The finalsts for the 32nd Annual Lambda Literary Awards were announced March 10. The finalists were selected by a panel of over 60 literary professionals from more than 1,000 book submissions from over 300 publishers.

The winners will be announced June 8 in New York City

See the finalists in all 24 categories at the link.

LGBTQ Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror

• Black Leopard, Red Wolf, Marlon James, Riverhead Books
• The Deep, Rivers Solomon, Daveed Diggs, William Hutson, and Jonathan Snipes, Gallery / Saga Press
• False Bingo, Jac Jemc, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• The Priory of the Orange Tree, Samantha Shannon, Bloomsbury Publishing
• The Rampant, Julie C. Day, Aqueduct Press
• A Spectral Hue, Craig Laurance Gidney, Word Horde
• Stories to Sing in the Dark, Matthew Bright, Lethe Press
• Wake, Siren, Nina MacLaughlin, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Other categories with many works of genre interest, plus individual nominees of interest, include —

Transgender Fiction

• The Beatrix Gates, Rachel Pollack, PM Press
• Honey Walls, Bones McKay, McKay & Gray Publications
• Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian), Hazel Jane Plante, Metonymy Press
• Poet, Prophet, Fox: The Tale of Sinnach the Seer, M.Z. McDonnell, Self-published
• The Trans Space Octopus Congregation, Bogi Takács, Lethe Press

LGBTQ Comics

• Are You Listening?, Tillie Walden, First Second
• Cannonball, Kelsey Wroten, Uncivilized Books
• Death Threat, Vivek Shraya, illustrated by Ness Lee, Arsenal Pulp Press
• Is This How You See Me?, Jaime Hernandez, Fantagraphics Books
• Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me, Mariko Tamaki, illustrated by Rosemary Valero O’Connell, First Second

LGBTQ Nonfiction

• In the Dream House, Carmen Maria Machado, Graywolf Press

LGBTQ Studies

• Queer Times, Black Futures, Kara Keeling, New York University Press

Lesbian Mystery

• The Hound of Justice, Claire O’Dell, Harper Voyager