21st Annual Lambda Literary Awards


LGBT Anthologies | LGBT Childrens/Young Adult | LGBT Drama | LGBT Nonfiction LGBT Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror | LGBT Studies | Bisexual | Transgender | Lesbian Debut Fiction | Gay Debut Fiction | Lesbian Erotica | Gay Erotica | Lesbian Fiction | Gay Fiction | Lesbian Memoir/Biography | Men’s Memoir/Biography | Lesbian Mystery | Gay Mystery | Lesbian Poetry | Gay Poetry | Lesbian Romance | Gay Romance


LGBT ANTHOLOGIES

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  • Our Caribbean edited by Thomas Glave (Duke University Press)
  • A Casulty of War: Gay Short Fiction by Peter Burton (Arcadia Books)
  • Live Through This edited by Sabrina Chapadjiev (Seven Stories Press)
  • Love, West Hollywood edited by Chris Freeman and James J. Berg (Alyson)
  • Big Trips: More Good Gay Travel Writing edited by Raphael Kadushin (University of Wisconsin Press)

BISEXUAL

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  • Open by Jenny Block (Seal Press)
  • Sexual Fluidity: Understanding Women’s Love & Desire by Lisa M. Diamond (Harvard University Press)
  • The Bishop’s Daughter by Honor Moore (W.W. Norton)
  • Kinsey Zero Through Sixty: Bisexual Perspectives on Kinsey by Ron Jackson Suresha (Taylor & Francis Journals)
  • Rimbaud by Edmund White (Atlas & Company)

TRANSGENDER

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  • Intersex (For Lack of a Better Word) by Thea Hillman (Manic D Press)
  • 10,000 Dresses by Marcus Ewert & Rex Ray (Seven Stories Press)
  • Two Truths and a Lie by Scott Schofield (Homofactus Press)
  • Boy with Flowers by Ely Shipley (Barrow Street Press)
  • Transgender History by Susan Stryker (Seal Press)

LGBT CHILDRENS/YOUNG ADULT

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  • Out of the Pocket by Bill Konigsberg (Dutton)
  • Hit the Road, Manny: A Manny Files Novel by Christian Burch (Simon and Schuster)
  • How They Met & Other Stories by David Levithan (Knopf Children’s Books)
  • Mousetraps by Pat Schmatz (Carolrhoda Books)
  • What They Always Tell Us by Martin Wilson (Random House Children’s Books)
  • Love & Lies: Marisol’s Story by Ellen Wittlinger (Simon and Schuster)

LGBT DRAMA

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  • The Second Coming of Joan of Arc by Carolyn Gage (Outskirts Press)
  • Phi Alpha Gamma by Dan Bernitt (Sawyer House)
  • Radical Acts: Collected Political Plays by Martin Duberman (The New Press)
  • Two Truths and a Lie by Scott Schofield (Homofactus Press)
  • Vile Affections by Vanda (Original Works Publishing)

LGBT NONFICTION

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  • Loving The Difficult by Jane Rule (Hedgerow Press)
  • Me as Her Again by Nancy Agabian (Aunt Lute Books)
  • If I Could Write This in Fire by Michelle Cliff (Univ of Minnesota Press)
  • Dishonorable Passions: Sodomy Laws in America 1861-2003 by William N. Eskridge Jr (Penguin Group)
  • Beyond (Straight & Gay) Marriage by Nancy Polikoff (Beacon Press)
  • Drifting Toward Love by Kai Wright (Beacon Press)

LGBT SCI-FI/FANTASY/HORROR

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  • Turnskin by Nicole Kimberling (Blind Eye Books)
  • The Archer’s Heart by Astrid Amara (Blind Eye Books)
  • The Magician and the Fool by Barth Anderson (Bantam Del Rey)
  • Wilde Stories 2008 by Steve Berman (Lethe Press)
  • Sea, Swallow Me and Other Stories by Craig Gidney (Lethe Press)

LGBT STUDIES

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  • Criminal Intimacy: Prison and the Uneven History of Modern American Sexuality by Regina Kunzel (The University of Chicago Press)
  • Tomboys: A Literary & Cultural History by Michelle Ann Abate (Temple University Press)
  • The Dividends of Dissent: How Conflict and Culture Work in Lesbian and Gay Marches on Washington by Amin Ghaziani (The University of Chicago Press)
  • Political Manhood: Red Bloods, Mollycoddles, & the Politics of Progressive Reform by Kevin P. Murphy (Columbia University Press)
  • Screening Sex by Linda Williams (Duke University Press)

LESBIAN DEBUT FICTION

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  • The Bruise by Magdalena Zurawski (Fiction Collective Two/University of Alabama Press)
  • Red Audrey & the Roping by Jill Malone (Bywater Books)
  • Passing for Black by Linda Villarosa (Kensington)
  • Closer to Fine by Meri Weiss (Kensington)
  • Love Does Not Make Me Gentle or Kind by Chavisa Woods (Fly by Night Press)

LESBIAN EROTICA

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  • In Deep Waters 2: Cruising the Strip by Radclyffe and Karin Kallmaker (Bold Strokes Books)
  • Lipstick on Her Collar by Sacchi Green and Rakelle Valencia (Pretty Things Press)
  • Periphery: Erotic Lesbian Futures by Lynne Jamneck (Lethe Press)

LESBIAN GENERAL FICTION

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  • Tie: The Sealed Letter by Emma Donoghue (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
  • Tie: All the Pretty Girls by Chandra Mayor (Conundrum Press)
  • The Slow Fix by Ivan E. Coyote (Arsenal Pulp Press)
  • Map of Ireland by Stephanie Grant (Scribner)
  • Breaking Spirit Bridge by Ruth Perkinson (Spinsters Ink)

LESBIAN MEMOIR/BIOGRAPHY

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  • Sex Talks to Girls: A Memoir by Maureen Seaton (University of Wisconsin Press)
  • Wrestling with the Angel of Democracy by Susan Griffin (Shambhala Publications)
  • Intersex (For Lack of a Better Word) by Thea Hillman (Manic D Press)
  • Sex Variant Woman by Joanne Passet (Da Capo)
  • Case of a Lifetime by Abbe Smith (Palgrave Macmillan)

LESBIAN MYSTERY

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  • Whacked by Josie Gordon (Bella Books)
  • Blind Faith by Diane and Jacob Anderson-Minshall (Bold Strokes Books)
  • Sweet Poison by Ellen Hart (St. Martin’s Press)
  • Losers Weepers by Jessica Thomas (Bella Books)
  • Calling the Dead by Ali Vali (Bold Strokes Books)

LESBIAN POETRY

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  • love belongs to those who do the feeling by Judy Grahn (Red Hen Press )
  • Interpretive Work by Elizabeth Bradfield (Arktoi/Red Hen Press)
  • Kissing Dead Girls by Daphne Gottlieb (Soft Skull Press)
  • Same Life by Maureen N. McLane, Farrar (Straus and Giroux)
  • Two Minutes of Light by Nancy K. Pearson (Perugia Press)

LESBIAN ROMANCE

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  • The Kiss That Counted by Karin Kallmaker (Bella Books)
  • Finding Home by Georgia Beers (Bold Strokes Books)
  • A Pirate’s Heart by Catherine Friend (Bold Strokes Books)
  • Hotel Liaison by JLee Meyer (Bold Strokes Books)
  • The Lonely Hearts Club by Radclyffe (Bold Strokes Books)

GAY DEBUT FICTION

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  • Finlater by Shawn Stewart Ruff (Quote Editions)
  • Shuck by Daniel Allen Cox (Arsenal Pulp Press)
  • Light Fell by Evan Fallenberg (Soho Press)
  • The Screwed-Up Life of Charlie The Second by Drew Ferguson (Kensington)
  • The Steve Machine by Mike Hoolboom (Coach House Books)

GAY EROTICA

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  • Best Gay Erotica 2009 by Richard Labonte & James Lear (Cleis Press)
  • The Secret Tunnel by James Lear (Cleis Press)
  • Hard Working Men by William Maltese, Victor J. Banis, Jardonn Smith, & J.P. Bowie (MLR Press)

GAY GENERAL FICTION

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  • We Disappear by Scott Heim (Harper Perennial)
  • Stray Dog Winter by David Francis (Macadam/Cage Publishing)
  • The Torturer’s Wife by Thomas Glave (City Light Publishers)
  • The Conversion by Joseph Olshan (St. Martin’s Press)
  • The Boomerang Kid by Jay Quinn (Alyson)

GAY MEMOIR/BIOGRAPHY

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  • Edward Carpenter: A Life of Liberty and Love by Sheila Rowbotham (Verso Books)
  • Bringing Him Home by Aaron Cooper (Late August Press)
  • Swish by Joel Derfner (Broadway Books)
  • Assisted Loving by Bob Morris (Harper)
  • King of Shadows by Aaron Shurin (City Lights Publishers)

GAY MYSTERY

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  • First You Fall by Scott Sherman (Alyson Books)
  • The Fisher Boy by Stephen Anable (Poisoned Pen Press)
  • Sundowner Ubuntu by Anthony Bidulka (Insomniac Press)
  • Mahu Fire by Neil Plakcy (Alyson Books)
  • Spider Season by John Morgan Wilson (St. Martin’s Press)

GAY POETRY

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  • Tie: Fire to Fire by Mark Doty (Harper)
  • Tie: Now You’re the Enemy by James Allen Hall (Univ. of Arkansas Press)
  • Want by Rick Barot (Sarabande Press)
  • Please by Jericho Brown (New Issues)
  • My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer by Jack Spicer, edited by Peter Gizzi & Kevin Killian (Wesleyan University Press)

GAY ROMANCE

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  • Got ’til it’s Gone by Larry Duplechan (Arsenal Pulp Press)
  • Mexican Heat by Laura Baumbach & Josh Lanyon (MLR Press)
  • The Protector by N.L. Gassert (Seventh Window Publications)