It's always interesting to see the Lambda Awards final ballot, because I always find titles I hadn't known about to pique my reading appetite. Here's the entire list of finalists for all 23 categories:
Lambda Literary Awards Finalists
LGBT Anthologies
* Gay American Autobiography: Writings from Whitman to Sedaris, edited by David Bergman (University of Wisconsin Press)
* Moral Panics, Sex Panics: Fear and the Fight Over Sexual Rights, edited by Gilbert Herdt (NYU Press)
* My Diva: 65 Gay Men on the Women Who Inspire Them, edited by Michael Montlack (University of Wisconsin Press)
* Portland Queer: Tales of the Rose City, edited by Ariel Gore (Lit Star Press)
* Smash the Church, Smash the State! The Early Years of Gay Liberation, edited by Tommi Avicolli Mecca (City Lights)
LGBT Children’s/Young Adult
* Ash, by Malinda Lo (Little, Brown)
* How Beautiful the Ordinary, edited by Michael Cart (HarperCollins)
* In Mike We Trust, by P.E. Ryan (HarperCollins)
* Sprout, by Dale Peck (Bloomsbury USA)
* The Vast Fields of Ordinary, by Nick Burd (Penguin Books)
LGBT Drama
* The Beebo Brinker Chronicles, by Kate Moira Ryan & Linda S. Chapman (Dramatists Play Service)
* The Collected Plays Of Mart Crowley, by Mart Crowley (Alyson Books)
* Revenge of the Women’s Studies Professor, by Bonnie L. Morris (Indiana University Press)
LGBT Nonfiction
* The Golden Age of Gay Fiction, edited by Drewey Wayne Gunn (MLR Press)
* The Greeks and Greek Love, by James Davidson (Random House)
* I Am Your Sister: Collected and Unpublished Writings of Audre Lorde, edited by Rudolph P. Byrd, Johnnetta Betsch Cole & Beverly Guy-Sheftall (Oxford University Press)
* Ties That Bind: Familial Homophobia and Its Consequences, by Sarah Schulman (The New Press)
* Unfriendly Fire: How the Gay Ban Undermines the Military and Weakens America, by Nathaniel Frank (St. Martin’s Press)
LGBT SF/Fantasy/Horror
* Centuries Ago and Very Fast, by Rebecca Ore (Aqueduct Press)
* Fist of the Spider Woman, by Amber Dawn (Arsenal Pulp Press)
* In the Closet, Under the Bed, by Lee Thomas (Dark Scribe Press)
* Palimpsest, by Catherynne M. Valente (Bantam/Spectra Books)
* Pumpkin Teeth, by Tom Cardamone (Lethe Press)
LGBT Studies
* Metropolitan Lovers: The Homosexuality of Cities, by Julie Abraham (University of Minnesota Press)
* Moving Politics: Emotion and ACT UP’s Fight Against AIDS, by Deborah B. Gould (University of Chicago Press)
* The Queer Child, or Growing Sideways in the Twentieth Century, by Kathryn Bond Stockton (Duke University Press)
* The Resurrection of the Body: Pier Paolo Pasolini from Saint Paul to Sade, by Armando Maggi (University of Chicago Press)
* The Straight State: Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth Century America, by Margot Canaday (Princeton University Press)
Bisexual Fiction
* Arusha, by J.E. Knowles (Spinsters Ink)
* Holy Communion, by Mykola Dementiuk (Synergy Press)
* The Janeid, by Bobbie Geary (The Graeae Press)
* Love You Two, by Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli (Random House Australia)
* Torn, by Amber Lehman (Closet Case Press)
Bisexual Nonfiction
* Byron in Love: A Short Daring Life, by Edna O’Brien (W. W. Norton)
* Cheever: A Life, by Blake Bailey (Alfred A. Knopf)
* Leaving India: My Family’s Journey From Five Villages to Five Continents, by Minal Hajratwala (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
* Map, by Audrey Beth Stein (Lulu.com)
* Vincente Minnelli: Hollywood’s Dark Dreamer, by Emanuel Levy (St. Martin’s Press)
Transgender
* Bharat Jiva, by Kari Edwards (Litmus Press)
* Lynnee Breedlove’s One Freak Show, by Lynn Breedlove (Manic D Press)
* The Nearest Exit May Be Behind You, by S Bear Bergman (Arsenal Pulp Press)
* Transmigration, by Joy Ladin (Sheep Meadow Press)
* Troglodyte Rose, by Adam Lowe (Cadaverine Publications)
Lesbian Debut Fiction
* The Creamsickle, by Rhiannon Argo (Spinsters Ink)
* The Bigness of the World, by Lori Ostlund (University of Georgia Press)
* Land Beyond Maps, by Maida Tilchen (Savvy Press)
* More of This World or Maybe Another, by Barb Johnson (Harper Perennial)
* Verge, by Z Egloff (Bywater Books)
Gay Debut Fiction
* Blue Boy, by Rakesh Satyal (Kensington Books)
* God Says No, by James Hannaham (McSweeneys)
* Pop Salvation, by Lance Reynald (HarperCollins)
* Shaming the Devil: Collected Short Stories, by G. Winston James (Top Pen Press)
* Sugarless, by James Magruder (University of Wisconsin Press)
Lesbian Erotica
* Flesh and Bone, by Ronica Black (Bold Strokes Books)
* Lesbian Cowboys, edited by Sacchi Green & Rakelle Valencia (Cleis Press)
* Punishment with Kisses, by Diane Anderson-Minshall (Bold Strokes Books)
* Where the Girls Are, by D.L. King (Cleis Press)
* Women of the Bite, Edited by Cecilia Tan (Alyson Books)
Gay Erotica
* Rough Trade: Dangerous Gay Erotica, edited by Todd Gregory (Bold Strokes Books)
* Impossible Princess, by Kevin Killian (City Lights)
* I Like It Like That: True Tales of Gay Desire, edited by Richard Labonté & Lawrence Schimel (Arsenal Pulp Press)
* The Low Road, by James Lear (Cleis Press)
* Eight Inches, by Sean Wolfe (Kensington Books)
Lesbian Fiction
* Dismantled, by Jennifer McMahon (HarperCollins)
* A Field Guide to Deception, by Jill Malone (Bywater Books)
* Forgetting the Alamo, Or, Blood Memory, by Emma Pérez (University of Texas Press)
* Risk, by Elana Dykewomon (Bywater Books)
* This One’s Going to Last Forever, by Nairne Holtz (Insomniac Press)
Gay Fiction
* Lake Overturn, by Vestal McIntyre (HarperCollins)
* The River In Winter, by Matt Dean (Queens English Productions)
* Said and Done, by James Morrison (Black Lawrence Press)
* Salvation Army, by Abdellah Taia (Semiotext(e))
* Silverlake, by Peter Gadol (Tyrus Books)
Lesbian Memoir/Biography
* Called Back: My Reply to Cancer, My Return to Life, by Mary Cappello (Alyson Books)
* Mean Little deaf Queer, by Terry Galloway (Beacon Press)
* My Red Blood: A Memoir of Growing Up Communist, Coming Onto the Greenwich Village Folk Scene, and Coming Out in the Feminist Movement, by Alix Dobkin (Alyson Books)
* Likewise: The High School Comic Chronicles of Ariel Schrag, by Ariel Schrag (Simon & Schuster/Touchstone Fireside)
* The Talented Miss Highsmith: The Secret Life and Serious Art of Patricia Highsmith, by Joan Schenkar (St. Martin’s Press)
Gay Memoir/Biography
* Ardent Spirits: Leaving Home, Coming Back, by Reynolds Price (Scribner Books)
* City Boy: My Life in New York During the 1960’s and 70’s, by Edmund White (Bloomsbury USA)
* Deflowered: My Life in Pansy Division, by Jon Ginoli (Cleis Press)
* Once You Go Back, by Douglas A. Martin (Seven Stories Press)
* The Pure Lover: A Memoir of Grief, by David Plante (Beacon Press)
Lesbian Mystery
* Command of Silence, by Paulette Callen (Spinsters Ink)
* Death of a Dying Man, by J.M. Redmann (Bold Strokes Books)
* From Hell to Breakfast, by Joan Opyr (Blue Feather Books)
* The Mirror and the Mask, by Ellen Hart (St. Martin’s/Minotaur)
* Toasted, by Josie Gordon (Bella Books)
Gay Mystery
* All Lost Things, by Josh Aterovis (P.D. Publishing)
* The Killer of Orchids, by Ralph Ashworth (State Street Press)
* Murder in the Garden District, by Greg Herren (Alyson Books)
* Straight Lies, by Rob Byrnes (Kensington Books)
* What We Remember, by Michael Thomas Ford (Kensington Books)
Lesbian Poetry
* Bird Eating Bird, by Kristin Naca (HarperCollins)
* Gospel: Poems, by Samiya Bashir (Red Bone Press)
* Names, by Marilyn Hacker (W.W. Norton)
* Stars of the Night Commute, by Ana Bozicevic (Tarpaulin Sky Press)
* Zero at the Bone, by Stacie Cassarino (New Issues Poetry & Prose)
Gay Poetry
* Breakfast with Thom Gunn, by Randall Mann (University of Chicago Press)
* The Brother Swimming Beneath Me, by Brent Goodman (Black Lawrence Press)
* The First Risk, by Charles Jensen (Lethe Press)
* Sweet Core Orchard, by Benjamin S. Grossberg (University of Tampa Press)
* What the Right Hand Knows, by Tom Healy (Four Way Books)
Lesbian Romance
* It Should Be a Crime, by Carsen Taite (Bold Strokes Books)
* No Rules of Engagement, by Tracey Richardson (Bella Books)
* The Sublime and Spirited Voyage of Original Sin, by Colette Moody (Bold Strokes Books)
* Stepping Stone, by Karin Kallmaker (Bella Books)
* Worth Every Step, by KG MacGregor (Bella Books)
Gay Romance
* Drama Queers!, by Frank Anthony Polito (Kensington Books)
* A Keen Edge, by H. Leigh Aubrey (iUniverse)
* The Rest of Our Lives, by Dan Stone (Lethe Press)
* Time After Time, by J.P. Bowie (MLR Press)
* Transgressions, by Erastes (Running Press)
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