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The finalists across 26 categories for the 37th annual Lambda Literary Awards are here. The Lambdas—colloquially known as the Lammys—celebrate the best of queer literature, including everything from LGBTQ+ comic books to gay memoir, lesbian fiction to LGBTQ+ children’s books, and more. The winners of the awards will be announced on Saturday, October 4, 2025.
Check out the finalists in 12 of the 26 categories below.
Anyone’s Ghost by August Thompson
Greta & Valdin by Rebecca K Reilly
How To Fall in Love in a Time of Unnameable Disaster by Muriel Leung
The Pairing by Casey McQuiston
We Were the Universe by Kimberly King Parsons
All Things Seen and Unseen by RJ McDaniel
Firebugs by Nino Bulling
Love the World or Get Killed Trying by Alvina Chamberland
Love/Aggression by June Martin
Yellow Barks Spider by Harman Burns
Dead in Long Beach, California by Venita Blackburn
Housemates by Emma Copley Eisenberg
Oye by Melissa Mogollon
Rainbow Black by Maggie Thrash
The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden
Cinema Love by Jiaming Tang
Henry Henry by Allen Bratton
In Tongues by Thomas Grattan
Napalm in the Heart by Pol Guasch, translated from the Catalan by Mara Faye Lethem
Our Evenings by Alan Hollinghurst
It Takes Three To Tango by Jem Wendel
Our Own Light by Logan Sage Adams
Outside the Wire by William Leet
The Spring Before Obergefell by Ben Grossberg
We Could Be Heroes by Philip Ellis
Bachelorette Number Twelve by Jae
Here We Go Again by Alison Cochrun
Loser of the Year by Carrie Byrd
Loving Safoa by Liza Wemakor
Outlaw Hearts by Lori G. Matthews
Charlotte Illes is Not a Teacher by Katie Siegel
One of Us Knows by Alyssa Cole
Rough Pages by Lev AC Rosen
Rough Trade by Katrina Carrasco
The Night of Baba Yaga by Akira Otani
Bury Your Gays by Chuck Tingle
Markless by C.G. Malburi
Metal From Heaven by August Clarke
The Sunforge by Sascha Stronach
The Palace of Eros by Caro De Robertis
Girlmode by Magdalene Visaggio, illustrated by Paulina Ganucheau
Putty Pygmalion by Lonnie Garcia
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Something, Not Nothing: A Story of Grief and Love by Sarah Leavitt
We Belong: An All-Black/All-Queer Sci-Fi/Fantasy Comics Anthology by Viktor T. Kerney and William O. Tyler
Icarus by K. Ancrum
Old Wounds by Logan-Ashley Kisner
So Let Them Burn by Kamilah Cole
The Feast Makers by H. A. Clarke
Time and Time Again by Chatham Greenfield
Mallory in Full Color by Elisa Stone Leahy
Murray Out of Water by Taylor Tracy
Noah Frye Gets Crushed by Maggie Horn
Splinter & Ash by Marieke Nijkamp
Wishbone by Justine Pucella Winans
Glenn Burke, Game Changer: The Man Who Invented the High Five by Phil Bildner, illustrated by Daniel J. O’Brien
Harper Becomes a Big Sister by Seamus Kirst
Jacob’s Missing Book by Sarah and Ian Hoffman
Just Us by Molly Beth Griffin, illustrated by Anait Semirdzhyan
Love of the Half-Eaten Peach by Lee Wind, illustrated by Jieting Chen
Check out the finalists in all 26 categories at the Lambda Literary Awards website.
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