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| Bisexual Fiction | Ana Castillo, Give It to Me[3] |
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| Bisexual Non-Fiction | Charles M. Blow, Fire Shut Up in My Bones |
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| Gay Erotica | Tiffany Reisz, The King | - Jerry Wheeler, Bears of Winter
- Hushicho, Incubus Tales
- Raven Kaldera, Leather Spirit Stallion
- William Holden, The Thief Taker
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| Gay Fiction | Tom Spanbauer, I Loved You More |
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| Gay Memoir/Biography | Richard Blanco, The Prince of Los Cocuyos
John Lahr, Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh | - Sean Strub, Body Counts: A Memoir of Politics, Sex, AIDS, and Survival
- Brent Phillips, Charles Walters: The Director Who Made Hollywood Dance
- Rob Smith, Closets, Combat and Coming Out: Coming of Age as a Gay Man in the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” Army
- Edmund White, Inside a Pearl: My Years in Paris
- Alain Mabanckou, Letter to Jimmy
- Philip Gefter, Wagstaff: Before and After Mapplethorpe
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| Gay Mystery | Katie Gilmartin, Blackmail, My Love |
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| Gay Poetry | Danez Smith, [insert] boy |
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| Gay Romance | Jeff Mann, Salvation: A Novel of the Civil War | - Lloyd A. Meeker, The Companion
- Barry Lowe, Everything’s Coming Up Roses: Four Tales of M/M Romance
- Timothy Lambert and R. D. Cochrane, Foolish Hearts: New Gay Fiction
- Georgina Li, Like They Always Been Free
- Jim Provenzano, Message of Love
- David Reddish, The Passion of Sergius & Bacchus
- L. C. Chase, Pulling Leather
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| Lesbian Erotica | Diana Cage, Lesbian Sex Bible | - Andi Marquette and R. G. Emanuelle, All You Can Eat. A Buffet of Lesbian Erotica and Romance
- Cheyenne Blue, Forbidden Fruit: stories of unwise lesbian desire
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| Lesbian Fiction | Alexis De Veaux, Yabo |
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| Lesbian Memoir/Biography | Alethia Jones, Virginia Eubanks and Barbara Smith, Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around: Forty Years of Movement Building | - Lynette Loeppky, Cease – a memoir of love, loss and desire
- Kelly Cogswell, Eating Fire: My Life as a Lesbian Avenger
- Ariel Gore, The End of Eve
- Terry Mutchler, Under This Beautiful Dome: A Senator, A Journalist, and the Politics of Gay Love in America
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| Lesbian Mystery | Ellen Hart, The Old Deep and Dark |
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| Lesbian Poetry | Valerie Wetlaufer, Mysterious Acts by My People |
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| Lesbian Romance | Robbi McCoy, The Farmer’s Daughter | - Kate McLachlan, Christmas Crush
- Lisa Girolami, The Heat of Angels
- Kris Bryant, Jolt
- Andrea Bramhall, Nightingale
- Jesse J. Thoma, Seneca Falls
- Marianne K. Martin, Tangled Roots
- Clare Ashton, That Certain Something
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| LGBT Anthology | Leila J. Rupp and Susan K. Freeman, Understanding and Teaching US Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History | - Charles Stephens and Steven G. Fullwood, Black Gay Genius: Answering Joseph Beam’s Call
- Bruce Gillespie, A Family by Any Other Name: Exploring Queer Relationships
- Mark McNease and Stephen Dolainski, Outer Voices Inner Lives
- Douglas Ray, The Queer South: LGBTQ Writers on the American South
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| LGBT Children's/Young Adult | Tim Federle, Five, Six, Seven, Nate! |
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| LGBT Debut Fiction | Abdi Nazemian, The Walk-In Closet | - Vinton Rafe McCabe, Death in Venice, California
- Megan Milks, Kill Marguerite and Other Stories
- Elizabeth Earley, A Map of Everything
- Bob Sennett, The Music Teacher
- Dia Felix, Nochita
- Dan Lopez, Part the Hawser, Limn the Sea
- Alden Jones, Unaccompanied Minors
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| LGBT Drama | Robert O'Hara, Bootycandy |
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| LGBT Graphic Novel | Joyce Brabner and Mark Zingarelli, Second Avenue Caper | - Elisha Lim, 100 Crushes
- Kathleen Jacques, Band Vs. Band Comix Volume 1
- A. K. Summers, Pregnant Butch: Nine Long Months Spent in Drag
- Nick Sumida, Snackies
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| LGBT Non-Fiction | Martin Duberman, Hold Tight Gently: Michael Callen, Essex Hemphill, and the Battlefield of AIDS | - Lee Lynch, An American Queer: The Amazon Trail
- Julie Sondra Decker, The Invisible Orientation: An Introduction to Asexuality
- Rebecca J. Anderson, Nevirapine and the Quest to End Pediatric AIDS
- Hilton Als, Ann Temkin, Claudia Carson, Robert Gober, Paulina Pobocha and Christian Scheidemann, Robert Gober: The Heart Is Not a Metaphor
- Robert Hofler, Sexplosion: From Andy Warhol to A Clockwork Orange, How a Generation of Pop Rebels Broke All the Taboos
- Aaron Devor, The Transgender Archives: Foundations for the Future
- Clayton Delery-Edwards, The Up Stairs Lounge Arson: Thirty-Two Deaths in a New Orleans Gay Bar, June 24, 1973
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| LGBT Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror | Chaz Brenchley, Bitter Waters |
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| LGBT Studies | Vincent Woodard, Justin A. Joyce and Dwight McBride, The Delectable Negro: Human Consumption and Homoeroticism within US Slave Culture | - Noelle M. Stout, After Love: Queer Intimacy and Erotic Economies in Post-Soviet Cuba
- Rachel Hope Cleves, Charity & Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America
- Marcia Ochoa, Queen for a Day: Transformistas, Beauty Queens, and the Performance of Femininity in Venezuela
- Lisa Tatonetti, The Queerness of Native American Literature
- Juana Maria Rodriguez, Sexual Futures, Queer Gestures, and Other Latina Longings
- Susan S. Lanser, The Sexuality of History: Modernity and the Sapphic
- Bobby Benedicto, Under Bright Lights: Gay Manila and the Global Scene
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| Transgender Fiction | Casey Plett, A Safe Girl to Love |
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| Transgender Non-Fiction | Thomas Page McBee, Man Alive: A True Story of Violence, Forgiveness and Becoming a Man | - Janet Mock, Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love and So Much More
- Laura Erickson-Schroth, Trans Bodies, Trans Selves: A Resource for the Transgender Community
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