Reading Lists

Trans Reading List

Books I like that focus on or feature transness and trans concepts.

• Detransition Baby by Torrey Peters
• Something That May Shock and Discredit You by Daniel M. Lavery
• Imajica by Clive Barker
• The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson
• Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation by Kate Bornstein
• Coffee Boy by Austin Chant
• Confessions of the Fox by Jordy Rosenburg
• An Unsuitable Heir (third book in the Sins of Cities series) by KJ Charles
• Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl by Andrea Lawlor
• The Companion by EE Ottoman
• Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki
• We Both Laughed in Pleasure by Lou Sullivan

Queer Reading List

Books I like that focus on or feature queerness and queer concepts.

• White Girls by Hilton Als
• On Freedom by Maggie Nelson
• Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo
• Death in the Spires by KJ Charles
• Fingersmith by Sarah Waters

More Books

More books that I like and recommend.

• Working Girl: On Selling Art and Selling Sex by Sophia Giovannitti
• Magnificent Sex by Peggy J. Kleinplatz and A. Dana Ménard
• Come Together by Emily Nagoski
• Easy Beauty by Chloé Cooper Jones
• The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson