2026 Stonewall Book Awards

The 2026 Stonewall Book Awards, given by the American Library Association's Rainbow Round Table to English-language books of exceptional merit relating to the LGBTQIA+ experience, were announced in late January 2026. Mike Curato's Gaysians won the Barbara Gittings Literature Award, m. mick powell's Dead Girl Cameo won the Barbara Gittings Poetry Award, and Nicholas Boggs's Baldwin: A Love Story won the Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award. In the Mike Morgan and Larry Romans Children's and Young Adult Literature Award, Jose Pimienta's graphic novel Halfway to Somewhere won for children and Victoria Zeller's One of the Boys won for young adults. The committees also named seven adult honor books and eight children's and young adult honor books, from the picture books Call Me Gray and Woods & Words to the young adult novels Devils Like Us and Sometimes the Girl.