Year Author TItle Publisher Result | Ref. 2008 [ b] Peter Cameron Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You Frances Foster Books Winner [ 6] Ali Liebegott The IHOP Papers Carroll & Graf Winner [ 6] Brian Malloy Brendan Wolf Finalist André Aciman Call Me by Your Name Farrar, Straus and Giroux Finalist Sarah Schulman The Child Carroll & Graf Finalist Felicia Luna Lemus Like Son Akashic Books Finalist Armistead Maupin Michael Tolliver Lives HarperCollins Finalist 2009 [ c] Alison Bechdel The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Winner [ 7] Andrew Sean Greer The Story of a Marriage Farrar, Straus and Giroux Finalist Benjamin Taylor The Book of Getting Even Steerforth Finalist Blair Mastbaum Us Ones in Between Running Press Finalist David Ebershoff The 19th Wife Random House Finalist Ellen Wittlinger Love and Lies Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers Finalist 2010 Sebastian Stuart The Hour Between Alyson Books Winner Barb Johnson More of This World or Maybe Another HarperPerennial Finalist Eleanor Lerman The Blonde on the Train Mayapple Press Finalist G. Winston James Shaming the Devil Top Pen Press Finalist Jill Malone A Field Guide to Deception Bywater Books Finalist Vestal McIntyre Lake Overturn Harper Finalist 2011 Michael Sledge The More I Owe You Counterpoint Press Winner [ 8] Daniel Allen Cox Krakow Melt Arsenal Pulp Press Finalist Daniel Black Perfect Peace St. Martin’s Press Finalist David McConnell The Silver Hearted Alyson Books Finalist Eileen Myles Inferno OR Books Finalist Lucy Jane Bledsoe The Big Bang Symphony University of Wisconsin Press Finalist 2012 Paul Russell The Unreal Life of Sergey Nabokov Cleis Press Winner Alan Hollinghurst The Stranger's Child Alfred A. Knopf Finalist Bob Smith Remembrance of Things I Forgot University of Wisconsin Press Finalist Rahul Mehta Quarantine HarperPerennial Finalist Shannon Cain The Necessity of Certain Behaviors University of Pittsburgh Press Finalist Suzette Mayr Monoceros Coach House Press Finalist 2013 Trebor Healey A Horse Named Sorrow University of Wisconsin Press Winner [ 9] Abdellah Taïa An Arab Melancholia Semiotex[e] Finalist Barry Webster The Lava in My Bones Arsenal Pulp Press Finalist [ 10] Ellen Ullman By Blood Farrar, Straus and Giroux Finalist Ken Anderson Sea Change Starbooks Press Finalist Perry Brass King of Angels Belhue Press Finalist 2014 Sara Farizan If You Could Be Mine Algonquin Young Readers Winner [ 11] [ 12] Allan Gurganus Local Souls Liveright Finalist [ 13] Christopher Castellani All This Talk of Love Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill Finalist [ 13] David Leavitt The Two Hotel Francforts Bloomsbury USA Finalist [ 13] Sheri Joseph Where You Can Find Me Thomas Dunne Books Finalist [ 13] 2015 Bernardine Evaristo Mr. Loverman Akashic Books Winner [ 14] Barry Brennessel Sideways Down the Sky MLR Press Finalist Judith Frank All I Love and Know William Morrow Finalist Raziel Reid When Everything Feels Like the Movies Arsenal Pulp Press Finalist [ 15] Tom Spanbauer I Loved You More Hawthorne Books Finalist 2016 Michael Golding A Poet of the Invisible World Picador Winner [ 16] Chinelo Okparanta Under the Udala Trees Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Finalist [ 17] Hanya Yanagihara A Little Life Doubleday Finalist Lori Ostlund After the Parade Scribner Finalist Mark Merlis JD Terrace Books Finalist 2017 Cathleen Schine They May Not Mean To, But They Do Sarah Crichton Books Winner [ 18] [ 19] Alan Lessik The Troubleseeker Chelsea Station Editions Finalist Darren Greer Advocate Cormorant Books Finalist [ 20] Lucy Jane Bledsoe A Thin Bright Line University of Wisconsin Press Finalist Sjón , trans. by Victoria Cribb Moonstone Farrar, Straus and Giroux Finalist 2018 Alistair McCartney The Disintegrations University of Wisconsin Press Winner [ 21] Carmen Maria Machado Her Body and Other Parties Graywolf Press Finalist John Boyne The Heart's Invisible Furies Hogarth Finalist Matthew Lansburgh Outside Is the Ocean University of Iowa Press Finalist Paula Martinac The Ada Decades Bywater Books Finalist 2019 John R. Gordon Drapetomania Team Angelica Winner [ 22] Andrea Kleine Eden Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Finalist [ 23] John Boyne A Ladder to the Sky Hogarth Finalist [ 23] Lucy Jane Bledsoe The Evolution of Love Rare Bird Finalist [ 23] Sarah Winman Tin Man Putnam Finalist [ 23] 2020 Ocean Vuong On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous Penguin Press Winner [ 24] [ 25] Bernardine Evaristo Girl, Woman, Other Black Cat Finalist [ 26] Elizabeth Earley Like Wings, Your Hands Red Hen Press Finalist [ 26] Jacqueline Woodson Red at the Bone Riverhead Finalist [ 26] Janice Gould A Generous Spirit: Selected Work by Beth Brant Sinister Wisdom Finalist [ 26] Philippe Besson trans. by Molly Ringwald Lie with Me Scribner Finalist [ 26] 2021 Juli Delgado Lopera Fiebre Tropical Feminist Press Winner [ 27] [ 28] Bishakh Som Apsara Engine Feminist Press Finalist Bryan Washington Memorial Riverhead Finalist Joon Oluchi Lee Neotenica Nightboat Books Finalist Katharina Volckmer The Appointment Avid Reader Press Finalist 2022 Anthony Veasna So Afterparties Ecco Winner [ 29] [ 30] Buki Papillon An Ordinary Wonder Pegasus Books Finalist [ 31] Eddy Boudel Tan The Rebellious Tide Dundurn Press Finalist Jeanne Thornton Summer Fun Soho Press Finalist Melissa Broder Milk Fed Scribner Finalist 2023 James Hannaham Didn’t Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta Little, Brown & Co. Winner [ 32] [ 33] Chelene Knight Junie Book*hug Press Finalist Marcial Gala trans. by Anna KushnerCall Me Cassandra Farrar Straus Giroux Finalist Mecca Jamilah Sullivan Big Girl Liveright Finalist Rachel M. Harper The Other Mother Counterpoint Finalist Zain Khalid Brother Alive Grove Atlantic Finalist 2024 Helen Elaine Lee Pomegranate Atria Books Winner [ 34] [ 35] Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah Chain-Gang All-Stars Penguin Random House Finalist [ 36] Gabrielle Boulianne-Tremblay trans. by Eli Tareq El Bechelany-LynchDandelion Daughter Esplanade Books Finalist [ 36] Emily Zhou Girlfriends LittlePuss Press Finalist [ 36] Oksana Vasyakina trans. by Elina Alter Wound Catapult Books Finalist [ 36] 
