queerbookclub:

Earlier this week, I posted a list of books published in 2014 featuring queer people of color. Today I’m sharing books that feature the voices of trans people and/or trans protagonists.

As in the past two years,
I put together this list of publications from 2014 with the help of
resources like the Lambda Literary Foundation as well as reviewers around tumblr, goodreads and elsewhere. It has grown thanks to the efforts of small presses like biyuti publishing and Topside Press.

There’s
no way this list is exhaustive.
These are also not personal recommendations, just every title I could
find. If I was unsure about a book’s contents (that is, if I was unsure
if the trans characters were prominent, or if I thought the book might
be exploitative), I tried to give weight to who the author is (i.e.
I was more likely to include books I know were written by trans
people). This list includes books about intersex people – whether
intersex people exist under the
“umbrella” of trans or not is up to intersex individuals, but I decided
to err on the side of inclusion (if you’re not sure of the difference
between transgender and intersex people, please refer to the Intersex Society of North America’s FAQ for starters). Of course, I’ll happily add books to the list if you have
any suggestions that fit the theme – only books about trans or intersex people, and only works published in 2014.

Here’s everything I found, arranged by
genre:

Fiction

• Groom of Convenience by Vicktor Alexander
• Fingerless by Ian Donnell Arbuckle
• Otros Valos by Jamie Berrout
• For Today I am a Boy by Kim Fu
• Transition to Murder by Renee James
• everything must go by la johnjoseph
• I’ve Got a Time Bomb by Sybil Lamb
• Other
  Selves: A Journey of Gender, Fiction, Discovery, and Hope by Amber Neko
  Meador
• S/N/D by Soren Melville
• Revolutionary by Alex Meyers
• Moving Forward Sideways Like a Crab by Shani Mootoo
• Maxine Wore Black by Nora Olsen
• At Land by Morgan M. Page
• A Safe Girl to Love by Casey Plett
• Lizzy & Annie by Casey Plett and Annie Mok
• The Complicated Geography of Alice by Jules Vilmur

Poetry

• i just want freedom by b. binaohan
• Beast Feast by Cody-Rose Clevidence
• Make Love to Rage by Morgan Robyn Collado
• Almost Any Shit Will Do by Emji Spero
• Gephyromania
  by TC Tolbert
• Terror Matrix by Zoe Tuck
• Ghost Box by Emerson Whitney
• Sara or the Existence of Fire by Sara Woods
• Wolf Doctors by Sara Woods

Memoir/Bio

• Queerly Beloved: A Love Story Across Genders by Diane and Jacob Anderson-Minshall
  
• Some Assembly Required by Arin Andrews
• Show Trans: A Nonfiction Novel by Elliot DeLine
• Memoirs of a GayShe by Garland G. Guidry
• The Wind That Ruffled the Field by Jer’Ell Hartsig
• Rethinking Normal by Katie Rain Hill
• Memoirs of a Transsexual Call Girl by Dee Dee Jackson
  
• The Transsexual from Tobago by Dominique Jackson
• Bent by Teri Louise Kelly
  
• Man Alive: A True Story of Violence, Forgiveness and Becoming a Man by Thomas Page McBee
• Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More by Janet Mock
• A Light in the Dark by Stephanie Robinson
• Gender Failure by Rae Spoon and Ivan E. Coyote
• My Life is No Accident by Tenika Watson and Jennifer Daelyn

Nonfiction/Queer Studies

• Gender on the Edge: Transgender, Gay, and Other Pacific Islanders edited by Niko Besnier & Kalissa Alexeyeff
• decolonizing trans/gender 101 by b. binaohan
• The
  Transgender Archives: Foundations for the Future by Aaron H Devor
• Trans Bodies, Trans Selves: A Resource for the Transgender Community edited by Laura Erickson-Schroth
• Making Sense of Intersex: Changing Ethical Perspectives in Biomedicine Ellen K. Feder
• Letters for My Sisters: Transitional Wisdom in Retrospect edited by Andrea James & Deanne Thornton
• Manning Up: Transsexual Men on Finding Brotherhood, Family & Themselves edited by Zander Keig & Mitch Kellaway
• Queer & Trans Artists of Color: Stories of Some of Our Lives by Nia King
• Island Bodies: Transgressive Sexualities in the Caribbean Imagination by Rosamond S. King
• Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out by Susan Kuklin
• Arresting Dress: Cross-Dressing, Law, and Fascination in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco by Clare Sears
• Journeys of Transformation: Stories from Across the Acronym by Reid Vanderburgh

Young Adult

• If We Shadows by DE Atwood
• Double Exposure by Bridget Birdsall
• Changers Book One: Drew by T Cooper & Allison Glock-Cooper
• Just Girls by Rachel Gold
• Lessons on Destroying the World by Gene Grant
• Shadowplay by Laura Lam
• The Unintentional Time Traveler by Everett Maroon
• Gracefully Grayson by Ami Polonsky
  
• A Boy Like Me by Jennie Wood

Children’s Lit

• Jacob’s New Dress by Sarah & Ian Hoffman
• I Am Jazz by Jessica Herthel & Jazz Jennings
• Tell Your Story, Tell A Dream Birthday Cake by Angela Bermudez & Flor Bermudez
• Morris Micklewhite and the Tangerine Dress by Christine Baldacchino
  

Comics/Graphic novels

• the GENDER book by Mel Reiff Hill & Jay Mays
• 100 Crushes by Elisha Lim
• Family Portraits by Samuel Orchard