The Bisexual Book Awards are an annual literary award program, presented by the Bi Writers Association to honour the year's best works of literature addressing themes of bisexuality. [1] The awards were presented for the first time in 2013. [2]
Awards are presented in 11 categories, where any writer who has addressed bisexual themes in their work may be submitted for consideration regardless of their own sexual orientation. Two special awards are also presented: the Bi Book Publisher Award to the publishing company that has submitted the most books to the awards program that year, and the Bi Writer Award for the best book by an out bisexual writer.
Year | Author | Title | Publisher | Result | Ref. |
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2014 | Robyn Ochs and H. Sharif Williams (eds.) | Recognize: The Voices of Bisexual Men [lower-alpha 1] | Bisexual Resource Center | Winner | |
Rachel Kramer Bussel (ed.) | Big Book of Submission: 69 Kinky Tales | Cleis Press | Finalist | ||
2016 | Sasha L. Miller (eds.) | Enchanted Soles [lower-alpha 2] | Less Than Three Press | Winner | |
Jon Macy and Tara Madison Avery (eds.) | ALPHABET: The LGBTQAIU Creators from Prism Comics [lower-alpha 3] | Stacked Deck Press | Finalist |
Year | Author | Title | Publisher | Result | Ref. |
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2013 | Alden Jones | The Blind Masseuse: A Traveler’s Memoir from Costa Rica to Cambodia | Terrace Books/The University of Wisconsin Press | Winner | |
Charles "Zan" Christensen (ed.) | Anything That Loves: Comics Beyond Gay and Straight [lower-alpha 4] | Northwest Press | Finalist | ||
Marina Peralta with Penelope James | Barriers to Love: Embracing a Bisexual Identity [lower-alpha 5] | Barriers Press | Finalist | ||
2014 | Daisy Hernández | A Cup of Water Under My Bed [lower-alpha 6] | Beacon Press | Winner | |
Alan Cumming | Not My Father’s Son [lower-alpha 7] | Dey Street Books / HarperCollins Publishers | Finalist | ||
Allison Moon | Bad Dyke | Lunatic Ink | Finalist | ||
Charles M. Blow | Fire Shut Up In My Bones [lower-alpha 8] | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | Finalist | ||
Daniel Schreiber | Susan Sontag: A Biography | Northwestern University Press | Finalist | ||
Edward White | The Tastemaker: Carl Van Vechten and the Birth of Modern America [lower-alpha 9] | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Finalist | ||
2015 | Kate Evans | Call It Wonder: An Odyssey of Love, Sex, Spirit, and Travel [lower-alpha 10] | Coyote Creek Books | Winner | |
Chelsey Clammer | BodyHome | Hopewell Publications | Finalist | ||
Emily Bingham | Irrepressible: The Jazz Age Life of Henrietta Bingham | Farrar, Straus and Giroux/Macmillan | Finalist | [1] | |
2016 | Juliet Nicolson | A House Full of Daughters | Farrar, Straus and Giroux / Macmillan | Winner | |
Ira Nadel | Virginia Woolf | London: Reaktion Books/ Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press | Finalist | ||
2017 | Monica Meneghetti | What the Mouth Wants: A Memoir of Food, Love and Belonging [lower-alpha 11] | Dagger Editions/Caitlin Press | Winner | [4] |
Peggy Seeger | First Time Ever [lower-alpha 12] | Faber & Faber | Winner | ||
Miranda Pennington | A Girl Walks Into a Book | Seal Press/Hachette Book Group | Finalist | ||
2018 | Sophie Lucido Johnson | Many Love [lower-alpha 13] | Touchstone / Simon & Schuster | Winner | |
Charlie Harmon | On the Road and Off the Record with Leonard Bernstein: My Years with the Exasperating Genius | Imagine Publishing/ Charlesbridge | Finalist | ||
2019 | Carmen Maria Machado | In the Dream House | Graywolf Press | Winner | [5] |
Jackson Bird | Sorted | Tiller Press / Simon & Schuster | Finalist | ||
2020 | Molly Wizenberg | The Fixed Stars [lower-alpha 14] | Abrams Press | Winner | |
Celia Stahr | Frida in America [lower-alpha 15] | St. Martin’s Press / Macmillan | Finalist | ||
Raechel Anne Jolie | Rust Belt Femme | Belt Publishing | Finalist | ||
2021 | Randa Jarrar | Love Is an Ex-Country | Catapult | Finalist | |
Luke Turner | Out of the Woods: Nature, Sexuality, and Faith in the Forest | Greystone Books | Finalist | ||
Jen Winston | Greedy: Notes from a Bisexual Who Wants Too Much [lower-alpha 16] | Atria Books/Simon & Schuster | Finalist |
Year | Author | Title | Publisher | Result | Ref. |
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2012 | Basil Papademos | Mount Royal, There’s Nothing Harder than Love [lower-alpha 17] | Tightrope Books | Winner | |
Cecilia Tan | The Poet and the Prophecy [lower-alpha 18] | Ravenous Romance | Finalist | ||
Mykola Dementiuk | Times Square Queer: Tales of Bad Boys in the Big Apple [lower-alpha 19] | Renaissance eBooks | Finalist | ||
2013 | Adriana Kraft | The Reunion | B&B Publishing | Winner | |
Elizabeth Schechter | House of Sable Locks | Circlet Press | Finalist | ||
Jean Roberta | The Flight of the Black Swan [lower-alpha 20] | Lethe Press | Finalist | ||
Livia Ellis | Memoirs of a Gigolo Omnibus, Vol. 1-4 [lower-alpha 21] | Riverdale Avenue Books/ Desire | Finalist | ||
Rachel Kramer Bussel (ed.) | Twice the Pleasure: Bisexual Women’s Erotica [lower-alpha 22] | Cleis Press | Finalist | ||
2014 | Julie Cox | Capricious: A Texan Tale of Love and Magic [lower-alpha 23] | Circlet Press | Winner | |
Jaime Fessenden | Murder on the Mountain [lower-alpha 24] | Dreamspinner Press | Finalist | ||
Livia Ellis | Memoirs of a Gigolo, Second Omnibus, Vol. 5-7 [lower-alpha 25] | Riverdale Avenue Books | Finalist | ||
Megan Mulry | Bound to Be a Groom | Riptide Publishing | Finalist | ||
Shari Slade and Amber Lin | One Kiss with a Rock Star [lower-alpha 26] | self-published | Finalist | ||
2015 | Heidi Belleau and Sam Schooler | Dead Ringer | Riptide Publishing | Winner | |
Avon Gale | Let the Wrong Light In | Dreamspinner Press | Finalist | ||
Lauren E. Mitchell | The Triad Trial | Less Than Three Press | Finalist | ||
Lauren Gallagher | Kneel, Mr. President | Samhain Publishing | Finalist | ||
Santino Hassell | Sunset Park | Dreamspinner Press | Finalist | ||
Tess Bowery | She Whom I Love [lower-alpha 27] | Samhain Publishing | Finalist | ||
2016 | Lauren Gallagher | The Best Laid Plans [lower-alpha 28] | Samhain Publishing | Winner | |
J A Rock | 24/7 | Riptide Publishing | Finalist | ||
Nicole Wood | Club Trega | Riverdale Avenue Books | Finalist | ||
Vanessa Clark | The Man on Top of the World | Bold Strokes Books | Finalist | ||
2017 | TS Porter | Rescues and the Rhyssa [lower-alpha 29] | Less Than Three Press | Winner | [4] [6] |
Leandra Vane | Cast from the Earth | Self-Published | Finalist | [6] | |
Stephanie Bull | The Shape of Veronica | Tau Press | Finalist | ||
Tiffany Reisz | Michael’s Wings | 8th Circle Press | Finalist | [6] | |
2018 | Lexi Mohney | Carnal Knowledge: The Adoration of a Dangerous Woman and the Death of a Dream | Independently Published | Winner | |
M.K. Lee | Whatever Comes First | Less Than Three Press | Finalist | ||
2019 | Lara Zielinsky | We Three: One and One and One Makes Three | Supposed Crimes | Winner | |
Elia Winters | Three for All | Cecaelia Press | Finalist | ||
Rosalind Chase | Lot’s Wife: An Erotic Retelling [lower-alpha 30] | Under Hill Press | Finalist | ||
2020 [lower-alpha 31] | Erin McLellan | Bottle Rocket | Independently Published | Honorable Mention |
Year | Author | Title | Publisher | Result | Ref. |
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2012 | John Irving | In One Person | Simon & Schuster | Winner | |
Annette Lapointe | Whitetail Shooting Gallery [lower-alpha 32] | Anvil Press Publishers | Finalist | ||
Basil Papademos | Mount Royal, There’s Nothing Harder than Love [lower-alpha 17] | Tightrope Books | Finalist | ||
Brit Mandelo (ed.) | Beyond Binary: Genderqueer and Sexually Fluid Speculative Fiction [lower-alpha 33] | Lethe Press | Finalist | ||
Catherine Lundoff | Silver Moon [lower-alpha 34] | Lethe Press | Finalist | ||
Ellis Avery | The Last Nude | Riverhead Books | Finalist | ||
Richard Mason | History of a Pleasure Seeker | Random House / Knopf | Finalist | ||
2013 | Manil Suri | The City of Devi | W. W. Norton & Company | Winner | [7] |
Arlene Schindler | The Last Place She’d Look | ExtravaGonzo | Finalist | [7] | |
Bushra Rehman | Corona | Sibling Rivalry Press | Finalist | [7] | |
David Leavitt | The Two Hotel Francforts | Bloomsbury | Finalist | [7] | |
Frank Anthony Polito | The Spirit of Detroit | Woodward Avenue Books | Finalist | [7] | |
Nicola Griffith | Hild | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Finalist | [7] | |
Susan Choi | My Education | Viking Adult | Finalist | [7] | |
2014 | Courtney Moreno | In Case of Emergency | McSweeney’s Publishing | Winner | |
Emma Donoghue | Frog Music | Little, Brown/Little, Brown and Company | Finalist | ||
Sarah Waters | The Paying Guests | Riverhead Books /Penguin Random House | Finalist | ||
Sheela Lambert (ed.) | Best Bi Short Stories | Gressive Press/Circlet Press | Finalist | ||
Vivek Shraya | She of the Mountains | Arsenal Pulp Press | Finalist | ||
2015 | Lidia Yuknavitch | The Small Backs of Children | Harper Books/Harper Collins | Winner | |
Anna North | The Life and Death of Sophie Stark | Blue Rider Press/Penguin Random House | Finalist | ||
Jennifer Steil | The Ambassador's Wife | Doubleday | Finalist | ||
Kelly Gardiner | Goddess | Harper360/HarperCollins | Finalist | ||
Redfern Jon Barrett | The Giddy Death of the Gays & the Strange Demise of Straights | Lethe Press | Finalist | [1] | |
2016 | Erin Judge | Vow of Celibacy [lower-alpha 35] | Rare Bird Books | Winner | |
Georgia Clark | The Regulars | Emily Bestler Books/Atria/Simon & Schuster | Finalist | ||
Susan Wittig Albert | Loving Eleanor | Persevero Press | Finalist | ||
2017 | Carmen Maria Machado | Her Body and Other Parties [lower-alpha 36] | Graywolf Press | Winner | [4] [6] |
A. M. Leibowitz | Keeping the Faith | Supposed Crimes | Finalist | ||
Amanda Kabak | The Mathematics of Change | Brain Mill Press | Finalist | ||
André Aciman | Enigma Variations | Farrar, Straus and Giroux/Macmillan | Finalist | ||
Karen Connelly | The Change Room [lower-alpha 37] | Random House / PenguinRandomHouse | Finalist | ||
Sylvia Brownrigg | Pages for Her [lower-alpha 38] | Counterpoint | Finalist | ||
2018 | Elaine Castillo | America Is Not the Heart [lower-alpha 39] | Viking / Penguin Random House | Winner | |
Alan Robert Clark | The Prince of Mirrors | Fairlight Books | Finalist | ||
Elizabeth J. Colen and Carol Guess | True Ash | Black Lawrence Press | Finalist | ||
Emily Strelow | The Wild Birds | A Barnacle Book / Rare Bird Books | Finalist | ||
Jennifer Natalya Fink | Bhopal Dance | FC2/University of Alabama Press | Finalist | ||
2019 | Sarah Blake | Naamah [lower-alpha 40] | Riverhead Books / Penguin Random House | Winner | |
Jacqueline Woodson | Red at the Bone | Riverhead Books / Penguin Random House | Finalist | ||
Raymond Strom | Northern Lights | Simon & Schuster | Finalist | ||
Robin Page | Small Silent Things | Harper Perennial/ HarperCollins | Finalist | ||
Ruby Porter | Attraction | Text Publishing | Finalist | ||
2020 | Emma Straub | All Adults Here | Riverhead Books | Winner | |
Jennifer Steil | Exile Music [lower-alpha 41] | Viking / Penguin Random House | Finalist | ||
Katharine Coldiron | Ceremonials | Kernpunkt Press | Finalist | ||
Rowan Hisayo Buchanan | Starling Days | The Overlook Press / Abrams | Finalist | ||
Samantha Rajaram | The Company Daughters [lower-alpha 42] | Bookouture | Finalist | ||
Zaina Arafat | You Exist Too Much | Catapult | Finalist |
Year | Author | Title | Publisher | Result | Ref. |
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2016 | Tyler Cohen | Primahood: Magenta | Stacked Deck Press / J.T. Avery Pacific | Winner | |
Jon Macy and Tara Madison Avery (eds.) | ALPHABET: The LGBTQAIU Creators from Prism Comics [lower-alpha 3] | Stacked Deck Press | Finalist | ||
2021 | Alice Oseman | Heartstopper, Vol. 3 [lower-alpha 43] | Graphix/Scholastic Inc. | Finalist | |
Courtney Cook | The Way She Feels: My Life on the Borderline in Pictures and Pieces | Tin House | Finalist |
Year | Author | Title | Publisher | Result | Ref. |
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2021 | Harrie Farrow | Finding Bonita | Independently Published | Finalist | |
Joe Okonkwo | Kiss the Scars on the Back of My Neck | Amble Press/Bywater Books | Finalist |
Year | Author | Title | Publisher | Result | Ref. |
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2014 | Jamie Fessenden | Murder on the Mountain [lower-alpha 24] | Dreamspinner Press | Winner | |
AR Fiano | The Book of Joel | Astrid Fiano | Finalist | ||
2015 | Michelle Moore and Reesa Herberth | Peripheral People [lower-alpha 44] | Riptide Publishing | Winner | |
Casey Lawrence | Out of Order [lower-alpha 45] | Harmony Ink/Dreamspinner Press | Finalist | ||
2016 | Erica Cameron | Assassins: Discord | Triton Books/Riptide Publishing | Winner | |
Casey Lawrence | Order in the Court [lower-alpha 46] | Harmony Ink Press/Dreamspinner Press | Finalist | ||
2017 | L. A. Witt and Cari Z | Suspicious Behavior | Riptide Publishing | Winner | [4] |
L. A. Witt and Cari Z | Risky Behavior | Riptide Publishing | Finalist | ||
2018 | Cari Z and L. A. Witt | Reckless Behavior | Riptide Publishing | Winner | |
Rosalie Knecht | Who Is Vera Kelly? | Tin House Books | Winner | ||
Alexandra CH Nowakowski and J. E. Sumerau | Other People’s Oysters | Brill / Sense | Finalist | ||
Cat Clarke | We Are Young [lower-alpha 47] | Quercus Children's Books / Hachette Childrens Group | Finalist | ||
Kristen Lepionka | What You Want to See | Minotaur Books / St. Martin’s Press | Finalist | ||
2019 | L. A. Witt | Blood & Bitcoin | Independently Published | Winner | [5] |
Georgette Gouveia | Burying the Dead | JMS Books | Finalist | ||
2020 [lower-alpha 48] | Tanen Jones | The Better Liar | Ballantine / Penguin Random House | Winner | |
2021 | Benna Bos | Investigating Helen | Flashpoint Publications | Finalist | |
Dea Poirier | After You Died | Agora Books / Polis Books | Finalist |
Year | Author | Title | Publisher | Result | Ref. |
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2012 | Cheryl Burke | My Awesome Place: The Autobiography of Cheryl B [lower-alpha 49] | Topside Signature | Winner | |
Janet W. Hardy | Girlfag: A Life Told In Sex and Musicals [lower-alpha 50] | Beyond Binary Books | Finalist | ||
2013 | Charles "Zan" Christensen | Anything That Loves: Comics Beyond Gay and Straight [lower-alpha 4] | Northwest Press | Winner | |
Jade Sylvan | Kissing Oscar Wilde: A Love Story In The City Of Light | Write Bloody Publishing | Finalist | ||
Maria San Filippo | The B Word: Bisexuality in Contemporary Film and Television | Indiana University Press | Finalist | ||
Marina Peralta with Penelope James | Barriers to Love: Embracing a Bisexual Identity [lower-alpha 5] | Barriers Press | Finalist | ||
Shiri Eisner | Bi Notes for a Bisexual Revolution [lower-alpha 51] | Seal Press | Finalist | ||
2014 | Robyn Ochs and H. Sharif Williams | Recognize: The Voices of Bisexual Men [lower-alpha 1] | Bisexual Resource Center | Winner | |
Jacob and Diane Anderson-Minshall | Queerly Beloved: A Love Story Across Gender | Bold Strokes Books | Finalist | ||
Breanne Fahs | Valerie Solanas: The Defiant Life of the Woman Who Wrote SCUM (and Shot Andy Warhol) | The Feminist Press | Finalist | ||
Charles M. Blow | Fire Shut Up In My Bones [lower-alpha 8] | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | Finalist | ||
Daisy Hernández | A Cup of Water Under My Bed [lower-alpha 6] | Beacon Press | Finalist | ||
Edward White | The Tastemaker: Carl Van Vechten and the Birth of Modern America [lower-alpha 9] | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Finalist | ||
2015 | Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli (ed.) | Bisexuality in Education: Erasure, Exclusion and the Absence of Intersectionality | Routledge | Winner | |
Jillian Deri | Love's Refraction: Jealousy and Compersion in Queer Women's Polyamorous Relationships | University of Toronto Press | Finalist | ||
Surya Monro | Bisexuality: Identities, Politics, and Theories | Palgrave/Macmillan | Finalist | ||
2016 | Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli | Women in Relationships with Bisexual Men: Bi Men, Women | Lexington Books | Winner | |
Eric Anderson and Mark McCormack | The Changing Dynamics of Bisexual Men's Lives: Social Research Perspectives | Springer | Finalist | ||
Tiggy Upland | Advice from a Wild Deuce: The Best of Ask Tiggy [lower-alpha 52] | Jennifer L. Bonardi | Finalist | ||
2017 | Telaina Eriksen | Unconditional: A Guide to Loving and Supporting Your LGBTQ Child | Mango Media | Winner | [4] |
Mary-Anne McAllum | Young Bisexual Women’s Experiences in Secondary Schools | Routledge | Finalist | ||
Sarah Prager | Queer, There, and Everywhere: 23 People Who Changed the World | HarperCollins | Finalist | ||
2018 | Sophie Lucido Johnson | Many Love [lower-alpha 13] | Touchstone / Simon & Schuster | Winner | |
Michael Amherst | Go the Way Your Blood Beats: On Truth, Bisexuality, and Desire | Repeater Books | Finalist | ||
2019 | Esther Rapoport | From Psychoanalytic Bisexuality to Bisexual Psychoanalysis: Desiring in the Real | Routledge | Winner | |
Corey E. Flanders (ed.) | Under the Bisexual Umbrella: Diversity of Identity and Experience [lower-alpha 53] | Routledge | Finalist | ||
2020 | Emiel Maliepaard and Renate Baumgartner (eds.) | Bisexuality in Europe: Sexual Citizenship, Romantic Relationships, and Bi+ Identities [lower-alpha 54] | Routledge | Winner | |
Carol A. Shepherd | Bi the Way: Pastoring Bisexual Christians in Europe | Easy Yoke Publishing | Finalist | ||
Nikki Hayfield | Bisexual and Pansexual Identities: Exploring and challenging invisibility and invalidation [lower-alpha 55] | Routledge | Finalist |
Year | Author | Title | Publisher | Result | Ref. |
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2012 | Erynn Rowan Laurie | Fireflies at Absolute Zero [lower-alpha 56] | Hiraeth Press | Winner | |
Donnelle McGee | Shine | Sibling Rivalry Press | Finalist | ||
Yazmin Monet Watkins | Love Without Limits: The Bi-Laws of Love | Red Journal Publications | Finalist | ||
2014 | Laura Foley | Joy Street | Headmistress Press | Winner | |
James Franco | Directing Herbert White: Poems | Graywolf Press | Finalist | ||
2015 | Jennifer Perrine | No Confession, No Mass | University of Nebraska Press | Winner | |
Seaton and Duhamel | Caprice | Sibling Rivalry Press | Finalist | ||
2016 | Ann Tweedy | The Body’s Alphabet [lower-alpha 57] | Headmistress Press | Winner | |
Cathleen Chambless | Nec(Romantic) | The Gorilla Press | Finalist | ||
2017 | Julene Tripp Weaver | Truth Be Bold: Serenading Life & Death in the Age of AIDS | Finishing Line Press | Winner | [4] |
Irene Suico Soriano | Primates from an Archipelago | Rabbit Fool Press | Finalist | ||
2018 | Diana Hamilton | God Was Right | Ugly Duckling Presse | Winner | |
Duy Doan | We Play a Game [lower-alpha 58] | Yale University Press | Finalist | ||
Julian Randall | Refuse | University of Pittsburgh Press | Finalist | ||
Britteney Black Rose | Black Queer Hoe | Haymarket Books | Finalist | ||
Jan Steckel | Like Flesh Covers Bone | Zeitgeist Press | Finalist | ||
2019 | Rosebud Ben-Oni | turn around BRXGHT XYXS | Get Fresh Books | Winner | |
Laura Foley | Why I Never Finished My Dissertation | Headmistress Press | Finalist | ||
Ariana Reines | A Sand Book | Tin House Books | Finalist | ||
2020 | Bianca Phipps | Crown Noble | Button Poetry | Winner | |
Erin Carlyle | Magnolia Canopy Otherworld | Driftwood Press | Finalist | ||
Jennifer Perrine | Again | Airlie Press | Finalist | ||
2021 | Margaret Christakos | Dear Birch | Palimpsest Press | Finalist | |
Catherine Lewis | Zipless | 845 Press | Finalist | ||
Kelly Rose Pflug-Back | The Hammer of Witches | Dagger Editions/Caitlin Press | Finalist |
Year | Publisher | Result | Ref. |
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2012 | Lethe Press | Winner | |
Riptide Publishing | Winner | ||
Sibling Rivalry Press | Winner | ||
2013 | Circlet Press | Winner | [7] |
Riverdale Avenue Books | Winner | [7] | |
2014 | Bisexual Resource Center | Winner | |
Circlet Press | Winner | ||
Cleis Press | Finalist | ||
Riverdale Avenue Books | Finalist | ||
2015 | Less Than Three Press | Winner | |
Macmillan Publishers | Winner | ||
2016 | Less Than Three Press | Winner | |
Dreamspinner Press | Finalist | ||
Riptide Publishing | Finalist | ||
2017 | Duet Books/Interlude Press | Winner | |
Less Than Three Press | Winner | ||
Dreamspinner Press | Finalist | ||
Riptide Publishing | Finalist | ||
2018 | Less Than Three Press | Winner | [4] |
2019 | Simon & Schuster | Winner | |
Routledge | Finalist | ||
2020 | Macmillan | Winner | |
Penguin Random House | Finalist | ||
2021 | Macmillan | Finalist | |
Scholastic | Finalist |
Year | Author | Title | Publisher | Result | Ref. |
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2014 | Shari Slade and Amber Lin | One Kiss with a Rock Star [lower-alpha 26] | self-published | Winner | |
Debbie McGowan | Crying in the Rain | Beaten Track Publishing | Finalist | ||
Jenna Galicki | The Prince of Punk Rock | Beau to Beau Publishing | Finalist | ||
LC Chase | Let It Ride | Riptide Publishing | Finalist | ||
May Woodworth | Heart of the Hurricane | Big World Network | Finalist | ||
Shira Glassman | Climbing the Date Palm [lower-alpha 59] | Prizm Books/Torquere Press | Finalist | ||
2015 | Megan Mulry | Bound with Honor | Riptide Publishing | Winner | |
Amy Jo Cousins | The Girl Next Door | Samhain | Finalist | ||
Avon Gale | Breakaway | Dreamspinner Press | Finalist | ||
Francis Gideon | A Winter in Rome | Less Than Three Press | Finalist | [1] | |
J. L. Merrow | Caught! | Samhain | Finalist | ||
Tess Bowery | She Whom I Love [lower-alpha 27] | Samhain Publishing | Finalist | ||
2016 | Garrett Leigh | What Remains [lower-alpha 60] | Riptide Publishing | Winner | |
Dahlia Adler | Out on Good Behavior [lower-alpha 61] | self-published | Finalist | ||
JL Merrow | Lovers Leap | Riptide Publishing | Finalist | ||
Jordan Brock | Change of Address | Riptide Publishing | Finalist | ||
Keelan Ellis | Misinformation | Dreamspinner Press | Finalist | ||
Lauren Gallagher | Stuck Landing | Riptide Publishing | Finalist | ||
Lauren Sattersby | Rock N Soul | Riptide Publishing | Finalist | ||
2017 | Welton B. Marsland | By the Currawong's Call | Escape Publishing/Harlequin Enterprises Australia | Winner | [4] |
Amy Lane | Bonfires | Dreamspinner Press | Finalist | ||
Chris Scully | Back To You | Riptide Publishing | Finalist | ||
Garrett Leigh | Strays | Riptide Publishing | Finalist | ||
Kelly Jensen | Block and Strike | Dreamspinner Press | Finalist | ||
Vanessa North | Summer Stock | Riptide Publishing | Finalist | ||
2018 | Lilah Suzanne | Jilted [lower-alpha 62] | Interlude Press | Winner | |
Felicia Davin | Edge of Nowhere | Etymon Press | Finalist | ||
L. A. Witt | The Torches We Carry | Independently Published | Finalist | ||
Layla Reyne | Medley (Changing Lanes) | Independently Published | Finalist | ||
Michele Engardt | The Thing About Forever | Less Than Three Press | Finalist | ||
Nem Rowan | Rough Sleepers | Less Than Three Press | Finalist | ||
2019 | Casey McQuiston | Red, White & Royal Blue [lower-alpha 63] | St. Martin’s Griffin / Macmillan | Winner | |
S. A. McAuley | Out of the Shade | Independently Published | Winner | ||
Molly Ringle | All the Better Part of Me | Central Avenue | Finalist | ||
Rowan Shaw | Return | Independently Published | Finalist | ||
2020 | Jay Hogan | Off Balance [lower-alpha 64] | Southern Lights Publishing | Winner | |
Garrett Leigh | Redemption | Fox Love Press | Finalist | ||
Garrett Leigh | The Sex Coach | Fox Love Press | Finalist | ||
J. M. Frey | The Woman Who Fell Through Time | Here There Be Publishing | Finalist | ||
Melissa Lenhardt | The Secret of You and Me | Graydon House / Harlequin | Finalist | ||
2021 | Alison Cochrun | The Charm Offensive | Atria Books/Simon & Schuster | Finalist | |
Casey McQuiston | One Last Stop | St. Martin’s Griffin/Macmillan | Finalist | ||
Noni Blake | It’s Been a Pleasure | Claire Christian/Harlequin Trade Publishing | Finalist | ||
Skye Kilaen | Tell Me Anything | Independently Published | Finalist | ||
Skye Kilaen | The Home I Find With You [lower-alpha 65] | Independently Published | Finalist |
Year | Author | Title | Publisher | Result | Ref. |
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2012 | Brit Mandelo | Beyond Binary: Genderqueer and Sexually Fluid Speculative Fiction [lower-alpha 33] | Lethe Press | Winner | |
Catherine Lundoff | Silver Moon [lower-alpha 34] | Lethe Press | Finalist | ||
Cecilia Tan | The Poet and the Prophecy [lower-alpha 18] | Ravenous Romance | Finalist | ||
Fiona Glass | Gleams of a Remoter World | Riptide Publishing | Finalist | ||
2013 | Laura Lam | Pantomime [lower-alpha 66] | Strange Chemistry | Winner | [7] |
Alaya Dawn Johnson | The Summer Prince [lower-alpha 67] | Arthur A. Levine Books | Finalist | [7] | |
Emma Trevayne | Coda | Running Press Kids | Finalist | [7] | |
Francesca Lia Block | Love in The Time of Global Warming [lower-alpha 68] | Henry Holt and Co. | Finalist | [7] | |
Malinda Lo | Inheritance [lower-alpha 69] | Little, Brown Books for Young Readers | Finalist | [7] | |
Mary Anne Mohanraj | The Stars Change | Circlet Press | Finalist | [7] | |
Saundra Mitchell | The Elementals | Harcourt Children’s Books | Finalist | [7] | |
2014 | Corinne Duyvis | Otherbound [lower-alpha 70] | Amulet/Abrams | Winner | |
Alex Jeffers | That Door is a Mischief | Lethe Press | Finalist | ||
Julie Cox | Capricious: A Texan Tale of Love and Magic [lower-alpha 23] | Circlet Press | Finalist | ||
Sarah Luddington | The Pendragon Legacy | Mirador Publishing | Finalist | ||
Shira Glassman | Climbing the Date Palm [lower-alpha 59] | Prizm Books/Torquere Press | Finalist | ||
2015 | B R Sanders | Ariah [lower-alpha 71] | Love, Sex & Merlot / The Zharmae Publishing Press | Winner | |
C. B. Lee | Seven Tears at High Tide [lower-alpha 72] | Duet Books | Finalist | ||
Lori A. Witt | The Tide of War | Riptide Publishing | Finalist | ||
Megan Derr | The Harem Master | Less Than Three Press | Finalist | ||
Michelle Moore and Reesa Herberth | Peripheral People [lower-alpha 44] | Riptide Publishing | Finalist | [1] | |
Shira Glassman | A Harvest of Ripe Figs | Prizm Books | Finalist | ||
2016 | Megan Derr | The Painted Crown | Less Than Three Press | Winner | [8] |
Archer Kay Leah | For the Clan | Less Than Three Press | Finalist | ||
Foz Meadows | An Accident of Stars | Angry Robot | Finalist | ||
KC Alexander | Necrotech | Angry Robot | Finalist | ||
Sasha L. Miller (ed.) | Enchanted Soles [lower-alpha 2] | Less Than Three Press | Finalist | ||
Zoraida Cordova | Labyrinth Lost | Sourcebooks Fire | Finalist | ||
2017 | F. T. Lukens | The Rules and Regulations For Mediating Myths & Magic [lower-alpha 73] | Duet Books/Interlude Press | Winner | [4] [6] |
Erica Cameron | Island of Exiles | Entangled Teen | Finalist | [6] | |
Julia Ember | The Seafarer’s Kiss | Duet/Interlude Press | Finalist | [6] | |
A. E. Ross | Run In The Blood | NineStar Press | Finalist | [6] | |
Ellen Klages | Passing Strange | Tor Books | Finalist | [6] | |
TS Porter | Rescues and the Rhyssa [lower-alpha 29] | Less Than Three Press | Finalist | [6] | |
2018 | J. R. Mabry | The Worship of Mystery [lower-alpha 74] | The Apocryphile Press | Winner | |
Felicia Davin | Thornfruit | Etymon Press | Finalist | ||
Megan Derr | Dragon Magic | Less Than Three Press | Finalist | ||
Jeanne G’Fellers | Cleaning House | Mountain Gap Books | Finalist | ||
William C. Tracy | The Seeds of Dissolution | Space Wizard Science Fantasy | Finalist | ||
2019 | Rebecca Kim Wells | Shatter the Sky [lower-alpha 75] | Books for Young Readers/Simon & Schuster | Winner | [5] |
FT Lukens | Monster of the Week [lower-alpha 76] | Duet Books / Interlude Press | Finalist | [5] | |
2020 | V. E. Schwab | The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue | Tor Books / Tom Doherty Associates / division of Macmillan Publishers | Winner | [9] |
Rashid Darden | Children of Fury | Old Gold Soul Press | Finalist | [9] | |
Emily M. Danforth | Plain Bad Heroines | William Morrow / HarperCollins | Finalist | [9] | |
Karen Osborne | Architects of Memory | Tor Books / Macmillan | Finalist | [9] | |
Leigh Harlen | Queens of Noise | Neon Hemlock Press | Finalist | [9] | |
2021 | E. J. Beaton | The Councillor | DAW | Finalist | |
Everina Maxwell | Winter’s Orbit | Tor Books/Macmillan | Finalist | ||
Natasha Pulley | The Kingdoms | Bloomsbury Publishing | Finalist | ||
Shelley Parker-Chan | She Who Became the Sun | Tor Books/Macmillan | Finalist | ||
Avi Silver | Three Seeking Stars | Molewhale Press | Finalist | ||
Xiran Jay Zhao | Iron Widow [lower-alpha 77] | Penguin Teen | Finalist |
Year | Author | Title | Publisher | Result | Ref. |
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2013 | Malinda Lo | Inheritance [lower-alpha 69] | Little, Brown Books for Young Readers | Winner | [7] |
Alaya Dawn Johnson | The Summer Prince [lower-alpha 67] | Arthur A. Levine Books | Finalist | [7] | |
Bill Konigsberg | Openly Straight | Arthur A. Levine Books | Finalist | [7] | |
Francesca Lia Block | Love in The Time of Global Warming [lower-alpha 68] | Henry Holt and Co. | Finalist | [7] | |
Laura Lam | Pantomime [lower-alpha 66] | Strange Chemistry | Finalist | [7] | |
M. G. Higgins | Bi-Normal | Saddleback Educational Publishing | Finalist | [7] | |
2014 | Nora Olsen | Frenemy of the People | Soliloquy/Bold Strokes Books | Winner | |
Corinne Duyvis | Otherbound [lower-alpha 70] | Amulet/Abrams | Finalist | ||
2015 | Hannah Moskowitz | Not Otherwise Specified [lower-alpha 78] | Simon Pulse/Simon & Schuster | Winner | |
C. B. Lee | Seven Tears at High Tide [lower-alpha 72] | Duet Books | Finalist | ||
Casey Lawrence | Out of Order [lower-alpha 45] | Harmony Ink/Dreamspinner Press | Finalist | ||
Erica Yang | Bad Idea | Queerteen Press/JMS Books | Finalist | [1] | |
2016 | Alison Cherry | Look Both Ways | Delacorte Press / Random House Children’s Books | Winner | |
C. B. Lee | Not Your Sidekick | Duet/Interlude Press | Finalist | ||
Casey Lawrence | Order in the Court [lower-alpha 46] | Harmony Ink Press/Dreamspinner Press | Finalist | ||
Dahlia Adler | Out on Good Behavior [lower-alpha 61] | Self Published | Finalist | ||
Emily O’Beirne | The Sum of These Things | Ylva Publishing | Finalist | ||
Jamie Deacon | Caught Inside | Beaten Track Publishing | Finalist | ||
Suzanne van Rooyen | Obscura Burning [lower-alpha 79] | Harmony Ink/Dreamspinner Press | Finalist | ||
2017 | Sarah Rees Brennan | In Other Lands | Big Mouth House/Small Beer Press | Winner | [4] [6] |
Allison Raskin and Gaby Dunn | I Hate Everyone But You | Wednesday Books | Finalist | ||
Carrie Pack | Grrrls on the Side | Duet Books/Interlude Press | Finalist | ||
F. T. Lukens | The Rules and Regulations For Mediating Myths & Magic [lower-alpha 73] | Duet Books/Interlude Press | Finalist | [6] | |
Julie Aitcheson | Being Roy | Harmony Ink Press | Finalist | ||
2018 | Cat Clarke | We Are Young [lower-alpha 47] | Quercus Children's Books / Hachette Childrens Group | Winner | |
Gene Gant | A Love Song for Mr. Dakota | Harmony Ink Press / Dreamspinner Press | Finalist | ||
J. E. Sumerau | Palmetto Rose | Brill / Sense | Finalist | ||
Lisa Walker | Paris Syndrome | Angus & Robertson / HarperCollins Publishers Australia | Finalist | ||
Mia Kerick | The Weekend Bucket List | Duet Books / Interlude Press | Finalist | ||
2019 | Zack Smedley | Deposing Nathan | Page Street Kids | Winner | |
FT Lukens | Monster of the Week [lower-alpha 76] | Duet Books / Interlude Press | Finalist | ||
JC Garton | The Mover | Riversong Books / Sulis International | Finalist | ||
2020 | Nita Tyndall | Who I Was with Her [lower-alpha 80] | HarperTeen / Harper Collins | Winner | |
Gabrielle Harbowy | Hearts Are Jerks | Heart Bow Books | Finalist | ||
Leah Johnson | You Should See Me in a Crown | Scholastic Press | Finalist | ||
Sophie Gonzales | Only Mostly Devastated | Wednesday Books / Macmillan | Finalist | ||
Zan Romanoff | Look | Dial Books / Penguin | Finalist | ||
2021 | Alice Oseman | Heartstopper, Vol. 3 [lower-alpha 43] | Graphix / Scholastic Inc. | Finalist | |
Emily Martin | Five Ways to Fall Out of Love | Inkyard / Harlequin | Finalist | ||
Jay Coles | Things We Couldn’t Say | Scholastic Press / Scholastic Inc. | Finalist | ||
Jessica Verdi | Follow Your Arrow | Scholastic Press / Scholastic Inc. | Finalist | ||
Kate Brauning | The Ballad of Dinah Caldwell | Page Street Publishing | Finalist | ||
Xiran Jay Zhao | Iron Widow [lower-alpha 77] | Penguin Teen | Finalist |
Year | Author | Title | Publisher | Result | Ref. |
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2012 | Cheryl Burke | My Awesome Place: The Autobiography of Cheryl B [lower-alpha 49] | Topside Signature | Winner | [2] |
Annette Lapointe | Whitetail Shooting Gallery [lower-alpha 32] | Anvil Press Publishers | Finalist | ||
Basil Papademos | Mount Royal, There’s Nothing Harder than Love [lower-alpha 17] | Tightrope Books | Finalist | ||
Brit Mandelo | Beyond Binary: Genderqueer and Sexually Fluid Speculative Fiction [lower-alpha 33] | Lethe Press | Finalist | ||
Catherine Lundoff | Silver Moon [lower-alpha 34] | Lethe Press | Finalist | ||
Cecilia Tan | The Poet and the Prophecy [lower-alpha 18] | Ravenous Romance | Finalist | ||
Erynn Rowan Laurie | Fireflies at Absolute Zero [lower-alpha 56] | Hiraeth Press | Finalist | ||
Janet W. Hardy | Girlfag: A Life Told In Sex and Musicals [lower-alpha 50] | Beyond Binary Books | Finalist | ||
Mykola Dementiuk | Times Square Queer: Tales of Bad Boys in the Big Apple [lower-alpha 19] | Renaissance eBooks | Finalist | ||
2013 | Shiri Eisner | Bi Notes for a Bisexual Revolution [lower-alpha 51] | Seal Press | Winner | |
Clive Davis with Anthony DeCurtis | The Soundtrack of My Life | Simon & Schuster | Finalist | ||
Ed Kurtz | A Wind of Knives | Snubnose Press | Finalist | ||
Jean Roberta | The Flight of the Black Swan [lower-alpha 20] | Lethe Press | Finalist | ||
Livia Ellis | Memoirs of a Gigolo Omnibus, Vol. 1-4 [lower-alpha 21] | Riverdale Avenue Books/ Desire | Finalist | ||
Marina Peralta with Penelope James | Barriers to Love: Embracing a Bisexual Identity [lower-alpha 5] | Barriers Press | Finalist | ||
Rachel Kramer Bussel (ed.) | Twice the Pleasure: Bisexual Women’s Erotica [lower-alpha 22] | Cleis Press | Finalist | ||
2014 | Robyn Ochs and H. Sharif Williams (eds.) | Recognize: The Voices of Bisexual Men{ [lower-alpha 1] | Bisexual Resource Center | Winner | |
Alan Cumming | Not My Father’s Son [lower-alpha 7] | Dey Street Books/HarperCollins Publishers | Finalist | ||
Charles M. Blow | Fire Shut Up In My Bones [lower-alpha 8] | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | Finalist | ||
Livia Ellis | Memoirs of a Gigolo, Second Omnibus, Vol. 5-7 [lower-alpha 25] | Riverdale Avenue Books | Finalist | ||
Daisy Hernández | A Cup of Water Under My Bed [lower-alpha 6] | Beacon Press | Finalist | ||
Sheela Lambert (ed.) | Best Bi Short Stories | Gressive Press/Circlet Press | Finalist | ||
2015 | Kate Evans | Call It Wonder: An Odyssey of Love, Sex, Spirit, and Travel [lower-alpha 10] | Coyote Creek Books | Winner | |
B R Sanders | Ariah [lower-alpha 71] | The Zharmae Publishing Press | Finalist | [1] | |
Hannah Moskowitz | Not Otherwise Specified [lower-alpha 78] | Simon Pulse/Simon & Schuster | Finalist | ||
2016 | Tiggy Upland | Advice from a Wild Deuce: The Best of Ask Tiggy [lower-alpha 52] | Jennifer L. Bonardi | Winner | |
Ann Tweedy | The Body’s Alphabet [lower-alpha 57] | Headmistress Press | Finalist | ||
Erin Judge | Vow of Celibacy [lower-alpha 35] | Rare Bird Books | Finalist | ||
Garrett Leigh | What Remains [lower-alpha 60] | Riptide Publishing | Finalist | ||
Lauren Gallagher | The Best Laid Plans [lower-alpha 28] | Samhain Publishing | Finalist | ||
Suzanne van Rooyen | Obscura Burning [lower-alpha 79] | Harmony Ink/Dreamspinner Press | Finalist | ||
2017 | Peggy Seeger | First Time Ever [lower-alpha 12] | Faber & Faber | Winner | [4] |
Carmen Maria Machado | Her Body and Other Parties [lower-alpha 36] | Graywolf Press | Finalist | ||
Erin McRae and Racheline Maltese | The Art of Three | Avian30 | Finalist | ||
Karen Connelly | The Change Room [lower-alpha 37] | Random House/ PenguinRandomHouse | Finalist | ||
Monica Meneghetti | What the Mouth Wants: A Memoir of Food, Love and Belonging [lower-alpha 11] | Dagger Editions/Caitlin Press | Finalist | ||
Sylvia Brownrigg | Pages for Her [lower-alpha 38] | Counterpoint | Finalist | ||
2018 | Duy Doan | We Play a Game [lower-alpha 58] | Yale University Press | Winner | |
Elaine Castillo | America Is Not the Heart [lower-alpha 39] | Viking / Penguin Random House | Winner | ||
J.R. Mabry | The Worship of Mystery [lower-alpha 74] | The Apocryphile Press | Winner | ||
Kate Evans | Target | Coyote Creek Books | Finalist | ||
Lilah Suzanne | Jilted [lower-alpha 62] | Interlude Press | Finalist | ||
Rachel Wiley | Nothing Is Okay | Button Poetry | Finalist | ||
2019 | Rosalind Chase | Lot’s Wife: An Erotic Retelling [lower-alpha 30] | Under Hill Press | Winner | |
Casey McQuiston | Red, White & Royal Blue [lower-alpha 63] | St. Martin’s Griffin / Macmillan | Finalist | ||
Corey E. Flanders (ed.) | Under the Bisexual Umbrella: Diversity of Identity and Experience [lower-alpha 53] | Routledge | Finalist | ||
Rebecca Kim Wells | Shatter the Sky [lower-alpha 75] | Books for Young Readers / Simon & Schuster | Finalist | ||
Sarah Blake | Naamah [lower-alpha 40] | Riverhead Books / Penguin Random House | Finalist | ||
2020 | Molly Wizenberg | The Fixed Stars [lower-alpha 14] | Abrams Press | Winner | |
Celia Stahr | Frida in America [lower-alpha 15] | St. Martin’s Press / Macmillan | Finalist | ||
Emiel Maliepaard and Renate Baumgartner (eds.) | Bisexuality in Europe: Sexual Citizenship, Romantic Relationships, and Bi+ Identities [lower-alpha 54] | Routledge | Finalist | ||
Jay Hogan | Off Balance [lower-alpha 64] | Southern Lights Publishing | Finalist | ||
Jennifer Steil | Exile Music [lower-alpha 41] | Viking / Penguin Random House | Finalist | ||
Nikki Hayfield | Bisexual and Pansexual Identities: Exploring and challenging invisibility and invalidation [lower-alpha 55] | Routledge | Finalist | ||
Nita Tyndall | Who I Was with Her [lower-alpha 80] | HarperTeen / Harper Collins | Finalist | ||
Samantha Irby | Wow, No Thank You | Vintage / Penguin Random House | Finalist | ||
Samantha Rajaram | The Company Daughters [lower-alpha 42] | Bookouture | Finalist | ||
2021 | Skye Kilaen | The Home I Find With You [lower-alpha 65] | Independently Published | Finalist | |
Catherine Lewis | Zipless | 845 Press | Finalist | ||
Lois Shearing | Bi the Way: The Bisexual Guide to Life | Jessica Kingsley | Finalist | ||
Jen Winston | Greedy: Notes from a Bisexual Who Wants Too Much [lower-alpha 16] | Atria Books/Simon & Schuster | Finalist |
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