Lambda Literary Award2024

Given by Lambda Literary Foundation

Other Names: Lammies
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Lambda Literary Awards (also known as the "Lammies") are awarded yearly by the US-based Lambda Literary Foundation to published works which celebrate or explore LGBT themes. Categories include show more Humor, Romance and Biography. To qualify, a book must have been published in the United States in the year current to the award. The Lambda Literary Foundation states that its mission is "to celebrate LGBT literature and provide resources for writers, readers, booksellers, publishers, and librarians - the whole literary community." The awards were instituted in 1988.

In determining whether a book should be submitted for consideration, the Lambda Literary Awards are based principally on the LGBT content of the work. The sexual orientation of the author is secondary. show less
Stages:
All, Winner (790), Finalist (2,139), Nominee (1,410)
Categories:
All, 100 Best Lesbian/Gay Books of the 20th Century (1), AIDS (15), Anthology (11), Anthology/Fiction (52), Anthology/Nonfiction (47), Arts & Culture (7), Autobiography (5), Autobiography/Memoir (15), Belles Lettres (5), Biography (25), Bisexual (16), Bisexual Fiction (70), Bisexual Literature (10), Bisexual Nonfiction (55), Bisexual Poetry (33), Children's/Young Adult (86), Drama (52), Editor's Choice (12), Erotica (23), Gay Biography/Autobiography (1), Gay Debut Fiction (24), Gay Erotica (37), Gay Fiction (73), Gay General Fiction (43), Gay Memoir/Biography (107), Gay Men's Anthology (18), Gay Men's Biography/Autobiography (38), Gay Men's Debut Fiction (30), Gay Men's Erotica (2), Gay Men's Fiction (94), Gay Men's Memoir (5), Gay Men's Mystery (85), Gay Men's Mystery/Science Fiction (5), Gay Men's Nonfiction (25), Gay Men's Poetry (79), Gay Men's Romance (5), Gay Men's SF/Fantasy (21), Gay Men's Small Press (10), Gay Men's Studies (38), Gay Men’s Debut Fiction (1), Gay Mystery (89), Gay Poetry (101), Gay Romance (103), Humor (86), LGBT Anthologies (5), LGBT Anthology (49), LGBT Children's/Young Adult (51), LGBT Debut (8), LGBT Debut Fiction (28), LGBT Drama (36), LGBT Erotica (6), LGBT Graphic Novel (3), LGBT Graphic Novels (10), LGBT Nonfiction (58), LGBT Poetry (6), LGBT SF/F/Horror (15), LGBT SF/Fantasy/Horror (15), LGBT Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror (10), LGBT Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror (18), LGBT Studies (89), LGBTQ Anthology (38), LGBTQ Children's/Middle Grade (10), LGBTQ Children's/Young Adult (32), LGBTQ Comics (10), LGBTQ Drama (17), LGBTQ Erotica (29), LGBTQ Graphic Novels (20), LGBTQ Mystery (10), LGBTQ Nonfiction (42), LGBTQ SF/F/Horror (36), LGBTQ Speculative Fiction (5), LGBTQ Studies (42), LGBTQ Young Adult (10), LGBTQ+ Anthology (9), LGBTQ+ Children's Books (10), LGBTQ+ Comics (10), LGBTQ+ Drama (7), LGBTQ+ Middle Grade (10), LGBTQ+ Mystery (10), LGBTQ+ Nonfiction (10), LGBTQ+ Poetry (3), LGBTQ+ Romance and Erotica (10), LGBTQ+ Speculative Fiction (10), LGBTQ+ Studies (10), LGBTQ+ Young Adult (10), Lesbian Anthology (18), Lesbian Biography/Autobiography (38), Lesbian Debut Fiction (53), Lesbian Erotica (32), Lesbian Fiction (165), Lesbian Fiction and Lesbian SF/Fantasy (1), Lesbian Fiction and Lesbian Small Press (1), Lesbian General Fiction (40), Lesbian Memoir (2), Lesbian Memoir/Biography (98), Lesbian Mystery (169), Lesbian Mystery/Science Fiction (4), Lesbian Nonfiction (21), Lesbian Poetry (181), Lesbian Romance (118), Lesbian SF/Fantasy (19), Lesbian Small Press (9), Lesbian Studies (38), Nonfiction (14), Photography/Visual Arts (50), Poetry (9), Publisher's Service Award (1), Religion/Spirituality (15), Romance (24), Science Fiction/Fantasy (67), Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror (1), Small Press (50), Spirituality (36), Spirituality/Religion (10), Transgender (51), Transgender Fiction (60), Transgender Non-Fiction (7), Transgender Nonfiction (55), Transgender Poetry (41), Transgender/Bisexual (3), Transgender/Genderqueer (10), Young Adult/Children's (5), No Category (2)
Years:
All, 2024 (121), 2023 (124), 2022 (116), 2021 (115), 2020 (160), 2019 (168), 2018 (154), 2017 (144), 2016 (155), 2015 (150), 2014 (183), 2013 (144), 2012 (117), 2011 (115), 2010 (115), 2009 (104), 2007 (109), 2006 (107), 2005 (102), 2004 (106), 2003 (95), 2002 (89), 2001 (96), 2000 (94), 1999 (94), 1998 (94), 1997 (92), 1996 (97), 1995 (96), 1994 (87), 1993 (82), 1992 (71), 1991 (72), 1990 (88), 1989 (81), 1988 (57)
Announced:
March 27: Finalist2024 Recent

Finalist 121

WorkCategoryYear
Natural Beauty by Ling Ling HuangBisexual Fiction2024
Old Enough by Haley JakobsonBisexual Fiction2024
Last Night at the Hollywood Canteen: A Novel by Sarah JamesBisexual Fiction2024
All-Night Pharmacy by Ruth MadievskyBisexual Fiction2024
Endpapers by Jennifer Savran KellyBisexual Fiction2024
Crying Wolf: A Memoir by Eden BoudreauBisexual Nonfiction2024
Nimrods: a fake-punk self-hurt anti-memoir by Kawika GuillermoBisexual Nonfiction2024
Creep: Accusations and Confessions by Myriam GurbaBisexual Nonfiction2024
Bisexual Men Exist: A Handbook for Bisexual, Pansexual and M-spec Men by Vaneet MehtaBisexual Nonfiction2024
Boyslut: A Memoir and Manifesto by Zachary ZaneBisexual Nonfiction2024
A Film in Which I Play Everyone: Poems by Mary Jo BangBisexual Poetry2024
Desire Museum (American Poets Continuum Series, 202) by Danielle Cadena DeulenBisexual Poetry2024
Ephemera (Button Poetry) by Sierra DeMulderBisexual Poetry2024
Impersonal Rainbow and The Bisexual Purge by Paul KillebrewBisexual Poetry2024
Good Grief, the Ground by Margaret RayBisexual Poetry2024
American Scholar by Patrick E. HorriganGay Fiction2024
I Will Greet the Sun Again: A Novel by Khashayar J. KhabushaniGay Fiction2024
Brother & Sister Enter the Forest by Richard MirabellaGay Fiction2024
Blackouts by Justin TorresGay Fiction2024
Family Meal by Bryan WashingtonGay Fiction2024
Leading Lady: A Memoir of a Most Unusual Boy by Charles BuschGay Memoir/Biography2024
Reaching ninety by Martin DubermanGay Memoir/Biography2024
Mother, Nature: A 5,000-Mile Journey to Discover if a Mother and Son Can Survive Their Differences by Jedidiah JenkinsGay Memoir/Biography2024
Leg: The Story of a Limb and the Boy Who Grew from It by Greg MarshallGay Memoir/Biography2024
Tweakerworld: A Memoir by Jason YamasGay Memoir/Biography2024
Homeland of My Body: New and Selected Poems by Richard BlancoGay Poetry2024
What We Lost in the Swamp: Poems by Grant ChemidlinGay Poetry2024
Trace Evidence by Charif ShanahanGay Poetry2024
Love(ly) Child by Emanuel XavierGay Poetry2024
The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen by KJ CharlesGay Romance2024
The Art of Husbandry: A Mackenzie Country Story by Jay HoganGay Romance2024
Dionysus in Wisconsin (Wisconsin Gothic Book 1) by E. H. LuptonGay Romance2024
We Could Be So Good by Cat SebastianGay Romance2024
Mistletoe & Mishigas by M. A. WardellGay Romance2024
Big Swiss by Jen BeaginLesbian Fiction2024
Organ Meats: A Novel by K-Ming ChangLesbian Fiction2024
Biography of X by Catherine LaceyLesbian Fiction2024
Pomegranate by Helen Elaine LeeLesbian Fiction2024
Our Hideous Progeny by C.E. McGillLesbian Fiction2024
Why Willie Mae Thornton Matters by Lynnée DeniseLesbian Memoir/Biography2024
Hijab Butch Blues: A Memoir by Lamya H.Lesbian Memoir/Biography2024
Suicide: The Autoimmune Disorder of the Psyche by Vi Khi NaoLesbian Memoir/Biography2024
Lesbian Love Story: A Memoir In Archives by Amelia PossanzaLesbian Memoir/Biography2024
To Name the Bigger Lie: A Memoir in Two Stories by Sarah VirenLesbian Memoir/Biography2024
Dream of Xibalba by Stephanie Adams-SantosLesbian Poetry2024
Because You Were Mine by Brionne JanaeLesbian Poetry2024
Ardor by Alyse KnorrLesbian Poetry2024
Couplets: A Love Story by Maggie MillnerLesbian Poetry2024
Dance with Me by Georgia BeersLesbian Romance2024
Lucky in Lace by Melissa BraydenLesbian Romance2024
Catch by Kris BryantLesbian Romance2024
Love at 350°: A Novel by Lisa PeersLesbian Romance2024
A Lady To Treasure by Marianne RatcliffeLesbian Romance2024
Being Ace: An Anthology of Queer, Trans, Femme, and Disabled Stories of Asexual Love and Connection by Linsey MillerLGBTQ+ Anthology2024
A Pill for Promiscuity: Gay Sex in an Age of Pharmaceuticals (Q+ Public) by Andrew R. SpieldennerLGBTQ+ Anthology2024
Rosalind's Siblings: Fiction and Poetry Celebrating Scientists of Marginalized Genders by Bogi TakácsLGBTQ+ Anthology2024
2 Trans 2 Furious by Tuck WoodstockLGBTQ+ Anthology2024
The Wishing Flower by AJ IrvingLGBTQ+ Children's Books2024
The Apartment House on Poppy Hill by Nina LaCourLGBTQ+ Children's Books2024
Gender Identity for Kids: A Book About Finding Yourself, Understanding Others, and Respecting Everybody! by Andy PasschierLGBTQ+ Children's Books2024
Door by Door: How Sarah McBride Became America's First Openly Transgender Senator by Meeg PincusLGBTQ+ Children's Books2024
Grandad's Pride (Grandad's Camper) by Harry WoodgateLGBTQ+ Children's Books2024
The Chromatic Fantasy by H ALGBTQ+ Comics2024
A Guest in the House by Emily CarrollLGBTQ+ Comics2024
Belle of the Ball by Mari CostaLGBTQ+ Comics2024
Blackward by Lawrence LindellLGBTQ+ Comics2024
Roaming by Jillian TamakiLGBTQ+ Comics2024
Fat Ham by James IjamesLGBTQ+ Drama2024
For Both Resting and Breeding by Adam MeisnerLGBTQ+ Drama2024
I Wanna Fuck Like Romeo and Juliet by RincónLGBTQ+ Drama2024
Dear Mothman by Robin GowLGBTQ+ Middle Grade2024
Ellie Engle Saves Herself by Leah JohnsonLGBTQ+ Middle Grade2024
Matteo by Michael LealiLGBTQ+ Middle Grade2024
The Beautiful Something Else by Ash Van OtterlooLGBTQ+ Middle Grade2024
Just Lizzie by Karen WilfridLGBTQ+ Middle Grade2024
A Calculated Risk by Cari HunterLGBTQ+ Mystery2024
Don't Forget the Girl: A Novel by Rebecca McKannaLGBTQ+ Mystery2024
Where the Dead Sleep: A Novel (Ben Packard Book 2) by Joshua MoehlingLGBTQ+ Mystery2024
Transitory by J. M. RedmannLGBTQ+ Mystery2024
The Good Ones by Polly StewartLGBTQ+ Mystery2024
Hi Honey, I'm Homo! Sitcoms, Specials, and the Queering of American Culture by Matt BaumeLGBTQ+ Nonfiction2024
Black on Black: On Our Resilience and Brilliance in America by Daniel BlackLGBTQ+ Nonfiction2024
Glitter and Concrete: A Cultural History of Drag in New York City by Elyssa Maxx GoodmanLGBTQ+ Nonfiction2024
Out by John SovecLGBTQ+ Nonfiction2024
Otherwise: Essays by Julie Marie WadeLGBTQ+ Nonfiction2024
Motherworld: A Devotional for the Alter-Life by Destiny HemphillLGBTQ+ Poetry2024
Toska by Alina PleskovaLGBTQ+ Poetry2024
Pig: Poems by Sam SaxLGBTQ+ Poetry2024
Chef's Choice by T.j. AlexanderLGBTQ+ Romance and Erotica2024
The Fiancee Farce by Alexandria BellefleurLGBTQ+ Romance and Erotica2024
Iris Kelly Doesn't Date by Ashley Herring BlakeLGBTQ+ Romance and Erotica2024
Fly With Me by Andie BurkeLGBTQ+ Romance and Erotica2024
A Tight Squeeze: Smutty Trans and Queer Stories (Queering Consent) by Laura QLGBTQ+ Romance and Erotica2024
The Archive Undying by Emma Mieko CandonLGBTQ+ Speculative Fiction2024
The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra ChandrasekeraLGBTQ+ Speculative Fiction2024
I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself by Marisa CraneLGBTQ+ Speculative Fiction2024
The Thick and the Lean by Chana PorterLGBTQ+ Speculative Fiction2024
Bang Bang Bodhisattva by Aubrey WoodLGBTQ+ Speculative Fiction2024
Queer Career: Sexuality and Work in Modern America by Margot CanadayLGBTQ+ Studies2024
The Sexual Politics of Empire: Postcolonial Homophobia in Haiti (NWSA / UIP First Book Prize) by Erin L. DurbanLGBTQ+ Studies2024
Care without Pathology by Christoph HanssmannLGBTQ+ Studies2024
Ambivalent Affinities: A Political History of Blackness and Homosexuality after World War II by Jennifer Dominique JonesLGBTQ+ Studies2024
Sexuality and the Rise of China: The Post-1990s Gay Generation in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Mainland China by Travis S. K. KongLGBTQ+ Studies2024
Pritty by Keith F. Miller Jr.LGBTQ+ Young Adult2024
Only This Beautiful Moment by Abdi NazemianLGBTQ+ Young Adult2024
The Wicked Bargain by Gabe Cole NovoaLGBTQ+ Young Adult2024
Cold Girls by Maxine RaeLGBTQ+ Young Adult2024
That Self-Same Metal by Brittany N. WilliamsLGBTQ+ Young Adult2024
Trash by Sylvia Aguilar-ZelenyTransgender Fiction2024
The Rage Letters by Valérie BahTransgender Fiction2024
Bellies by Nicola DinanTransgender Fiction2024
Wild Geese by Soula EmmanuelTransgender Fiction2024
Girlfriends by Emily ZhouTransgender Fiction2024
Tar Hollow Trans: Essays (Appalachian Futures Black Native & Queer Voices) by Stacy Jane GroverTransgender Nonfiction2024
Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary by Toshio MeronekTransgender Nonfiction2024
On Community (Field Notes, 8) by Casey PlettTransgender Nonfiction2024
Transland: Consent, Kink, and Pleasure by Mx. SlyTransgender Nonfiction2024
Love and Money, Sex and Death by McKenzie WarkTransgender Nonfiction2024
Portraits as Animal: Poems by Victoriano CárdenasTransgender Poetry2024
Short Film Starring My Beloved’s Red Bronco: Poems (Ballard Spahr Prize for Poetry) by K. IverTransgender Poetry2024
Hood Vacations by michal mj jonesTransgender Poetry2024

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