20 Best lgbt books like The Pervert by Michelle Perez

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The Pervert

By: Michelle Perez

3.89

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

A surprisingly honest and touching account of a trans girl surviving through sex work in Seattle. W…

"Young dudes are probably the most pliable people in the history of people."

-Michelle Perez, The Pervert

"Young dudes are probably the most pliable people in the history of people."

-Michelle Perez, The Pervert

"Young dudes are probably the most pliable people in the history of people."

-Michelle Perez, The Pervert

If you liked the lgbt plot in The Pervert by Michelle Perez , here is a list of 20 books like this:

Cover of Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity by Julia Serano

1. 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

Similar categories in Julia Serano's Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity book and Michelle Perez's The Pervert

  • 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

Cover of Infect Your Friends and Loved Ones by Torrey Peters

2. 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

Similar categories in Torrey Peters's Infect Your Friends and Loved Ones book and Michelle Perez's The Pervert

  • fiction
  • queer
  • transgender
  • lgbt
Cover of A Safe Girl to Love by Casey Plett

3. 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

Similar categories in Casey Plett's A Safe Girl to Love book and Michelle Perez's The Pervert

  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • gender
  • fiction
  • queer
Cover of Skim by Jillian Tamaki, Mariko Tamaki

4. Skim

By: Jillian Tamaki , Mariko Tamaki

3.77

Format: 143 pages, Hardcover

Heartbreakingly funny, moving and vibrantly drawn, Skim is an extraordinary book—a smart and sensit… read more

Similar categories in Jillian Tamaki's Skim book and Michelle Perez's The Pervert

  • lgbt
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fiction
  • queer
"Being sixteen is officially the worst thing I've ever been."

-Jillian Tamaki, Skim

"I had a dream I put my hands inside my chest and held my heart to try to keep it still."

-Jillian Tamaki, Skim

"This is the thing about school dances. They make like it's supposed to be this other-worldly thing, but really it's just the people you see every day dressed up, standing in the gym in the dark with …"

-Jillian Tamaki, Skim

5. My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness

By: Kabi Nagata , Jocelyne Allen

3.74

Format: 70 pages, Paperback

The heart-rending autobiographical manga that's taken the internet by storm! My Lesbian Experience … read more

Similar categories in Kabi Nagata's My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness book and Michelle Perez's The Pervert

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6. The Impending Blindness of Billie Scott

By: Zoe Thorogood

4.12

Format: 164 pages, Paperback

Billie Scott is an artist. Her debut gallery exhibition opens in a few months. Within a fortn… read more

Similar categories in Zoe Thorogood's The Impending Blindness of Billie Scott book and Michelle Perez's The Pervert

  • lgbt
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fiction
  • queer
Cover of Girl Juice by Benji Nate

7. Girl Juice

By: Benji Nate

3.95

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

A hilarious slice of twentysomething life in the twenty-first century Welcome to the Girl Juice … read more

Similar categories in Benji Nate's Girl Juice book and Michelle Perez's The Pervert

  • lgbt
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fiction
  • queer
Cover of When I Arrived at the Castle by Emily Carroll

8. When I Arrived at the Castle

By: Emily Carroll

3.69

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

"A castle, a killer, and prey all bound and blurred by lust and blood." Like many before her tha… read more

Similar categories in Emily Carroll's When I Arrived at the Castle book and Michelle Perez's The Pervert

  • lgbt
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fiction
  • queer
Cover of Mimosa: A Graphic Novel by Archie Bongiovanni

9. Mimosa: A Graphic Novel

By: Archie Bongiovanni

3.73

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Archie Bongiovanni, the comics artist behind the award-winning hit A Quick and Easy Guide to They/T… read more

Similar categories in Archie Bongiovanni's Mimosa: A Graphic Novel book and Michelle Perez's The Pervert

  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fiction
  • queer
Cover of Little Fish by Casey Plett

10. 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

Similar categories in Casey Plett's Little Fish book and Michelle Perez's The Pervert

  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • gender
  • fiction
  • 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

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11. 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

Similar categories in Imogen Binnie's Nevada book and Michelle Perez's The Pervert

  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • gender
  • fiction
  • 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

Cover of A Dream of a Woman by Casey Plett

12. 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

Similar categories in Casey Plett's A Dream of a Woman book and Michelle Perez's The Pervert

  • fiction
  • queer
  • transgender
  • lgbt
Cover of The Pervert by Michelle Perez

13. The Pervert

By: Michelle Perez

3.89

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

A surprisingly honest and touching account of a trans girl surviving through sex work in Seattle. W… read more

Similar categories in Michelle Perez's The Pervert book and Michelle Perez's The Pervert

  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • graphic novels comics
  • sex work
  • graphic novels
  • gender
  • comix
  • comics
  • fiction
  • queer
"Young dudes are probably the most pliable people in the history of people."

-Michelle Perez, The Pervert

Cover of My Solo Exchange Diary Vol. 1 by Kabi Nagata

14. My Solo Exchange Diary Vol. 1

By: Kabi Nagata

4.18

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

The sequel to the viral sensation My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness! In this follow-up to th… read more

Similar categories in Kabi Nagata's My Solo Exchange Diary Vol. 1 book and Michelle Perez's The Pervert

  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • queer
  • lgbt
"The energy that, until now, had swelled up in the space between life and death turned toward a thirst for love."

-Kabi Nagata, My Solo Exchange Diary Vol. 1

Cover of Pinky & Pepper Forever by Eddy Atoms

15. Pinky & Pepper Forever

By: Eddy Atoms

4.00

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

Content Warning: Suicide, Torture, Sexual Themes, Bondage, Cartoon Violence. Not for kids. Afte… read more

Similar categories in Eddy Atoms's Pinky & Pepper Forever book and Michelle Perez's The Pervert

  • lgbt
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fiction
  • queer
Cover of 920London by Remy Boydell

16. 920London

By: Remy Boydell

3.52

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

North of London, 2005. A doomed romance between an emo kid and a scene kid. More than friends, less… read more

Similar categories in Remy Boydell's 920London book and Michelle Perez's The Pervert

  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fiction
  • queer
Cover of My Alcoholic Escape from Reality (My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness) by Kabi Nagata

17. My Alcoholic Escape from Reality (My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness)

By: Kabi Nagata

4.05

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

An emotional new diary comic from Nagata Kabi, creator of My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness. … read more

Similar categories in Kabi Nagata's My Alcoholic Escape from Reality (My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness) book and Michelle Perez's The Pervert

  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • queer
  • lgbt
Cover of My Pancreas Broke, But My Life Got Better (My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness) by Kabi Nagata

18. My Pancreas Broke, But My Life Got Better (My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness)

By: Kabi Nagata

3.99

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

The latest diary manga from the Harvey Award-winning creator of My Lesbian Experience With Loneline… read more

Similar categories in Kabi Nagata's My Pancreas Broke, But My Life Got Better (My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness) book and Michelle Perez's The Pervert

  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • queer
  • lgbt
Cover of Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian) by Hazel Jane Plante

19. 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

Similar categories in Hazel Jane Plante's Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian) book and Michelle Perez's The Pervert

  • fiction
  • queer
  • transgender
  • lgbt
"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)

Cover of Be Kind, My Neighbor by Yugo Limbo

20. Be Kind, My Neighbor

By: Yugo Limbo

4.32

Format: 496 pages, Paperback

Murder. Love. Cults. Puppets! It’s 1973, the town of Baths, cozy middle-of-nowhere American hear… read more

Similar categories in Yugo Limbo's Be Kind, My Neighbor book and Michelle Perez's The Pervert

  • lgbt
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fiction
  • queer
Cover of Prokaryote Season by Leo Fox

21. Prokaryote Season

By: Leo Fox

4.65

Format: 164 pages, None

COMIC starring STARMAN and SYDNEY about SICKNESS, OBSESSION, ROMANCE and SINGLE CELLED ORGANISMS. read more

Similar categories in Leo Fox's Prokaryote Season book and Michelle Perez's The Pervert

  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fiction
  • queer

16 Best fiction books like The Pervert by Michelle Perez

Transform Your Habits

Infect Your Friends and Loved Ones

Torrey Peters

4.12

Transform Your Habits

A Safe Girl to Love

Casey Plett

4.07

Transform Your Habits

Skim

Jillian Tamaki , Mariko Tamaki

3.77

Transform Your Habits

The Impending Blindness of Billie Scott

Zoe Thorogood

4.12

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15 best-selling fiction books like Mimosa: A Graphic Novel by Archie Bongiovanni

Transform Your Habits

Roaming

Jillian Tamaki

3.77

Transform Your Habits

A Guest in the House

Emily Carroll

4.06

Transform Your Habits

Boys Weekend

Mattie Lubchansky

4.03

Transform Your Habits

Mimosa: A Graphic Novel

Archie Bongiovanni

3.73

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