GLBTRT Award Winners

Copied from earlier tweets! Apologies for the late post. It’s been a busy but exciting conference! Congratulations to all winners and thank you to all committees!

Rainbow Book List Top 10:
Blake, Ashley Herring “Girl Made of Stars” HMH Books for Young Readers Callender, Kheryn. “Hurricane Child” . 2018. Scholastic Press
Haack, Daniel. Illustrated by Stevie Lewis. “Prince & Knight” . 2018. little bee books
Kann, Claire. “Let’s Talk About Love.” Swoon Reads
Khorram, Adib. “Darius the Great is Not Okay”. Dial Books
Ngan, Natasha. “Girls of Paper and Fire”. JIMMY Patterson Books, an imprint of Little, Brown and Company
Pitman, Gayle E. “Sewing the Rainbow”. Magination Press.
Rosen, L.C. “Jack of Hearts (and Other Parts)”. Little, Brown and Company
Steele, Hamish. “DeadEndia.” Nobrow.
Stone, Nic. “Odd One Out.” Crown Books for Young Readers

Over the Rainbow Top 10 list:
“Bingo Love” by Tee Franklin, Image Comics
“David Bowie Made Me Gay” by Darryl W. Bullock, Overlook Press
“Harvey Milk” by Lillian Faderman, Yale University Press
“Her Body and Other Parties” by Carmen Maria Muchado, Graywolf Press “House of Impossible Beauties” by Joseph Cassara, Ecco/Harper/Collins “Living Out Loud,” Michael Murphy, editor, Routledge
“Mean” by Myriam Gurba, Coffeehouse Books
“Othered” by Randi M. Romo, Sibling Rivalry Press “So Lucky” by Nicola Griffith, Macmillan
“Trap Door”, Reina Gossett, editor, MIT Press

Stonewall Book Awards –

“Go the Way Your Blood Beats” by Michael Amherst and published by Repeater is the Stonewall Book Award – Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award winner for 2019.

Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award 2019 Honor Books:
“Black. Queer. Southern. Women.” by E. Patrick Johnson, published by The University of North Carolina Press
“Raising Rosie: Our Story of Parenting and Intersex Child” by Eric and Stephani Lohman, published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers
“Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation” by Robert W. Fieseler, published by Liveright
“The World Only Spins Forward: The Ascent of Angels in America” by Isaac Butler and Dan Kois, published by Bloomsbury USA


“The Great Believers” by Rebecca Makkai and published by Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House, was named the winner of the Stonewall Book Awards – Barbara Gittings Literature Award for 2019.

Stonewall Book Awards – Barbara Gittings Literature Award 2019 Honor Books:
“Forward” by Lisa Maas, published by Arsenal Pulp Press
“Luisa: Now and Then” by Carole Maurel, adapted by Mariko Tamaki, published by Life Drawn, an imprint of Humanoids
“Speak No Evil” by Uzodinma Iweala, published by Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins
“White Houses” by Amy Bloom, published by Random House, an imprint of Penguin Random House

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