The finalists for the 37th Lambda Literary Awards, which honor works of LGBTQ+ literature published in 2024, were announced on July 30, 2025. The virtual awards ceremony announcing the winners took place on October 4, 2025. It was hosted from Charlie's Queer Books in Seattle, Washington.
Nominees and winners +37th Lambda Literary Awards winners and finalistsCategoryAuthorTitlePublisherResultBisexual FictionMuriel LeungHow To Fall in Love in a Time of Unnameable DisasterW. W. Norton & CompanyWinnerAugust ThompsonAnyone's GhostPenguin PressFinalistRebecca K ReillyGreta & Valdin Simon & SchusterCasey McQuistonThe Pairing: Special 1st EditionSt. Martin's GriffinKimberly King ParsonsWe Were the UniverseAlfred A. KnopfBisexual NonfictionDesiree AkhavanYou're Embarrassing YourselfRandom HouseWinnerJon MacyDjuna: The Extraordinary Life of Djuna BarnesStreet Noise BooksFinalistLilly DancygerFirst Love: Essays on FriendshipThe Dial PressRebecca OrchantSimmering: A Kitchen MemoirUnbound Edition PressMorgan ParkerYou Get What You Pay For One World Bisexual PoetryJeddie SophroniusInterrogation RecordsGaudy BoyWinnerBrittany RogersGood DressTin HouseFinalistDorothy ChanReturn of the Chinese Femme Deep VellumNathan MaderThe Endless Animalfine. pressNiki HerdThe Stuff of HollywoodCopper Canyon PressGay FictionAllen BrattonHenry HenryUnnamed PressWinnerJiaming TangCinema LoveDuttonFinalistThomas GrattanIn Tongues MCDPol Guasch; translated by Mara Faye LethemNapalm in the Heart FSG OriginalsAlan HollinghurstOur EveningsRandom HouseGay Memoir/ BiographyBrad GoochRADIANT: The Life and Line of Keith HaringHarperCollinsWinnerDarius StewartBe Not Afraid of My Body: A Lyrical MemoirBelt PublishingFinalistKomail AijazuddinManboobs: A Memoir of Musicals, Visas, Hope, and CakeHarry N. AbramsMichael NottThom Gunn Farrar, Straus and GirouxMichael G. LeeWhen the Band Played On Chicago Review Press Gay PoetrySaúl HernándezHow to Kill a Goat and Other MonstersUniversity of Wisconsin PressWinnerJoshua GarciaPentimentoBlack Lawrence PressFinalistBlas FalconerRara AvisFour Way BooksCarl PhillipsScattered Snows, to the NorthFarrar, Straus and GirouxOkwudili NebeolisaTerminal MaladiesAutumn House PressGay RomanceBenjamin S. GrossbergThe Spring Before Obergefell: A NovelUniversity of Nebraska PressWinnerJem WendelIt Takes Three To Tango Larking About PressFinalistLogan Sage AdamsOur Own LightSelf-published William LeetOutside the WireFlashpoint PublicationsPhilip EllisWe Could Be Heroes Penguin Random HouseLesbian FictionYael van der WoudenThe SafekeepAvid Reader Press | Simon & SchusterWinnerVenita BlackburnDead in Long Beach, CaliforniaMCDFinalistEmma Copley EisenbergHousematesHogarthMelissa MogollonOyeHogarthMaggie ThrashRainbow Black HarperCollinsLesbian Memoir/ BiographySandra Gail LambertMy Withered Legs and Other EssaysUniversity of Georgia PressWinnerNikkya HargroveMama: A Queer Black Woman's Story of a Family Lost and Found Little, Brown & CompanyFinalistJulie DelportePortrait of a BodyDrawn & QuarterlyJulie Marie WadeThe Mary YearsTRP: The University Press of SHSUErica N. CardwellWrong is Not My NameThe Feminist PressLesbian PoetryOmotara JamesSong of My SofteningAlice James BooksWinnerSaretta MorganAlt-NatureCoffee House PressFinalistTanya OlsonBorn BackwardsYesYes BooksKossDancing Backwards Towards PluperfectDiode EditionsDawn Lundy MartinInstructions for the Lovers Nightboat BooksRae GouirandThe Velvet BookCornerstone PressLesbian RomanceAlison CochrunHere We Go Again Atria BooksWinnerJaeBachelorette Number TwelveYlva Publishing FinalistCarrie ByrdLoser of the YearYlva Publishing Liza WemakorLoving SafoaNeon HemlockLori G. MatthewsOutlaw HeartsBella BooksLGBTQ AnthologyRae Theodore and Nat BurnsSwagger: A Celebration of the Butch ExperienceFlashpoint PublicationsWinnerMarwan KaabourThe Queer Arab GlossarySaqi BooksFinalistRemi RecchiaTransmasculine Poetics: Filling the Gap in Literature & the Silences Around UsSundress PublicationsEdited by Rob Costello; stories by: Kalynn Bayron, David Bowles, Shae Carys, H.E. Edgmon, Michael Thomas Ford, Val Howlett, Brittany Johnson, Naomi Kanakia, Claire Kann, Jonathan Lenore Kastin, Sarah Maxfield, Sam J. Miller, Alexandra Villasante, and Merc Fenn WolfmoorWe Mostly Come Out At Night: 15 Queer Tales of Monsters, Angels & Other CreaturesRunning Press TeensDustin BrookshireWhen I Was Straight: A Tribute to Maureen Seaton Harbor Editions LGBTQ Children'sPhil Bildner; illustrated by Daniel J. O'BrienGlenn Burke, Game Changer: The Man Who Invented the High FiveFarrar, Straus and Giroux Books for Young ReadersWinnerSeamus KirstHarper Becomes a Big SisterAmerican Psychological Association Magination PressFinalistSarah Hoffman and Ian HoffmanJacob's Missing BookAmerican Psychological Association Magination PressMolly Beth Griffin; Illustrated by Anait SemirdzhyanJust UsCharlesbridgeLee Wind; illustrated by Jieting ChenLove of the Half-Eaten PeachReycraftLGBTQ ComicsLonnie GarciaPutty Pygmalion Silver SprocketWinnerMagdalene Visaggio; illustrated by Paulina GanucheauGirlmodeHarperCollins FinalistTenacity PlysSN_33P'sCoolZine.pdffifth wheel pressSarah LeavittSomething, Not Nothing: A Story of Grief and LoveArsenal Pulp PressViktor T. Kerney and William O. TylerWe Belong: An All-Black/All-Queer Sci-Fi/Fantasy Comics AnthologyStacked Deck PressLGBTQ DramaMakram AyacheThe Green Line (خطّ التماس)Playwrights Canada PressWinnerJesus I. VallesBathhouse.pptxYale University PressFinalistNick GreenCasey and DianaScirocco Drama (J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing)Karen HartmanGoldie, Max & Milk Samuel French, A Concord Theatricals imprintSarah MantellIn the Amazon Warehouse Parking LotPlaywrights HorizonsLGBTQ+ Romance and EroticaFearne HillOysterSelf-publishedWinnerColin DerehamBradford, Bru and Brendan TooSelf-published FinalistAnne ShadeLeather, Lace and LocsBold Strokes BooksJena DoyleMidsummerSelf-published Isla OlsenMr. Blue SkySelf-published LGBTQ Middle GradeElisa Stone LeahyMallory in Full ColorQuill Tree Books | HarperCollinsWinnerTaylor TracyMurray Out of Water HarperCollinsFinalistMaggie HornNoah Frye Gets CrushedHarperCollinsMarieke NijkampSplinter & Ash HarperCollinsJustine Pucella WinansWishboneBloomsburyLGBTQ MysteryKatrina CarrascoRough TradeMCDWinnerKatie SiegelCharlotte Illes is Not a TeacherKensingtonFinalistAlyssa ColeOne of Us KnowsWilliam MorrowLev A. C. RosenRough PagesTor Publishing GroupAkira Otani; translated by Sam BettThe Night of Baba YagaSoho CrimeLGBTQ NonfictionMichael WatersThe Other OlympiansFarrar, Straus and GirouxWinnerRebecca L. Davis Fierce DesiresW. W. Norton & Company FinalistDiane Ehrensaft and Michelle JurkiewiczGender Explained: A New Understanding of Identity in a Gender Creative World The ExperimentAmin GhazianiLong Live Queer Nightlife: How the Closing of Gay Bars Sparked a RevolutionPrinceton University PressGemma Rolls-BentleyQueer Art: From Canvas to Club, and the Spaces BetweenFrances LincolnLGBTQ PoetryEduardo Martínez-LeyvaCowboy ParkUniversity of Wisconsin PressWinnerJes BattisI Hate PartiesNightwood EditionsFinalistZoe WhittallNo Credit RiverBook*hug PressEmilia PhillipsNonbinary Bird of ParadiseUniversity of Akron PressCass DonishYour Dazzling DeathAlfred A. KnopfLGBTQ Speculative FictionAugust ClarkeMetal From HeavenErewhon BooksWinnerChuck TingleBury Your GaysTor Publishing GroupFinalistC.G. MalburiMarklessLevine QueridoSascha StronachThe Sunforge Simon and SchusterCaro De RobertisThe Palace of Eros Simon and SchusterLGBTQ StudiesSusan Stryker; edited by McKenzie WarkWhen Monsters Speak: A Susan Stryker ReaderDuke University PressWinnerMat FournierDysphoric Modernism: Undoing Gender in French LiteratureColumbia University PressFinalistClare CroftJill Johnston in Motion: Dance, Writing, and Lesbian LifeDuke University PressMary ZaborskisQueer Childhoods: Institutional Futures of Indigeneity, Race, and DisabilityNew York University PressMatthew H. SommerThe Fox Spirit, the Stone Maiden, and Other Transgender Histories from Late Imperial ChinaColumbia University PressLGBTQ Young AdultK. AncrumIcarusHarperCollinsWinnerLogan-Ashley KisnerOld Wounds Random House Children's BooksFinalistKamilah ColeSo Let Them BurnLittle, Brown Books for Young ReadersH. A. ClarkeThe Feast MakersErewhon BooksChatham GreenfieldTime and Time AgainBloomsburyTransgender FictionNino BullingFirebugsDrawn & QuarterlyWinnerRJ McDanielAll Things Seen and Unseen: A NovelECW PressFinalistAlvina ChamberlandLove the World or Get Killed TryingNoemi PressJune MartinLove/AggressiontRaum BooksHarman BurnsYellow Barks SpiderRadiant PressTransgender NonfictionKB BrookinsPrettyAlfred A. KnopfWinnerNico LangAmerican Teenager: How Trans Kids Are Surviving Hate and Finding Joy in a Turbulent EraHarry N. AbramsFinalistVera BlossomHow to Fuck Like a GirlDOPAMINE BooksCeCé TelferMake it CountGrand Central PublishingNat Raha and Mijke van der DriftTrans Femme Futures: Abolitionist Ethics for Transfeminist WorldsPluto PressTransgender PoetryZefyr LisowskiGirl WorkNoemi PressWinnerJaya Jacobo; translated by Christian Jil BenitezArasahas: Poems from the TropicsPAWA PressFinalistOliver Baez BendorfConsider the RoosterNightboat BooksJoshua Jennifer EspinozaI Don't Want to Be UnderstoodAlice James BooksSpencer WilliamsTRANZFour Way Books
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