The complete list of winners for the 23rd Annual Lambda Literary Awards.
BISEXUAL Fiction |
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| The Lunatic, the Lover, and the Poet by Myrlin A. Hermes Harper Perennial Buy Amazon | Publisher | IndieBound |
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BISEXUAL Nonfiction |
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| Border Sexualities, Border Families in Schools by Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli Rowman & Littlefield Buy Amazon | Publisher | IndieBound |
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TRANSGENDER — Fiction |
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| Holding Still for As Long As Possible by Zoe Whittall House of Anansi Press Buy Amazon | Publisher | IndieBound |
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TRANSGENDER — Nonfiction |
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| Balancing on the Mechitza Transgender in Jewish Community edited by Noach Dzmura North Atlantic Books Buy Amazon | IndieBound | Publisher |
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LGBT ANTHOLOGY |
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| Gender Outlaws The Next Generation edited by Kate Bornstein & S. Bear Bergman Seal Press Buy Amazon | BN | IndieBound |
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LGBT CHILDREN’S/YOUNG ADULT |
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| Wildthorn by Jane Eagland Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Buy Amazon | IndieBound | Publisher |
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LGBT DRAMA |
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| Oedipus at Palm Springs A Five Lesbian Brothers Play by Maureen Angelos, Dominique Dibbell, Peg Healey, & Lisa Kron Samuel French Buy Amazon | IndieBound | Publisher |
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LGBT NONFICTION |
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| King Kong Theory by Virginie Despentes The Feminist Press |
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LGBT SF/FANTASY/HORROR |
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| Diana Comet and Other Improbable Stories by Sandra McDonald Lethe Press Buy Amazon | IndieBound | Publisher |
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LGBT STUDIES — Tie |
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| Another Country Queer Anti-Urbanism by Scott Herring New York University Press |
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| Assuming a Body Transgender and Rhetorics of Materiality by Gayle Salamon Columbia University Press |
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LESBIAN DEBUT FICTION |
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| Sub Rosa by Amber Dawn Arsenal Pulp Press Amazon | BN | IndieBound | Publisher |
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LESBIAN EROTICA |
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| Sometimes She Lets Me Best Butch/Femme Erotica edited by Tristan Taormino Cleis Press Amazon | BN | IndieBound | Publisher |
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LESBIAN FICTION |
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| Inferno (a poet’s novel) by Eileen Myles OR Books Buy Amazon | Publisher | IndieBound |
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LESBIAN MEMOIR/BIOGRAPHY — Tie |
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| Hammer! Making Movies Out of Sex and Life by Barbara Hammer The Feminist Press Buy Amazon | IndieBound | Publisher |
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| Wishbone A Memoir in Fractures by Julie Marie Wade Colgate University Press |
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LESBIAN MYSTERY |
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| Fever of the Bone by Val McDermid HarperCollins Buy Amazon | IndieBound | Publisher |
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LESBIAN POETRY |
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| The Nights Also by Anna Swanson Tightrope Books Buy Amazon | IndieBound | Publisher |
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LESBIAN ROMANCE |
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| River Walker by Cate Culpepper Bold Strokes Books Buy Amazon | IndieBound | Publisher |
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GAY DEBUT FICTION |
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| Bob the Book by David Pratt Chelsea Station Editions Buy Amazon | IndieBound | Publisher |
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GAY EROTICA |
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| Teleny and Camille by Jon Macy Northwest Press |
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GAY FICTION |
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| Union Atlantic by Adam Haslett Doubleday Buy Amazon | Publisher | IndieBound |
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GAY MEMOIR/BIOGRAPHY |
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| Secret Historian The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist and Sexual Renegade by Justin Spring Farrar, Straus & Giroux Buy Amazon | IndieBound | Publisher |
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GAY MYSTERY |
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| Echoes by David Lennon Blue Spike Publishing Buy Amazon | IndieBound | Publisher |
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GAY POETRY |
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| Pleasure by Brian Teare Ahsahta Press |
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GAY ROMANCE |
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| Normal Miguel by Erik Orrantia Cheyenne Publishing Buy Amazon | IndieBound | Publisher |


























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– Jean Roberta
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