Congrats to the finalists for the 2022 Lambda Literary Awards

More than 2,300 books were submitted for this year's Lambda Literary Awards, setting a record.

Winners of the award, which honors the best in LGBTQ books, will be revealed June 11.

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

Lesbian fiction 

• How to Wrestle a Girl, by Venita Blackburn

• Matrix, by Lauren Groff

• Skye Falling, by Mia McKenzie

• The Five Wounds, by Kirstin Valdez Quade

• With Teeth, by Kristen Arnett

Gay fiction 

• 100 Boyfriends, by Brontez Purnell

• Brickmakers: A Novel, written by Selva Almada and translated by Annie McDermott

• Gordo, by Jaime Cortez

• My Good Son, by Yang Huang

• Rainbow Milk, by Paul Mendez

Bisexual fiction 

• Blue-Skinned Gods, by SJ Sindu

• Milk Fed: A Novel, by Melissa Broder

• Monster in the Middle, by Tiphanie Yanique

• We Play Ourselves, by Jen Silverman

• We Want What We Want, by Alix Ohlin

Transgender fiction 

• A Natural History of Transition, by Callum Angus

• Detransition, Baby, by Torrey Peters

• Margaret and the Mystery of the Missing Body, by Megan Milks

• She Who Became the Sun, by Shelley Parker-Chan

• Summer Fun, by Jeanne Thornton

Looking for even more book awards? The UK's Carnegie Medal shortlist is now out, along with the winners of the prestigious Bancroft Prize for American history work.