Year Author Title Result Ref. 1989 Edmund White The Beautiful Room Is Empty Winner Robert Ferro Second Son Finalist Alan Hollinghurst The Swimming-Pool Library Stephen Spender The Temple Christopher Davis Valley of the Shadow 1990 David B. Feinberg Eighty-Sixed Winner [ 1] Dennis Cooper Closer Finalist [ 1] Christopher Bram In Memory of Angel Clare Kevin Killian Shy Armistead Maupin Sure of You 1991 Allen Barnett The Body and Its Dangers Winner [ 2] Michael Cunningham A Home at the End of the World Finalist [ 2] David Leavitt A Place I’ve Never Been Paul Monette Afterlife John Gilgun Music I Never Dreamed Of 1992 Harlan Greene What the Dead Remember Winner [ 2] Dennis Cooper Frisk Finalist [ 2] Paul Monette Halfway Home Philip Gambone Language We Use Up Here Melvin Dixon Vanishing Rooms 1993 Randall Kenan Let the Dead Bury Their Dead Winner [ 3] Christopher Bram Almost History Finalist [ 3] Bo Huston Dream Life Jaime Manrique Latin Moon in Manhattan Lev Raphael Winter Eyes 1994 Joseph Hansen Living Upstairs Winner [ 4] Steven Corbin Fragments that Remain Finalist [ 4] Dale Peck Martin and John Fenton Johnson Scissors, Paper, Rock Bo Huston The Listener 1995 Alan Hollinghurst The Folding Star Winner [ 5] Mark Merlis American Studies Finalist [ 5] Norman Wong Cultural Revolution Joseph Olshan Nightswimmer Douglas Sadownick Sacred Lips of the Bronx 1996 Michael Cunningham Flesh and Blood Winner [ 6] Jim Grimsley Dream Boy Finalist [ 6] Christopher Bram Father of Frankenstein Felice Picano Like People in History Scott Heim Mysterious Skin 1997 Shyam Selvadurai Funny Boy Winner [ 7] Patrick Moore Iowa Finalist [ 7] Michael Arditti Pagan’s Father Andrew Holleran The Beauty of Men Dale Peck The Law of Enclosures 1998 Aryeh Lev Stollman The Far Euphrates Winner [ 8] Christopher Bram Gossip Finalist [ 8] Allan Gurganus Plays Well With Others Edmund White The Farewell Symphony Neil Bartlett The House on Brooke Street 1999 Mark Merlis An Arrow's Flight Winner [ 9] Rabih Alameddine Koolaids: The Art of War Finalist [ 9] Michael Cunningham The Hours Keith Ridgway The Long Falling Jameson Currier Where the Rainbow Ends 2000 Matthew Stadler Allan Stein Winner [ 10] Jim Grimsley Comfort and Joy Finalist [ 10] Andrew Holleran In September, the Light Changes Felice Picano The Book of Lies Paul Russell The Coming Storm 2001 K. M. Soehnlein The World of Normal Boys Winner [ 11] Erasmo Guerra Between Dances Finalist [ 11] Bernard Cooper Guess Again Edmund White The Married Man Christopher Bram The Notorious Dr. August 2002 Allan Gurganus The Practical Heart Winner [ 12] Tom Spanbauer In the City of Shy Hunters Finalist [ 12] JT LeRoy The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things David Leavitt The Marble Quilt David Ebershoff The Rose City 2003 Jamie O'Neill At Swim, Two Boys Winner [ 13] Michael Lowenthal Avoidance Finalist [ 13] Jim Grimsley Boulevard Noel Alumit Letters to Montgomery Clift David Gerrold The Martian Child 2004 Christopher Bram Lives of the Circus Animals Winner [ 14] Philip Gambone Beijing Finalist [ 14] Monique Truong The Book of Salt Paul Russell War Against the Animals William J. Mann Where the Boys Are 2005 Colm Tóibín The Master Winner [ 15] Ted Wojtasik Collage Finalist [ 15] Han Ong The Disinherited Derek McCormack The Haunted Hillbilly Alan Hollinghurst The Line of Beauty 2006 Dennis Cooper The Sluts Winner [ 16] Keith McDermott Acqua Calda Finalist [ 16] Aaron Hamburger Faith for Beginners Harlan Greene The German Officer’s Boy Thorn Kief Hillsbery What We Do Is Secret 2007 Robert Westfield Suspension Winner [ 17] Stephen McCauley Alternatives to Sex Finalist [ 17] Lisa Carey Every Visible Thing Neal Drinnan Izzy and Eve Tom Spanbauer Now Is the Hour 2008 André Aciman Call Me By Your Name Winner [ 18] [ 19] Samuel R. Delany Dark Reflections Finalist [ 19] Thomas Mallon Fellow Travelers Andrew W. M. Beierle First Person Plural Manuel Muñoz The Faith Healer of Olive Avenue 2009 Scott Heim We Disappear Winner [ 20] David Francis Stray Dog Winter Finalist [ 20] Jay Quinn The Boomerang Kid Joseph Olshan The Conversion Thomas Glave The Torturer’s Wife 2010 Vestal McIntyre Lake Overturn Winner [ 21] James Morrison Said and Done Finalist [ 21] Abdellah Taia Salvation Army Peter Gadol Silver Lake Matt Dean The River in Winter 2011 Adam Haslett Union Atlantic Winner [ 22] [ 23] Michael Cunningham By Nightfall Finalist [ 24] Max Schaefer Children of the Sun Jonathan Strong Consolation David McConnell The Silver Hearted 2012 Colm Tóibín The Empty Family Winner [ 25] R. Zamora Linmark Leche Finalist Chris Adrian The Great Night Alan Hollinghurst The Stranger's Child Paul Russell The Unreal Life of Sergey Nabokov 2013 Benjamin Alire Sáenz Everything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky Club Winner [ 26] [ 27] Trebor Healey A Horse Named Sorrow Finalist [ 26] Daniel Arsand Lovers William Jack Sibley Sighs Too Deep For Words Kevin Killian Spreadeagle John Boyne The Absolutist Barry Webster The Lava in My Bones Michael Lowenthal The Paternity Test Richard Kramer These Things Happen Paul Lisicky Unbuilt Projects 2014 Luis Negrón Suzanne Jill Levine (trans.)Mundo Cruel Winner [ 28] [ 29] [ 30] Glenway Wescott A Visit to Priapus and Other Stories Finalist [ 31] Rick Whitaker An Honest Ghost Jasmine Beach-Ferrara Damn Love Jason K. Friedman Fire Year Allan Gurganus Local Souls Caleb Crain Necessary Errors Manil Suri The City of Devi Greg Kearney The Desperates John Stewart Wynne The Red Shoes 2015 Tom Spanbauer I Loved You More Winner [ 32] [ 33] [ 34] Judith Frank All I Love and Know Finalist [ 35] Christos Tsiolkas Barracuda Tatamkhulu Afrika Bitter Eden Michael Carroll Little Reef and Other Stories Keith Banner Next to Nothing John R. Gordon Souljah Michael Nava The City of Palaces 2016 Hasan Namir God in Pink Winner [ 36] [ 37] Michael Golding A Poet of the Invisible World Finalist [ 38] Andy Sinclair Breathing Lessons Paul Russell Immaculate Blue Mark Merlis JD James Sie Still Life, Las Vegas Truman Capote The Early Stories of Truman Capote John Whittier Treat The Rise and Fall of the Yellow House 2017 Rabih Alameddine The Angel of History Winner [ 39] Darryl Pinckney Black Deutschland Finalist [ 40] Matthew Griffin Hide Joe Okonkwo Jazz Moon Sjón Moonstone Sarah Schulman The Cosmopolitans Jonathan Corcoran The Rope Swing Garth Greenwell What Belongs to You 2018 John Rechy After the Blue Hour Winner [ 41] [ 42] [ 43] Nnanna Ikpo Fimí Sílè Forever Finalist [ 44] Andrew Sean Greer Less Matthew Lansburgh Outside Is the Ocean Ahmad Danny Ramadan The Clothesline Swing Édouard Louis The End of Eddy John Boyne The Heart's Invisible Furies Joan Dempsey This Is How It Begins 2019 Joshua Whitehead Jonny Appleseed Winner [ 45] John R. Gordon Drapetomania, or the Narrative of Cyrus Tyler and Abednego Tyler Finalist [ 46] Édouard Louis History of Violence Martin Duberman Luminous Traitor: The Just and Daring Life of Roger Casement Patrick Nathan Some Hell Uzodinma Iweala Speak No Evil David Jackson Ambrose State of the Nation Joseph Cassara The House of Impossible Beauties 2020 Bryan Washington Lot Winner [ 47] [ 48] [ 49] Jean-Baptiste Del Amo Frank Wynne (trans.)Animalia Finalist [ 50] [ 51] De'Shawn Charles Winslow In West Mills Jaime Manrique Like This Afternoon Forever João Gilberto Noll Lord Will Eaves Murmur Ocean Vuong On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous Lindsey Drager The Archive of Alternate Endings 2021 Joon Oluchi Lee Neotenica Winner [ 52] [ 53] [ 54] Garth Greenwell Cleanness Finalist [ 55] Brandon Taylor Real Life Douglas Stuart Shuggie Bain Dennis E. Staples This Town Sleeps 2022 Brontez Purnell 100 Boyfriends Winner [ 56] [ 57] Selva Almada Brickmakers Finalist [ 58] Jaime Cortez Gordo Yang Huang My Good Son Paul Mendez Rainbow Milk 2023 Danny Ramadan The Foghorn Echoes Winner [ 59] Marcial Gala Anna Kushner Call Me Cassandra Finalist [ 60] [ 61] Arinze Ifeakandu God’s Children Are Little Broken Things João Gilberto Noll Edgar Garbelotto Hugs and Cuddles Rasheed Newson My Government Means To Kill Me 2024 Bryan Washington Family Meal Winner [ 62] Patrick E. Horrigan American Scholar Finalist [ 63] Justin Torres Blackouts Richard Mirabella Brother & Sister Enter the Forest Khashayar J. Khabushani I Will Greet the Sun Again 
