James Tiptree Jr. Award Winners


The James Tiptree Jr. Award is "an annual literary prize for science fiction
or fantasy that expands or explores our understanding of gender".

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Ones I've read are in bold and indigo.

Retrospective - Winners
Motherlines Suzy McKee Charnas
Walk to the End of the World Suzy McKee Charnas
The Left Hand of Darkness Ursula K. LeGuin
"When It Changed" Joanna Russ
The Female Man Joanna Russ
Retrospective - Short List
The Handmaid's Tale Margaret Atwood
The Wasp Factory Iain Banks
Swastika Night Katherine Burdekin
Wild Seed Octavia Butler
Babel-17 Samuel R. Delany
Triton Samuel R. Delany
Carmen Dog Carol Emshwiller
"When I Was Miss Dow" Sonya Dorman Hess
Watchtower Elizabeth A. Lynn
Dreamsnake Vonda McIntyre
Memoirs of a Spacewoman Naomi Mitchison
Woman on the Edge of Time Marge Piercy
The Two of Them Joanna Russ
Women of Wonder Ed. Pamela Sargent
More Women of Wonder Ed. Pamela Sargent
The New Women of Wonder Ed. Pamela Sargent
"The Barbie Murders" John Varley
The Clewiston Test Kate Wilhelm
Les Guerilleres Monique Wittig
"The Heat Death of the Universe" Pamela Zoline
1991 - Winners
A Woman of the Iron People Eleanor Arnason
The White Queen Gwyneth Jones
1991 - Short List
Orbital Resonance John Barnes
Sarah Canary Karen Joy Fowler
The Architecture of Desire Mary Gentle
Moonwise Greer Ilene Gilman
He, She, and It Marge Piercy
1992 - Winners
China Mountain Zhang Maureen McHugh
1992 - Short List
Venus Rising Carol Emshwiller
"Grownups" Ian MacLeod
Time, Like an Ever Rolling Stream Judith Moffett
Red Mars Kim Stanley Robinson
Correspondence Sue Thomas
Lost Futures Lisa Tuttle
In the Mother's Land Elisabeth Vonarburg
1993 - Winners
Ammonite Nicola Griffith
1993 - Short List
Ring of Swords Eleanor Arnason
The Robber Bride Margaret Atwood
In the Garden of Dead Cars Sybil Claiborne
"Motherhood" L. Timmel Duchamp
"The Other Magpie" R. Garcia y Robertson
"Chemistry" James Patrick Kelly
Dancing Jack Laurie J. Marks
"Some Strange Desire" Ian McDonald
Illicit Passage Alice Nunn
Coelestis Paul Park
1993 - Long List
Crash Course Wilhemina Baird
X, Y Michael Blumlein
Glory Season David Brin
Drawing Blood Poppy Z. Brite
"Lost Girls" Pat Cadigan
The Rising of the Moon Flynn Conolly
The Rainbow Man M. J. Engh
Harm's Way Colin Greenland
"Touching Fire" Nicola Griffith
The Assimilation of Leah Wennover Stephanie T. Hoppe
"Schrödinger's Cathouse" Kij Johnson
"'Forever', Said the Duck" Jonathan Letham
Songs of Chaos S. N. Lewitt
Evolution Annie and Other Stories Rosaleen Love
The Year the Horses Came Mary Mackey
An Eye for Dark Places Norma Marden
Deerskin Robin McKinley
"The Best Years of Our Lives" A. R. Morlan
"Liberator" Linda Nagata
Burning Bright Melissa Scott
"A Defense of the Social Contracts" Martha Soukup
"The Story So Far" Martha Soukup
A Plague of Angels Sherri S. Tepper
Virtual Girl Amy Thomson
1994 - Winners
"The Matter of Seggri" Ursula K. LeGuin
Larque on the Wing Nancy Springer
1994 - Short List
"The Lovers" Eleanor Arnason
The Furies Suzy McKee Charnas
Cannon's Orb L. Warren Douglas
"Cocoon" Greg Egan
Amazon Story Bones Ellen Frye
North Wind Gwyneth Jones
"Eat Reecebread" Graham Joyce & Peter F. Hamilton
"Forgiveness Day" Ursula K. LeGuin
A Fisherman of the Inland Sea Ursula K. LeGuin
Temporary Agency Rachel Pollack
Unconquered Countries Geoff Ryman
Trouble and Her Friends Melissa Scott
"Young Woman in a Garden" Delia Sherman
Genetic Soldier George Turner
1994 - Long List
"Metamorphosis" Milbre Burch
"Paris in June" Pat Cadigan
Stardust Bound Karen Cadora
Sundowner Chris Claremont
The Warrior's Tale Allan Cole & Chris Bunch
"Bicyclefish Island" Daniel P. Dern
The Wind-Witch Susan Dexter
"Somnus' Fair Maid" Ann Downer
Earthsong Suzette Haden Elgin
"Rites of Spring" Lisa Goldstein
"One Last Zoom at the Buzz Bar" Alison M. Goodman
Stranger at the Wedding Barbara Hambly
"The Valley of the Humans" Phillip C. Jennings
"Big Guy" James Patrick Kelly
Wildlife James Patrick Kelly
"Margin of Error" Nancy Kress
The Orchid Eater Marc Laidlaw
Summer of Love Lisa Mason
"Legitimate Targets" Ian McDonald
Nautilus Vonda N. McIntyre
"Amazons" Severna Park
"Rat" Mary Rosenblum
Heartstone and Saber Jacqui Singleton
Metal Angel Nancy Springer
A College of Magics Caroline Stevermer
Shadow's End Sheri. S. Tepper
Uncharted Territory Connie Willis
1995 - Winners
Waking the Moon Elizabeth Hand
The Memoirs of Elizabeth Frankenstein Theodore Roszak
1995 - Short List
"And Salome Danced" Kelley Eskridge
Little Sisters of the Apocalypse Kit Reed
"Food Man" Lisa Tuttle
The Armless Maiden and Other Stories for Childhood's Survivors Ed. Terri Windling
1995 - Long List
"The Pumpkin Eater" Isobelle Carmody
Lines Upon the Skin Julie Haydon
Women of Wonder: The Classic Years Ed. Pamela Sargent
Women of Wonder: The Contemporary Years Ed. Pamela Sargent
Shadow Man Melissa Scott
Other Nature Stephanie Smith
1996 - Winners
"Mountain Ways" Ursula K. LeGuin
The Sparrow Mary Doria Russell
1996 - Short List
"The Silent Woman" Fred Chappell
"Beauty and the Opera, or The Phantom Beast" Suzy McKee Charnas
"Welcome, Kid, to the Real World" L. Timmel Duchamp
A History Maker Alasdair Gray
"Five F*cks" Jonathan Lethem
Nadya Pat Murphy
Godmother Night Rachel Pollack
The Pillow Friend Lisa Tuttle
"And She Was the Word" Tess Williams
Leaning Towards Infinity Sue Woolfe
1996 - Long List
Pussy, King of the Pirates Kathy Acker
The Memory Palace Gill Alderman
Jigsaw Woman Kim Antieau
"Y Chromosome" Donald Antrim
Alias Grace Margaret Atwood
Excession Iain M. Banks
"Blue" Francesca Lia Block
"Girl Goddess #9" Francesca Lia Block
Dead Things Richard Calder
"The Lucifer of Blue" Sherry Coldsmith
The Splendor and the Misery of Bodies, of Cities Samuel R. Delany
Lunatics Bradley Denton
Distress Greg Egan
"Tiresias" Firecat
The Bones of Time Kathy Goonan
The Lunatic Cafe Laurell Hamilton
Into the Forest Jean Heglund
No Quarter Tanya Huff
"Red Sonja and Lessingham in Dreamland" Gwyneth Jones
Manchu Palaces Jeanne Larsen
"The Reason for Not Going to the Ball" Tanith Lee
"Sleepy People" Jonathan Lethem
Remnant Population Elizabeth Moon
Foragers Charles Oberndorf
Serial Killer Days David Prill
Blue Mars Kim Stanley Robinson
"A Boy's Night Out" Lori Selke
"Fetish" Martha Soukup
Fair Peril Nancy Springer
"Bicycle Repairmen" Bruce Sterling
Holy Fire Bruce Sterling
Cloud's End Sean Stewart
Nearly Roadkill Caitlin Sullivan & Kate Bornstein
The Scarlet Rider Lucy Sussex
"The Dead" Michael Swanwick
The Tale of One Bad Rat Bryan Talbot
Desmodus Melanie Tem
Gibbon's Decline and Fall Sherri Tepper
"The Hermaphrodite" Edmund White
"The Stupefaction" Diane Williams
Map of Power Tess Williams
"Natural Permanent Boy" Laurel Winter
Looking for the Madhi N. Lee Wood
"Utensile Strength" Patricia Wrede
The Frequency of Souls Mary Kay Zuravleff
1997 - Winners
Black Wine Candas Jane Dorsey
"Travels With the Snow Queen" Kelly Link
1997 - Short List
"The Oracle Lips" Storm Constantine
"Alice, Alfie, Ted and the Aliens" Paul Di Filippo
Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins Emma Donoghue
"The Apprenticeship of Isabetta di Pietro Cavazzi" L. Timmel Duchamp
The Dazzle of Day Molly Gloss
Signs of Life M. John Harrison
"Balinese Dancer" Gwyneth Jones
Sacrifice of Fools Ian McDonald
The Moon and the Sun Vonda N. McIntyre
Cereus Blooms at Night Shani Mootoo
"The Firebird's Nest" Salman Rushdie
Waking Beauty Paul Witcover
1998 - Winners
"Congenital Agenesis of Gender Ideation" Raphael Carter
1998 - Short List
"The Gauze Banner" Eleanor Arnason
Parable of the Talents Octavia Butler
"Story of Your Life" Ted Chiang
Singling Out the Couples Stella Duffy
Black Grass Karen Joy Fowler
The Ice People Maggie Gee
Halfway Human Carolyn Ives Gilman
Flesh and Gold Phyllis Gotlieb
Brown Girl in the Ring Nalo Hopkinson
"La Cenerentola" Gwyneth Jones
"Lovestory" James Patrick Kelly
"Unchosen Love" Ursula K. LeGuin
Dragon's Winter Elizabeth A. Lynn
Mission Child Maureen F. McHugh
"The Hetairai Turncoat" Karl-Rene Moore
"Accelerated Grimace" Rebecca Ore
Ghost Country Sara Paretsky
Hand of Prophecy Severna Park
Weird Women, Wired Women Kit Reed
"Bride of Bigfoot" Kit Reed
"Whiptail" Robert Reed
"The Eye of God" Mary Rosenblum
The Children Star Joan Slonczewski
"The House of Expectations" Martha Soukup
Mockingbird Sean Stewart
Playing God Sarah Zettel
1998 - Long List
"Datableed" Pat Cadigan
House of Sleep Jonathan Coe
Quintessence: Realizing the Archaic Future Mary Daly
Pig Tales: A Novel of Lust and Transformation Marie Darrieusecq
Sirens and other Daemon Lovers Ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling
"Transit" Stephen Dedman
The Plague Saint Rita Donovan
"Oceanic" Greg Egan
"The Eye of the Storm" Kelley Eskridge
"In the Realm of Dragons" Esther M. Friesner
Commitment Hour James Alan Gardner
"Time Gypsy" Ellen Klages
"Snow" Geoffrey A. Landis
Dark Waters Embrace Stephen Leigh
Killing Darcy Melissa Lucashenko
Children of God Mary Doria Russell
"The Drag Queen of Elfland" Lawrence Schimel
Six Moon Dance Sheri S. Tepper
Nameless Magery Delia Marshall Turner
"The Body Politic" Tess Williams
1999 - Winners
The Conqueror's Child Suzy McKee Charnas
1999 - Short List
If I Told You Once Judy Budnitz
"In the Second Person" Sally Caves
"Pinkland" Graham Joyce
The Woman with the Flying Head: And Other Stories Ed. Yumiko Kurahashi
"5001 Nights" Penelope Lively
The Iron Bridge David E. Morse
"Sexual Dimorphism" Kim Stanley Robinson
1999 - Long List
"The Actors" Eleanor Arnason
"Dapple" Eleanor Arnason
A Civil Campaign Lois McMaster Bujold
Silver Birch/Blood Moon Ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling
"Remailer" Debra Doyle & James D. MacDonald
Teranesia Greg Egan
The Vintner's Luck Elizabeth Knox
"Dragonfly" Ursula K. LeGuin
Speaking Stones Stephen Leigh
The Terrorists of Irustan Louise Marley
The Fathergod Experiment L. A. Taylor
The Singer From the Sea Sherri S. Tepper
2000 - Winners
Wild Life Molly Gloss
2000 - Short List
"Fidelity: A Primer" Michael Blumlein
"Diagram of Rapture" James L. Cambias
The Danish Girl David Ebershoff
Ash: A Secret History Mary Gentle
"Soma" Nalo Hopkinson
"The Glass Bottle Trick" Nalo Hopkinson
Midnight Robber Nalo Hopkinson
Perdido Street Station China Miéville
"Once on the Shores of the Stream Senegambia" Pamela Mordecai
The Annunciate Severna Park
Sea As Mirror Tess Williams
2001 - Winners
The Kappa Child Hiromi Goto
2001 - Short List
Half Known Lives Joan Givner
The Song of the Earth Hugh Nissenson
Dark Light Ken MacLeod
The Fresco Sheri S. Tepper
2002 - Winners
Light M. John Harrison
"Stories for Men" John Kessel
2002 - Short List
"Knapsack Poems" Eleanor Arnason
"Liking What You See: A Documentary" Ted Chiang
Appleseed John Clute
"What I Didn't See" Karen Joy Fowler
"Madonna of the Maquiladora" Gregory Frost
The Melancholy of Anatomy Shelley Jackson
Salt Fish Girl Larissa Lai
Conjunctions 39: The New Wave Fabulists Ed. Peter Straub
2003 - Winners
Set This House in Order: A Romance of Souls Matt Ruff
2003 - Short List
"Boys" Carol Emshwiller
"Birth Days" Geoff Ryman
"Lady of the Ice Garden" Kara Dalkey
Fudoki Kij Johnson
Coyote Cowgirl Kim Antieau
A Fistful of Sky Nina Kiriki Hoffman
"The Catgirl Manifesto" Richard Calder/Christina Flook
"Looking Through Lace" Ruth Nestvold
"The Ghost Girls of Rumney Mill" Sandra McDonald
Maul Tricia Sullivan
2004 - Winners
Camouflage Joe Haldeman
Not Before Sundown (Troll: A Love Story) Johanna Sinisalo
2004 - Short List
Little Black Book of Stories A. S. Byatt
Love's Body, Dancing in Time L. Timmel Duchamp
"All of Us Can Almost..." Carol Emshwiller
Sea of Trolls Nancy Farmer
Stable Strategies and Others Eileen Gunn
Life Gwyneth Jones
"Kissing Frogs" Jaye Lawrence
2004 - Long List
"The Other Angelas" Christopher Barzak
"This Tragic Glass" Elizabeth Bear
"Burning Day" Glenn Grant
Unspeakable Vitrine Victoria Garcia
Hopeful Monsters Hiromi Goto
Mortal Love Elizabeth Hand
Inventing Memory Anne Harris
Even the Stones Marie Jakober
River of Gods Ian McDonald
Sleep Kat Meads
Monstrous Regiment Terry Pratchett
"Romance for Augmented Trio" Tom Purdon
"Time's Swell" Victoria Somegyi & Kathleen Chamberlain
Tonguecat Peter Varhehst
Master of None N. Lee Wood
2004 - Special Mention
Changing Ones Will Roscoe
Stars in my Pockets Like Grains of Sand Samuel R. Delany
2005 - Winners
Air: Or, Have Not Have Geoff Ryman
2005 - Short List
Willful Creatures Aimee Bender
"Wooden Bride" Margo Lanagan
"Little Faces" Vonda N. McIntyre
A Brother's Price Wen Spencer
Misfortune Wesley Stace
Remains Mark W. Tiedemann
2005 - Long List
"Arcana" Emily Brunson
Touched by Venom Janine Cross
The Mercy of Thin Air Ronlyn Domingue
Alanya to Alanya L. Timmel Duchamp
The Red Rose Rages (Bleeding) L. Timmel Duchamp
Mister Boots Carol Emshwiller
The King in the Window Adam Gopnik
Tesseracts Nine Ed. Nalo Hopkinson & Geoff Ryman
"In the Shadow of the Stones" Rosaleen Love
"Close to You" Meghan McCarron
"Planet of the Amazon Women" David Moles
Melusine Sarah Monette
The Icarus Girl Helen Oyeyemi
Luna Julie Anne Peters
Uglies Scott Westerfield
Margarettown Gabrielle Zevin
2005 - Special Mention
Writing the Other Nisi Shawl & Cynthia Ward
2006 - Winners
Half Life Shelley Jackson
The Orphan's Tales: In the Night Garden Catherynne H. Valente
2006 - Special Recognition
James Tiptree Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon Julie Philips
2006 - Honor List
Mindscape Andrea Hairston
Listening at the Gate Betsy James
The Privilege of the Sword Ellen Kushner
The Last Witchfinder James Morrow
St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves Karen Russell
Matriarch Karen Traviss
Venusia Mark von Schlegell

2007 - Winner

The Carhullan Army/Daughters of the North Sarah Hall
2007 - Honor List
Dangerous Space Kelley Eskridge
Water Logic Laurie Marks
Empress of Mijak and The Riven Kingdom Karen Miller
The Shadow Speaker Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu
Interfictions Delia Sherman
Glasshouse Charles Stross
The Margarets Sheri S. Tepper
Y: The Last Man Brian K. Vaughan
Flora Segunda Ysabeau S. Wilce
2008 - Winners
The Knife of Never Letting Go Patrick Ness
Filter House Nisi Shawl
2008 - Honor List
The Love We Share Without Knowing Christopher Barzak
The Explosionist Jenny Davidson
Shadowbridge / Lord Tophet Gregory Frost
Two Pearls of Wisdom (Eon: Dragoneye Reborn) Alison Goodman
"Pride or Prometheus" John Kessel
Tender Morsels Margo Lanagan
Lavinia Ursula K. Le Guin
Let the Right One In (Låt den rätte komma in) John Ajvide Lindqvist
A Princess of Roumania series Paul Park
The Alchemy of Stone Ekaterina Sedia
Girl Meets Boy Ali Smith
Flora's Dare Ysabeau S. Wilce
2009 - Winners
Cloud and Ashes Greer Gilman
Ooku: The Inner Chambers Vol 1&2 Fumi Yoshinaga
2009 - Honor List
"Beautiful White Bodies" Alice Sola Kim
Distances Vandana Sing
"Galapagos" Caitlin R. Kiernan
Lifelode Jo Walton
"Useless Things" Maureen F. McHugh
"Wives" Paul Haines
2009 - Special Honor
The Marq'ssan Cycle L. Timmel Duchamp
2009 - Long List
"Afterbirth" Stephanie Shaw
"The Godfall's Chemsong" Jeremiah Tolbert
"A Journal of Certain Events of Scientific Interest from the First Survey Voyage of the Southern Waters by HMS Ocelot, as Observed by Professor Thaddeus Boswell, DPhil, MSc" Helen Keeble
The Mere Future Sarah Schulman
"Ms. Liberty Gets a Haircut" Cat Rambo
"Nira and I" Shweta Narayan
Riversend Sylvia Kelso
Slightly Behind and to the Left Claire Light
"A Song to Greet the Sun" Alaya Dawn Johnson
UFO in Her Eyes Xiaolu Guo
2010 - Winner
Baba Yaga Laid an Egg Dubravka Ugresic
2010 - Honor List
The Bone Palace Amanda Downum
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms N.K. Jemisin
"Diana Comet and the Disappearing Lover" Sandra McDonald
"Drag Queen Astronaut" Sandra McDonald
The Secret Feminist Cabal Helen Merrick
Who Fears Death Nnedi Okorafor
Living with Ghosts Kari Sperring
The Colony Jillian Weise
2010 - Long List
Passion Play Beth Bernobich
"The Monitors" Stevie Carroll
"Things I Know About Fairy Tales" Roxane Gay
Gullstruck Island Frances Hardinge
Meeks Julia Holmes
Ash Malinda Lo
Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls Alissa Nutting
White is for Witching Helen Oyeyemi
"Eros, Philia, Agape" Rachel Swirsky
2011 - Winner
Redwood and Wildfire Andrea Hairston
2011 - Honor List
Beauty Queens Libba Bray
"The Nones of Quintilus" L. Timmel Duchamp
God's War Kameron Hurley
The Universe of Things Gwyneth Jones
"The Other Graces" Alice Sola Kim
"Seven Sexy Cowboy Robots" Sandra McDonald
"After the Apocalypse" Maureen F. McHugh
The Freedom Maze Delia Sherman
The Courier's New Bicycle Kim Westwood
2011 - Long List
Zoo City Lauren Beukes
"No Return Address" Sigrid Ellis
The Shattering Karen Healey
"Nation of the Night" Sue Isle
"Their Changing Bodies" Alaya Dawn Johnson
Huntress Malinda Lo
"We Heart Vampires!!!!!!" Meghan McCarron
Bearded Women Stories Teresa Mildbrodt
Akata Witch Nnedi Okorafor
"Of Men and Wolves" An Owomoyela
Mr. Fox Helen Oyeyemi
Outies J. R. Pournelle
All Men of Genius Lev AC Rosen
Deathless Catherynne M. Valente
2012 - Winners
The Drowning Girl Caitlin R. Kiernan
Ancient, Ancient Kiini Ibura Salaam
2012 - Honor List
Range of Ghosts Elizabeth Bear
Rituals Roz Kaveney
Up Against It M.J. Locke
2312 Kim Stanley Robinson
Jagannath Karin Tidbeck
Firebrand Ankaret Wells
"The Receptionist" Lesley Wheeler