Nevada
By: Imogen Binnie
3.97
Format: 290 pages, Paperback
A beloved and blistering cult classic and finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Fi…
Want to Read $ 11.99"James does what anybody would do when they see somebody they'd like to know: he ignores the shit out of her."-Imogen Binnie, Nevada
"It's like I got drunk all the time not because I'm a total addict but because it was a coping mechanism to deal with being unhappy"-Imogen Binnie, Nevada
"Oh, Williamsburg. There was a point when you seemed like a scary, tough neighborhood, but now it's obvious that the graffiti on your walls gets put there by art students."-Imogen Binnie, Nevada
"Eventually you can't help but figure out that, while gender is a construct, so is a traffic light, and if you ignore either of them, you get hit by cars. Which, also, are constructs."-Imogen Binnie, Nevada
If you liked the queer lit plot in Nevada by Imogen Binnie , here is a list of 12 books like this:
1. The Masker
By: Torrey Peters , Sybil Lamb
4.04
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
After a party on the Las Vegas Strip, a young sissy must choose between her internet fantasy of for… read more
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- transgender
- lgbt
- gender
- queer lit
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
2. Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity
By: Julia Serano
4.26
Format: 390 pages, Paperback
A provocative manifesto, Whipping Girl tells the powerful story of Julia Serano, a transsexual woma… read more
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- gender
- queer
- transgender
- lgbt
"Rather than focusing on “shattering the gender binary,"-Julia Serano, Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity
"It is offensive that so many people feel that it is okay to publicly refer to transsexuals as being “pre-op"-Julia Serano, Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity
"[I]magine what would happen if, instead of centering our beliefs about heterosexual sex around the idea that the man “penetrates"-Julia Serano, Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity
"The most radical thing that any of us can do is to stop projecting our beliefs about gender onto other people's behaviors and bodies"-Julia Serano, Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity
3. The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions
By: Larry Mitchell , Ned Asta
4.50
Format: 114 pages, Paperback
The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions is a beloved queer utopian text written by Larry … read more
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- transgender
- lgbt
- queer lit
- fiction
- queer
"The strong women told the faggots that the more you share, the less you need."-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions
"The women who love women wrote a song for the faggots. It was called, "Anything you do that the men don't like is o.k. by us."-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions
"Ramrod has an empire. They have not had it very long yet already it is shabby and disreputable. Everyday the faggots and their friends can see, hear, and feel Ramrod's empire disintegrating as the me…"-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions
"Nothing can defeat the spirit of the earth. The fairies know that the earth will not tolerate the men much longer. The earth, scarred and gouged and stripped and bombed, will deny life to the men in …"-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions
4. Infect Your Friends and Loved Ones
By: Torrey Peters
4.12
Format: None pages,
In the future, everyone will be trans. So says Lexi. She's a charismatic trans woman furious with t… read more
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- transgender
- lgbt
- queer lit
- fiction
- queer
5. A Safe Girl to Love
By: Casey Plett
4.07
Format: 242 pages, Paperback
Eleven unique short stories that stretch from a rural Canadian Mennonite town to a hipster gay bar … read more
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- transgender
- lgbt
- gender
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
6. Stone Butch Blues
By: Leslie Feinberg
4.43
Format: 230 pages, Hardcover
Woman or man? This internationally acclaimed novel looks at the world through the eyes of Jess Gold… read more
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- gender
- queer
- fiction
- lgbt
7. Hijab Butch Blues
By: Lamya H.
4.48
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
A queer hijabi Muslim immigrant survives her coming-of-age by drawing strength and hope from storie… read more
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- lesbian
- queer
- lgbt
"Sort of?"-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues
"Queer indispensability?"-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues
"I feel tired. Or reckless. Or maybe brave."-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues
"I want to figure her out, this girl, and I want to know everything about her."-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues
8. Little Fish
By: Casey Plett
3.86
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
WINNER, Lambda Literary Award; Firecracker Award for Fiction; $60,000 Amazon Canada First Novel Awa… read more
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- literary fiction
- transgender
- lgbt
- gender
- queer lit
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
"Maybe living through it isn't the only hard part. Maybe being in the world afterward is also the hard part."-Casey Plett, Little Fish
"Wendy knew how to deal with looking cis and she knew how to deal with looking trans, but she would never, ever figure out how to be both. How the world could treat her so differently—within days or h…"-Casey Plett, Little Fish
"What kind of world does the core of your brain expect that you, you personally get to live in? Wendy wanted to be loved. However easily she might have abandoned or ruined her prospects, Wendy did sti…"-Casey Plett, Little Fish
9. Nevada
By: Imogen Binnie
3.97
Format: 290 pages, Paperback
A beloved and blistering cult classic and finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Fi… read more
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- lesbian
- literary fiction
- transgender
- lgbt
- gender
- queer lit
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- queer
"James does what anybody would do when they see somebody they'd like to know: he ignores the shit out of her."-Imogen Binnie, Nevada
"It's like I got drunk all the time not because I'm a total addict but because it was a coping mechanism to deal with being unhappy"-Imogen Binnie, Nevada
"Oh, Williamsburg. There was a point when you seemed like a scary, tough neighborhood, but now it's obvious that the graffiti on your walls gets put there by art students."-Imogen Binnie, Nevada
"Eventually you can't help but figure out that, while gender is a construct, so is a traffic light, and if you ignore either of them, you get hit by cars. Which, also, are constructs."-Imogen Binnie, Nevada
10. A Dream of a Woman
By: Casey Plett
4.31
Format: 279 pages, Paperback
Casey Plett's 2018 novel Little Fish won a Lambda Literary Award, the Firecracker Award for Fiction… read more
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- literary fiction
- transgender
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
11. Bellies
By: Nicola Dinan
4.07
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
I wore a dress on the night I first met Ming.It begins as your typical boy meets boy. While out wit… read more
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- literary fiction
- transgender
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- queer
12. Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl
By: Andrea Lawlor
3.87
Format: 354 pages, Paperback
It’s 1993 and Paul Polydoris tends bar at the only gay club in a university town thrumming with pol… read more
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- transgender
- lgbt
- gender
- queer lit
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
"Inside Paul something tight released: a rusted nut turned finally around its old bolt. White sheets were thrown off moldering couches with a fanfare of dust and sunlight."-Andrea Lawlor, Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl
"It was June, and like everyone else Paul made himself extremely busy going to queer art openings and queer punk shows and queer spoken word showcases and queer evenings of performance art. He was exh…"-Andrea Lawlor, Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl
13. Dykette
By: Jenny Fran Davis
2.96
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An addictive, absurd, and darkly hilarious debut novel about a young woman who embarks on a ten-day… read more
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- lesbian
- literary fiction
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- queer
14. Detransition, Baby
By: Torrey Peters
3.94
Format: 337 pages, Hardcover
A whipsmart debut about three women—transgender and cisgender—whose lives collide after an unexpect… read more
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- literary fiction
- transgender
- lgbt
- gender
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- queer
"The moment elongates like pulled taffy."-Torrey Peters, Detransition, Baby
"All pain merits care, but not dogmatically egalitarian relativism."-Torrey Peters, Detransition, Baby
"The days I don't love you... I have to work hard to make those days happen."-Torrey Peters, Detransition, Baby
"She's the type to turn hardship into hardness, like a shield for people she loves."-Torrey Peters, Detransition, Baby
15. Darryl
By: Jackie Ess
4.03
Format: 182 pages, Paperback
Darryl Cook is a man who seems to have everything: a quiet home in Western Oregon, a beautiful wife… read more
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- literary fiction
- transgender
- lgbt
- queer lit
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
"I'm not gay, let alone trans. That's like next level gay."-Jackie Ess, Darryl
"Maybe every guy like me just needs a best friend with a big cock."-Jackie Ess, Darryl
"Hannibal Lecter is fucking my wife. Ok. I hope he doesn’t eat her."-Jackie Ess, Darryl
"You live vicariously through celebrities, I live vicariously through the guys who fuck my wife. But sure, ok, I'm the weird one."-Jackie Ess, Darryl
16. Idlewild
By: James Frankie Thomas
4.14
Format: 389 pages, Hardcover
James Frankie Thomas’s Idlewild is a darkly funny story of two adults looking back on their intense… read more
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- lesbian
- literary fiction
- transgender
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- queer
"What we mean to say, but what Ms Spider is not equipped to understand, is that Iago is gay in the way that all the best fictional murderers are gay. Norman Bates, Tom Ripely, The titular Third Man, a…"-James Frankie Thomas, Idlewild
17. trans girl suicide museum
By: Hannah Baer
4.48
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Literary Nonfiction. LGBTQIA Studies. Edited by Clare Kelly. one part ketamine spiral, one part con… read more
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- transgender
- lgbt
- gender
- queer lit
- queer
"Another thing about K is it feels so connected to the internet."-Hannah Baer, trans girl suicide museum
18. Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian)
By: Hazel Jane Plante
4.31
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
Fiction. LGBTQIA Studies. The playful and poignant novel LITTLE BLUE ENCYCLOPEDIA (FOR VIVIAN) sift… read more
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- lesbian
- literary fiction
- transgender
- lgbt
- queer lit
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- queer
"Ranjit: I'm sorry, Ian. I still love Captain Alphonse. Ian: But he's a dirty disappearing dog. Ranjit: You may be right. But we love the dog we love, dirt and all."-Hazel Jane Plante, Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian)
"If you spend hundreds of hours with someone, you have a catalogue of tiny memories. As you live your life, those tiny memories snap and crackle your synapses. It can be overwhelming, like the world i…"-Hazel Jane Plante, Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian)
"I'd started jotting down my memories of Vivian. There was so much about her that I knew might be forgotten if I didn't try to preserve it. I didn't want her to disappear from this world, unremembered…"-Hazel Jane Plante, Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian)
"When Vivian died, my world collapsed. I wept for what felt like days, weeks, months. Everything and everyone around me receded. Objects blurred. Colours drained. Sounds muffled. Vivian was my favorit…"-Hazel Jane Plante, Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian)
19. Summer Fun
By: Jeanne Thornton
4.14
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
From acclaimed author Jeanne Thornton, an epic, singular look at fandom, creativity, longing, and t… read more
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- literary fiction
- transgender
- lgbt
- queer lit
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- queer
"We are poison women, Diane, because our bodies do all turn what enters them into poison, and we make poison and spread poison, because we are sadness itself. There is no way for us not to be that."-Jeanne Thornton, Summer Fun
20. Girlfriends
By: Emily Zhou
4.20
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
In seven light-filled prisms of short stories, Emily Zhou chronicles modern queer life with uncompr… read more
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- lesbian
- transgender
- lgbt
- queer lit
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- queer
21. Ponyboy
By: Eliot Duncan
3.64
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
An evocative debut novel of trans-masculinity, addiction, and the pain and joy of becoming. In t… read more
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- literary fiction
- transgender
- lgbt
- queer lit
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- queer