18th Annual Lambda Literary Award Winners and Finalists
- Lesbian:
- Debut Fiction, Fiction, Mystery, Poetry,
- General LGBT:
- Anthology, Belles Lettres, Children's/ Young Adult, Drama, Erotica, Humor, Non-fiction, Romance, Science fiction/ Fantasy/ Horror, Spirituality, LGBT Studies
- Gay Men's:
- Debut Fiction, Fiction, Mystery, Poetry,
- Transgender
Lesbian Debut Fiction:
- Winner The Beautifully Worthless by Ali Leibegott (Suspect Thoughts)
- Finalists
- Crashing America by Katia Noyes (Alyson)
- Manstealing for Fat Girls by Michelle Embree (Soft Skull)
- In Too Deep by Ronica Black (Bold Strokes)
- Bliss by Fiona Zedde (Kensington)
Lesbian Fiction:
- Winner Babyji by Abha Dawesar (Anchor) [Literature Winner, Stonewall Book Awards 2006]
- Finalists
- Wild Dogs
by Helen Humphrys (W. W. Norton)
- With or Without You
by Lauren Sanders (Akashic)
- Five Books of Moses Lapinsky by Karen Tulchinsky (Raincoast)
- Lighthousekeeping by Jeanette Winterson (Harcourt)
- Wild Dogs
- Winner Desert Blood: The Juarez Murders by Alicia Gaspar De Alba (Arte Publico)
- Finalists
- Women of Mystery edited by Katherine Forrest (Haworth)
- The Iron Girl by Ellen Hart (St. Martin’s Minotaur)
- Darkness Descending
by Penny Mickelbury (Kings Crossing)
- Justice Served
by Radclyffe (Bold Strokes)
Lesbian Poetry:
- Winner Directed by Desire: Collected Poems by June Jordan (Copper Canyon)
- Finalists
- Where the Apple Falls by Samiya Bashir (RedBone)
- Life Mask by Jackie Kay (Bloodaxe)
- New and Selected Poems, Volume II by Mary Oliver (Beacon)
- Eye of Water by Amber Flora Thomas (Pittsburgh)
LGBT Anthology:
- Winner Freedom in this Village: 25 Years of Black, Gay Men’s Writing edited by E. Lynn Harris (Carroll & Graf)
[Gay]
- Finalists
- Red Light: Superheroes, Saints, & Sluts edited by Anna Camilleri (Arsenal Pulp) [Lesbian]
- Lesbian Pulp Fiction: The Sexually Intrepid World of Lesbian Paperback Novels 1950-1965 edited by Katherine Forrest (Cleis) [Lesbian]
- Everything I Have is Blue: Short Fiction by Working-Class Men edited by Wendell Ricketts (Suspect Thoughts) [Gay]
- Bullets and Butterflies: Queer Spoken Word Poetry edited by Emanuel Xavier (Suspect Thoughts) [General GLBTQ]
LGBT Belles Lettres (Miscellaneous fine writing)
- Winner The Tricky Part: A boy's story of sexual trespass, a man's journey to forgiveness by Martin Moran (Beacon)
- Finalists
- Quicksands: A Memoir
by Sybille Bedford (Counterpoint)
- Tab Hunter Confidential: The Making of a Movie Star by Tab Hunter, with Eddie Muller (Algonquin)
- My One Night Stand with Cancer by Tania Katan (Alyson)
- When I Knew, edited by Robert Trachtenberg, illustrated by Tom Bachtell (Regan)
- Quicksands: A Memoir
LGBT Biography
- Winner February House: The Story of W. H. Auden, Carson McCullers, Jane and Paul Bowles, Benjamin Britten, and Gypsy Rose Lee, Under One Roof in Brooklyn by Sherrill Tippins (Houghton Mifflin)
- Finalists
- The Fabulous Sylvester: the Legend, the Music, the 70s in San Francisco by Joshua Gamson (Henry Holt) [Non-fiction Winner, Stonewall Book Awards 2006]
- Nothing is True, Everything is Permitted: The Life of Brion Gysin by John Geiger (The Disinformation Company)
- Beyond Recall by Mary Meigs and Lise Weil (Talonbook
s)
- Wild Girls: Paris, Sappho, & Art by Diana Souhami (St. Martin’s)
LGBT Children's/Young Adult:
- Winner Swimming in the Monsoon Sea by Shyam Selvadurai (Tundra)
- Finalists
- Antonio’s Card/La Tarjeta de Antonio by Rigoberto Gonzalez (Children’s Book)
- Totally Joe by James Howe (Simon & Schuster)
- And Tango Makes Three by Peter Parnell & Justin Richardson (Simon & Schuster)
- Rainbow Road by Alex Sanchez (Simon & Schuster)
LGBT Erotica:
- Winner Stolen Moments: Erotic Interludes 2 edited by Stacia Seaman and Radclyffe (Bold Strokes) [Lesbian]
- Finalists
- Best Gay Erotica 2006 edited by Matt Bernstein Sycamore and Richard Labonte (Cleis) [Gay]
- Best Lesbian Erotica 2006 edited by Eileen Myles and Tristan Taormino (Cleis) [Lesbian]
- Rode Hard, Put Away Wet: Lesbian Cowboy Erotica edited by Sacchi Green & Rakelle Valencia (Suspect Thoughts) [Lesbian]
- Close Contact by Sean Wolfe (Kensington) [Gay]
LGBT Humour
- Winner Don't Get Too Comfortable: The Indignities of Coach Class, The Torments of Low Thread Count, The Never- Ending Quest for Artisanal Olive Oil, and Other First World Problems by David Rakoff (Doubleday)
- Finalists
- Invasion of Dykes to Watch Out For by Alison Bechdel (Alyson)
- Juicy Mother
by Jennifer Camper (Soft Skull)
- What the L?: 25 Things We Wish We'd Known Before Going to Law School by Kate Clinton (Carroll & Graf)
- Revenge of the Paste Eaters by Cheryl Peck (5 Spot, Warner)
LGBT Non-Fiction:
- Winner Words to Our Now: Imagination and Dissent by Thomas Glave (Minnesota)
- Finalists
- Gore Vidal’s America by Dennis Altman (Polity)
- Beyond the Down Low: Sex, Lies, and Denial in Black America by Keith Boykin (Carroll & Graf)
- Raising Boys Without Men: How Maverick Moms are Creating the Next Generation of Exceptional Men by Peggy Drexler (Rodale)
- Women Together/Women Apart: Portraits of Lesbian Paris by Tirza True Latimer (Rutgers)
LGBT Romance:
- Winner Distant Shores, Silent Thunder by Radclyffe (Bold Strokes) [Lesbian]
- Finalists
- Artist’s Dream by Gerri Hill (Bella) [Lesbian]
- Just Like That by Karin Kallmaker (Bella) [Lesbian]
- The Price of Temptation by M. J. Pearson (Seventh Window) [Gay]
- Walt Loves the Bearcat by Randy Boyd (West Beach) [Gay]
LGBT Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror:
- Winner Daughters of an Emerald Dusk by Katherine V. Forrest (Alyson) [Lesbian, Science fiction]
- Finalists
- Fledgling by Octavia Butler (Seven Stories) [Lesbian, Vampire, Sci-fi]
- Shapers of Darkness
by David B. Coe (Tor) [Gay male, fantasy]
- The Temple at Landfall by Jane Fletcher (Bold Strokes) [Lesbian]
- No Sister of Mine by Jeanne G’Fellers (Bella) [Lesbian, Science fiction]
LGBT Spirituality
- Winner: Qu(e)erying Evangelism: Growing a Community From the Outside In (Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies in Religion and Ministry)
by Cheri DiNovo (Pilgrim)
- Finalists:
- The Seven Sisters of the Pleiades: Stories from Around the World
by Munya Andrews (Spinifex)
- The Path Of The Green Man: Gay Men, Wicca and Living a Magical Life
by Michael Thomas Ford (Citadel)
- I Am This One Walking Beside Me: Meditations of a Gay HIV Positive Man
by Daniel Gebhardt (Pilgrim)
Fumbling Toward Divinity: The Adoption Scriptures by Craig Hickman (Annabessacook Farm)
- The Seven Sisters of the Pleiades: Stories from Around the World
LGBT Studies:
- Winner When Heroes Love: The Ambiguity of Eros in the Stories of Gilgamesh and David by Susan Ackerman (Columbia)
- Finalists
- Zest for Life: Lesbians’ Experience of Menopause by Jennifer Kelly (Spinifex)
- Why I Hate Abercrombie & Fitch: Essays On Race and Sexuality (Sexual Cultures Series) by Dwight A. McBride (NYU)
- Lesbian Communities Festivals, Rvs And the Internet edited by Esther D. Rothblum and Penny Sablove (Harrington Park)
- Love’s Rite: Same-Sex Marriage in India and the West by Ruth Vanita (Palgrave Macmillan)
Gay Debut Fiction:
- Winner You Are Not the One by Vestal McIntyre (Carroll & Graf)
- Finalists
- Setting the Lawn on Fire by Mack Friedman (Wisconsin)
- Mother of Sorrows by Richard McCann (Pantheon)
- The First Verse by Barry McCrea (Carroll & Graf)
- Bilal’s Bread by Sulyman X (Alyson)
Gay Fiction:
- Winner The Sluts by Dennis Cooper (Carroll & Graf)
- Finalists
- German Officer’s Boy by Harlan Greene (Wisconsin)
- Faith for Beginners by Aaron Hamburger (Random House)
- What We Do is Secret by Kief Hillsbery (Villard)
- Acqua Calda by Keith McDermott (Carroll & Graf)
Gay Mystery:
- Winner One of These Things is Not Like the Other by D. Travers Scott (Suspect Thoughts)
- Finalists
- The Actor’s Guide to Greed by Rick Copp (Kensington)
- The Paper Mirror by Dorien Grey (GLB)
- White Tiger by Michael Allen Dymmoch (St. Martin’s Minotaur)
- Cajun Snuff by W. Randy Haynes (Publish America)
Gay Poetry:
- Winner Crush by Richard Siken (Yale)
- Finalists
- School of the Arts
by Mark Doty (HarperCollins)
- For Dust Thou Art by Timothy Lui (Southern Illinois)
- Sugar by Martin Pousson (Suspect Thoughts)
- Blue on Blue Ground by Aaron Smith (Pittsburgh)
- School of the Arts
Transgender:
- Winner Choir Boy by Charlie Anders (Soft Skull)
- Finalists
- In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives (Sexual Cultures) by Judith Halberstam (NYU)
- Deliver Me from Nowhere by Tennessee Jones (Soft Skull)
- Just Add Hormones: An Insider's Guide to the Transsexual Experience by Matt Kailey (Beacon)
- The Riddle of Gender by Deborah Rudacille (Pantheon)
