Category Author Title Publisher Result Ref. Bisexual Fiction Kerry Cullen House of Beth Simon & Schuster Finalist [ 2] Melissa Lozada-Oliva Beyond All Reasonable Doubt, Jesus Is Alive!: Stories Astra House [ 2] Demree McGhee Sympathy for Wild Girls Feminist Press [ 2] [ 3] Anbara Salam The Salvage Zando/Tin House [ 2] A. M. Sosa And I’ll Take Out Your Eyes Algonquin Books Bisexual Nonfiction Gabrielle Drolet Look Ma, No Hands McClelland & Stewart Finalist [ 4] [ 5] Catherine Lacey The Möbius Book Farrar, Straus & Giroux [ 2] Lee Horikoshi Roripaugh unMothered, unTongued University of Georgia Press Wayne Scott The Maps They Gave Us: One Marriage, Reimagined Black Lawrence Press Lidia Yuknavitch Reading the Waves Riverhead [ 2] Bisexual Poetry Clayre Benzadón Moon as Salted Lemon Driftwood Finalist [ 2] Liza Flum Hover Omnidawn Publishing Rebecca Salazar antibody McClelland & Stewart [ 2] [ 4] [ 5] Chet’la Sebree Blue Opening Zando/Tin House Anna Swanson The Garbage Poems Brick Books [ 4] [ 5] Gay Fiction Tash Aw The South Farrar, Straus, and Giroux Finalist [ 6] Martin Cloutier Waiting for Something Else Heliotrope Books Adam Haslett Mothers and Sons Little, Brown Charlie Porter Nova Scotia House Nightboat Books Sam Wachman The Sunflower Boys HarperCollins Gay Memoir/ Biography Daniel Brook The Einstein of Sex: Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, Visionary of Weimar Berlin W. W. Norton Finalist Thomas Dai TAKE MY NAME BUT SAY IT SLOW: ESSAYS W. W. Norton Edgar Gomez Alligator Tears Crown Jeremy Atherton Lin Deep House: The Gayest Love Story Ever Told Little, Brown, and Company Martin Sherman On the Boardwalk Inkandescent Gay Poetry Gustavo Hernandez Bachelor FlowerSong Press Finalist Ben Kline It Was Never Supposed To Be Variant Literature W. J. Lofton boy maybe: poems Beacon Press Rajiv Mohabir Seabeast Four Way Books Pádraig Ó Tuama Kitchen Hymns Copper Canyon Press Gay Romance Erin Dunn He’s to Die For Minotaur Books Finalist [ 4] [ 5] Blair Fell Disco Witches of Fire Island Alcove Press [ 3] Timothy Janovsky A Mannequin for Christmas St. Martin’s Griffin [ 2] Carey Sass Good Boy Self-published Derek Sowers A Bridge in Glass Dreamsprinner Press [ 2] Lesbian Fiction Shoshana von Blanckensee Girls Girls Girls Penguin Random House | G.P. Putnam’s Sons Finalist [ 6] Jaime Burnet milktooth Vagrant Press [ 4] [ 6] [ 5] Marisa Crane A Sharp Endless Need Dial Press [ 2] [ 6] Kat Dunn Hungerstone Zando [ 2] [ 6] [ 3] Dylin Hardcastle A Language of Limbs Dutton [ 6] Lesbian Memoir/ Biography Melissa Febos The Dry Season Alfred A. Knopf Finalist Lana Lin The Autobiography of H. Lan Thao Lam Dorothy, a publishing project [ 3] Mary Frances Phillips Black Panther Woman: The Political and Spiritual Life of Ericka Huggins New York University Press Francesca Wade Gertrude Stein Scribner Michelle Young The Art Spy: The Extraordinary Untold Tale of WWII Resistance Hero Rose Valland HarperOne Lesbian Poetry Sophia Dahlin Glove Money Nightboat Books Finalist Donika Kelly The Natural Order of Things Graywolf Press [ 3] Roya Marsh savings time MCD Bianca Rae Messinger Pleasureis Amiracle Nightboat [ 2] Judite Teixeira Cactus Flowers: Selected Poems Headmistress Press Lesbian Romance Susie Dumond Bed and Breakup Dial Press Finalist [ 3] Harley Laroux House of Rayne Kensington Publishing Corporation [ 2] Evie Marque Hot Tea & Bird Calls Self-published Roslyn Sinclair The Woman from the Waves Self-published [ 2] Alexandra Vasti Ladies in Hating St. Martin’s Griffin LGBTQ Anthology Sarah Fonseca The New Lesbian Pulp Feminist Press Finalist [ 2] Alden Jones Edge of the World: An Anthology of Queer Travel Writing Blair Meghan Kemp-Gee Come Out and Play: The Queer Sports Project Stacked Deck Press [ 4] [ 5] Alex D. Ketchum Queers at the Table: An Illustrated Guide to Queer Food (with Recipes) Arsenal Pulp Press [ 4] [ 5] Paul Martineau Queer Lens: A History of Photography J. Paul Getty Museum [ 2] LGBTQ Children's Jerrold Connors JIM! Six True Stories about One Great Artist: James Marshall Dial Books for Young Readers Finalist Simon James Green A Year of Pride and Joy Magic Cat A. J. Irving The Bi Book Random House Children’s Books | Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers Vincent X. Kirsch O.K. Is Gay Abrams Books for Young Readers Alana Tyson Devin’s Gift Philomel Pete Jordi Wood Tales from Beyond the Rainbow Penguin Young Readers [ 2] LGBTQ Comics Askel Aden Love, Misha First Second Finalist Alison Bechdel Spent Mariner Books [ 3] Mike Curato Gaysians Algonquin Books Kayla E. Precious Rubbish Fantagraphics Bread Tarleton Soften the Blow Fieldmouse Press LGBTQ Drama Jordan E. Cooper Ain’t No Mo’ Theatre Communications Group Finalist LM Feldman Another Kind of Silence City Theatre Company Gina Femia Mercutio Loves Romeo Loves Juliet Loves Original Works [ 2] Jordan Tannahill Prince Faggot Playwrights Canada Press [ 4] [ 5] Sarah Waisvisz Heartlines: A Love Story Talonbooks [ 4] [ 5] LGBTQ Romance and Erotica TJ Alexander A Gentleman’s Gentleman Vintage Books Finalist J. E. Birk Fanboy in the Falls Maple Mountains [ 2] Adib Khorram It Had to Be Him Forever [ 2] Tara Tai Single Player Alcove Press Aj Writer Strip Me Down Self under FWDIO Studios LGBTQ Middle Grade Andrea Beatriz Arango It’s All or Nothing, Vale Random House Children’s Books | Random House Books for Young Readers Finalist Kyle Casey Chu The Queen Bees of Tybee County HarperCollins – Quill Tree Books K. O’Neill A Song for You and I Random House Children’s Books | Random House Graphic [ 2] Rainie Oet Glitch Girl! Penguin Young Readers [ 2] Taylor Tracy Pasta Girls HarperCollins – Quill Tree Books LGBTQ Mystery Samantha Crewson Every Sweet Thing Is Bitter Crooked Lane Books Finalist Robert Holtom A Queer Case Titan Books Rob Osler The Case of the Missing Maid Kensington Publishing Corporation [ 2] Lev A. C. Rosen Mirage City Minotaur Books [ 2] Hayley Scrivenor Girl Falling Flatiron Books LGBTQ Nonfiction Gaar Adams Guest Privileges: Queer Lives and Finding Home in the Middle East Dzanc Books Finalist Sarah Aziza The Hollow Half: A Memoir of Bodies and Borders Catapult Nicholas Boggs Baldwin: A Love Story Farrar, Straus and Giroux Anthony Delaney Queer Enlightenments: A Hidden History of Lovers, Lawbreakers, and Homemakers Grove Atlantic Elizabeth Lovatt Thank You for Calling the Lesbian Line Legacy Lit LGBTQ Poetry Eli Clare Unfurl: Survivals, Sorrows, and Dreaming Duke University Press Finalist jason b. crawford Yeet! Omnidawn [ 2] Qurat Dar Non-Prophet icehouse poetry [ 2] [ 4] [ 5] heidi andrea restrepo rhodes Wayward Creatures Host Publications Stacey Waite A Real Man Would Have a Gun: Poems University of New Mexico Press LGBTQ Speculative Fiction Seth Haddon Volatile Memory Tordotcom Finalist [ 2] Elaine Ho Cry, Voidbringer Left Unread Ilana Masad Beings Bloomsbury Publishing Cory O’Brien Two Truths and a Lie Pantheon Books Johanna van Veen Blood on Her Tongue Sourcebooks, Poisoned Pen Press LGBTQ Studies Sarah Ensor Queer Lasting: Ecologies of Care for a Dying World New York University Press Finalist Joseph J. Fischel Sodomy’s Solicitations: A Right to Queerness Temple University Press Kareem Khubchandani Lessons in Drag: A Queer Manual for Academics, Artists, and Aunties Brandeis University Press Eithne Luibhéid Abolitionist Intimacies: Queer and Trans Migrants against the Deportation State Duke University Press Iain Morland Intersex: A Manifesto Against Medicalization Columbia University Press LGBTQ Young Adult Rob Costello An Ugly World for Beautiful Boys Lethe Press Finalist [ 2] Logan-Ashley Kisner The Transition Random House Children’s Books | Delacorte Press [ 2] Corey Liu He’s So Possessed with Me Little, Brown Books for Young Readers [ 2] [ 4] [ 5] Miriam Zoila Pérez Camila Núñez’s Year of Disasters Page Street Publishing Riley Redgate Come Home to My Heart Union Square & Co. [ 2] Transgender Fiction Zee Carlstrom Make Sure You Die Screaming Flatiron Books Finalist Haden Cross The Uncontinented Stars Self-published [ 2] Emily St. James Woodworking Zando | Crooked Media Reads Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore Terry Dactyl Coffee House Press Milo Todd The Lilac People Counterpoint Press [ 3] Transgender Nonfiction Jennifer Finney Boylan Cleavage: Men, Women, and the Space Between Us Celadon Finalist [ 2] Zefyr Lisowski Uncanny Valley Girls Harper Perennial [ 2] Mirha-Soleil Ross Gendertrash From Hell: The First Print Collection of the Zine That Changed Everything Little Puss Press [ 4] [ 5] Denne Michele Norris Both/And HarperOne [ 7] Tourmaline Marsha: The Joy and Defiance of Marsha P. Johnson Tiny Reparations Press [ 3] Transgender Poetry Golden Reprise: Poems and Photographs Haymarket Books Finalist Jzl Jmz Local Woman Nightboat Books Rickey Laurentiis Death of the First Idea: Poems Alfred A. Knopf Roque Raquel Salas Rivera Algarabía – The Song of Cenex, Natural Son of the Isle Alarabíyya Graywolf [ 2] jaye simpson a body more tolerable Arsenal Pulp [ 2] [ 4] [ 5]