyson Books
|
Winner
|
|
Diana Souhami
|
Wild Girls
|
St. Martin’s Press
|
Finalist
|
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Gretchen Legler
|
On the Ice
|
Milkweed Editions
|
Finalist
|
|
2007
|
Alison Bechdel
|
Fun Home
|
Houghton Mifflin
|
Winner
|
|
Catherine Friend
|
Hit by a Farm
|
Marlowe & Company
|
Finalist
|
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Marcia Gallo
|
Different Daughters
|
Carroll & Graf
|
Finalist
|
|
2008
|
Janet Malcolm
|
Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice
|
Yale University Press
|
Winner
|
|
Amy Hoffman
|
An Army of Ex-Lovers
|
University of Massachusetts Press
|
Finalist
|
|
Sharon Marcus
|
Between Women
|
Princeton University Press
|
Finalist
|
|
2009
|
Andrea Weiss
|
In the Shadow of the Magic Mountain
|
University of Chicago Press
|
Winner
|
|
Nancy D. Polikoff
|
Beyond (Straight and Gay) Marriage
|
Beacon Press
|
Finalist
|
|
Regina Kunzel
|
Criminal Intimacy
|
University of Chicago Press
|
Finalist
|
|
2010
|
Rebecca Brown
|
American Romances
|
City Lights
|
Winner
|
|
Joan Schenkar
|
The Talented Miss Highsmith
|
St. Martin’s Press
|
Finalist
|
|
Mary Cappello
|
Called Back
|
Alyson Books
|
Finalist
|
|
2011
|
Barbara Hammer
|
Hammer!
|
The Feminist Press
|
Winner
|
|
Emma Donoghue
|
Inseparable: Desire Between Women in Literature
|
Alfred A. Knopf
|
Finalist
|
|
Terry Castle
|
The Professor and Other Writings
|
Harper/HarperCollins
|
Finalist
|
|
2012
|
Jeanne Córdova
|
When We Were Outlaws
|
Spinsters Ink
|
Winner
|
|
Gayle S. Rubin
|
Deviations: A Gayle Rubin Reader
|
Duke University Press
|
Finalist
|
|
Lisa L. Moore
|
Sister Arts: The Erotics of Lesbian Landscapes
|
University of Minnesota Press
|
Finalist
|
|
2013
|
Alison Bechdel
|
Are You My Mother?
|
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
|
Winner
|
|
Jeanette Winterson
|
Why Be Happy When You Can Be Normal
|
Grove Press
|
Finalist
|
|
Kate Bornstein
|
A Queer and Pleasant Danger
|
Beacon Press
|
Finalist
|
|
Kelly Barth
|
My Almost Certainly Real Imaginary Jesus
|
Arktoi/Red Hen
|
Finalist
|
|
2014
|
Julia M. Allen
|
Passionate Commitments: The Lives of Anna Rochester and Grace Hutchins
|
SUNY Press
|
Winner
|
|
Donna Minkowitz
|
Growing Up Golem
|
Magnus Books/Riverdale Avenue
|
Finalist
|
|
Jennifer Finney Boylan
|
Stuck in the Middle with You: A Memoir of Parenting in Three Genders
|
Crown
|
Finalist
|
|
Julia Serano
|
Excluded: Making Feminist and Queer Movements More Inclusive
|
Seal Press
|
Finalist
|
|
2015
|
Barbara Smith; edited by Alethia Jones and Virginia Eubanks
|
Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around: 40 Years of Movement Building with Barbara Smith
|
SUNY Press
|
Winner
|
|
Ariel Gore
|
The End of Eve
|
Hawthorne Books
|
Finalist
|
|
Daisy Hernandez
|
A Cup of Water Under My Bed
|
Beacon Press
|
Finalist
|
|
Kelly Cogswell
|
Eating Fire: My Life as a Lesbian Avenger
|
University of Minnesota Press
|
Finalist
|
|
2016
|
Marcia Gallo
|
"No One Helped": Kitty Genovese, New York City, and the Myth of Urban Apathy
|
Cornell University Press
|
Winner
|
|
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
|
Dirty River: A Queer Femme of Color Dreaming Her Way Home
|
Arsenal Pulp Press
|
Finalist
|
|
Lillian Faderman
|
The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle
|
Simon and Schuster
|
Finalist
|
|
Maggie Thrash
|
Honor Girl
|
Candlewick Press
|
Finalist
|
|
2017
|
Sarah Schulman
|
Conflict Is Not Abuse
|
Arsenal Pulp Press
|
Winner
|
|
Elizabeth M. Edman
|
Queer Virtue
|
Beacon Press
|
Finalist
|
|
Emily K. Hobson
|
Lavender and Red: Liberation and Solidarity in the Gay and Lesbian Left
|
University of California Press
|
Finalist
|
|
2018
|
Rosalind Rosenberg
|
Jane Crow: The Life of Pauli Murray
|
Oxford University Press
|
Winner
|
|
Eileen Myles
|
Afterglow
|
Grove Press
|
Finalist
|
|
Melissa Febos
|
Abandon Me
|
Bloomsbury USA
|
Finalist
|
|
Myriam Gurba
|
Mean
|
Coffee House Press
|
Finalist
|
|
2019
|
Imani Perry
|
Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry
|
Beacon Press
|
Winner
|
|
E. Patrick Johnson
|
Black, Queer, Southern, Women: An Oral History
|
University of North Carolina Press
|
Finalist
|
|
Jaime Harker
|
The Lesbian South: Southern Feminists, the Women in Print Movement, and the Queer Literary Canon
|
University of North Carolina Press
|
Finalist
|
|
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
|
Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
|
Arsenal Pulp Press
|
Finalist
|
|
2020
|
Carmen Maria Machado
|
In the Dream House
|
Graywolf Press
|
Winner
|
|
Saidiya Hartman
|
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments
|
W. W. Norton
|
Winner
|
|
Benjamin Moser
|
Sontag: Her Life and Work
|
Ecco
|
Finalist
|
|
Samra Habib
|
We Have Always Been Here
|
Viking / Penguin Canada
|
Finalist
|
|
2021
|
Jenn Shapland
|
My Autobiography of Carson McCullers
|
Tin House
|
Winner
|
|
Hilary Holladay
|
The Power of Adrienne Rich
|
Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
|
Finalist
|
|
Julie Marie Wade
|
Just an Ordinary Woman Breathing
|
Mad Creek Books/Ohio State University Press
|
Finalist
|
|
Tana Wojczuk
|
Lady Romeo: The Radical and Revolutionary Life of Charlotte Cushman, America’s First Celebrity
|
Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster
|
Finalist
|
|
2022
|
Briona Simone Jones (ed.)
|
Mouths of Rain: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Thought
|
The New Press
|
Winner
|
|
Alison Bechdel
|
The Secret to Superhuman Strength
|
Mariner
|
Finalist
|
|
Jackie Kay
|
Bessie Smith: A Poet’s Biography
|
Vintage
|
Finalist
|
|
Lauren Hough
|
Leaving Isn’t the Hardest Thing
|
Vintage
|
Finalist
|
|
2023
|
Raquel Gutierrez
|
Brown Neon
|
Coffee House Press
|
Winner
|
|
Leslie Absher
|
Spy Daughter, Queer Girl: In Search of Truth and Acceptance in a Family of Secrets
|
Latah Books
|
Finalist
|
|
MB Cashetta
|
A Cheerleader’s Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
|
Engine Books
|
Finalist
|
|
Wendy L. Rouse
|
Public Faces, Secret Lives: A Queer History of the Women’s Suffrage Movement
|
NYU Press
|
Finalist
|
|
2023
|
Raquel Gutierrez
|
Brown Neon
|
Coffee House Press
|
Winner
|
|
Cookie Woolner
|
The Famous Lady Lovers: Black Women and Queer Desire Before Stonewall
|
University of North Carolina Press
|
Finalist
|
|
Lamya H
|
Hijab Butch Blues
|
Dial Press
|
Finalist
|
|
A.V. Marraccini
|
We the Parasites
|
Sublunary Editions
|
Finalist
|
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