16 must-read gender books like Becoming a Man: The Story of a Transition by P. Carl

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Becoming a Man: The Story of a Transition

By: P. Carl

3.85

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

“A memoir that is jolting, honest, passionate, and beautifully written” (Claudia Rankine), Becoming…

If you liked the gender plot in Becoming a Man: The Story of a Transition by P. Carl , here is a list of 16 books like this:

Cover of Trans Mission: My Quest to a Beard by Alex Bertie

1. Trans Mission: My Quest to a Beard

By: Alex Bertie

4.05

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Being a teenager is difficult enough, but having to go through puberty whilst realising you're in t… read more

Similar categories in Alex Bertie's Trans Mission: My Quest to a Beard book and P. Carl's Becoming a Man: The Story of a Transition

  • audiobook
  • biography
  • memoir
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • queer
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2. Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us

By: Kate Bornstein

4.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

Part coming-of-age story, part mind-altering manifesto on gender and sexuality, coming directly to … read more

Similar categories in Kate Bornstein's Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us book and P. Carl's Becoming a Man: The Story of a Transition

  • memoir
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • queer
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3. Tomboy Survival Guide

By: Ivan E. Coyote

3.90

Format: 77 pages,

Ivan Coyote is a celebrated storyteller and the author of ten previous books, including Gender Fail… read more

Similar categories in Ivan E. Coyote's Tomboy Survival Guide book and P. Carl's Becoming a Man: The Story of a Transition

  • memoir
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • queer

4. Spectred Isle (Green Men, #1)

By: K.J. Charles

3.97

Format: None pages, ebook

Archaeologist Saul Lazenby has been all but unemployable since his disgrace during the War. Now he … read more

Similar categories in K.J. Charles's Spectred Isle (Green Men, #1) book and P. Carl's Becoming a Man: The Story of a Transition

5. Girl Mans Up

By: M.E. Girard

4.22

Format: 160 pages, ebook

All Pen wants is to be the kind of girl she's always been. So why does everyone have a problem with… read more

Similar categories in M.E. Girard's Girl Mans Up book and P. Carl's Becoming a Man: The Story of a Transition

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6. None of the Above: Reflections on Life Beyond the Binary

By: Travis Alabanza

4.38

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

‘When you are someone that falls outside of categories in so many ways, a lot of things are said to… read more

Similar categories in Travis Alabanza's None of the Above: Reflections on Life Beyond the Binary book and P. Carl's Becoming a Man: The Story of a Transition

  • audiobook
  • biography
  • memoir
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • queer
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7. 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 P. Carl's Becoming a Man: The Story of a Transition

  • adult
  • lgbt
  • transgender
  • queer
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8. We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan

By: Lou Sullivan

4.76

Format: 440 pages, Paperback

Drawn from Lou Sullivan’s meticulously kept journals, this landmark book records the life of arguab… read more

Similar categories in Lou Sullivan's We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan book and P. Carl's Becoming a Man: The Story of a Transition

  • biography
  • memoir
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • queer
"I don't even know if there was anyone that's ever felt as I do.. how they coped, what they did...how do I find out what someone like me does?"

-Lou Sullivan, We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan

"A big fear of mine is that I will die before the gender professionals acknowledge that someone like me exists, and then I really won't exist to prove them wrong."

-Lou Sullivan, We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan

"In a lot of ways I think the problem is I spend too much time seeing myself though other people's eyes and not really being in my body and enjoying myself and relaxing in my image."

-Lou Sullivan, We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan

"I finally said, "Let's put it this way: I'd rather lose you than stop my shots.""You mean that chemical is more important to you than I am?""No, I am more important to me than you are."

-Lou Sullivan, We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan

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9. 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

Similar categories in Kit Heyam's Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender book and P. Carl's Becoming a Man: The Story of a Transition

  • 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

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10. The Henchmen of Zenda

By: K.J. Charles

3.88

Format: 232 pages, ebook

Swordfights, lust, betrayal, murder: just another day for a henchman. Jasper Detchard is a disgr… read more

Similar categories in K.J. Charles's The Henchmen of Zenda book and P. Carl's Becoming a Man: The Story of a Transition

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • queer
"He was watching me under those drooping lids, with need and satisfaction too, much as if he imagined he had the whip hand of me now. That was his youth showing, the peculiar conviction that a hard pr…"

-K.J. Charles, The Henchmen of Zenda

"I have no quarrel with democrats in principle, except that they are as much frauds and liars as the rest. It is often said that mankind will not be free till the last king is strangled with the guts …"

-K.J. Charles, The Henchmen of Zenda

"Goodnight, sweet schoolmaster. It's been a pleasure." On which he walked out, arse-naked, carrying his clothes under his arm and his boots by the heels so as not to mar their leather with thumbprints…"

-K.J. Charles, The Henchmen of Zenda

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11. Red Heir (Adventures in Aguillon, #1)

By: Lisa Henry

3.97

Format: 230 pages, ebook

Imprisoned pickpocket Loth isn't sure why a bunch of idiots just broke into his cell claiming they’… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Henry's Red Heir (Adventures in Aguillon, #1) book and P. Carl's Becoming a Man: The Story of a Transition

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • queer
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12. Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man

By: Thomas Page McBee

4.22

Format: 205 pages, Hardcover

Thomas McBee, a trans man, sets out to uncover what makes a man—and what being a “good” man even me… read more

Similar categories in Thomas Page McBee's Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man book and P. Carl's Becoming a Man: The Story of a Transition

  • audiobook
  • biography
  • memoir
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • gender
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • queer
"Most of us experience gender conditioning so young—research shows it begins in infancy—that we misunderstand the relationship between nature and nurture, culture and biology, fitting in and being one…"

-Thomas Page McBee, Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man

"Boxing breaks many of the binaries that men are conditioned to believe about our bodies, our genders, ourselves. With its cover of 'realness' and violence, it provides room for what so many men lack:…"

-Thomas Page McBee, Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man

"I thought about the advantages thrown at me for an aesthetic that looked like a birthright. I thought about passing, and how it erased a part of me, and how hormones responded to context, and how rac…"

-Thomas Page McBee, Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man

"Millennial guys seemed, to the sociologists and anthropologists who studied them, to have attitudes toward women that portended a new era of equity—especially at work. But the reality was, indeed, fa…"

-Thomas Page McBee, Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man

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13. He/She/They: How We Talk About Gender and Why It Matters

By: Schuyler Bailar

4.62

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Go‑to expert on gender identity, Schuyler Bailar, offers an essential, urgent guide that changes th… read more

Similar categories in Schuyler Bailar's He/She/They: How We Talk About Gender and Why It Matters book and P. Carl's Becoming a Man: The Story of a Transition

  • audiobook
  • biography
  • memoir
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • queer
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14. Never a Girl, Always a Boy: A Family Memoir of a Transgender Journey

By: Jo Ivester

4.29

Format: None pages, Paperback

Jeremy Ivester is a transgender man. Thirty years ago, his parents welcomed him into the world as w… read more

Similar categories in Jo Ivester's Never a Girl, Always a Boy: A Family Memoir of a Transgender Journey book and P. Carl's Becoming a Man: The Story of a Transition

  • audiobook
  • biography
  • memoir
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • gender
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • queer
Cover of Antiboy by Valentijn Hoogenkamp

15. Antiboy

By: Valentijn Hoogenkamp

3.91

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Als Antiboy vanwege een genafwijking een borstamputatie moet ondergaan beseft hij: nu hoef ik niet … read more

Similar categories in Valentijn Hoogenkamp's Antiboy book and P. Carl's Becoming a Man: The Story of a Transition

  • audiobook
  • biography
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • queer
Cover of Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality by Sarah McBride

16. 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

Similar categories in Sarah McBride's Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality book and P. Carl's Becoming a Man: The Story of a Transition

  • 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

Cover of Becoming a Man: The Story of a Transition by P. Carl

17. Becoming a Man: The Story of a Transition

By: P. Carl

3.85

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

“A memoir that is jolting, honest, passionate, and beautifully written” (Claudia Rankine), Becoming… read more

Similar categories in P. Carl's Becoming a Man: The Story of a Transition book and P. Carl's Becoming a Man: The Story of a Transition

  • audiobook
  • biography
  • memoir
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • gender
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • queer
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18. Sorted: Growing Up, Coming Out, and Finding My Place (A Transgender Memoir)

By: Jackson Bird

4.36

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An unflinching and endearing memoir from LGBTQ+ advocate Jackson Bird about how he finally sorted t… read more

Similar categories in Jackson Bird's Sorted: Growing Up, Coming Out, and Finding My Place (A Transgender Memoir) book and P. Carl's Becoming a Man: The Story of a Transition

  • audiobook
  • biography
  • memoir
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • gender
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • queer
Cover of Continuum (Pocket Change Collective) by Chella Man

19. Continuum (Pocket Change Collective)

By: Chella Man

4.41

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

Pocket Change Collective was born out of a need for space. Space to think. Space to connect. Space … read more

Similar categories in Chella Man's Continuum (Pocket Change Collective) book and P. Carl's Becoming a Man: The Story of a Transition

  • audiobook
  • memoir
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • queer
"That is the one of the beauties of my identity. It acts as a filter, guiding me toward the gems in life"

-Chella Man, Continuum (Pocket Change Collective)

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20. The Stonewall Riots: Coming Out in the Streets

By: Gayle E. Pitman

4.04

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

This book is about the Stonewall Riots, a series of spontaneous, often violent demonstrations by me… read more

Similar categories in Gayle E. Pitman's The Stonewall Riots: Coming Out in the Streets book and P. Carl's Becoming a Man: The Story of a Transition

  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • lgbt
  • queer
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21. Is Gender Fluid?

By: Sally Hines

4.10

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

This stimulating entry in the “Big Idea” series assesses the connections between gender, psychology… read more

Similar categories in Sally Hines's Is Gender Fluid? book and P. Carl's Becoming a Man: The Story of a Transition

  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • queer

13 best-selling audiobook books like Becoming a Man: The Story of a Transition by P. Carl

Transform Your Habits

Trans Mission: My Quest to a Beard

Alex Bertie

4.05

Transform Your Habits

None of the Above: Reflections on Life Beyond the Binary

Travis Alabanza

4.38

Transform Your Habits

Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender

Kit Heyam

4.30

Transform Your Habits

The Henchmen of Zenda

K.J. Charles

3.88

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Roaming

Jillian Tamaki

3.77

Transform Your Habits

A Guest in the House

Emily Carroll

4.06

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Boys Weekend

Mattie Lubchansky

4.03

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Mimosa: A Graphic Novel

Archie Bongiovanni

3.73

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