2021 Lambda Literary Awards Finalists

1.
Best Lesbian Erotica of the Year, Volume 5 (Best Lesbian Erotica Series)
Best Lesbian Erotica of the Year, Volume 5 (Best Lesbian Erotica Series) 3.94 avg rating — 33 ratings
2.
Black Sun (Between Earth and Sky, #1)
Black Sun (Between Earth and Sky, #1) 4.18 avg rating — 51,663 ratings
3.
Everyone on the Moon Is Essential Personnel
Everyone on the Moon Is Essential Personnel 3.91 avg rating — 1,173 ratings
4.
The Tragedy of Heterosexuality
The Tragedy of Heterosexuality
by: Jane Ward
4.13 avg rating — 2,053 ratings
5.
Wrong Number, Right Woman
Wrong Number, Right Woman
by: Jae
4.16 avg rating — 3,656 ratings
6.
Bestiary
Bestiary 3.44 avg rating — 3,977 ratings
7.
Butter Honey Pig Bread
Butter Honey Pig Bread 4.30 avg rating — 12,762 ratings
7.
Femme Tales
Femme Tales 3.98 avg rating — 49 ratings
9.
Exile Music
Exile Music 4.15 avg rating — 1,459 ratings
9.
The Nerves
The Nerves
by: Lee Suksi
4.16 avg rating — 68 ratings
11.
Fiebre Tropical
Fiebre Tropical 3.81 avg rating — 1,693 ratings
11.
Smut Peddler Presents: Silver
Smut Peddler Presents: Silver 4.32 avg rating — 185 ratings
13.
Pizza Girl
Pizza Girl 3.35 avg rating — 30,490 ratings
13.
Smut Peddlers: Glad Day 50
Smut Peddlers: Glad Day 50
by: Kel Hardy
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
15.
Cleanness
Cleanness 3.81 avg rating — 9,574 ratings
15.
Death Before Dessert: A Vanessa Harrington Cozy Mystery
Death Before Dessert: A Vanessa Harrington Cozy Mystery 4.01 avg rating — 247 ratings
17.
Neotenica
Neotenica 3.65 avg rating — 244 ratings
17.
Find Me When I'm Lost (Charlie Mack Motown Mystery, #5)
Find Me When I'm Lost (Charlie Mack Motown Mystery, #5) 4.11 avg rating — 83 ratings
19.
Real Life
Real Life 3.79 avg rating — 36,470 ratings
19.
Fortune Favors the Dead (Pentecost and Parker, #1)
Fortune Favors the Dead (Pentecost and Parker, #1) 4.02 avg rating — 10,926 ratings
21.
Shuggie Bain
Shuggie Bain 4.30 avg rating — 180,976 ratings
21.
I Hope You're Listening
I Hope You're Listening
by: Tom Ryan
3.83 avg rating — 3,046 ratings
23.
This Town Sleeps
This Town Sleeps 3.52 avg rating — 1,801 ratings
23.
Vera Kelly Is Not A Mystery
Vera Kelly Is Not A Mystery 3.87 avg rating — 2,229 ratings
25.
Catherine House
Catherine House 3.12 avg rating — 28,035 ratings
26.
How Much of These Hills Is Gold
How Much of These Hills Is Gold 3.78 avg rating — 25,965 ratings
27.
Silence Is My Mother Tongue
Silence Is My Mother Tongue 3.81 avg rating — 1,074 ratings
27.
The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water
The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water
by: Zen Cho
3.61 avg rating — 7,264 ratings
29.
Take a Hint, Dani Brown (The Brown Sisters, #2)
Take a Hint, Dani Brown (The Brown Sisters, #2) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 108,396 ratings
29.
The Silence of the Wilting Skin
The Silence of the Wilting Skin 3.18 avg rating — 244 ratings
31.
You Exist Too Much
You Exist Too Much 3.63 avg rating — 20,642 ratings
31.
Subcutanean
Subcutanean 4.25 avg rating — 326 ratings
33.
Finna (LitenVerse, #1)
Finna (LitenVerse, #1) 3.64 avg rating — 12,074 ratings
33.
Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World (Sexual Cultures, 53)
Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World (Sexual Cultures, 53) 4.44 avg rating — 156 ratings
35.
The Seep
The Seep 3.65 avg rating — 8,725 ratings
35.
Information Activism: A Queer History of Lesbian Media Technologies
Information Activism: A Queer History of Lesbian Media Technologies 4.43 avg rating — 46 ratings
37.
The Subtweet
The Subtweet 3.68 avg rating — 4,046 ratings
37.
The Sense of Brown (Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe)
The Sense of Brown (Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe) 4.43 avg rating — 54 ratings
39.
The Thirty Names of Night
The Thirty Names of Night 4.02 avg rating — 5,056 ratings
39.
The Sex Obsession: Perversity and Possibility in American Politics
The Sex Obsession: Perversity and Possibility in American Politics 3.69 avg rating — 16 ratings
41.
Trans-Galactic Bike Ride: Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction Stories of Transgender and Nonbinary Adventurers
Trans-Galactic Bike Ride: Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction Stories of Transgender and Nonbinary Adventurers 4.08 avg rating — 272 ratings
42.
Terroir: Love, Out of Place
Terroir: Love, Out of Place 4.26 avg rating — 34 ratings
43.
The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia
The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia 3.12 avg rating — 6,341 ratings
44.
This Is Major: Notes on Diana Ross, Dark Girls, and Being Dope
This Is Major: Notes on Diana Ross, Dark Girls, and Being Dope 4.30 avg rating — 863 ratings
45.
The Wanting Was a Wilderness: Cheryl Strayed's Wild and the Art of Memoir
The Wanting Was a Wilderness: Cheryl Strayed's Wild and the Art of Memoir 4.54 avg rating — 87 ratings
46.
Wow, No Thank You.: Essays
Wow, No Thank You.: Essays 3.81 avg rating — 46,930 ratings
47.
The Black Trans Prayer Book
The Black Trans Prayer Book 4.50 avg rating — 22 ratings
48.
Fairest: A Memoir
Fairest: A Memoir 3.74 avg rating — 1,932 ratings
49.
The Freezer Door
The Freezer Door 4.21 avg rating — 486 ratings
50.
Nepantla Squared: Transgender Mestiz@ Histories in Times of Global Shift
Nepantla Squared: Transgender Mestiz@ Histories in Times of Global Shift really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 9 ratings
51.
Trans Care
Trans Care 4.36 avg rating — 472 ratings
52.
All The Young Men
All The Young Men 4.49 avg rating — 8,708 ratings
53.
An Excess of Quiet: Selected Sketches by Gustavo Ojeda, 1979-1989
An Excess of Quiet: Selected Sketches by Gustavo Ojeda, 1979-1989 it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
54.
Forget Burial: HIV Kinship, Disability, and Queer/Trans Narratives of Care
Forget Burial: HIV Kinship, Disability, and Queer/Trans Narratives of Care 4.13 avg rating — 23 ratings
55.
The Lexington Six: Lesbian and Gay Resistance in 1970s America
The Lexington Six: Lesbian and Gay Resistance in 1970s America 4.27 avg rating — 11 ratings
56.
The Lonely Letters
The Lonely Letters 4.43 avg rating — 54 ratings
57.
Daylight
Daylight 4.44 avg rating — 318 ratings
58.
Devil's Lake
Devil's Lake 3.69 avg rating — 93 ratings
59.
Flèche
Flèche 4.22 avg rating — 1,294 ratings
60.
Funeral Diva
Funeral Diva 4.26 avg rating — 332 ratings
61.
: once teeth bones coral :
: once teeth bones coral : 4.27 avg rating — 15 ratings
62.
Fantasia for the Man in Blue
Fantasia for the Man in Blue 4.03 avg rating — 132 ratings
63.
Guillotine: Poems
Guillotine: Poems 4.34 avg rating — 838 ratings
64.
The Malevolent Volume
The Malevolent Volume 4.05 avg rating — 307 ratings
65.
Sacrament of Bodies
Sacrament of Bodies 4.33 avg rating — 121 ratings
66.
Thanksgiving: A Poem
Thanksgiving: A Poem
by: Ted Rees
4.76 avg rating — 17 ratings
67.
Birthright
Birthright 4.53 avg rating — 163 ratings
68.
One God at a Time
One God at a Time 4.74 avg rating — 19 ratings
69.
Salt Body Shimmer
Salt Body Shimmer 4.72 avg rating — 40 ratings
70.
sick
sick
by: Jody Chan
4.68 avg rating — 47 ratings
71.
Wild Peach
Wild Peach 4.72 avg rating — 43 ratings
72.
Greyhound
Greyhound 4.44 avg rating — 36 ratings
73.
I love you and I’m not dead
I love you and I’m not dead 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings
74.
More Than Organs
More Than Organs 4.35 avg rating — 161 ratings
75.
The Nancy Reagan Collection
The Nancy Reagan Collection 4.54 avg rating — 41 ratings
76.
Theories of Performance
Theories of Performance 4.50 avg rating — 14 ratings
77.
And the Walls Come Crumbling Down
And the Walls Come Crumbling Down 4.14 avg rating — 224 ratings
78.
The Change: My Great American, Postindustrial, Midlife Crisis Tour
The Change: My Great American, Postindustrial, Midlife Crisis Tour 3.63 avg rating — 19 ratings
79.
Lady Romeo: The Radical and Revolutionary Life of Charlotte Cushman, America's First Celebrity
Lady Romeo: The Radical and Revolutionary Life of Charlotte Cushman, America's First Celebrity 3.83 avg rating — 294 ratings
80.
My Autobiography of Carson McCullers
My Autobiography of Carson McCullers 4.08 avg rating — 2,753 ratings
81.
Practicing for Love: A Memoir
Practicing for Love: A Memoir 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
82.
A Dutiful Boy
A Dutiful Boy 4.56 avg rating — 3,311 ratings
83.
Here for It; Or, How to Save Your Soul in America: Essays
Here for It; Or, How to Save Your Soul in America: Essays 4.02 avg rating — 13,315 ratings
84.
A History of My Brief Body
A History of My Brief Body 4.18 avg rating — 5,389 ratings
85.
The Man Who Ate Too Much: The Life of James Beard
The Man Who Ate Too Much: The Life of James Beard 3.34 avg rating — 1,190 ratings
86.
Officer Clemmons
Officer Clemmons 3.94 avg rating — 1,712 ratings
87.
Finding Jessica Lambert
Finding Jessica Lambert 4.36 avg rating — 2,884 ratings
88.
Nottingham: The True Story of Robyn Hood
Nottingham: The True Story of Robyn Hood 4.26 avg rating — 1,603 ratings
89.
One More Chance
One More Chance
by: Ali Vali
4.01 avg rating — 602 ratings
90.
Written in the Stars (Written in the Stars, #1)
Written in the Stars (Written in the Stars, #1) 3.85 avg rating — 62,729 ratings
91.
Finding Joy
Finding Joy 3.98 avg rating — 901 ratings
92.
Flower of Iowa
Flower of Iowa 4.36 avg rating — 83 ratings
93.
The Ghost and Charlie Muir
The Ghost and Charlie Muir 3.89 avg rating — 1,210 ratings
94.
Ink and Ice
Ink and Ice 3.64 avg rating — 144 ratings
95.
Two Rogues Make a Right (Seducing the Sedgwicks, #3)
Two Rogues Make a Right (Seducing the Sedgwicks, #3) 4.01 avg rating — 5,080 ratings
96.
Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement
Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement 4.52 avg rating — 1,629 ratings
97.
Glitter + Ashes: Queer Tales of a World That Wouldn’t Die
Glitter + Ashes: Queer Tales of a World That Wouldn’t Die
by: Dave Ring
4.04 avg rating — 97 ratings
98.
Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction
Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction 4.16 avg rating — 2,306 ratings
99.
Non-Binary Lives - An Anthology of Intersecting Identities
Non-Binary Lives - An Anthology of Intersecting Identities
by: Jos Twist
4.22 avg rating — 397 ratings
100.
We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics
We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics 4.43 avg rating — 428 ratings
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