28th Lambda Literary Awards | Finalists & Winners

1.
Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda (Simonverse, #1)
Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda (Simonverse, #1) 4.14 avg rating — 462,491 ratings
2.
Lost Boi
Lost Boi 3.53 avg rating — 814 ratings
3.
Under the Udala Trees
Under the Udala Trees 4.03 avg rating — 14,268 ratings
4.
The Life and Death of Sophie Stark
The Life and Death of Sophie Stark 3.67 avg rating — 6,020 ratings
5.
A Love Like Blood
A Love Like Blood 3.97 avg rating — 30 ratings
6.
The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle
The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle 4.34 avg rating — 1,113 ratings
7.
succubus in my pocket
succubus in my pocket 4.24 avg rating — 29 ratings
8.
Arresting Dress: Cross-Dressing, Law, and Fascination in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco
Arresting Dress: Cross-Dressing, Law, and Fascination in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco 4.35 avg rating — 123 ratings
9.
Melissa
Melissa
by: Alex Gino
4.09 avg rating — 47,334 ratings
10.
Speak My Language, and Other Stories: An Anthology of Gay Fiction
Speak My Language, and Other Stories: An Anthology of Gay Fiction 4.01 avg rating — 74 ratings
11.
Life in a Box is a Pretty Life
Life in a Box is a Pretty Life 4.25 avg rating — 124 ratings
11.
Apocalypse Baby
Apocalypse Baby 3.65 avg rating — 3,745 ratings
13.
Blue Talk and Love
Blue Talk and Love 4.16 avg rating — 85 ratings
13.
God in Pink
God in Pink 3.38 avg rating — 994 ratings
13.
Happiness, Like Water
Happiness, Like Water 4.02 avg rating — 1,782 ratings
16.
The Cherokee Rose
The Cherokee Rose 3.71 avg rating — 737 ratings
16.
In One Person
In One Person 3.70 avg rating — 27,465 ratings
18.
The First Bad Man
The First Bad Man 3.66 avg rating — 34,509 ratings
19.
Jam on the Vine
Jam on the Vine 3.91 avg rating — 915 ratings
20.
Like a Woman
Like a Woman 3.75 avg rating — 76 ratings
21.
Thérèse et Isabelle
Thérèse et Isabelle 3.65 avg rating — 1,890 ratings
22.
Breathing Lessons
Breathing Lessons 3.39 avg rating — 98 ratings
23.
The Early Stories of Truman Capote
The Early Stories of Truman Capote 3.60 avg rating — 2,495 ratings
24.
Immaculate Blue
Immaculate Blue 3.79 avg rating — 146 ratings
25.
JD
JD 3.94 avg rating — 126 ratings
26.
A Poet of the Invisible World
A Poet of the Invisible World 3.81 avg rating — 460 ratings
27.
The Rise and Fall of the Yellow House
The Rise and Fall of the Yellow House 3.30 avg rating — 30 ratings
28.
Still Life Las Vegas
Still Life Las Vegas
by: James Sie
3.64 avg rating — 206 ratings
29.
Irrepressible: The Jazz Age Life of Henrietta Bingham
Irrepressible: The Jazz Age Life of Henrietta Bingham 3.67 avg rating — 406 ratings
30.
The Gap of Time
The Gap of Time 3.68 avg rating — 8,660 ratings
31.
Eat My Heart Out
Eat My Heart Out 2.66 avg rating — 607 ratings
32.
My Ríastrad
My Ríastrad 3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
33.
Defiant
Defiant 4.39 avg rating — 28 ratings
34.
Tiny Pieces of Skull
Tiny Pieces of Skull 4.23 avg rating — 132 ratings
35.
The Brink: Stories
The Brink: Stories 3.77 avg rating — 188 ratings
36.
DO U.
DO U. 3.50 avg rating — 6 ratings
37.
His Steadfast Love and Other Stories
His Steadfast Love and Other Stories 3.40 avg rating — 10 ratings
38.
Hotel Living
Hotel Living 3.31 avg rating — 278 ratings
39.
Life is Wonderful, People are Terrific
Life is Wonderful, People are Terrific 4.02 avg rating — 208 ratings
40.
Lovesick
Lovesick 3.80 avg rating — 46 ratings
41.
Lum
Lum 3.66 avg rating — 174 ratings
42.
Considering Hate: Violence, Goodness, and Justice in American Culture and Politics
Considering Hate: Violence, Goodness, and Justice in American Culture and Politics 3.88 avg rating — 51 ratings
43.
Fading Scars: My Queer Disability History
Fading Scars: My Queer Disability History 4.58 avg rating — 45 ratings
44.
Modern Families: Stories of Extraordinary Journeys to Kinship
Modern Families: Stories of Extraordinary Journeys to Kinship 4.02 avg rating — 47 ratings
45.
Namibia's Rainbow Project: Gay Rights in an African Nation
Namibia's Rainbow Project: Gay Rights in an African Nation 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
46.
"No One Helped": Kitty Genovese, New York City, and the Myth of Urban Apathy
"No One Helped": Kitty Genovese, New York City, and the Myth of Urban Apathy 3.69 avg rating — 102 ratings
47.
What Color Is Your Hoodie?: Essays on Black Gay Identity
What Color Is Your Hoodie?: Essays on Black Gay Identity 4.24 avg rating — 21 ratings
48.
Crevasse
Crevasse 4.11 avg rating — 71 ratings
49.
Born on the Edge of Race and Gender: A Voice for Cultural Competency
Born on the Edge of Race and Gender: A Voice for Cultural Competency 4.26 avg rating — 42 ratings
50.
Hiding in Plain Sight
Hiding in Plain Sight 4.16 avg rating — 25 ratings
51.
Devastation
Devastation 4.08 avg rating — 25 ratings
52.
Everybody's Bread
Everybody's Bread 3.50 avg rating — 8 ratings
53.
Experience in the Medium of Destruction
Experience in the Medium of Destruction 4.38 avg rating — 16 ratings
54.
Girls Like You
Girls Like You 4.40 avg rating — 10 ratings
55.
Pelvis with Distance
Pelvis with Distance 4.55 avg rating — 84 ratings
56.
SAY/MIRROR: Poems and Histories
SAY/MIRROR: Poems and Histories 4.39 avg rating — 44 ratings
57.
Angel Park
Angel Park 4.53 avg rating — 15 ratings
58.
Boy with Thorn
Boy with Thorn 4.17 avg rating — 243 ratings
59.
Canto hondo / Deep Song (Camino del Sol)
Canto hondo / Deep Song (Camino del Sol) 3.88 avg rating — 24 ratings
60.
Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of an American Family
Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of an American Family 4.22 avg rating — 13,071 ratings
61.
Otter
Otter 3.87 avg rating — 61 ratings
62.
Reconnaissance
Reconnaissance really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 281 ratings
63.
Steep Tea
Steep Tea 4.17 avg rating — 76 ratings
64.
Teaching a Man to Unstick His Tail
Teaching a Man to Unstick His Tail 4.32 avg rating — 25 ratings
65.
Why Dust Shall Never Settle Upon This Soul
Why Dust Shall Never Settle Upon This Soul
by: Ryka Aoki
4.34 avg rating — 134 ratings
66.
Impersonation: Poems
Impersonation: Poems
by: Joy Ladin
3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings
67.
Cooking as Fast as I Can: A Chef's Story of Family, Food, and Forgiveness
Cooking as Fast as I Can: A Chef's Story of Family, Food, and Forgiveness
by: Cat Cora
3.55 avg rating — 703 ratings
68.
Dirty River: A Queer Femme of Color Dreaming Her Way Home
Dirty River: A Queer Femme of Color Dreaming Her Way Home 4.23 avg rating — 1,234 ratings
69.
Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl
Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl 3.83 avg rating — 36,212 ratings
70.
Objects in Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear
Objects in Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear 4.34 avg rating — 116 ratings
71.
You're Not Edith: Autobiographical Essays
You're Not Edith: Autobiographical Essays 4.38 avg rating — 32 ratings
72.
Chasing Lost Time: The Life of C.K. Scott Moncrieff: Soldier, Spy and Translator
Chasing Lost Time: The Life of C.K. Scott Moncrieff: Soldier, Spy and Translator 3.97 avg rating — 92 ratings
73.
For Real (Spires, #3)
For Real (Spires, #3) 4.19 avg rating — 9,013 ratings
74.
Blueberry Boys
Blueberry Boys 3.75 avg rating — 1,033 ratings
75.
The Gracekeepers
The Gracekeepers 3.57 avg rating — 7,378 ratings
76.
My Body Is Yours: A Memoir
My Body Is Yours: A Memoir 4.10 avg rating — 177 ratings
77.
Indifference to Difference: On Queer Universalism
Indifference to Difference: On Queer Universalism 4.25 avg rating — 16 ratings
78.
Funk the Erotic: Transaesthetics and Black Sexual Cultures
Funk the Erotic: Transaesthetics and Black Sexual Cultures 4.20 avg rating — 55 ratings
79.
Queer Marxism in Two Chinas
Queer Marxism in Two Chinas 4.05 avg rating — 74 ratings
80.
Gay Fathers, Their Children, and the Making of Kinship
Gay Fathers, Their Children, and the Making of Kinship 3.89 avg rating — 9 ratings
81.
A Taste for Brown Bodies: Gay Modernity and Cosmopolitan Desire (Sexual Cultures, 23)
A Taste for Brown Bodies: Gay Modernity and Cosmopolitan Desire (Sexual Cultures, 23) 3.92 avg rating — 39 ratings
82.
Not Gay: Sex Between Straight White Men
Not Gay: Sex Between Straight White Men
by: Jane Ward
3.69 avg rating — 581 ratings
83.
Thinking Sex with the Early Moderns
Thinking Sex with the Early Moderns really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 17 ratings
84.
Honor Girl: A Graphic Memoir
Honor Girl: A Graphic Memoir 3.77 avg rating — 10,879 ratings
85.
hir
hir 3.68 avg rating — 478 ratings
86.
Love Alone
Love Alone 3.79 avg rating — 19 ratings
87.
None of the Above
None of the Above 3.84 avg rating — 14,124 ratings
88.
More Happy Than Not
More Happy Than Not 3.95 avg rating — 67,482 ratings
89.
Gay & Lesbian History for Kids: The Century-Long Struggle for LGBT Rights, with 21 Activities
Gay & Lesbian History for Kids: The Century-Long Struggle for LGBT Rights, with 21 Activities 4.01 avg rating — 153 ratings
90.
The Marvels
The Marvels 3.99 avg rating — 20,799 ratings
91.
About a Girl (Metamorphoses, #3)
About a Girl (Metamorphoses, #3) 3.49 avg rating — 495 ratings
92.
Anything Could Happen
Anything Could Happen 3.54 avg rating — 4,688 ratings
93.
Glitter & Grit: Queer Performance from the Heels on Wheels Femme Galaxy
Glitter & Grit: Queer Performance from the Heels on Wheels Femme Galaxy 4.56 avg rating — 9 ratings
94.
Out of the Closet, Into the Archives: Researching Sexual Histories
Out of the Closet, Into the Archives: Researching Sexual Histories 4.10 avg rating — 21 ratings
95.
Green Eyes
Green Eyes 3.85 avg rating — 27 ratings
96.
Sweet & Rough
Sweet & Rough 4.27 avg rating — 77 ratings
97.
With Animal
With Animal 3.89 avg rating — 114 ratings
98.
Wonder City Stories
Wonder City Stories 3.70 avg rating — 27 ratings
99.
Sacrati
Sacrati 3.85 avg rating — 1,395 ratings
100.
Minotaur
Minotaur
by: J.A. Rock
3.55 avg rating — 62 ratings
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