34th Annual Lambda Awards Finalists
The Lambda Literary Foundation has announced finalists for the 34th Annual Lambda Literary Awards (the “Lammys”), celebrating “the best lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender books.” Nominees of genre interest follow.
Bisexual Fiction
- Blue-Skinned Gods, SJ Sindu (Soho)
Gay Fiction
- My Good Son, Yang Huang (University of New Orleans)
Lesbian Fiction
- How to Wrestle a Girl, Venita Blackburn (MCDxFSG)
- Matrix, Lauren Groff (Riverhead)
Transgender Fiction
- Detransition, Baby, Torrey Peters (One World)
- Margaret and the Mystery of the Missing Body, Megan Milks (Feminist)
- She Who Became the Sun, Shelley Parker-Chan (Tor)
Gay Romance
- Best of the Wrong Reasons, Sander Santiago (Bold Strokes)
LGBTQ Young Adult
- The City Beautiful, Aden Polydoros, (Harlequin)
- What We Devour, Linsey Miller (Sourcebooks)
LGBTQ Comics
- Shadow Life, written by Hiromi Goto, illustrated by Ann Xu (First Second)
- Thirsty Mermaids, Kat Leyh (Gallery 13)
LGBTQ Speculative Fiction
- A Desolation Called Peace, Arkady Martine (Tor)
- Breeder, Honni van Rijswijk (Blackstone)
- No Gods, No Monsters, Cadwell Turnbull (Blackstone)
- Phototaxis, Olivia Tapiero, translated by Kit Schluter (Nightboat)
- The Tensorate Series, Neon Yang (Tordotcom)
The awards will be presented during the virtual 34th Annual Lambda Literary Awards Ceremony to be held June 11, 2022.
For more information, including complete finalists lists, see the Lambda Literary website.
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