32nd Lambda Literary Awards

|Brian Lam

|Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

|Larissa Lai

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!Winner

!Nominated

| Fiona Alison Duncan, Exquisite Mariposa

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• Garrett Leigh, Jude
• Deborah Levy, The Man Who Saw Everything
• Tomaz Moniz, Big Familia
• Carley Moore, The Not Wives
• Zack Smedley, Deposing Nathan
• Jess Taylor, Just Pervs
• Alia Trabucco Zerán, The Remainder (Sophie Hughes, tr.)

| Trisha Low, Socialist Realism

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• Victoria Freeman, A World Without Martha: A Memoir of Sisters, Disability, and Difference
• Janet W. Hardy, IMPERVIOUS: Confessions of a Semi-Retired Deviant

| Stephanie Young, Pet Sounds

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• Dorothy Chan, Revenge of the Asian Woman
• mai c. doan, water/tongue
• Moina Pam Dick, Moira of Edges, Moira the Tart
• Camonghne Felix, Build Yourself a Boat
• Faylita Hicks, HoodWitch
• Ariana Reines, A Sand Book
• Cam Scott, Romans/Snowmare

| Bryan Washington, Lot

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• Jean-Baptiste Del Amo, Animalia (Frank Wynne, tr.)
• Lindsey Drager, The Archive of Alternate Endings
• Will Eaves, Murmur
• Jaime Manrique, Like This Afternoon Forever
• João Gilberto Noll, Lord (Edgar Garbelotto, tr.)
• Ocean Vuong, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous
• De'Shawn Charles Winslow, In West Mills

| Saeed Jones, How We Fight for Our Lives

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• Joseph Caldwell, In the Shadow of the Bridge
• Siddharth Dube, An Indefinite Sentence: A Personal History of Outlawed Love and Sex
• Guy Hocquenghem, The Amphitheater of the Dead (Max Fox, tr.)
• Isaac Mizrahi, I.M.
• Alvin Orloff, DISASTERAMA! Adventures in the Queer Underground 1977-1997
• James Oseland, Jimmy Neurosis
• Chris Rush, The Light Years

| Michael Nava, Carved in Bone

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• Michael Craft, ChoirMaster: A Mister Puss Mystery
• Chris Gill, The Nowhere
• Greg Herren, Royal Street Reveillon
• Liam McIlvanney, The Quaker
• David S. Pederson, Death Takes a Bow
• Timothy Jay Smith, The Fourth Courier
• Marshall Thornton, Rewind

| Cyrée Jarelle Johnson, Slingshot

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• Billy-Ray Belcourt, NDN Coping Mechanisms: Notes from the Field
• Jericho Brown, The Tradition
• Douglas Crane, The Revisionist & The Astropastorals
• Lawrence Lacambra Ypil, The Experiment of the Tropics
• Gabriel Ojeda-Sagué, Losing Miami
• Jake Skeets, Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers
• Brian Teare, Doomstead Days

| James Lovejoy, Joseph Chapman: My Molly Life

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• Bryan T. Clark, Escaping Camp Roosevelt
• Chris Delyani, Best Man
• Jay Hogan, Digging Deep
• Garrett Leigh, Kiss Me Again
• Rick R. Reed, Blue Umbrella Sky
• R. A. Thorn, My Baby Chased Away the Blues
• Marshall Thornton, Code Name: Liberty

| Nicole Dennis-Benn, Patsy

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• Kristen Arnett, Mostly Dead Things
• Beth Brant, A Generous Spirit: Selected Work by Beth Brant (Janice Gould, ed.)
• Carolina de Robertas, Cantoras
• Madeline Ffitch, Stay and Fight
• Shannon Pufahl, On Swift Horses
• Mathangi Subramanian, A People's History of Heaven
• Jacqueline Woodson, Red at the Bone

| Samra Habib, We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir

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• Elissa Altman, Motherland: A Memoir of Love, Loathing, and Longing
• Jaquira Díaz, Ordinary Girls
• Julia Koets, The Rib Joint: A Memoir in Essays
• Saidiya Hartman, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval
• T. Kira Madden, Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls
• Benjamin Moser, Sontag: Her Life and Work
• Edie Windsor and Joshua Lyon, A Wild and Precious Life

| Ann McMan, Galileo

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• Amelia Ellis, The Mirror of Muraro
• Ellen Hart, Twisted at the Root: A Jane Lawless Mystery
• Catherine Maiorisi, The Blood Runs Cold
• Claire O'Dell, The Hound of Justice

| t'ai freedom ford, & more black

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• Etel Adnan, Time
• Rocío Carlos, (the other house)
• Franny Choi, Soft Science
• Shira Erlichman, Odes to Lithium
• Gala Mukomolova, Without Protection
• Lee Ann Roripaugh, tsunami vs. the fukushima 50
• Sharanpal Ruprai, Pressure Cooker Love Bomb

| Emily Noon, Aurora's Angel

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• Alyssa Cole, Once Ghosted, Twice Shy
• Donna K. Ford, Tennessee Whiskey
• Virginia Hale, The Secret Chord
• Jae, The Roommate Arrangement
• M. Ullrich, Pretending in Paradise
• M. Ullrich, Top of Her Game
• Erin Zak, Create a Life to Love

| Aishah Shahidah Simmons, Love WITH Accountability: Digging up the Roots of Child Sexual Abuse
Noam Sienna, A Rainbow Thread: An Anthology of Queer Jewish Texts from the First Century to 1969

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• Fatimah Asghar and Safia Elhillo, The BreakBeat Poets Volume 3: Halal if You Hear Me
• Amber Dawn and Justin Ducharme, Hustling Verse: An Anthology of Sex Workers’ Poetry
• Luiza Flynn-Goodlett, Foglifter Volume 4 Issue 2
• The Other Foundation, The Heart of the Matter: The Gerald Kraak Anthology
• Jeff Mann and Julia Watts, LGBTQ Fiction and Poetry from Appalachia
• Micah Rajunov and Scott Duane, Nonbinary: Memoirs of Gender and Identity

| Lisa Jenn Bigelow, Hazel's Theory of Evolution
Alexandra Villasante, The Grief Keeper

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• Jaye Robin Brown, The Meaning of Birds
• Akwaeke Emezi, Pet
• Nicole Melleby, Hurricane Season
• Saundra Mitchell, All the Things We Do in the Dark
• Rory Power, Wilder Girls
• Robin Stevenson, Pride Colors

| Michael R. Jackson, A Strange Loop

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• Liza Birkenmeier, Dr. Ride’s American Beach House
• Jordan Harrison, The Amateurs

| L. A. Warman, Whore Foods

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• Rosalind Chase, Lot's Wife
• Thomas Kearnes, Texas Crude
• Vikram Kolmannskog, Lord of the Senses
• Gary Garth McCann, The Shape of the Earth

| Kelsey Wroten, Cannonball

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• Jaime Hernandez, Is This How You See Me?
• Vivek Shraya, Death Threat
• Mariko Tamaki, Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me
• Tillie Walden, Are You Listening?

| Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

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• W. Ian Bourland, Bloodflowers: Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Photography, and the 1980s
• Cyrus Grace Dunham, A Year Without a Name
• E. Patrick Johnson, Honeypot: Black Southern Women Who Love Women
• Brett Krutzsch, Dying to Be Normal: Gay Martyrs and the Transformation of American Sexual Politics
• Hugh Ryan, When Brooklyn Was Queer
• Karen Tongson, Why Karen Carpenter Matters
• Selby Wynn Schwartz, The Bodies of Others: Drag Dances and Their Afterlives

| Rivers Solomon, Daveed Diggs, William Hutson and Jonathan Snipes, The Deep

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• Matthew Bright, Stories to Sing in the Dark
• Julie C. Day, The Rampant
• Craig Laurance Gidney, A Spectral Hue
• Marlon James, Black Leopard, Red Wolf
• Jac Jemc, False Bingo
• Nina MacLaughlin, Wake, Siren
• Samantha Shannon, The Priory of the Orange Tree

| Emily L. Thuma, All Our Trials: Prisons, Policing, and the Feminist Fight to End Violence

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• R. L. Cagle, Scorpio Rising: A Queer Film Classic
• Jian Neo Chen, Trans Exploits: Trans of Color Cultures and Technologies in Movement
• Elizabeth Freeman, Beside You in Time: Sense Methods and Queer Sociabilities in the American Nineteenth Century
• Robb Hernández, Archiving an Epidemic: Art, AIDS, and the Queer Chicanx Avant-Garde
• Kara Keeling, Queer Times, Black Futures
• Dana Seitler, Reading Sideways: The Queer Politics of Art in Modern American Fiction
• Roberto Strongman, Queering Black Atlantic Religions: Transcorporeality in Candomblé, Santería and Vodou

| Hazel Jane Plante, Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian)

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• M. Z. McDonnell, Poet, Prophet, Fox: The Tale of Sinnach the Seer
• Bones McKay, Honey Walls
• Rachel Pollack, The Beatrix Gates
• Bogi Takács, The Trans Space Octopus Congregation

| Ellis Martin and Zach Ozma, We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan

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• Samantha Leigh Allen, Real Queer America: LGBT Stories from Red States
• T. Fleischmann, Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through
• S. J. Langer, Theorizing Transgender Identity for Clinical Practice: A New Model for Understanding Gender
• Andrea Long Chu, Females

| Xandria Phillips, Hull

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• Andrea Abi-Karam, Extratransmission
• Samuel Ace, Our Weather Our Sea
• Cameron Awkward-Rich, Dispatch
• Yanyi, The Year of Blue Water