22nd Lambda Literary Awards

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| Mykola Dementiuk, Holy Communion
Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli, Love You Two

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• Bobbie Geary, The Janeid
• J. E. Knowles, Arusha
• Amber Lehman, Torn

| Minal Hajratwala, Leaving India: My Family's Journey From Five Villages to Five Continents

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• Blake Bailey, Cheever: A Life
• Emanuel Levy, Vincente Minnelli: Hollywood's Dark Dreamer
• Edna O'Brien, Byron in Love: A Short Daring Life
• Audrey Beth Stein, Map

| Rakesh Satyal, Blue Boy

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• James Hannaham, God Says No
• G. Winston James, Shaming the Devil: Collected Short Stories
• James Magruder, Sugarless
• Lance Reynald, Pop Salvation

| Kevin Killian, Impossible Princess

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• Todd Gregory, ed., Rough Trade: Dangerous Gay Erotica
• Richard Labonté and Lawrence Schimel, eds., I Like It Like That: True Tales of Gay Desire
• James Lear, The Low Road
• Sean Wolfe, Eight Inches

| Vestal McIntyre, Lake Overturn

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• Matt Dean, The River in Winter
• Peter Gadol, Silver Lake
• James Morrison, Said and Done
• Abdellah Taia, Salvation Army

| Reynolds Price, Ardent Spirits: Leaving Home, Coming Back

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• Jon Ginoli, Deflowered: My Life in Pansy Division
• Douglas A. Martin, Once You Go Back
• David Plante, The Pure Lover: A Memoir of Grief
• Edmund White, City Boy: My Life in New York During the 1960s and '70s

| Michael Thomas Ford, What We Remember

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• Ralph Ashworth, Killer of Orchids
• Josh Aterovis, All Lost Things
• Rob Byrnes, Straight Lies
• Greg Herren, Murder in the Garden District

| Benjamin S. Grossberg, Sweet Core Orchard

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• Brent Goodman, The Brother Swimming Beneath Me
• Tom Healy, What the Right Hand Knows
• Charles Jensen, The First Risk
• Randall Mann, Breakfast with Thom Gunn

| Frank Anthony Polito, Drama Queers!

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• H. Leigh Aubrey, A Keen Edge
• J. P. Bowie, Time After Time
• Erastes, Transgressions
• Dan Stone, The Rest of Our Lives

| Rhiannon Argo, The Creamsickle

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• Z Egloff, Verge
• Barb Johnson, More of This World or Maybe Another
• Lori Ostlund, The Bigness of the World
• Maida Tilchen, Land Beyond Maps

| Sacchi Green and Rakelle Valencia, Lesbian Cowboys

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• Diane Anderson-Minshall, Punishment with Kisses
• Ronica Black, Flesh and Bone
• D. L. King, Where the Girls Are
• Cecilia Tan, ed., Women of the Bite

| Jill Malone, A Field Guide to Deception

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• Elana Dykewomon, Risk
• Nairne Holtz, This One's Going to Last Forever
• Jennifer McMahon, Dismantled
• Emma Pérez, Forgetting the Alamo, or, Blood Memory

| Joan Schenkar, The Talented Miss Highsmith: The Secret Life and Serious Art of Patricia Highsmith

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• Mary Cappello, Called Back: My Reply to Cancer, My Return to Life
• Alix Dobkin, My Red Blood: A Memoir of Growing Up Communist, Coming Onto the Greenwich Village Folk Scene, and Coming Out in the Feminist Movement
• Terry Galloway, Mean Little Deaf Queer
• Ariel Schrag, Likewise: The High School Comic Chronicles of Ariel Schrag

| Jean M. Redmann, Death of a Dying Man

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• Paulette Callen, Command of Silence
• Josie Gordon, Toasted
• Ellen Hart, The Mirror and the Mask
• Joan Opyr, From Hell to Breakfast

| Stacie Cassarino, Zero at the Bone

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• Samiya Bashir, Gospel: Poems
• Ana Božičević, Stars of the Night Commute
• Marilyn Hacker, Names
• Kristin Naca, Bird Eating Bird

| Colette Moody, The Sublime and Spirited Voyage of Original Sin

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• Karin Kallmaker, Stepping Stone
• KG MacGregor, Worth Every Step
• Tracey Richardson, No Rules of Engagement
• Carsen Taite, It Should Be a Crime

| Ariel Gore, ed., Portland Queer: Tales of the Rose City

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• Tommi Avicolli Mecca, Smash the Church, Smash the State! The Early Years of Gay Liberation
• David Bergman, Gay American Autobiography: Writings from Whitman to Sedaris
• Gilbert Herdt, Moral Panics, Sex Panics: Fear and the Fight Over Sexual Rights
• Michael Montlack, My Diva: 65 Gay Men on the Women Who Inspire Them

| Dale Peck, Sprout

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• Nick Burd, The Vast Fields of Ordinary
• Michael Cart, How Beautiful the Ordinary
• Malinda Lo, Ash
• P. E. Ryan, In Mike We Trust

| Mart Crowley, The Collected Plays of Mart Crowley

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• Bonnie J. Morris, Revenge of the Women's Studies Professor
• Kate Moira Ryan and Linda S. Chapman, The Beebo Brinker Chronicles

| James Davidson, The Greeks and Greek Love

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• Nathaniel Frank, Unfriendly Fire: How the Gay Ban Undermines the Military and Weakens America
• Drewey Wayne Gunn, The Golden Age of Gay Fiction
• Audre Lorde (Rudolph P. Byrd, Johnnetta Betsch Cole and Beverly Guy-Sheftall, eds.), I Am Your Sister: Collected and Unpublished Writings of Audre Lorde
• Sarah Schulman, Ties That Bind: Familial Homophobia and Its Consequences

| Catherynne M. Valente, Palimpsest

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• Tom Cardamone, Pumpkin Teeth
• Amber Dawn, Fist of the Spider Woman
• Rebecca Ore, Centuries Ago and Very Fast
• Lee Thomas, In the Closet, Under the Bed

| Margot Canaday, The Straight State: Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth Century America

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• Julie Abraham, Metropolitan Lovers: The Homosexuality of Cities
• Deborah B. Gould, Moving Politics: Emotion and ACT UP's Fight Against AIDS
• Armando Maggi, The Resurrection of the Body: Pier Paolo Pasolini from Saint Paul to Sade
• Kathleen Bond Stockton, The Queer Child, or Growing Sideways in the Twentieth Century

| Lynn Breedlove, Lynnee Breedlove's One Freak Show

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• S. Bear Bergman, The Nearest Exit May Be Behind You
• Kari Edwards, Bharat Jiva
• Joy Ladin, Transmigration
• Adam Lowe, Troglodyte Rose