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• Gods of Want

  Chang, K-Ming

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  WINNER: LESBIAN FICTION. Also available as a digital audiobook. Gods of Want is a collection of fantastical stories of women and myth.

• The Foghorn Echoes

  Ramadan, Ahmad Danny

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  WINNER: GAY FICTION. Also available as an eBook and digital audiobook. Follow two Syrian boys' lives as a tragedy when they are young reverberates through their lives.

• Reluctant Immortals

  Kiste, Gwendolyn

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  WINNER: BISEXUAL FICTION. Also available as an eBook. This historical horror novel follows characters from classic literature who return in 1960's San Fransisco.

• The Call-out

  a Novel in Rhyme

  Fitzpatrick, Cat

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  WINNER: TRANSGENDER FICTION. Follow six queer, mostly trans women surviving and thriving in Brooklyn.

• The Third Person

  Grove, Emma,

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  WINNER: TRANSGENDER NONFICTION. Emma explores her past with her therapist, Toby, and the possibility that she may have Dissociative Identity Disorder.

• The Black Period

  on Personhood, Race, and Origin

  Geter, Hafizah, 1984-

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  WINNER: LGBTQ+ NONFICTION. Also available as a digital audiobook. A unique combination of gripping memoir and Afrofuturist thought, The Black Period explores the experiences of a queer Nigerian-born daughter of a Muslim Nigerian woman and a Black…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• As She Appears

  Wong, Shelley,

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  WINNER: LESBIAN POETRY. Shelley Wong's debut, As She Appears, foregrounds queer women of color in their being and becoming.

• Real Phonies and Genuine Fakes

  Poems

  Beer, Nicky

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  WINNER: BISEXUAL POETRY. With an energetic eye, Nicky Beer thumbs through our collective history books--and her personal one, too--in an effort to chart the line between playful forms of farce and those that are far more insidious.

• MissSettl

  Hilliard, Kamden

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  WINNER: TRANSGENDER POETRY. MissSettl is a funny, joyful, and spiteful debut collection of seriously playful poems; they carry on with impish provocation, engagement, and mourning for what has been done to our living practices.

• Lost & Found

  Schulz, Kathryn,

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  WINNER: LESBIAN MEMOIR/BIOGRAPHY. Also available in large print and as an eBook and CD audiobook. Lost & Found weaves together the author's love story with the story of losing her father in a brilliant exploration of the way families are lost and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• High-risk Homosexual

  a Memoir

  Gomez, Edgar (Writer)

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  WINNER: GAY MEMOIR/BIOGRAPHY. In this crackling debut, Gomez recounts his coming-of-age as a queer man, passionately exploring what it means to celebrate one's identities and to make space for joy in the most unlikely places.

• The Rules of Forever

  Campbell, Nan

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  WINNER: LESBIAN ROMANCE. When public school teacher Cara attende her high school reunion the last thing she expects is to reconnect with Lauren Havemayer, her unrequited crush from ten years ago.

• I'm So (not) Over You

  Jackson, Kosoko

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  WINNER: GAY ROMANCE. Also available as an eBook and digital audiobook. Journalist Kian only wants answers from his ex, Hudson, on why they broke up, but before he knows it, they are pretending to still be together for Hudson's family.

• Outwrite

  the Speeches That Shaped LGBTQ Literary Culture

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  WINNER: LGBTQ+ ANTHOLOGY. OutWrite gathers twenty-seven speeches from the eight national OutWrite conferences held between 1990 and 1999.

• Mighty Red Riding Hood

  a Fairly Queer Tale

  West, Wallace, 1978-

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  WINNER: LGBTQ+ CHILDREN'S BOOKS. A smart and sassy boy in a red riding hood confronts a pushy wolf espousing gender norms.

• Nikhil Out Loud

  Pancholy, Maulik, 1974-

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  WINNER: LGBTQ+ MIDDLE GRADE. From the Stonewall Honor-winning author of The Best at It, Maulik Pancholy, comes a new middle grade novel about a gay Indian American boy who learns the power of using his voice.

• The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School

  Reyes, Sonido,

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  WINNER: LGBTQ+ YOUNG ADULT. Also available as an eBook and digital audiobook. Sixteen-year-old Mexican American Yami Flores starts Catholic school, determined to keep her brother out of trouble and keep herself closeted, but her priorities shift…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Mamo

  Milledge, Sas

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  WINNER: LGBTQ+ COMICS. Orla O'Reilly, the youngest in a long line of hedge witches, is compelled to return home after the death of her grandmother, Mamo. In the wake of her Mamo's passing, seas are impossible to fish, crops have soured, even Jo…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Kiss Her Once for Me

  Cochrun, Alison

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  WINNER: LGBTQ+ ROMANCE AND EROTICA. Also available as an eBook and digital audiobook. Ellie had a Christmas Eve meet-cute and fell in love, but then got betrayed. Now she has an opportunity for financial security, but her plans get complicated when…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Dirt Creek

  Scrivenor, Hayley,

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  WINNER: LGBTQ+ MYSTERY. Also available in large print and as an eBook and digital audiobook. When twelve-year-old Esther disappears on the way home from school in a small town in rural Australia, the community is thrown into a maelstrom of suspicion…Read moreRead more of this annotation