Trans or Nonbinary Author
Check out the latest staff selection of books by Trans or nonbinary authors. This list includes both fiction and nonfiction. Annotations from NoveList, unless otherwise attributed. (Created May 2023)
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Real Queer America
A transgender reporter's narrative tour through the surprisingly vibrant queer communities sprouting up in red states, offering a vision of a stronger, more humane America.
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A Natural History of Transition
A Natural History of Transition is a collection of short stories that disrupts the notion that trans people can only have one transformation. Like the landscape studied over eons, change does not have an expiration date for these trans characters, who grow as tall as buildings, turn into mountains, unravel hometown mysteries, and give birth to cocoons. Portland-based author Callum Angus infuses his work with a mix of alternative history, horror, and a reality heavily dosed with magic. (Publisher)
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Light From Uncommon Stars
To reclaim her damned soul, a gifted, but cursed violinist must take on seven students and try to entice each to trade their soul for fame while a starship captain races to stop the end of existence.
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Dispatch
Set against a media environment that saturates even our most intimate spaces, these poems grapple with news of violence in the United States today and in the past-in particular, violence inflicted on people of color and on transgendered people. Winner of the 2018 Lexi Rudnitsky Editor's Choice Award, Dispatch is poignant example of poetry's possibilities for transformation, solidarity, and renewal.
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The Terrible We
In The Terrible We Cameron Awkward-Rich thinks with the bad feelings and mad habits of thought that persist in both transphobic discourse and trans cultural production. Observing that trans studies was founded on a split from and disavowal of madness, illness, and disability, Awkward-Rich argues for and models a trans criticism that works against this disavowal. (Publisher)
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Good Boy
The best-selling author of She’s Not There, New York Times opinion columnist and human rights activist offers a memoir of the transformative power of loving dogs.
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Wrath Goddess Sing
Drawing on ancient texts and modern archeology to reveal the trans woman's story hidden underneath the well-known myths of The Iliad, the author weaves a vision of Achilles' vanished world.
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Dear Senthuran
A New York Times-best-selling author offers a provocative memoir in letters.
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Freshwater
Traces the experiences of a deeply troubled young woman who alarms her devout Nigerian family as she succumbs to multiple personality disorder and begins to display increasingly dark and dangerous traits in accordance with her fractured personalities.
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The Call-out
A novel written in verse, The Call-Out recalls the Russian literary classic Eugene Onegin, but instead of 19th century Russian aristocrats crudely solved their disagreements with pistols, the participants in this rhyming drama have developed a more refined weapon, the online call-out, a cancel-culture staple. In this passionate tangle of modern relationships, where a barbed tweet can be as dangerous as the narrator’s bon-mots, Cat Fitzpatrick has fashioned a modern novel of manners that gives readers access to a vibrant cultural underground. (Publisher)
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