32nd Annual Lambda Awards Finalists

LGBTQ SF/F/Horror

• Stories to Sing in the Dark, Matthew Bright (Lethe)
• The Rampant, Julie C. Day (Aqueduct)
• A Spectral Hue, Craig Laurance Gidney (Word Horde)
• Black Leopard, Red Wolf, Marlon James (Riverhead)
• False Bingo, Jac Jemc (MCD x FSG Originals)
• Wake, Siren, Nina MacLaughlin (FSG Originals)
• The Priory of the Orange Tree, Samantha Shannon (Bloomsbury)
• The Deep, Rivers Solomon, Daveed Diggs, William Hutson & Jonathan Snipes (Saga)

Gay Fiction

• The Archive of Alternate Endings, Lindsey Drager (Dzanc)
• Murmur, Will Eaves (Bellevue)
• Lord, João Gilberto Noll (Two Lines)
• Lot, Bryan Washington (Riverhead)

LGBTQ Comics

• Is This How You See Me?, Jaime Hernandez (Fantagraphics)
• Are You Listening?, Tillie Walden (First Second)

Transgender Fiction

• Poet, Prophet, Fox: The Tale of Sinnach the Seer, M.Z. McDonnell (Moose Maple)
• Honey Walls, Bones McKay (McKay & Gray)
• The Beatrix Gates, Rachel Pollack (PM)
• The Trans Space Octopus Congregation, Bogi Takács (Lethe)

LGBTQ Nonfiction

• In the Dream House, Carmen Maria Machado (Graywolf)

Lesbian Mystery

• The Mirror of Muraro, Amelia Ellis (NPI)
• The Hound of Justice, Claire O’Dell (Harper Voyager)

Lesbian Romance

• Aurora’s Angel, Emily Noon (Bluefire)

LGBTQ Children’s/Young Adult

• Pet, Akwaeke Emezi (Make Me a World)
• Wilder Girls, Rory Power (Delacorte)
• The Grief Keeper, Alexandra Villasante (Putnam)

LGBTQ Erotica

• Lot’s Wife, Rosalind Chase (Under Hill)