Category Author Title Publisher Result Ref. Bisexual Fiction Gwendolyn Kiste Reluctant Immortals Simon & Schuster /Saga Press Winner [ 6] A. J. Bermudez Stories No One Hopes Are About Them University of Iowa Press Finalist [ 2] Akil Kumarasamy Meet Us by the Roaring Sea Farrar, Straus and Giroux Bushra Rehman Roses, In the Mouth of a Lion Flatiron Books Nishant Batsha Mother Ocean Father Nation Ecco /HarperCollins Bisexual Nonfiction Maria San Filippo Appropriate Behavior McGill–Queen's University Press Winner [ 6] John Brady McDonald Carrying It Forward: Essays from Kistahpinanihk Wolsak and Wynn Publishers Finalist [ 7] [ 3] Liz Scheier Never Simple: A Memoir Henry Holt and Company / Macmillan Publishers Rachel Krantz Open: An Uncensored Memoir of Love, Liberation, and Non-Monogamy Harmony Books / Penguin Random House CJ Hauser The Crane Wife Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Bisexual Poetry Nicky Beer Real Phonies and Genuine Fakes Milkweed Editions Winner Gabrielle Octavia Rucker Dereliction The Song Cave Finalist James Fujinami Moore indecent hours Four Way Books Karyna McGlynn 50 Things Kate Bush Taught Me About the Multiverse Sarabande Books Rebecca Hawkes Meat Lovers Auckland University Press Comics Sas Milledge Mamo BOOM! Studios Winner Will Betke-Brunswick A Pros and Cons List for Strong Feelings Tin House Finalist Gabriel Ebensperger Kelley D. Salas Gay Giant Street Noise Books Melanie Gillman Other Ever Afters Random House Graphic Sarah Winifred Searle The Greatest Thing First Second Books Gay Fiction Danny Ramadan The Foghorn Echoes Canongate Books Winner [ 6] Marcial Gala Anna Kushner Call Me Cassandra Farrar, Straus and Giroux Finalist [ 3] [ 2] Arinze Ifeakandu God’s Children Are Little Broken Things A Public Space João Gilberto Noll Hugs and Cuddles Two Lines Press Rasheed Newson My Government Means To Kill Me Flatiron Books Gay Memoir/Biography Edgar Gomez High-Risk Homosexual Soft Skull Press Winner [ 6] Seán Hewitt All Down Darkness Wide: A Memoir Penguin Group Finalist Jim Elledge An Angel in Sodom Chicago Review Press Ron Goldberg Boy with the Bullhorn: A Memoir and History of ACT UP New York Empire State Editions Jesse Leon I’m Not Broken Vintage Books Gay Poetry Padraig Regan Some Integrity Carcanet Press Winner Saeed Jones Alive at the End of the World Coffee House Press Finalist Aldo Amparán Brother Sleep Alice James Books Angelo Nikolopoulos Pleasure Four Way Books Chris Tse Super Model Minority Auckland University Press Gay Romance Kosoko Jackson I’m So Not Over You Berkley Romance Winner Marie Sinclair Forever After Self-published Finalist A. M. Johnson Forever, Con Amor Self-published Felice Stevens Just One Night Self-published Fearne Hill Two Tribes Self-published Lesbian Fiction K-Ming Chang Gods of Want One World Winner [ 6] Mecca Jamilah Sullivan Big Girl W. W. Norton & Company Finalist [ 2] [ 3] Mónica Ojeda Sarah Booker Jawbone Coffee House Press Leila Mottley Nightcrawling Alfred A. Knopf Julia Armfield Our Wives Under the Sea Flatiron Books Lesbian Memoir/Biography Kathryn Schulz Lost & Found: Reflections on Grief, Gratitude, and Happiness Random House Winner [ 6] Raquel Gutiérrez Brown Neon Coffee House Press Finalist [ 7] Putsata Reang Ma and Me Farrar, Straus and Giroux Chris Belcher Pretty Baby: A Memoir Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster Neema Avashia Another Appalachia: Coming Up Queer and Indian in a Mountain Place West Virginia University Press Lesbian Poetry Shelley Wong As She Appears YesYes Books Winner Natalie Wee Beast at Every Threshold Arsenal Pulp Press Finalist Courtney Faye Taylor Concentrate Graywolf Press Brynne Rebele-Henry Prelude University of Pittsburgh Press Rage Hezekiah Yearn Diode Editions Lesbian Romance Nan Campbell The Rules of Forever Bold Strokes Books Winner Susie Dumond Queerly Beloved Dial Press Finalist [ 7] Aurora Rey Hard Pressed Bold Strokes Books E. J. Noyes If I Don’t Ask Bella Books K. B. Draper Southbound and Down K.B. Draper, LLC LGBTQ Anthology Julie R. Enszer Elena Gross OutWrite: The Speeches That Shaped LGBTQ Literary Culture Rutgers University Press Winner Michael Walsh Queer Nature: A Poetry Anthology Autumn House Press Finalist [ 7] Elias Jahshan This Arab is Queer: An Anthology by LGBTQ+ Arab Writers Saqi Books Laura Erickson-Schroth Trans Bodies, Trans Selves: A Resource by and for Transgender Communities (2nd ed.) Oxford University Press Isabela Oliveira Xenocultivars: Stories of Queer Growth Speculatively Queer LGBTQ Children's Wallace West Mighty Red Riding Hood Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Winner [ 6] Carole Boston Weatherford Rob Sanders , illus. by Byron McCray A Song for the Unsung: Bayard Rustin Henry Holt Books for Young Readers Finalist Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu Kapaemahu Kokila Nina LaCour Mama and Mommy and Me in the Middle Candlewick Press Robb Pearlman The Sublime Ms. Stacks Bloomsbury Publishing LGBTQ Drama Ho Ka Kei (Jeff Ho) Iphigenia and the Furies (On Taurian Land) & Antigone: 方 Playwrights Canada Press Winner kai fig taddei Duecentomila Playwrights Canada Press Finalist Sikivu Hutchinson Rock ‘n’ Roll Heretic Self-published Tom Ford Alex Syiek (music and lyrics)The Show on the Roof Boise Contemporary Theater Hansol Jung Wolf Play Samuel French, a Concord Theatricals Company LGBTQ+ Romance and Erotica Alison Cochrun Kiss Her Once For Me Atria Books Winner Ruby Barrett The Romance Recipe Carina Adores Finalist [ 7] Meryl Wilsner Mistakes Were Made St. Martin's Griffin Edie Cay A Lady’s Finder Self-published Joseph Brennan Loose Lips: A Gay Sea Odyssey Hard Crossing Press LGBTQ Middle Grade Maulik Pancholy Nikhil Out Loud HarperCollins /Balzer + Bray Winner [ 6] David Levithan Answers In the Pages Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers Finalist Kyle Lukoff Different Kinds of Fruit Dial Books for Young Readers Maggie Horne Hazel Hill Is Gonna Win This One HarperCollins /Clarion Books Michael Leali The Civil War of Amos Abernathy HarperCollins LGBTQ Mystery Hayley Scrivenor Dirt Creek: A Novel Flatiron Books Winner David C Dawson A Death in Berlin Park Creek Publishing Finalist Joshua Moehling And There He Kept Her Poisoned Pen Press Ann McMan Dead Letters from Paradise Bywater Books Lev A.C. Rosen Lavender House Forge Books LGBTQ Nonfiction Hafizah Augustus Geter The Black Period: On Personhood, Race, and Origin Random House Winner [ 6] Sabrina Imbler How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures Little, Brown and Company Finalist [ 7] Joseph Osmundson Virology: Essays for the Living, the Dead, and the Small Things in Between W.W. Norton & Company Ricky Tucker And the Category Is...: Inside New York’s Vogue, House, and Ballroom Community Beacon Press Hugh Ryan The Women’s House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison Bold Type Books , Hachette Book Group LGBTQ Speculative Fiction Lianyu Tan The Wicked and the Willing: An F/F Gothic Horror Vampire Novel Shattered Scepter Press Winner Sunyi Dean Book Eaters Tor Books Finalist [ 2] Nghi Vo Into the Riverlands Tor.com Khan Wong The Circus Infinite Angry Robot Rob Hart The Paradox Hotel Ballantine Books LGBTQ Studies Darieck Scott Keeping It Unreal: Black Queer Fantasy and Superhero Comics New York University Press Winner Mairead Sullivan Lesbian Death: Desire and Danger between Feminist and Queer University of Minnesota Press Finalist [ 7] Marlon B. Ross Sissy Insurgencies: A Racial Anatomy of Unfit Manliness Duke University Press Vivian L. Huang Surface Relations: Queer Forms of Asian American Inscrutability Duke University Press Jafari S. Allen There’s a Disco Ball Between Us: A Theory of Black Gay Life Duke University Press LGBTQ Young Adult Sonora Reyes The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School Balzer + Bray /HarperCollins Winner [ 6] Vincent Tirado Burn Down, Rise Up Sourcebooks Finalist [ 2] Angeline Jackson Susan McClelland Funny Gyal: My Fight Against Homophobia in Jamaica Dundurn Press Anna-Marie McLemore Lakelore Feiwel & Friends Jen Ferguson The Summer of Bitter and Sweet Heartdrum /HarperCollins Transgender Fiction Cat Fitzpatrick The Call-Out Seven Stories Press Winner [ 6] James Hannaham Didn’t Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta Little, Brown and Company Finalist [ 3] Izzy Wasserstein All the Hometowns You Can’t Stay Away From Neon Hemlock Morgan Thomas Manywhere Farrar, Straus and Giroux Maya Deane Wrath Goddess Sing William Morrow and Company Transgender Nonfiction Emma Grove The Third Person Drawn & Quarterly Winner [ 6] Kit Heyam Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender Basic Books Finalist [ 2] [ 7] Cecilia Gentili Faltas: Letters to Everyone in My Hometown Who Isn’t My Rapist LittlePuss Press Jeremiah Moss Feral City: On Finding Liberation in Lockdown New York W. W. Norton & Company Cameron Awkward-Rich The Terrible We: Thinking with Trans Maladjustment Duke University Press Transgender Poetry Kamden Ishmael Hilliard MissSettl Nightboat Books Winner Golden A Dead Name That Learned How to Live Game Over Books Finalist Kay Gabriel A Queen in Bucks County Nightboat Books Paul Tran All the Flowers Kneeling Penguin Books Prathna Lor Emanations Wolsak and Wynn Publishers 
