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Great books by trans and non-binary writers
These books represent a wide array of genres and styles, from thought-provoking literary fiction, to big-hearted YA, and revelatory nonfiction.
The stories these trans and non-binary authors have to tell could not be more different from one another—and in that way they reflect the beautiful diversity of trans lives and experiences.
My Body Is Distant: A Memoir
Paige Maylott's memoir is one part trans woman’s coming-out story and another part against-all-odds romance. Readers follow her through her childhood video game obsessions and online experiences with community and connection—as she searches for a way to find love and happiness IRL.
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Detransition, Baby
In this big-hearted debut, Torrey Peters explores the nuances of modern queer and trans life. Ames is a trans woman now living as a man. When his girlfriend Katrina gets pregnant, he approaches his ex, Reese, with an unconventional proposal: the three of them should raise the baby together. Searingly funny, gorgeously written, sexy, and brimming over with messy humanity, it's like a soap opera in the very best way.
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Wanting in Arabic: 2nd Ed.
Poet and scholar Trish Salah's collection Wanting in Arabic is a highly intellectual yet deeply felt exploration of the limits of language around sexual and racial identity. Since it came out over a decade ago, it's become a classic of contemporary trans literature.
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Stay Gold
After getting more attention than he wanted when he came out as trans, Pony is hoping for a quiet senior year at a new school. Georgia just wants to lie low until graduation—dating the new kid isn't part of her plan. But when they meet and sparks fly, both will have to reassess what they thought they wanted. It's a poignant coming-of-age story about falling in love and learning how to be true to yourself.
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Magic for Liars
This fantasy novel blends a page-turning murder mystery with an exploration of sisterhood and grief. Ivy is a private investigator who'd rather work than face her estranged sister—or her lingering grief over her mother's death. But when a professor is murdered at the magical school where her sister works, Ivy reluctantly takes the job. And as delves into this mystery, she feels her past rising up into view in a way that she's not going to be able to flee into her work to escape.
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The Thirty Name of Night
Told in alternating timelines, this lyrical novel follows three generations of queer and trans Syrian Americans searching for joy, belonging, and purpose. Nadir is a trans man living in contemporary New York, grieving the death of his ornithologist mother. When he finds the journal of a bird artist she loved, he discovers his life is intimately intertwined with hers.
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The Death of Vivek Oji
A woman finds her son Vivek's dead body, carefully wrapped and left on her doorstep. What follows is the kaleidoscopic story of Vivek's life, told from the perspectives of those who mattered to him—his mother, his cousin, his closest friends. Akwaeke Emezi is one of the most innovative trans writers working today, and their talents are on full display in this layered and deeply moving novel.
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The Subtweet
Incisive, funny, and full of heart, this short novel is smart look at the dynamics of internet culture and female friendship. Neela is a musician who's spent years writing music she believes in, even though it doesn't make her famous. When musician and internet sensation Rukmini covers one of her songs, they form a friendship—but a single tweet shatters everything.
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Sorrowland
In this genre-defying masterpiece, Rivers Solomon uses elements of horror, fabulism, and gothic fiction to explore possibilities of radical queer love. Vern is fifteen when she escapes the religious community where she grew up to raise her twins alone in the woods. She soon encounters monsters—both in the woods and within herself—that force her to leave the deep, dark woods and face some hard truths about her past in the clear light of day.
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Little Fish
Wendy is a thirty-year-old trans woman living in Winnipeg, trying to make the best of everything life throws at her with the help of close-knit group of friends. When she discovers a photo that makes her suspect her Mennonite grandfather may have also been transgender, she decides to revisit her past and her relationship with her family. It's a funny, painful, and refreshingly honest story about sex work, religion, friendship, and family.
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Finna
Set in a vast Swedish assemble-it-yourself furniture store, this delightful sci-fi adventure is as funny as it is heartfelt. The story follows Jules and Ava, two employees who were dating until they broke up last week. Ava is determined to avoid Jules at work, but she and Jules get assigned to retrieve a customer who fell through a wormhole (don't act like it's never happened to you). As they traverse a series of mind-bending, flesh-eating dimensions of the multiverse, they talk through their relationship and start to navigate the emotional terrain towards a different kind of togetherness.
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