Here are the finalists for the 2020 Lambda Literary Awards

The finalists have emerged from more than 1,000 book submissions for the 2020 Lambda Literary Awards.

Winners of the award that honors the best in LGBTQ books will be revealed June 8.

Here are the nominees for four of the twenty-four categories; the other shortlists, for nonfiction, poetry, and various smaller genres, can be found on Lambda Literary’s website.

Lesbian fiction

• Cantoras, by Carolina De Robertis.

• A Generous Spirit: Selected Work, by Beth Brant.

• Mostly Dead Things, by Kristen Arnett.

• On Swift Horses, by Shannon Pufahl.

• Patsy, by Nicole Dennis-Benn.

• A People’s History of Heaven, by Mathangi Subramanian.

• Red at the Bone, by Jacqueline Woodson.

• Stay and Fight, by Madeline ffitch.

Gay fiction

• Animalia, by Jean-Baptiste Del Amo and translated by Frank Wynne.

• The Archive of Alternate Endings, by Lindsey Drager.

• In West Mills, by De’Shawn Charles Winslow.

• Like This Afternoon Forever, by Jaime Manrique.

• Lord, by João Gilberto Noll and translated by Edgar Garbelotto.

• Lot, by Bryan Washington.

• Murmur, by Will Eaves.

• On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, by Ocean Vuong.

Bisexual fiction

• Big Familia, by Tomas Moniz.

• Deposing Nathan, by Zack Smedley.

• Exquisite Mariposa, by Fiona Alison Duncan.

• Jude, by Garrett Leigh.

• Just Pervs, by Jess Taylor.

• The Man Who Saw Everything, by Deborah Levy.

• The Not Wives, by Carley Moore.

• The Remainder, by Alia Trabucco Zerán and translated by Sophie Hughes.

Transgender fiction

• The Beatrix Gates, by Rachel Pollack.

• Honey Walls, by Bones McKay.

• Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian), by Hazel Jane Plante.

• Poet, Prophet, Fox: The Tale of Sinnach the Seer, by M.Z. McDonnell.

• The Trans Space Octopus Congregation, by Bogi Takács.

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