June 4, 2014 | Arts / Entertainment

The best in LGBT books

The winners of the 26th Annual Lambda Literary Awards - also known as the “Lammys” - were announced on Sunday night.

The Lambda ceremony included over 500 attendees, sponsors, and celebrities who gathered to celebrate excellence in LGBT literature and 26 years of the groundbreaking literary awards.

And the winners?

Gay books

GAY EROTICA: The Padisah’s Son and the Fox: an erotic novella, Alex Jeffers, Lethe Press.
GAY ROMANCE: Into This River I Drown, TJ Klune, Dreamspinner Press.
GAY GENERAL FICTIONMundo Cruel: Stories, Luis Negron [translated by Suzanne Jill Levine, Seven Stories Press]
 
Gay books
 
LGBT SF/F/HORRORDeath by Silver, Melissa Scott & Amy Griswold, Lethe Press
LGBT GRAPHIC NOVELCalling Dr. Laura: A Graphic Memoir, Nicole J. Georges, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
GAY MYSTERYThe Prisoner of the Riviera: A Francis Bacon Mystery, Janice Law, MysteriousPress.com/Open Road Media.
 
Who else won?
 
Gay books
 
LGBT CHILDREN’S/YATIE
If You Could Be Mine, Sara Farizan, Algonquin Books
Two Boys Kissing, David Levithan, Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers
 
GAY MEMOIR/BIOGRAPHYA Heaven of Words: Last Journals, by Glenway Wescott, Ed. Jerry Rosco, University of Wisconsin Press
LESBIAN GENERAL FICTIONHappiness, Like Water, Chinelo Okparanta, Mariner Books (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
LGBT DEBUTDescendants of Hagar, Nik Nicholson, AuthorHouse
 
BISEXUAL FICTIONMy Education, Susan Choi, Penguin Group/Viking
TRANSGENDER FICTIONWanting in Arabic, Trish Salah, TSAR Publications
LGBT NONFICTIONWhite Girls, Hilton Als, McSweeney’s Publishing
 
TRANSGENDER NONFICTIONThe End of San Francisco, Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, City Lights Publishers
BISEXUAL NONFICTIONThe B Word: Bisexuality in Contemporary Film and Television, Maria San Filippo, Indiana University Press
GAY POETRY:Unpeopled Eden, Rigoberto Gonzalez, Four Way Books
LESBIAN POETRYRise in the Fall, Ana Bozicevic, Birds, LLC
 
LESBIAN MEMOIR/BIOGRAPHY: Body Geographic, Barrie Jean Borich, University of Nebraska Press
NON-FICTION: Who’s Yer Daddy?: Gay Writers Celebrate Their Mentors and Forerunners, Eds. Jim Elledge and David Groff, The University of Wisconsin Press
 
LESBIAN MYSTERYHigh Desert, Katherine V. Forrest, Spinsters Ink
LESBIAN ROMANCEClean Slate, Andrea Bramhall, Bold Strokes Books
LESBIAN EROTICAWild Girls, Wild Nights: True Lesbian Sex Stories, Ed. Sacchi Green, Cleis Press
LGBT ANTHOLOGY FICTION:  Queer Africa: New and Collected Fiction, Karen Martin and Makhosazana Xaba, MaThoko’s Books
 
LGBT DRAMATom at the Farm, Michel Marc Bouchard, Talonbooks
LGBT STUDIESSafe Space: Gay Neighborhood History and the Politics of Violence, Christina B. Hanhardt, Duke University Press

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