29th Lambda Literary Awards

• , When Watched
• Martin Hyatt, Beautiful Gravity

• , I Have Devoted My Life to the Clitoris
• Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli and , Women in Relationships With Bisexual Men: Bi Men By Women
• , The Body’s Alphabet

No advance shortlist was released in this category; the book was listed as a Bisexual Fiction nominee in the original nomination announcement, but singled out as a Bisexual Poetry winner at the ceremony.

• , The Rope Swing
• Garth Greenwell, What Belongs to You
• Matthew Griffin, Hide
• Joe Okonkwo, Jazz Moon
• Darryl Pinckney, Black Deutschland
• Sarah Schulman, The Cosmopolitans
• Sjón, Moonstone

• Brian Blanchfield, Proxies
• Augusten Burroughs, Lust & Wonder
• Garrard Conley, Boy Erased: A Memoir
• Joseph Osmundson, Capsid: A Love Song
• , One Man Show: The Life and Art of Bernard Perlin
• Will Schwalbe, Books For Living
• Frederic Spotts, Cursed Legacy: The Tragic Life of Klaus Mann

• , Homo Superiors
• Janice Law, Nights in Berlin
• , Bitter Legacy
• Michael Nava, Lay Your Sleeping Head

• , Trouble the Water
• , DIG
• Sjohnna McCray, Rapture
• Rajiv Mohabir, The Taxidermist’s Cut
• Ocean Vuong, Night Sky with Exit Wounds
• , Primer
• C. Dale Young, The Halo

• , Rank
• , Caught Inside
• Alexis Hall, Pansies
• , Adulting 101
• , Rented Heart
• , Country
• , Femme

• , Bull & Other Stories
• , Tears in the Grass
• Lucy Jane Bledsoe, A Thin Bright Line
• , Pretend I’m Your Friend
• , The Day After Death
• Cathleen Schine, They May Not Mean To, But They Do
• Jacqueline Woodson, Another Brooklyn

• Ma-Nee Chacaby, A Two-Spirit Journey: The Autobiography of a Lesbian Ojibwa-Cree Elder
• Christina Crosby, A Body, Undone: Living On After Great Pain
• Tig Notaro, I‘m Just a Person
• , Indomitable: The Life of Barbara Grier

• , Final Cut
• , Collide-O-Scope
• Jessie Chandler, Blood Money Murder
• , Walk-in
• , Bury Me When I’m Dead
• , Under Contract
• , Requiem for Immortals

• , Swarm Queen’s Crown
• Etel Adnan, Night
• Donika Kelly, Bestiary
• Stacy Szymaszek, Sinister Wisdom/A Midsummer Night’s Press Journal of Ugly Sites
• Vi Khi Nao, The Old Philosopher
• Arisa White, You’re the Most Beautiful Thing That Happened

• , Lost in the Starlight
• , Little Lies
• , Finding Lizzie
• , The Liberators of Willow Run
• , Perfect Pairing
• Susan Wittig Albert, Loving Eleanor
• , Coils

• and , Building Fires in the Snow: A Collection of Alaska LGBTQ Short Fiction and Poetry
• , Queer
• E. Patrick Johnson, No Tea, No Shade: New Writings in Black Queer Studies
• Jon Macy and , ALPHABET: The LGBTQAIU Creators from Prism Comics

• , Symptoms of Being Human
• C. B. Lee, Not Your Sidekick
• Marie Lu, The Midnight Star
• , Teen Gravity
• , Beast
• Krystal Sutherland, Our Chemical Hearts
• John Corey Whaley, Highly Illogical Behavior

• Lois Fine, Freda and Jem’s Best of the Week
• Topher Payne, Perfect Arrangement

• , Steel and Promise
• , Skyscraper
• , Camp Rewind
• and , Roped In

• and , Active Voice The Comic Collection: The Real Life Adventures Of An Asian-American, Lesbian, Feminist, Activist And Her Friends
• and (tr. ), The Case of Alan Turing: The Extraordinary and Tragic Story of the Legendary Codebreaker

• , and Skira Rizzoli, Gay Gotham: Art and Underground Culture in New York
• , The Estrangement Principle
• , Ghost Faces: Hollywood and Post-Millennial Masculinity
• Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity
• , The Feminist Bookstore Movement: Lesbian Antiracism and Feminist Accountability
• Sarah Schulman, Conflict Is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility and the Duty of Repair
• Jurek Wajdowicz, Pride & Joy: Taking the Streets of New York City

• Michael Thomas Ford, Lily
• Andrea Hairston, Will Do Magic for Small Change
• , All Good Children
• , Irish Black
• , A Little Queermas Carol
• , Rasheedah Phillips, and , Style of Attack Report
• A. C. Wise, Kissing Booth Girl

• Qwo-Li Driskill, Asegi Stories: Cherokee Queer and Two Spirit Memory
• , Out in the Periphery: Latin America’s Gay Rights Revolution
• Jonathan Goldberg, Melodrama: An Aesthetics of Impossibility
• Andrew Jolivette, Indian Blood: HIV and Colonial Trauma in San Francisco’s Two-Spirit Community
• , Not Straight, Not White: Black Gay Men From The March on Washington to the AIDS Crisis
• , Queer Clout: Chicago and the Rise of Gay Politics
• Gregory Woods, Homintern: How Gay Culture Liberated the Modern World

• Kai Cheng Thom, Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl's Confabulous Memoir
• Meredith Russo, If I Was Your Girl

• Chase Joynt and Mike Hoolboom, You Only Live Twice: Sex, Death and Transition
• , Outside the XY: Black and Brown Queer Masculinity
• , Trunky (Transgender Junky): A Memoir
• Julia Serano, Outspoken: A Decade of Transgender Activism and Trans Feminism

• Cameron Awkward-Rich, Sympathetic Little Monster
• Jos Charles, Safe Space
• , The Romance of Siam: A Pocket Guide
• Vivek Shraya, even this page is white