FICTION AND POETRY

James Baldwin - Giovanni's Room

Zaina Arafat - You Exist Too Much

Andrew Sean Greer - Less

Bryan Washington - Memorial

Nicole Dennis-Benn - Patsy

Meredith Russo - Birthday

Julián Delgado Lopera - Fiebre Tropical

Ocean Vuong - On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous; Night Sky with Exit Wounds

Adam Silvera - History is All You Left Me

Torrey Peters - Detransition, Baby

Akwaeke Emezi - The Death of Vivek Oji

Shira Erlichman - Odes to Lithium

Zeyn Joukhadar - The Thirty Names of Night

 

ESSAYS AND SHORT STORIES

Samantha Irby - Wow, No Thank You

Edgar Gomez - High-Risk Homosexual

Alexander Chee - How to Write an Autobiographical Novel

Christopher Gonzalez - I'm Not Hungry But I Could Eat

Isaac Oliver - Intimacy Idiot

Brandon Taylor - Filthy Animals

John Paul Brammer - Hola Papi

 

MEMOIR

Saeed Jones - How We Fight for Our Lives

Meredith Talusan - Fairest

George M. Johnson - All Boys Aren't Blue

Jonathan Van Ness - Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love

Carmen Maria Machado - In the Dream House

Maia Kobabe - Gender Queer

Alison Bechdel - Fun Home (Graphic Memoir)

Garrard Conley - Boy Erased

T Kira Madden - Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls

 

ROMANCE

Meryl Wilsner - Something to Talk About

David Levithan - Boy Meets Boy

Casey McQuiston - Red, White, & Royal Blue; One Last Stop

Lana Popovic Harper - Payback's a Witch

Erica Ridley - The Perks of Loving a Wallflower

 

YOUNG ADULT

Gabby Rivera - Juliet Takes a Breath

Leah Johnson - You Should See Me in a Crown

Becky Albertalli - Kate in Waiting

Adeba Jaigirdar - The Henna Wars

Abdi Nasemian - Like a Love Story

 

FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION

Tehlor Kay Mejia - We Set the Dark on Fire

Charlie Jane Anders - All the Birds in the Sky

T.J. Klune - The House in the Cerulean Sea; Under the Whispering Door

Becky Chambers - The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet

Laura Pohl - The Last 8

C.B. Lee - Not Your Sidekick

Alex Harrow - Empire of Light

Malinda Lo - Adaptation

Rivers Solomon - An Unkindness of Ghosts

 

NONFICTION

Angela Chen - Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex

Michelle Bowdler - Is Rape a Crime?

Lama Rod Owens - Love and Rage

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein - The Disordered Cosmos

Elon Green - Last Call