The 18th Lambda Literary Awards were held in 2006, to honor works of LGBT literature published in 2005.
Nominees and winners edit
| Category | Winner | Nominated |
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| Anthologies | E. Lynn Harris, ed., Freedom in This Village: Twenty-Five Years of Black Gay Men's Writing, 1979 to the Present [1] |
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| Belles Lettres | Martin Moran, The Tricky Part [1] |
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| Biography | Sherrill Tippins, February House[1] |
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| Children's/Young Adult | Shyam Selvadurai, Swimming in the Monsoon Sea[1] |
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| Erotica | Stacia Seaman and Radclyffe, eds., Stolen Moments: Erotic Interludes 2[1] |
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| Gay Debut Fiction | Vestal McIntyre, You Are Not the One: Stories[1] |
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| Gay Fiction | Dennis Cooper, The Sluts[1] |
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| Gay Mystery | D. Travers Scott, One of These Things is Not Like the Other[1] |
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| Gay Poetry | Richard Siken, Crush[1] |
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| Humor | David Rakoff, Don't Get Too Comfortable[1] |
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| Lesbian Debut Fiction | Ali Liebegott, The Beautifully Worthless[1] |
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| Lesbian Fiction | Abha Dawesar, Babyji[1] |
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| Lesbian Mystery | Alicia Gaspar de Alba, Desert Blood: The Juarez Murders[1] |
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| Lesbian Poetry | June Jordan, Directed by Desire: Collected Poems[1] |
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| LGBT Studies | Susan Ackerman, When Heroes Love: The Ambiguities of Eros in the Stories of Gilgamesh and David[1] |
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| Non-Fiction | Thomas Glave, Words to Our Now[1] |
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| Romance | Radclyffe, Distant Shores, Silent Thunder[1] |
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| Science fiction, fantasy or horror | Katherine V. Forrest, Daughters of an Emerald Dusk[1] |
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| Spirituality | Cheri DiNovo, Qu(e)erying Evangelism: Growing a Community from the Outside In[1] |
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| Transgender | Charlie Anders, Choir Boy[1] |
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