Sissy: A Coming-of-Gender Story
By: Jacob Tobia
4.07
Format: 319 pages, Hardcover
A heart-wrenching, eye-opening, and giggle-inducing memoir about what it's like to grow up not sure…
Want to Read $ 13.99"Plainly put, the imperative to “be professional"-Jacob Tobia, Sissy: A Coming-of-Gender Story
"Plainly put, the imperative to “be professional"-Jacob Tobia, Sissy: A Coming-of-Gender Story
"Plainly put, the imperative to “be professional"-Jacob Tobia, Sissy: A Coming-of-Gender Story
"Plainly put, the imperative to “be professional"-Jacob Tobia, Sissy: A Coming-of-Gender Story
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1. 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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- gender
- queer
- transgender
- lgbt
2. A Story Lately Told: Coming of Age in Ireland, London, and New York
By: Anjelica Huston
3.91
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Writing with an exuberant love of language and detail, Anjelica Huston shares her enchanted childho… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
3. Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More
By: Janet Mock
3.70
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
In 2011, Marie Clairemagazine published a profile of Janet Mock in which she stepped forward for th… read more
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4. Torch Song Trilogy
By: Harvey Fierstein
3.69
Format: 355 pages,
Drama, American Literature, Gay and Lesbian Studies, Plays Torch Song Trilogy is a collection of th… read more
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5. Surpassing Certainty: What My Twenties Taught Me
By: Janet Mock
3.75
Format: 273 pages, Hardcover
Riveting, rousing, and utterly real, Surpassing Certaintyis a portrait of a young woman searching f… read more
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6. Camp QUILTBAG
By: Nicole Melleby
4.10
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed authors of Hurricane Season and Ana on the Edge, an unforgettable story about th… read more
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- audiobook
- lgbt
- transgender
- queer
7. Gender Queer
By: Maia Kobabe
4.28
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would … read more
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- biography
- memoir
- lgbt
- gender
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- queer
"I don't"-Maia Kobabe, Gender Queer
"My deepest emotional relationships have always been with women. Did that mean I was a lesbian? But my sexual fantasies involved two male partners. Was I a gay boy tapped in a girl's body? The knowled…"-Maia Kobabe, Gender Queer
"Some people are born in the mountains, while others are born by the sea. Some people are happy to live in the place they were born, while others must make a journey to reach the climate in which they…"-Maia Kobabe, Gender Queer
"As I pondered a pronoun change, I began to think of gender less as a scale and more as a landscape. Some people are born in the mountains, while others are born by the sea. Some people are happy to l…"-Maia Kobabe, Gender Queer
8. 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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- audiobook
- biography
- memoir
- lgbt
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- queer
"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
9. 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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- queer
- transgender
- lgbt
- gender
- audiobook
"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
10. Pageboy
By: Elliot Page
3.75
Format: 271 pages, None
Pageboy is a groundbreaking coming-of-age memoir from the Academy Award-nominated actor Elliot Page… read more
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- audiobook
- biography
- memoir
- transgender
- lgbt
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- queer
"Her visibility meant the world to me. I think about this as I walk through the world now."-Elliot Page, Pageboy
"How do people do it? How do they shut off the noise? And I don't mean "happy", they may not be happy, but they seem to be able to exist at least."-Elliot Page, Pageboy
"In a world where queerness all too often alienates us from blood, I am grateful to Julia, and the family I have chosen. Without them, I wouldn't be here."-Elliot Page, Pageboy
"I could block myself out, I was a person I didn't know, I'd gaze into what felt like the universe, my eye a planet of its own. I must be somewhere in there, I'd think."-Elliot Page, Pageboy
11. Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender
By: Kit Heyam
4.30
Format: 343 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking global history of gender nonconformity Today’s narratives about trans people … read more
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- audiobook
- transgender
- lgbt
- gender
- nonfiction
- queer
"It’s not as simple as saying that ‘while the terminology is new, the experiences are not.’ The advent of new terminology can genuinely shift how we think about gender, as well as what names we give t…"-Kit Heyam, Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender
"It's important that we, as historians or as queer people, don't treat gender and sexuality as two things that use to be entangled but have now been teased apart. There can be a tendency in white quee…"-Kit Heyam, Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender
12. All Boys Aren’t Blue
By: George M. Johnson
4.20
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In a series of personal essays, prominent journalist and LGBTQIA+ activist George M. Johnson explor… read more
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- audiobook
- biography
- memoir
- lgbt
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- queer
"History has an interesting way of painting."-George M. Johnson, All Boys Aren’t Blue
"The first person you are ever an activist for is yourself."-George M. Johnson, All Boys Aren’t Blue
"We are not as different as you think, and all our stories deserve to be celebrated and told."-George M. Johnson, All Boys Aren’t Blue
"When people ask me how I got into activism, I often say, “The first person you are ever an activist for is yourself."-George M. Johnson, All Boys Aren’t Blue
13. Beyond the Gender Binary
By: Alok Vaid-Menon
4.49
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
Beyond the Gender Binary, spoken word poet Alok Vaid-Menon challenges the world to see gender not … read more
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- audiobook
- memoir
- transgender
- lgbt
- gender
- nonfiction
- queer
"I learned about gender through shame."-Alok Vaid-Menon, Beyond the Gender Binary
"Critiquing gender is not the same thing as creating gender."-Alok Vaid-Menon, Beyond the Gender Binary
"The days that I feel most beautiful are the days that I am most afraid."-Alok Vaid-Menon, Beyond the Gender Binary
"It's a surreal experience to have your personhood be reduced to a prop."-Alok Vaid-Menon, Beyond the Gender Binary
14. Real Queer America: LGBT Stories from Red States
By: Samantha Allen
4.09
Format: 321 pages, Kindle Edition
LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FINALIST A transgender reporter's "powerful, profoundly moving" narrative to… read more
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- audiobook
- memoir
- transgender
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- queer
15. Sasha Masha
By: Agnes Borinsky
3.83
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Transgender author Agnes Borinsky deftly explores gender identity and queer romance in this heart-w… read more
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- audiobook
- lgbt
- transgender
- queer
"I feel like teenagers get a bad rap for changing things up all the time. We're fake or we're insincere or we're superficial. But if you do it to please yourself, what's insincere about that?"-Agnes Borinsky, Sasha Masha
"Real people are comfortable being themselves and don't have to think about what they want. They laugh out loud and they eat when they're hungry and they say what they're thinking no matter who is lis…"-Agnes Borinsky, Sasha Masha
"Representation is chump change, darling. I'm sorry to break it to you. People who hold power don't like to put themselves at risk. And that's why Queer people have generally been the visionaries. Bec…"-Agnes Borinsky, Sasha Masha
"I feel like I was on autopilot for most of my life. Like I just took for granted the person the world told me I was and I feel like it might have been easier to shake that up a little when I was a ki…"-Agnes Borinsky, Sasha Masha
16. A Year Without a Name: A Memoir
By: Cyrus Grace Dunham
3.66
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
How do you know if you are transgender? How do you know if what you want and feel is real? How do y… read more
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- audiobook
- biography
- memoir
- transgender
- lgbt
- gender
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- queer
"I was a cloud stuck inside a person I didn't choose to be."-Cyrus Grace Dunham, A Year Without a Name: A Memoir
"Calling something a lie implies that one has the truth in one's mouth and swallows it. What if one can only speak -- only think -- what one suspects another person wants to hear? Then where is the tr…"-Cyrus Grace Dunham, A Year Without a Name: A Memoir
17. Sissy: A Coming-of-Gender Story
By: Jacob Tobia
4.07
Format: 319 pages, Hardcover
A heart-wrenching, eye-opening, and giggle-inducing memoir about what it's like to grow up not sure… read more
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- audiobook
- biography
- memoir
- transgender
- lgbt
- gender
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- queer
"Plainly put, the imperative to “be professional"-Jacob Tobia, Sissy: A Coming-of-Gender Story
"No one trans story is better or inherently more “radical"-Jacob Tobia, Sissy: A Coming-of-Gender Story
"Oh, and it should go without saying, but fuck capitalism."-Jacob Tobia, Sissy: A Coming-of-Gender Story
"and patriarchy deems all things feminine to be less intelligent."-Jacob Tobia, Sissy: A Coming-of-Gender Story
18. Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality
By: Sarah McBride
4.44
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A timely and captivating memoir about gender identity set against the backdrop of the transgender e… read more
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- audiobook
- memoir
- transgender
- lgbt
- gender
- nonfiction
- queer
"It's impossible for our rights to remain abstract when a person is, quite literally, sitting across from you."-Sarah McBride, Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality
"Compromise is often necessary [in politics], but entire marginalized identities are not expendable chess pieces."-Sarah McBride, Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality
"When you've never felt like you really belonged somewhere, it's almost impossible to know what it will feel like to finally feel at home."-Sarah McBride, Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality
"As trans activist Faye Seidler quipped, more Americans said they had seen a ghost than knew a transgender person, according to some polls."-Sarah McBride, Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality
19. She/He/They/Me: An Interactive Guide to the Gender Binary (LGBTQ+, Queer Guide, Diverse Gender, Transgender, Nonbinary)
By: Robyn Ryle
3.40
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
An accessible guide for learning about gender identity for those questioning their own genders, gen… read more
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- transgender
- lgbt
- gender
- nonfiction
- queer
20. The T Guide: Our Trans Experiences and a Celebration of Gender Expression―Man, Woman, Nonbinary, and Beyond
By: Gigi Gorgeous
4.24
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Real talk about transgender experiences from Gigi Gorgeous and GottmikIn this fabulous, fashion-for… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- transgender
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- queer
21. Anything That Moves
By: Jamie Stewart
4.21
Format: None pages, Audiobook
A memoir of sexual misbehavior, abuse and no redemption. The stories are mostly funny but also depr… read more
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- queer
- nonfiction
- memoir
- lgbt
