Queer Books by Transgender and Nonbinary Authors for Trans Day of Visibility
Happy Trans Day of Visibility! We’ve gathered a list of 40 books we love by authors who are openly under the broad trans umbrella – transgender, nonbinary, genderqueer, etc. Many of these books also feature trans characters, and all are queer!
You Weren’t Meant to Be Human by Andrew Joseph White
Quill and Still by Aaron Sofaer
The Deep Dark by Lee Knox Ostertag
The Out Side: Trans and Nonbinary Comics by The Kao, David Daneman & Min Christensen
The Pirate and the Porcelain Girl by Emily Riesbeck
To Drive the Hundred Miles by Alec J. Marsh
The Last Girl Scout by Natalie Ironside
Hell Followed With Us by Andrew Joseph White
Nimona by ND Stevenson
Embodied Exegesis: Transfeminine Cyberpunk Futures by ed. by Ann LeBlanc
The Story of Silence by Alex Myers
When the Angels Left the Old Country by Sacha Lamb
Love Lies and Cryptids by ML Nolan
Someone to Build Me Up by ML Nolan
Faltas: Letters to Everyone in My Hometown Who Isn’t My Rapist by Cecilia Gentili
Lucy, Uncensored by Mel Hammond & Teghan Hammond
Cafe con Lychee by Emery Lee
Make Room for Love by Darcy Liao
Skullrunner by Vyvre Argent
Watson’s Sketchbook by Lee Knox Ostertag
May the Best Man Win by Z. R. Ellor
Peter Darling by Austin Chant by
The Affair of the Mysterious Letter by Alexis Hall
Ninefox Gambit (Machineries of Empire series) by Yoon Ha Lee
Victories Greater than Death by Charlie Jane Anders
Wildforged by A. C. Bauer
The Pairing by Casey McQuiston
Dead Collections by Isaac Fellman
Leech by Hiron Ennes
The Sapling Cage by Margaret Killjoy
A Hundred Vicious Turns by Lee Paige O’Brien
Worst-Case Scenario by Ray Stoeve
The Works of Vermin by Hiron Ennes
Old Wounds by Logan-Ashley Kisner
Key Lime Sky by Al Hess
Godly Heathens by H. E. Edgmon
The Genesis of Misery by Neon Yang
Compound Fracture by Andrew Joseph White
Most Ardently by Gabe Cole Novoa
The Bruising of Qilwa by Naseem Jamnia
You can check out these books on our Goodreads shelf of books by trans authors, pick up any you’d care to own through our Bookshop.org affiliate, and/or like and save our list on Pagebound.co!
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