18th Lambda Literary Awards

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The 18th Lambda Literary Awards were held in 2006, to honor works of LGBT literature published in 2005.

Nominees and winners

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align="center"| Anthologies

| E. Lynn Harris, ed., Freedom in This Village: Twenty-Five Years of Black Gay Men's Writing, 1979 to the Present {{Cite web|url=http://www.lambdaliterary.org/winners-finalists/04/09/lambda-literary-awards-2005/|title=Lambda Literary|last=Gonzalez Cerna|first=Antonio|date=2005-04-09|website=Lambda Literary Foundation|access-date=2018-07-28}}

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align="center"| Belles Lettres

| Martin Moran, The Tricky Part

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align="center"| Biography

| Sherrill Tippins, February House

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align="center"| Children's/Young Adult

| Shyam Selvadurai, Swimming in the Monsoon Sea

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align="center"| Erotica

| Stacia Seaman and Radclyffe, eds., Stolen Moments: Erotic Interludes 2

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align="center"| Gay Debut Fiction

| Vestal McIntyre, You Are Not the One: Stories

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align="center"| Gay Fiction

| Dennis Cooper, The Sluts

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align="center"| Gay Mystery

| D. Travers Scott, One of These Things is Not Like the Other

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align="center"| Gay Poetry

| Richard Siken, Crush

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align="center"| Humor

| David Rakoff, Don't Get Too Comfortable

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align="center"| Lesbian Debut Fiction

| Ali Liebegott, The Beautifully Worthless

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align="center"| Lesbian Fiction

| Abha Dawesar, Babyji

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align="center"| Lesbian Mystery

| Alicia Gaspar de Alba, Desert Blood: The Juarez Murders

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align="center"| Lesbian Poetry

| June Jordan, Directed by Desire: Collected Poems

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align="center"| LGBT Studies

| Susan Ackerman, When Heroes Love: The Ambiguities of Eros in the Stories of Gilgamesh and David

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align="center"| Non-Fiction

| Thomas Glave, Words to Our Now

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align="center"| Romance

| Radclyffe, Distant Shores, Silent Thunder

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align="center"| Science fiction, fantasy or horror

| Katherine V. Forrest, Daughters of an Emerald Dusk

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align="center"| Spirituality

| Cheri DiNovo, Qu(e)erying Evangelism: Growing a Community from the Outside In

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align="center"| Transgender

| Charlie Anders, Choir Boy

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References

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