The Best Queer Books of the Year: Meet the 2025 Lambda Literary Award Winners
⚓ Books 📅 2025-10-06 👤 surdeus 👁️ 9The winners 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 were chosen from 1,300 submissions, representing 300 publishers.
Check out a selection of the winners below.
Lesbian Fiction: The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden
Gay Fiction: Henry Henry by Allen Bratton
Bisexual Fiction: How to Fall in Love in a Time of Unnameable Disaster by Muriel Leung
Transgender Fiction: Firebugs by Nino Bulling
LGBTQ+ Speculative Fiction: Metal From Heaven by August Clarke
Lesbian Romance: Here We Go Again by Alison Cochrun
Gay Romance: The Spring before Obergefell by Ben Grossberg
LGBTQ+ Young Adult: Icarus by K. Ancrum
LGBTQ+ Middle Grade: Mallory in Full Color by Elisa Stone Leahy
LGBTQ+ Children’s Books: Glenn Burke, Game Changer by Phil Bildner, illustrated by Daniel J. O’Brien
LGBTQ+ Comics: Putty Pygmalion by Lonnie Garcia
Bisexual Nonfiction: You’re Embarrassing Yourself by Desiree Akhavan
Transgender Nonfiction: Pretty: A Memoir by KB Brookins
For all 26 winners, check out the Lambda Literary website.
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