11/14/2025
Happy Transgender Awareness Week! This year, we’ve put together a list of 34 books: our favorite books with trans characters, written by trans authors! Note that we used the broad definition of trans, including non-binary identities under the transgender umbrella, and we’ve done our best to confirm the gender identities of these authors, but gender isn’t always fixed and people may change their identification over time; if someone we included doesn’t currently identify as trans, our error was unintentional. The contributors to the list are: Linnea Peterson, , D.V. Morse, Nina Waters, , , Rascal Hartley, Sebastian Marie, S. J. Ralston, , Shea Sullivan, Alex and an anonymous contributor.
Watson's Sketchbook by Lee Knox Ostertag
Wrath Goddess Sing by Maya Deane
Wildforged by A.C. Bauer
A Quiet Universe by Kay F. Atkinson
Boys Run the Riot by Keito Gaku
Jay Moriarty Violates the Official Secrets Act by Kit Walker
Make Room for Love by Darcy Liao
Real Q***r America: LGBT Stories from Red States by Samantha Allen
Can't Take That Away by Steven Salvatore
An Accident of Stars by Foz Meadows
Lessons in Magic and Disaster by Charlie Jane Anders
The Sunbearer Trials by Aiden Thomas
Welcome to St. Hell by Lewis Hancox
The Pairing by Casey McQuiston
Nimona by ND Stevenson
Becoming Who We Are: Real Stories About Growing Up Trans ed. by Hazel Newlevant
Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas
Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey
The Out Side ed. by The Kao, Min Christensen & David Daneman
Lucy, Uncensored by Mel Hammond & Teghan Hammond
Hell Followed with Us by Andrew Joseph White
The Spirit Bares Its Teeth by Andrew Joseph White
The Science of Ghosts by Lilah Sturges
Peter Darling by S.A. Chant
The Witch King by H.E. Edgmon
A Gentleman's Gentleman by TJ Alexander
Dreadnought by April Daniels
May the Best Man Win by Z.R. Ellor
Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters
Dead Collections by Isaac Fellman
Most Ardently: A Pride & Prejudice Remix by Gabe Cole Novoa
Acting the Part by Z.R. Ellor
The Pirate and the Porcelain Girl by Emily Riesbeck
No Better Than Beasts by Z.R. Ellor