33rd Lambda Literary Awards

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| Zaina Arafat, You Exist Too Much

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• Elisabeth Thomas. Catherine House
• C Pam Zhang, How Much of These Hills Is Gold
• Sulaiman Addonia, Silence Is My Mother Tongue
• Talia Hibbert, Take a Hint, Dani Brown

| Samantha Irby, Wow, No Thank You.: Essays

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• Natasha Sajé, Terroir: Love, Out of Place
• Emma Copley Eisenberg, The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia
• Shayla Lawson, This Is Major: Notes of Diana Ross, Dark Girls, and Being Dope
• Alden Jones, The Wanting Was a Wilderness: Cheryl Strayed’s Wild and the Art of Memoir

| Aricka Foreman, Salt Body Shimmer

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• George Abraham, Birthright
• Meghan Privitello, One God at a Time
• Jody Chan, sick
• S*an D. Henry-Smith, Wild Peach

| Joon Oluchi Lee, Neotenica

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• Garth Greenwell, Cleanness
• Brandon Taylor, Real Life
• Douglas Stuart, Shuggie Bain
• Dennis E. Staples, This Town Sleeps

| Mohsin Zaidi, A Dutiful Boy: A Memoir of a Gay Muslim’s Journey to Acceptance

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• R. Eric Thomas, Here For It: Or, How to Save Your Soul in America
• Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body
• John Birdsall, The Man Who Ate Too Much: The Life of James Beard
• François Clemmons, Officer Clemmons: A Memoir

| Eduardo C. Corral, Guillotine

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• Tommye Blount, Fantasia for the Man in Blue
• Justin Phillip Reed, The Malevolent Volume
• Romeo Oriogun, Sacrament of Bodies
• Ted Rees, Thanksgiving: A Poem

| Felice Stevens, The Ghost and Charlie Muir

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• Adriana Herrera, Finding Joy
• Lance Ringel, Flower of Iowa
• Erin Colleen McRae and Racheline Maltese, Ink and Ice
• Cat Sebastian, Two Rogues Make a Right

| Juli Delgado Lopera, Fiebre Tropical

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• K-Ming Chang, Bestiary
• Francesca Ekwuyasi, Butter Honey Pig Bread
• Jennifer Steil, Exile Music
• Jean Kyoung Frazier, Pizza Girl

| Jenn Shapland, My Autobiography of Carson McCullers

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• Tania De Rozario, And The Walls Come Crumbling Down
• Lori Soderlind, The Change: My Great American, Postindustrial, Midlife Crisis Tour
• Tana Wojczuk, Lady Romeo: The Radical and Revolutionary Life of Charlotte Cushman, America’s First Celebrity
• Nina Kennedy, Practicing for Love: A Memoir

| Pamela Sneed, Funeral Diva

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• Roya Marsh, dayliGht
• Sarah M. Sala, Devil’s Lake
• Mary Jean Chan, Flèche
• Kimberly Alidio, : once teeth bones coral :

| Alexandria Bellefleur, Written in the Stars

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• Clare Ashton, Finding Jessica Lambert
• Anna Burke, Nottingham
• Ali Vali, One More Chance
• Jae, Wrong Number, Right Woman

| Joshua Whitehead, Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction

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• Ejeris Dixon and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement
• Dave Ring, Glitter + Ashes: Queer Tales of a World That Wouldn’t Die
• Jos Twist, Ben Vincent, Meg-John Barker and Kat Gupta, Non-Binary Lives: An Anthology of Intersecting Identities
• Andrea Abi-Karam and Kay Gabriel, We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics

| Kacen Callender, King and the Dragonflies

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• Niki Smith, The Deep & Dark Blue
• Vincent X. Kirsch, From Archie to Zack
• Phil Bildner, A High Five for Glenn Burke
• Peter Mercurio, Our Subway Baby

| Yilong Liu, The Book of Mountains and Seas

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• Jacqueline Goldfinger, Babel
• Liza Birkenmeier and Jill Sobule, F*ck7thGrade
• Sarah Einspanier, House Plant
• R. Eric Thomas, Safe Space

| Lena Suksi, The Nerves

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• Sinclair Sexsmith, Best Lesbian Erotica of the Year, Volume 5
• Anne Shade, Femme Tales
• Andrea Purcell, Smut Peddler Presents: Silver
• Kel Hardy, Tianna Henry and MJ Lyons, Smut Peddlers: Glad Day 50

| Bishakh Som, Apsara Engine

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• Sophie Yanow, The Contradictions
• Yao Xiao, Everything Is Beautiful, and I’m Not Afraid: A Baopu Collection
• Tina Horn, Laurenn McCubbin, Jen Hickman, Alejandra Gutiérrez, Michael Dowling, Steve Wands, Tula Lotay, Katie Skelly and Chris O'Halloran, SFSX (Safe Sex), Vol. 1: Protection
• Bishakh Som, Spellbound: A Graphic Memoir

| Tom Ryan, I Hope You’re Listening

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• A. E. Radley, Death Before Dessert
• Cheryl A. Head, Find Me When I’m Lost
• Stephen Spotswood, Fortune Favors the Dead
• Rosalie Knecht, Vera Kelly Is Not a Mystery

| Ashon T. Crawley, The Lonely Letters

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• Ruth Coker Burks, All the Young Men
• Gabriel Ojeda-Sagué and Erich Kessel Jr., An Excess of Quiet: Selected Sketches by Gustavo Ojeda, 1979–1989
• Marty Fink, Forget Burial: HIV Kinship, Disability, and Queer/Trans Narratives of Care
• Josephine Donovan, The Lexington Six: Lesbian and Gay Resistance in 1970s America

| Julian K. Jarboe, Everyone on the Moon is Essential Personnel

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• Rebecca Roanhorse, Black Sun
• Zen Cho, The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water
• Tlotlo Tsamaase, The Silence of the Wilting Skin
• Aaron A. Reed, Subcutanean

| Zakiyyah Iman Jackson, Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World

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• Cait McKinney, Information Activism: A Queer History of Lesbian Media Technologies
• José Esteban Muñoz, The Sense of Brown
• Janet R. Jakobsen, The Sex Obsession: Perversity and Possibility in American Politics
• Jane Ward, The Tragedy of Heterosexuality

| Mike Curato, Flamer

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• Lev A. C. Rosen, Camp
• Trung Le Nguyen, The Magic Fish
• Agnes Borinsky, Sasha Masha
• Leah Johnson, You Should See Me in a Crown

| Zeyn Joukhadar, The Thirty Names of Night

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• Nino Cipri, Finna
• Chana Porter, The Seep
• Vivek Shraya, The Subtweet
• Lydia Rogue, Trans-Galactic Bike Ride: Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction Stories of Transgender and Nonbinary Adventurers

| J Mase III and Lady Dane Figueroa Edidi, The Black Trans Prayer Book

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• Meredith Talusan, Fairest: A Memoir
• Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, The Freezer Door
• L Heidenreich, Nepantla Squared: Transgender Mestiz@ Histories in Times of Global Shift
• Hil Malatino, Trans Care

| Sade LaNay, I Love You and I'm Not Dead

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• Aeon Ginsberg, Greyhound
• Kay Ulanday Barrett, More Than Organs
• Maxe Crandall, The Nancy Reagan Collection
• Jay Besemer, Theories of Performance