Lambda Literary Awards
Presented by: Lambda Literary Foundation
For: Works which celebrate or explore lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender themes
| Winner | Metal from Heaven | Hannah Abigail Clarke |
| Nominee | Markless | C. G. Malburi |
| Nominee | The Sunforge | Sascha Stronach |
| Nominee | Bury Your Gays | Chuck Tingle |
| Nominee | Fairy Tale Review - 2023 | Benjamin Schaefer |
| Nominee | That Self-Same Metal | Brittany N. Williams |
| Nominee | The Wicked Bargain | Gabe Cole Novoa |
| Nominee | Bang Bang Bodhisattva | Aubrey Wood |
| Nominee | I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself | Marisa Crane |
| Nominee | The Saint of Bright Doors | Vajra Chandrasekera |
| Nominee | The Archive Undying | Emma Mieko Candon |
| Nominee | The Thick and the Lean | Chana Porter |
| Winner | Gods of Want | K-Ming Chang |
| Nominee | Our Wives Under the Sea | Julia Armfield |
| Nominee | Jawbone | Mónica Ojeda |
| Winner | Reluctant Immortals | Gwendolyn Kiste |
| Nominee | Meet Us by the Roaring Sea | Akil Kumarasamy |
| Nominee | Lakelore | Anna-Marie McLemore |
| Nominee | Burn Down, Rise Up | Vincent Tirado |
| Nominee | Wrath Goddess Sing | Maya Deane |
| Nominee | All the Hometowns You Can't Stay Away From | Izzy Wasserstein |
| Nominee | Call Me Cassandra | Marcial Gala |
| Winner | The Wicked and the Willing | Lianyu Tan |
| Nominee | The Book Eaters | Sunyi Dean |
| Nominee | The Circus Infinite | Khan Wong |
| Nominee | Into the Riverlands | Nghi Vo |
| Nominee | The Paradox Hotel | Rob Hart |
| Winner | No Gods, No Monsters | Cadwell Turnbull |
| Nominee | A Desolation Called Peace | Arkady Martine |
| Nominee | Breeder | Honni van Rijswijk |
| Nominee | The Tensorate Series | Neon Yang |
| Nominee | Phototaxie | Olivia Tapiero |
| Winner | Apsara Engine | Bishakh Som |
| Nominee | SFSX (Safe Sex), Vol. 1: Protection | Tina Horn+Michael Dowling+Alejandra Gutiérrez+Jen Hickman |
| Winner | Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit & Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction | Joshua Whitehead |
| Winner | The Ghost and Charlie Muir | Felice Stevens |
| Nominee | This Town Sleeps | Dennis E. Staples |
| Nominee | Finna | Nino Cipri |
| Nominee | The Seep | Chana Porter |
| Nominee | Trans-Galactic Bike Ride: Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction Stories of Transgender and Nonbinary Adventurers | Lydia Rogue |
| Nominee | Bestiary | K-Ming Chang |
| Nominee | The Deep & Dark Blue | Niki Smith |
| Winner | Everyone on the Moon is Essential Personnel | Julian K. Jarboe |
| Nominee | The Silence of the Wilting Skin | Tlotlo Tsamaase |
| Nominee | Black Sun | Rebecca Roanhorse |
| Nominee | The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water | Zen Cho |
| Nominee | Subcutanean 36619 | Aaron A. Reed |
| Winner | untitled | Jane Wagner |
| Nominee | The Hound of Justice | Beth Bernobich |
| Winner | The Deep | Rivers Solomon |
| Nominee | Black Leopard, Red Wolf | Marlon James |
| Nominee | The Priory of the Orange Tree | Samantha Shannon |
| Nominee | The Rampant | Julie C. Day |
| Nominee | A Spectral Hue | Craig Laurance Gidney |
| Nominee | Stories to Sing in the Dark | Matthew Bright |
| Nominee | Wake, Siren: Ovid Resung | Nina MacLaughlin |
| Nominee | False Bingo: Stories | Jac Jemc |
| Winner | A Study in Honor | Beth Bernobich |
| Winner | Hurricane Child | Kheryn Callender |
| Winner | As You Like It | uncredited |
| Winner | The Breath of the Sun | Rachel Fellman |
| Nominee | The Barrow Will Send What It May | Margaret Killjoy |
| Nominee | The Descent of Monsters | JY Yang |
| Nominee | Forget the Sleepless Shores | Sonya Taaffe |
| Nominee | In the Vanishers' Palace | Aliette de Bodard |
| Nominee | Witchmark | C. L. Polk |
| Nominee | Resilience | Fletcher DeLancey |
| Nominee | Metabolize, If Able | Clay AD |
| Winner | Transcendent 2: The Year's Best Transgender Speculative Fiction | Bogi Takács |
| Winner | Her Body and Other Parties | Carmen Maria Machado |
| Nominee | Things to Do When You're Goth in the Country and Other Stories | Chavisa Woods |
| Winner | untitled | Edmund White |
| Winner | untitled | Roxane Gay |
| Nominee | Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction and Fantasy from Transgender Writers | Cat Fitzpatrick+Casey Plett |
| Winner | Autonomous | Annalee Newitz |
| Nominee | Amberlough | Lara Elena Donnelly |
| Nominee | An Excess Male | Maggie Shen King |
| Nominee | An Unkindness of Ghosts | Rivers Solomon |
| Nominee | I Stole You: Stories from the Fae | Kristen Ringman |
| Nominee | Night Visitors | Owen Keehnen |
| Nominee | The Lost Daughter Collective | Lindsey Drager |
| Nominee | The Prey of Gods | Nicky Drayden |
| Nominee | Not Your Sidekick | C. B. Lee |
| Nominee | The Midnight Star | Marie Lu |
| Winner | The Devourers | Indra Das |
| Nominee | Style of Attack Report | Ras Mashramani+Rasheedah Phillips+Alex Smith (II)+M Eighteen Téllez |
| Nominee | All Good Children | Dayna Ingram |
| Nominee | The Kissing Booth Girl and Other Stories | A. C. Wise |
| Nominee | A Little Queermas Carol | Sassafras Lowrey |
| Nominee | Lily | Michael Thomas Ford |
| Nominee | Will Do Magic for Small Change | Andrea Hairston |
| Winner | The Gracekeepers | Kirsty Logan |
| Nominee | Down | Ally Blue |
| Nominee | The Glittering World | Robert Levy |
| Nominee | Minotaur | J. A. Rock |
| Nominee | Sacrati | Kate Sherwood |
| Nominee | The Boys on the Mountain | John Inman |
| Nominee | The Caphenon | Fletcher DeLancey |
| Nominee | Wonder City Stories | Jude McLaughlin |
| Winner | untitled | Rita Mae Brown |
| Winner | Bitter Waters | Chaz Brenchley |
| Nominee | Afterparty | Daryl Gregory |
| Nominee | Butcher's Road | Lee Thomas |
| Nominee | Child of a Hidden Sea | A. M. Dellamonica |
| Nominee | Full Fathom Five | Max Gladstone |
| Nominee | FutureDyke | Lea Daley |
| Nominee | Skin Deep Magic: Short Fiction | Craig Laurance Gidney |
| Winner | untitled | Kate Bornstein |
| Winner | Death by Silver | Amy Griswold+Melissa Scott |
| Nominee | Collaborators | Deborah Wheeler |
| Nominee | Deprivation; or, Benedetto furioso: An Oneiromancy | Alex Jeffers |
| Nominee | Dragon Slayer | Isabella Carter |
| Nominee | Dust Devil on a Quiet Street | Richard Bowes |
| Nominee | Hell's Belle | Marie Castle |
| Nominee | Invisible Soft Return:\ | Roberta Degnore |
| Nominee | Light | 'Nathan Burgoine |
| Nominee | Like Light for Flies | Lee Thomas |
| Nominee | The Stars Change | Mary Anne Mohanraj |
| Winner | Green Thumb | Tom Cardamone |
| Nominee | Beyond Binary: Genderqueer and Sexually Fluid Speculative Fiction | Brit Mandelo |
| Nominee | Chocolatiers of the High Winds | H. B. Kurtzwilde |
| Nominee | Heiresses of Russ 2012 | Connie Wilkins+Steve Berman |
| Nominee | In the Now | Kelly Sinclair |
| Nominee | Night Shadows: Queer Horror | J. M. Redmann+Greg Herren |
| Nominee | The Survivors | Sean Eads |
| Winner | untitled | Armistead Maupin |
| Winner | The German | Lee Thomas |
| Nominee | Paradise Tales | Geoff Ryman |
| Nominee | Static | L. A. Witt |
| Nominee | Steam-Powered: Lesbian Steampunk Stories | JoSelle Vanderhooft |
| Nominee | Triptych | J. M. Frey |
| Winner | untitled | Val McDermid |
| Winner | Diana Comet and Other Improbable Stories | Sandra McDonald |
| Nominee | Wolfsbane Winter | Jane Fletcher |
| Nominee | Disturbed by Her Song | Tanith Lee |
| Nominee | Flowers of Edo | Nene Adams |
| Nominee | Wilde Stories 2010 | Steve Berman |
| Winner | untitled | Larry Kramer |
| Winner | Palimpsest | Catherynne M. Valente |
| Nominee | Centuries Ago and Very Fast | Rebecca Ore |
| Nominee | Fist of the Spider Woman: Tales of Fear and Queer Desire | Amber Dawn |
| Nominee | In the Closet, Under the Bed | Lee Thomas |
| Nominee | Pumpkin Teeth | Tom Cardamone |
| Winner | Turnskin | Nicole Kimberling |
| Nominee | The Archer's Heart | Astrid Amara |
| Nominee | The Magician and the Fool | Barth Anderson |
| Nominee | Sea, Swallow Me and Other Stories | Craig Laurance Gidney |
| Nominee | Wilde Stories 2008 | Steve Berman |
| Winner | untitled | Malcolm Boyd |
| Winner | The Dust of Wonderland | Lee Thomas |
| Nominee | A Companion to Wolves | Sarah Monette+Elizabeth Bear |
| Nominee | Ha'penny | Jo Walton |
| Nominee | Spaceman Blues: A Love Song | Brian Francis Slattery |
| Nominee | Wicked Gentlemen | Ginn Hale |
| Winner | Izzy and Eve: An Erotic Thriller | Neal Drinnan |
| Nominee | Mordred, Bastard Son | Douglas Clegg |
| Nominee | Carnival | Elizabeth Bear |
| Nominee | Spin Control | Chris Moriarty |
| Nominee | A Strong and Sudden Thaw | R. W. Day |
| Winner | Daughters of an Emerald Dusk | Katherine V. Forrest |
| Nominee | Fledgling | Octavia E. Butler |
| Nominee | No Sister Of Mine | Jeanne G'Fellers |
| Nominee | Shapers of Darkness | David B. Coe |
| Nominee | The Temple at Landfall | Jane Fletcher |
| Winner | untitled | Samuel R. Delany |
| Winner | The Ordinary | Jim Grimsley |
| Nominee | Firelands | Michael Jensen |
| Nominee | Shadows of the Night: Queer Tales of the Uncanny and Unusual | Greg Herren |
| Nominee | With Her Body | Nicola Griffith |
| Nominee | Wizard of Isis | Jean Stewart |
| Winner | Necrologue: The Diva Book of the Dead and Undead | Helen Sandler |
| Nominee | Vampire Thrall | Michael Schiefelbein |
| Nominee | Elf Child | David M. Pierce |
| Nominee | The Red Line of Yarmald | Diana Rivers |
| Nominee | The Substance of God | Perry Brass |
| Winner | Queer Fear II | Michael Rowe |
| Nominee | Seeds of Fire | Karin Kallmaker^Laura Adams |
| Nominee | The Devil Inside | Randy Boyd |
| Nominee | Daughters of an Amber Noon | Katherine V. Forrest |
| Nominee | Wired Hard 3 | Cecilia Tan |
| Winner | Point of Dreams | Melissa Scott+Lisa A. Barnett |
| Nominee | Bending the Landscape: Horror | Nicola Griffith+Stephen Pagel |
| Nominee | Gumshoe Gorilla | Keith Hartman |
| Nominee | Bound in Blood | David Thomas Lord |
| Nominee | Vampire Vow | Michael Schiefelbein |
| Winner | Kirith Kirin | Jim Grimsley |
| Nominee | Angel Lust | Perry Brass |
| Nominee | Jumping Off the Planet | David Gerrold |
| Nominee | Merrick | Anne Rice |
| Nominee | Queer Fear | Michael Rowe |
| Winner | Minions of the Moon | Richard Bowes |
| Nominee | Night Shade | Victoria A. Brownworth+Judith M. Redding |
| Nominee | The Gumshoe, the Witch, and the Virtual Corpse | Keith Hartman |
| Nominee | The Annunciate | Severna Park |
| Nominee | Through a Brazen Mirror | Delia Sherman |
| Winner | Galilee | Clive Barker |
| Winner | Bending the Landscape: Science Fiction | Nicola Griffith+Stephen Pagel |
| Nominee | Falling to Earth | Elizabeth Browning |
| Nominee | Desmond | Ulysses Dietz |
| Nominee | Things Invisible to See | Lawrence Schimel |
| Winner | untitled | Katherine V. Forrest |
| Winner | Bending the Landscape: Fantasy | Nicola Griffith+Stephen Pagel |
| Nominee | Monsters in the Closet | Harry M. Benshoff |
| Nominee | Harvest | Perry Brass |
| Nominee | Grave Passions | William Mann |
| Nominee | The Drag Queen of Elfland | Lawrence Schimel |
| Winner | Sacrament | Clive Barker |
| Nominee | Swords of the Rainbow | Eric Garber+Jewelle Gomez |
| Nominee | Women Who Run with Werewolves | Pam Keesey |
| Nominee | Godmother Night | Rachel Pollack |
| Nominee | Sons of Darkness | Michael Rowe+Thomas S. Roche |
| Winner | Slow River | Nicola Griffith |
| Winner | Shadow Man | Melissa Scott |
| Nominee | Atlantis: Three Tales | Samuel R. Delany |
| Nominee | Dark Angels | Pam Keesey |
| Nominee | Dryland's End | Felice Picano |
| Winner | Trouble and Her Friends | Melissa Scott |
| Nominee | The Furies | Suzy McKee Charnas |
| Nominee | Storm Warning | Mercedes Lackey |
| Nominee | Metal Angel | Nancy Springer |
| Nominee | Warriors of Isis | Jean Stewart |
| Winner | The 5th Sacred Thing | Starhawk |
| Nominee | Drawing Blood | Poppy Z. Brite |
| Nominee | In the Garden of Dead Cars | Sybil Claiborne |
| Nominee | The Unfinished | Jay B. Laws |
| Nominee | Burning Bright | Melissa Scott |
| Winner | Ammonite | Nicola Griffith |
| Nominee | Running Fiercely Toward a High Thin Sound | Judith Katz |
| Nominee | Speaking Dreams | Severna Park |
| Nominee | Dreamships | Melissa Scott |
| Nominee | Return to Isis | Jean Stewart |
| Winner | China Mountain Zhang | Maureen F. McHugh |
| Nominee | Lost Souls | Poppy Z. Brite |
| Nominee | The Living One | Lewis Gannett |
| Nominee | The Tale of the Body Thief | Anne Rice |
| Nominee | Crygender | Thomas T. Thomas |
| Winner | The Gilda Stories | Jewelle Gomez |
| Nominee | Zeta Base | Judith Alguire |
| Nominee | Stranded | Camarin Grae |
| Nominee | Mega | B. L. Holmes |
| Nominee | Shadows of Aggar | Chris Anne Wolfe |
| Winner | The Dark Beyond the Stars | Frank M. Robinson |
| Nominee | Mirage | Perry Brass |
| Nominee | Embracing the Dark | Eric Garber |
| Nominee | Steam | Jay B. Laws |
| Nominee | Vampires Anonymous | Jeffrey N. McMahan |
| Winner | Gossamer Axe | Gaèl Baudino |
| Nominee | Doc and Fluff | Pat Califia |
| Nominee | Slick | Camarin Grae |
| Nominee | Priorities | Lynda Lyons |
| Nominee | Mighty Good Road | Melissa Scott |
| Winner | Secret Matter | Toby Johnson |
| Winner | Magic's Price | Mercedes Lackey |
| Nominee | Alternate Casts | Marsh Cassady |
| Nominee | The Enchantments of Flesh and Spirit | Storm Constantine |
| Nominee | The Gift | Scott Edelman |
| Winner | What Did Miss Darrington See? | Jessica Amanda Salmonson |
| Nominee | In the Blood | Lauren Wright Douglas |
| Nominee | Clicking Stones | Nancy Tyler Glenn |
| Nominee | Sue Slate: Private Eye | Lee Lynch |
| Nominee | Memories and Visions | Susanna Sturgis |
| Winner | Somewhere in the Night | Jeffrey N. McMahan |
| Nominee | Key West, 2720 AD | William K. Eakins |
| Nominee | Magic's Pawn | Mercedes Lackey |
| Nominee | Gentle Warriors | Geoff Mains |
| Nominee | Walking Waters/After All This | Thom Nickels |
| Nominee | The Crystal Curtain | Sandy Bayer |
| Nominee | Mundane's World | Judy Grahn |
| Nominee | Unicorn Mountain | Michael Bishop |