Transgender Day of Remembrance
Trans people have always existed. Transgender Day of Remembrance is November 20th. This is a day to mark the lives lost to violence in the transgender community. Here are some books that capture the history, complexity, and dynamism of the trans experience. Annotations from NoveList, unless otherwise attributed. (Created November 2024)
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The Pairing
Two bisexual exes accidentally book the same European food and wine tour and challenge each other to a hookup competition to prove they're over each other—except they're definitely not.
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A Strange and Stubborn Endurance
Being forced into an arranged, diplomatic marriage to a girl from Tithena, Velasin vin Aaro reveals his preference for men and finds himself engaged to his intended’s brother instead, despite such relationships being forbidden.
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Beating Heart Baby
Settling into a new life in L.A., Santi finds his fragile relationship with his trans band leader Suwa threatened by an impossible truth that forces them both to reckon with their dreams, their pasts and their futures--together or apart.
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Pageboy
Canadian actor/director/producer Elliot Page tells his story of untangling himself from the expectations of others on his journey to being his true self as a transgender man.
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All the Hearts You Eat
Ivory’s life changes irrevocably when she discovers the body of Cabrina Brite on the sands of Cape Morning, along with a mysterious poem. How did she die, and why does it seem she was trying to swim to Ghost Cat Island, the center of so many local mysteries?
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On Community
Draws on a range of firsthand experiences to start a conversation about the larger implications of community as a word, an idea, and a symbol. With each thread a cumulative definition of community emerges. Looking at phenomena from transgender literature, to Mennonite history, to hacker houses of Silicon Valley, and the rise of nationalism in North America, Plett delves into the thorny intractability of community's boons and faults. Deeply personal, authoritative in its illuminations, On Community is an essential contribution to the larger cultural discourse that asks how, and to what socio-political ends, we form bonds with one another.
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Bad Habit
Trapped in a working-class Madrid slum in the 1980s, a woman navigates the local party scene involving heroin and disco while searching for belonging in a potentially violent world where every choice can be fatal.
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Horse Barbie
The memoir of a trans pageant queen from the Philippines who went back into the closet to model in New York City and later found self-acceptance by embracing her true self.
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Burn the Page
The first openly trans person elected to a U.S. state legislature discusses her lonely and closeted childhood and how she re-wrote her own future by deciding to run for office.
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Rules for Ghosting
To save his family's failing funeral home-and his own chance at a queer love story-a reluctant clairvoyant must embrace the gift he long ignored in this poignant and tender debut, perfect for fans of the swoonworthy romance and queer community of One Last Stop and the macabre humor and family dysfunction of Mostly Dead Things.
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