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 The following 10 books have been read and recommended for consideration by the final list by at least one juror.
Berman, Steve, ed. Daughters of Frankenstein: Lesbian Mad Scientists. Maple Shade, NJ: Lethe Press, 2015.
Bingham, Emily. Irrepressible: The Jazz Age Life of Henrietta Bingham. 1st edition. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015.
Brown, Nickole. Fanny Says: Poems, 2015.
Eads, Sean. Lord Byron’s Prophecy. Lethe Press, 2015.
Howell, Ally Windsor. Transgender Persons and the Law. 2nd edition. Chicago, Illinois: American Bar Association, Commission on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity, 2015.
Jacobs, Jessica. Pelvis with Distance. Buffalo, NY: White Pine Press, 2015.
Merlis, Mark. JD: A Novel. Madison, Wisconsin: Terrace Books, a trade imprint of the University of Wisconsin Press, 2015.
Walker, Alexander, and Emmett J. P Lundberg. Finding Masculinity: Female to Male Transition in Adulthood. Riverdale, NY: Magnus Books, 2015.
Ward, Elizabeth Jane. Not Gay: Sex between Straight White Men. Sexual Cultures. New York: New York University Press, 2015.
Yanagihara, Hanya. A Little Life: A Novel. First edition. New York: Doubleday, 2015.