# 18th Lambda Literary Awards

The 18th Lambda Literary Awards were held in 2006, to honor works of LGBT literature published in 2005.

## Nominees and winners

| Category | Winner | Nominated |
| Anthologies | E. Lynn Harris, ed., Freedom in This Village: Twenty-Five Years of Black Gay Men's Writing, 1979 to the Present | Anna Camilleri, Red Light: Superheroes, Saints and Sluts Katherine V. Forrest, Lesbian Pulp Fiction Wendell Ricketts, Everything I Have is Blue: Short Fiction by Working-Class Men Emanuel Xavier, Bullets and Butterflies: Queer Spoken Word Poetry |
| Belles Lettres | Martin Moran, The Tricky Part | Sybille Bedford, Quicksands Tab Hunter and Eddie Muller, Tab Hunter Confidential Tania Katan, My One Night Stand with Cancer Robert Trachtenberg and Tom Bachtell, When I Knew |
| Biography | Sherrill Tippins, February House | Joshua Gamson, The Fabulous Sylvester John Geiger, Nothing is True, Everything is Permitted: The Life of Brion Gysin Mary Meigs and Lise Weil, Beyond Recall Diana Souhami, Wild Girls: Paris, Sappho and Art |
| Children's/Young Adult | Shyam Selvadurai, Swimming in the Monsoon Sea | Rigoberto González, Antonio’s Card/La Tarjeta de Antonio James Howe, Totally Joe Peter Parnell and Justin Richardson, And Tango Makes Three Alex Sánchez, Rainbow Road |
| Erotica | Stacia Seaman and Radclyffe, eds., Stolen Moments: Erotic Interludes 2 | Matt Bernstein Sycamore and Richard Labonté, Best Gay Erotica 2006 Eileen Myles and Tristan Taormino, Best Lesbian Erotica 2006 Sacchi Green and Rakelle Valencia, Rode Hard But Away Wet: Lesbian Cowboy Erotica Sean Wolfe, Close Contact |
| Gay Debut Fiction | Vestal McIntyre, You Are Not the One: Stories | Mack Friedman, Setting the Lawn on Fire Richard McCann, Mother of Sorrows Barry McCrea, The First Verse Sulayman X, Bilal’s Bread |
| Gay Fiction | Dennis Cooper, The Sluts | Harlan Greene, The German Officer’s Boy Aaron Hamburger, Faith for Beginners Kief Hillsbery, What We Do Is Secret Keith McDermott, Acqua Calda |
| Gay Mystery | D. Travers Scott, One of These Things is Not Like the Other | Rick Copp, The Actor’s Guide to Greed Dorien Grey, The Paper Mirror Michael Allen Dymmoch, White Tiger W. Randy Haynes, Cajun Snuff |
| Gay Poetry | Richard Siken, Crush | Mark Doty, School of the Arts Timothy Lui, For Dust Thou Art Martin Pousson, Sugar Aaron Smith, Blue on Blue Ground |
| Humor | David Rakoff, Don't Get Too Comfortable | Alison Bechdel, Invasion of Dykes to Watch Out For Jennifer Camper, Juicy Mother Kate Clinton, What the L? Cheryl Peck, Revenge of the Paste Eaters |
| Lesbian Debut Fiction | Ali Liebegott, The Beautifully Worthless | Katia Noyes, Crashing America Michelle Embree, Manstealing for Fat Girls Ronica Black, In Too Deep Fiona Zedde, Bliss |
| Lesbian Fiction | Abha Dawesar, Babyji | Helen Humphreys, Wild Dogs Lauren Sanders, With or Without You Aren X. Tulchinsky, The Five Books of Moses Lapinsky Jeanette Winterson, Lighthousekeeping |
| Lesbian Mystery | Alicia Gaspar de Alba, Desert Blood: The Juarez Murders | Katherine V. Forrest, Women of Mystery Ellen Hart, The Iron Girl Penny Mickelbury, Darkness Descending Radclyffe, Justice Served |
| Lesbian Poetry | June Jordan, Directed by Desire: Collected Poems | Samiya Bashir, Where the Apple Falls Jackie Kay, Life Mask Mary Oliver, New and Selected Poems, Volume II Amber Flora Thomas, Eye of Water |
| LGBT Studies | Susan Ackerman, When Heroes Love: The Ambiguities of Eros in the Stories of Gilgamesh and David | Jennifer Kelly, Zest for Life: Lesbians’ Experience of Menopause Dwight A. McBride, Why I Hate Abercrombie and Fitch Esther D. Rothblum and Penny Sablove, Lesbian Communities Festivals, Rvs and the Internet Ruth Vanita, Love’s Rite: Same-Sex Marriage in India and the West |
| Non-Fiction | Thomas Glave, Words to Our Now | Dennis Altman, Gore Vidal’s America Keith Boykin, Beyond the Down Low Peggy Drexler, Raising Boys without Men Tirza True Latimer, Women Together/Women Apart |
| Romance | Radclyffe, Distant Shores, Silent Thunder | Randy Boyd, Walt Loves the Bearcat Gerri Hill, Artist’s Dream Karin Kallmaker, Just Like That M. J. Pearson, The Price of Temptation |
| Science fiction, fantasy or horror | Katherine V. Forrest, Daughters of an Emerald Dusk | Octavia Butler, Fledgling David B. Coe, Shapers of Darkness Jane Fletcher, Temple Landfall Jeanne G'Fellers, No Sister of Mine |
| Spirituality | Cheri DiNovo, Qu(e)erying Evangelism: Growing a Community from the Outside In | Munya Andrews, The Seven Sisters of the Pleiades Michael Thomas Ford, The Path of the Green Man Daniel Gebhardt, I Am This One Walking Beside Me Craig Hickman, Fumbling Toward Divinity |
| Transgender | Charlie Anders, Choir Boy | Judith Halberstam, In a Queer Time and Place Tennessee Jones, Deliver Me from Nowhere Matt Kailey, Just Add Hormones Deborah Rudacille, The Riddle of Gender |