Books by trans authors

The Books by trans authors page is a collection of works of both fiction and non-fiction authored by gender diverse individuals outside of the cis binary, it can be reorganized by clicking on the top panels.

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List of books

Title	Author	Type	Publisher	Year	ISBN	Purchase	Review
George	Alex Gino	Children	Scholastic Press	2015	9780545812542	Buy	Review
At Home On The Stroll: My Twenty Years as A Prostitute in Canada	Alexandra Highcrest	Memoir	A.A. Knopf Canada	1997	9780676970531	Buy	Review
Doll Parts	Amanda Lepore	Memoir	Atria Books	2017	9781942872856	Buy	Review
Dreadnought: Nemesis - Book One	April Daniels	Fiction	Diversion Publishing	2017	9781682300688	Buy	Review
Sovereign: Nemesis - Book Two	April Daniels	Fiction	Diversion Publishing	2017	9781682308240	Buy	Review
Some Assembly Required: The Not-so-secret Life of A Transgender Teen	Arin Andrews	Memoir	Simon & Schuster	2014	9781481416757	Buy	Review
Oscar of Between: A Memoir of Identity and Ideas	Betsy Warland	Memoir	Dagger Editions	2016	9781987915167	Buy	Review
Breathing the Page: Reading the Act of Writing	Betsy Warland	Non Fiction	Cormorant Books	2010	9781897151785	Buy	Review
The Drowning Girl	Caitlín R. Kiernan	Fiction	Roc	2012	9780451464163	Buy	Review
The Red Tree	Caitlín R. Kiernan	Fiction	Roc	2009	9780451462763	Buy	Review
Silk (Silk #1)	Caitlín R. Kiernan	Fiction	Roc	2002	9780451459008	Buy	Review
Murder of Angels (Silk, #2)	Caitlín R. Kiernan	Fiction	Roc	2004	9780451459961	Buy	Review
Beowulf	Caitlín R. Kiernan	Fiction	Harper Entertainment	2007	9780061341281	Buy	Review
Alabaster	Caitlín R. Kiernan	Graphic Novel	Subterranean Press	2006	9781596060609	Buy	Review
The Ape's Wife (And Other Stories)	Caitlín R. Kiernan	Fiction	Subterranean Press	2013	9781596065864	Buy	Review
A Safe Girl To Love	Casey Plett	Fiction	Topside Press	2014	9781627290067	Buy	Review
Which One Is The Bridge	Charles Theonia	Poetry	Topside Press	2015	9781627290135	Buy	Review
All The Birds In The Sky	Charlie Jane Anders	Fiction	Titan Books	2016	9780765379948	Buy	Review
You Only Live Twice	Chase Joynt	Non Fiction	Coach House Books	2016	9781552453315	Buy	Review
Transition: The Story of How I Became a Man	Chaz Bono	Memoir	Dutton	2011	9780525952145	Buy	Review
The Remedy: Queer and Trans Voices on Health and Health Care	Collection	Non Fiction	Arsenal Pulp Press	2016	9781551526584	Buy	Review
Untangling The Knot	Collection	Non Fiction	Ooligan Press	2015	9781932010756	Buy	Review
Sexual Metamorphosis: An Anthology of Transsexual Memoirs	Collection	Non Fiction	Vintage Books	2005	9781400030149	Buy	Review
The Vintage Book of International Lesbian Fiction	Collection	Fiction	Vintage Books	1999	9780679759522	Buy	Review
Trans Bodies, Trans Selves: A Resource for the Transgender Community	Collection	Non Fiction	Oxford University Press	2014	9780199325351	Buy	Review
Transitions of the Heart: Stories of Love, Struggle and Acceptance by Mothers of Transgender and Gender Variant Children	Collection	Non Fiction	Cleis Press	2012	9781573447881	Buy	Review
Trans Activism in Canada	Collection / Dan Irving	Non Fiction	Canadian Scholars' Press Inc	2014	9781551305370	Buy	Review
The Last Time I Wore A Dress	Daphne Scholinski	Memoir	Riverhead Books	1997	9781573220774	Buy	Review
Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics and the Limits of Law	Dean Spade	Non Fiction	South End Press	2015	9780822360407	Buy	Review
Bourgeois Equality: How Ideas, Not Capital or Institutions, Enriched the World	Deirdre N. McCloskey	Non Fiction	University of Chicago Press	2016	9780226333991	Buy	Review
Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can't Explain the Modern World	Deirdre N. McCloskey	Non Fiction	University of Chicago Press	2010	9780226556659	Buy	Review
The Bourgeois Virtues : Ethics for an Age of Commerce	Deirdre N. McCloskey	Non Fiction	University of Chicago Press	2006	9780226556635	Buy	Review
Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure	Eli Clare	Non Fiction	Duke University Press	2017	9780822362876	Buy	Review
Exile & Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation	Eli Clare	Non Fiction	Duke University Press	2015	9780822360162	Buy	Review
Unteachable	Elliott Wake	Fiction	Atria	2014	9781476786407	Buy	Review
Black Iris	Elliott Wake	Fiction	Atria	2015	9781476786421	Buy	Review
Cam Girl	Elliott Wake	Fiction	Atria	2015	9781501114991	Buy	Review
Passage	Gwen Benaway	Poetry	Kegedonce Press	2016	9781928120087	Buy	Review
Nevada	Imogen Binnie	Fiction	Topside Press	2013	9780983242239	Buy	Review
Darling Days: A Memoir	iO Tillet Wright	Memoir	Ecco	2016	9780062663160	Buy	Review
Bow Grip	Ivan Coyote	Fiction	Arsenal Pulp Press	2007	9781551522135	Buy	Review
Persistence: All Ways Butch and Femme	Ivan Coyote	Non Fiction	Arsenal Pulp Press	2011	9781551523972	Buy	Review
The Slow Fix	Ivan Coyote	Fiction	Arsenal Pulp Press	2009	9781551522470	Buy	Review
Tomboy Survival Guide	Ivan Coyote	Memoir	Arsenal Pulp Press	2016	9781551526560	Buy	Review
The Drag King Book	J. Jack Halberstam	Non Fiction	Serpent's Tail	1999	9781852426071	Buy	Review
In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives (Sexual Cultures)	J. Jack Halberstam	Non Fiction	New York University Press	2005	9780814735855	Buy	Review
The Queer Art of Failure	J. Jack Halberstam	Non Fiction	Duke University Press	2011	9780822350453	Buy	Review
Transphobia: Deal with It and Be a Gender Transcender	J. Wallace Skelton	Non Fiction	James Lorimer & Company Ltd.	2017	9781459407664	Buy	Review
Heaven's Command: An Imperial Progress (The Pax Britannica Trilogy, #1)	Jan Morris	Non Fiction	Faber and Faber	2013	9780571194667	Buy	Review
Pax Britannica: The Climax Of An Empire(The Pax Britannica Trilogy, #2)	Jan Morris	Non Fiction	Faber and Faber	2013	9780571086467	Buy	Review
Trieste and The Meaning of Nowhere	Jan Morris	Non Fiction	Simon & Schuster	2002	9780743201285	Buy	Review
Conundrum	Jan Morris	Non Fiction	Harcourt Brace Jovanovich	1974	9780151225637	Buy	Review
Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More	Janet Mock	Memoir	Atria Books	2014	9781476709123	Buy	Review
Surpassing Certainty: What My Twenties Taught Me	Janet Mock	Memoir	Atria Books	2017	9781501145797	Buy	Review
Transmen and FTMs: Identities, Bodies, Genders, and Sexualities	Jason Cromwell	Non Fiction	University of Illinois Press	1999	9780252068256	Buy	Review
I Am Jazz	Jazz Jennings	Children	Dial Books for Young Readers	2014	9780803741072	Buy	Review
Being Jazz: My Life as a (Transgender) Teen	Jazz Jennings	Memoir	Crown	2016	9780399554643	Buy	Review
She’s Not There: a Life in Two Genders	Jennifer Finney Boylan	Memoir	Broadway Books	2004	9780767914048	Buy	Review
I’m Looking Through You: Growing Up Haunted	Jennifer Finney Boylan	Memoir	Broadway Books	2008	9780767921749	Buy	Review
Stuck in the Middle with You: A Memoir of Parenting in Three Generations	Jennifer Finney Boylan	Memoir	Crown	2013	9780767921763	Buy	Review
Falcon Quinn and the Black Mirror (Falcon Quinn #1)	Jennifer Finney Boylan	Children	Katherine Tegen Books	2009	9780061728327	Buy	Review
Falcon Quinn and the Crimson Vapor (Falcon Quinn #2)	Jennifer Finney Boylan	Children	Katherine Tegen Books	2011	9780061728358	Buy	Review
Long Black Veil	Jennifer Finney Boylan	Fiction	Crown	2017	9780451496324	Buy	Review
Small Beauty	jia qing wilson-yang	Fiction	Metonymy Press	2016	9780994047120	Buy	Review
There Should Be Flowers	Joshua Jennifer Espinoza	Poetry	Civil Coping Mechanisms	2016	9781937865733	Buy	Review
Through the Door of Life: A Jewish Journey between Genders	Joy Ladin	Memoir	The University of Wisconsin Press	2012	9780299287306	Buy	Review
Excluded: Making Feminist and Queer Movements More Inclusive	Julia Serano	Non Fiction	Seal Press	2013	9781580055048	Buy	Review
Trans: A Memoir	Juliet Jacques	Memoir	Verso	2015	9781784781651	Buy	Review
Hollow Pike	Juno Dawson	Fiction	Indigo	2012	9781780620039	Buy	Review
This Book Is Gay	Juno Dawson	Non Fiction	Hot Key Books	2014	9781471403958	Buy	Review
Under My Skin	Juno Dawson	Fiction	eBook	2015	9781471402975	Buy	Review
Say Her Name	Juno Dawson	Fiction	Hot Key Books	2014	9781471402449	Buy	Review
a place called No Homeland	Kai Cheng Thom	Fiction	Arsenal Pulp Press	2017	9781551526799	Buy	Review
From the Stars in the Sky to the Fish in the Sea	Kai Cheng Thom	Children	Arsenal Pulp Press	2017	9781551527093	Buy	Review
Hello Cruel World: 101 Alternatives to Suicide for Teens, Freaks, and Other Outlaws	Kate Bornstein	Non Fiction	Seven Stories Press	2006	9781583227206	Buy	Review
My New Gender Workbook: A Step-by-Step Guide to Achieving World Peace Through Gender Anarchy and Sex Positivity	Kate Bornstein	Non Fiction	Routledge	2013	9780415538657	Buy	Review
A Queer and Pleasant Danger: The True Story of a Nice Jewish Boy Who Joins the Church of Scientology and Leaves Twelve Years Later to Become the Lovely Lady She is Today	Kate Bornstein	Non Fiction	Beacon Press	2012	9780807001653	Buy	Review
Rethinking Normal: A Memoir in Transition	Katie Rain Hill	Memoir	Simon & Schuster	2014	9781481418232	Buy	Review
When The Chant Comes	Kay Ulanday Barrett	Poetry	Topside Press	2016	9781627290159	Buy	Review
The Boy's Body Book - Fourth Edition	Kelli Dunham	Children	Applesauce Press	2015	9781604335743	Buy	Review
Reacquainted With Life	Kokumo	Poetry	Topside Press	2016	9781627290166	Buy	Review
Tranny: Confessions of Punk Rock's Most Infamous Anarchist Sellout	Laura Jane Grace	Memoir	Hachette Books	2016	9780316387958	Buy	Review
Me Hijra, Me Laxmi	Laxmi	Memoir	Oxford University Press	2015	9780199458264	Buy	Review
Dirty River: A Queer Femme of Color Dreaming Her Way Home	Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha	Memoir	Arsenal Pulp Press	2015	9781551526003	Buy	Review
Bodymap	Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha	Poetry	Mawenzi House Publishers Ltd.	2015	9781927494509	Buy	Review
Stone Butch Blues	Leslie Feinberg	Fiction	Firebrand Books	1993	9781563410291	Buy	Review
Thor	Lilah Sturges	Graphic Novel	Marvel	2013	9780785153795	Buy	Review
Final Crisis Aftermath: Run!	Lilah Sturges	Graphic Novel	DC Comics	2010	9781401226060	Buy	Review
House of Mystery: Rooms & Boredom	Lilah Sturges	Graphic Novel	Vertigo	2008	9781401220792	Buy	Review
House of Mystery: Love Stories for Dead People	Lilah Sturges	Graphic Novel	Vertigo	2009	9781401222765	Buy	Review
Improvise, Girl, Improvise	Lilith Latini	Poetry	Topside Press	2015	9781627290128	Buy	Review
Telegram	Maranda Elizabeth	Fiction	Mend My Dress Press	2012	9780985013165	Buy	Review
Virtually Human: The Promise—and the Peril—of Digital Immortality	Martine Rothblatt	Non Fiction	St. Martin's Press	2014	9781250046918	Buy	Review
Just Add Hormones: An Insider's Guide to the Transsexual Experience	Matt Kailey	Non Fiction	Beacon Press	2005	9780807079584	Buy	Review
The Testosterone Files: My Hormonal and Social Transformation from Female to Male	Max Wolf Valerio	Memoir	Seal Press	2006	9781580051736	Buy	Review
If I Was Your Girl	Meredith Russo	Fiction	Flatiron Books	2016	9781250078407	Buy	Review
Videogames For Humans	Merritt Kopas	Non Fiction	Instar Books	2015	9780990452843	Buy	Review
Queer and Trans Artists of Color: Stories of Some of Our Lives volume 1	Nia King	Non Fiction	Createspace Independent Publishing Platform	2014	9781492215646	Buy	Review
Queer and Trans Artists of Color volume 2	Nia King	Non Fiction	Createspace Independent Publishing Platform	2016	9781988139005	Buy	Review
Nina Here Nor There: My Journey Beyond Gender	Nick Krieger	Memoir	Beacon Press	2011	9780807000922	Buy	Review
She Is Sitting in the Night: Re-visioning Thea’s Tarot	Oliver Pickle	Fiction	Metonymy Press	2015	9780994047106	Buy	Review
Lizard Radio	Pat Schmatz	Fiction	Candlewick Press	2015	9780763676353	Buy	Review
Bluefish	Pat Schmatz	Fiction	Candlewick Press	2011	9780763653347	Buy	Review
A Secret Woman	Rachel Pollack	Fiction	Minotaur Books	2002	9780312246594	Buy	Review
Godmother Night	Rachel Pollack	Fiction	Abacus	1996	9780349108360	Buy	Review
The Forest of Souls: A Walk in the Tarot	Rachel Pollack	Non Fiction	Llewellyn Publications	2002	9781567185331	Buy	Review
First Spring Grass Fire	Rae Spoon	Fiction	Arsenal Pulp Press	2012	9781551524801	Buy	Review
Gender Failure	Rae Spoon	Fiction	Arsenal Pulp Press	2014	9781551525365	Buy	Review
Read My Lips: Sexual Subversion and the End of Gender	Riki Anne Wilchins	Non Fiction	Firebrand Books	1997	9781563410918	Buy	Review
Rituals (Rhapsody of Blood, #1)	Roz Kaveney	Fantasy	Plus One Press	2012	9780984436279	Buy	Review
Seasonal Velocities	Ryka Aoki	Poetry	Trans-Genre Press	2012	9780985110505	Buy	Review
Why Dust Shall Never Settle Upon This Soul	Ryka Aoki	Poetry	biyuti publishing	2015	9780991900855	Buy	Review
Blood, Marriage, Wine & Glitter	S. Bear Bergman	Fiction	Arsenal Pulp Press	2013	9781551525112	Buy	Review
Lost Boi	Sassafras Lowrey	Fiction	Arsenal Pulp Press	2015	9781551525815	Buy	Review
Real Talk for Teens: A Jump-Start Guide to Gender Transitioning and Beyond	Seth Jamison Rainess	Non Fiction	Harbor View Press	2015	9780982405321	Buy	Review
Bi: Notes for a Bisexual Revolution	Shiri Eisner	Nonfiction	Seal Press	2013	9781580054744	Buy	Review
Ask Me About Polyamory: The Best Of Kimchi Cuddles	Sophie Labelle	Graphic Novel	Independent Pub Group	2016	9780996460118	Buy	Review
I've Got A Time Bomb	Sybil Lamb	Fiction	Topside Press	2014	9781627290111	Buy	Review
Drew (Changers #1)	T. Cooper	Fiction	Black Sheep	2014	9781617751950	Buy	Review
Oryon (Changers #2)	T. Cooper	Fiction	Black Sheep	2015	9781617753077	Buy	Review
Kim (Changers #3)	T. Cooper	Fiction	Black Sheep	2016	9781617754890	Buy	Review
A Fictional History of the United States (with Huge Chunks Missing)	T. Cooper	Fiction	Akashic	2006	9781933354026	Buy	Review
Labor of Love: The Story of One Man's Extraordinary Pregnancy	Thomas Beatie	Memoir	Seal Press	2008	9781580052870	Buy	Review
Man Alive: A True Story of Violence, Forgiveness and Becoming a Man	Thomas Page McBee	Memoir	City Lights Publishers	2014	9780872866249	Buy	Review
Where's the Mother? Stories from a Transgender Dad	Trevor MacDonald	Memoir	Trans Canada Press	2016	9780991964505	Buy	Review
Wanting In Arabic	Trish Salah	Poetry	Mawenzi House/TSAR Publishers	2002	9781927494301	Buy	Review
Never Coming Home	Tyler Vile	Poetry	Topside Press	2015	9781627290142	Buy	Review
God Loves Hair	Vivek Shraya	Children	Arsenal Pulp Press	2014	9781551525433	Buy	Review
She Of The Mountains	Vivek Shraya	Fiction	Arsenal Pulp Press	2014	9781551525600	Buy	Review
Even This Page Is White	Vivek Shraya	Poetry	Arsenal Pulp Press	2016	9781551526416	Buy	Review
The Boy And The Bindi	Vivek Shraya	Children	Arsenal Pulp Press	2016	9781551526683	Buy	Review
Hiding in Plain Sight	Zane Thimmesch-Gill	Memoir	Riverdale Avenue Books	2015	9781626011793	Buy	Review