14 best-selling contemporary books like Any Other City by Hazel Jane Plante

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Any Other City

By: Hazel Jane Plante

4.14

Format: 287 pages, Paperback

Any Other City is a two-sided fictional memoir by Tracy St. Cyr, who helms the beloved indie rock b…

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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 Hazel Jane Plante's Any Other City

  • lgbt
  • transgender
  • queer
"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

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2. 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 Hazel Jane Plante's Any Other City

  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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3. Boys Weekend

By: Mattie Lubchansky

4.03

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning cartoonist and editor at The Nib, a hilarious trans-"final girl" horror grap… read more

Similar categories in Mattie Lubchansky's Boys Weekend book and Hazel Jane Plante's Any Other City

  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • queer
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4. Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

By: Kai Cheng Thom

4.18

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

What happens when we imagine loving the people--and the parts of ourselves--that we do not believe … read more

Similar categories in Kai Cheng Thom's Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls book and Hazel Jane Plante's Any Other City

  • queer
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • adult
  • audiobook
"i have questions about heaven. i have questions about the Revolution. those questions are the same: upon whose bones do you intend to build your paradise?"

-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

"you don't need to heal others to heal yourself, you can just heal yourself. you do not need to give love to others to love yourself, you can just love yourself."

-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

"find the lie in your heart. the one you tell to yourself and all the world, sometimes without even knowing it. pare that lie down to its barest core, strip back the skin, and behold the truth: i am w…"

-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

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5. 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 Hazel Jane Plante's Any Other City

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • 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

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6. Brainwyrms

By: Alison Rumfitt

3.66

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

From Alison Rumfitt, the author of Tell Me I’m Worthless — “a triumph of transgressive queer horror… read more

Similar categories in Alison Rumfitt's Brainwyrms book and Hazel Jane Plante's Any Other City

  • audiobook
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
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7. 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 Hazel Jane Plante's Any Other City

  • lesbian
  • literary fiction
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • 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

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8. 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 Hazel Jane Plante's Any Other City

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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9. 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

Similar categories in Andrea Lawlor's Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl book and Hazel Jane Plante's Any Other City

  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • 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

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10. The Fifth Wound

By: Aurora Mattia

4.41

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A baroque work of intimate myth exploring one woman's interdimensional search for beauty and embodi… read more

Similar categories in Aurora Mattia's The Fifth Wound book and Hazel Jane Plante's Any Other City

  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • queer
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11. 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

Similar categories in Jenny Fran Davis's Dykette book and Hazel Jane Plante's Any Other City

  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
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12. Margaret and the Mystery of the Missing Body

By: Megan Milks

3.98

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Meet Margaret. At age twelve, she was head detective of the mystery club Girls Can Solve Anything. … read more

Similar categories in Megan Milks's Margaret and the Mystery of the Missing Body book and Hazel Jane Plante's Any Other City

  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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13. 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

Similar categories in James Frankie Thomas's Idlewild book and Hazel Jane Plante's Any Other City

  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • 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

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14. 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

Similar categories in Hannah Baer's trans girl suicide museum book and Hazel Jane Plante's Any Other City

  • lgbt
  • transgender
  • queer
"Another thing about K is it feels so connected to the internet."

-Hannah Baer, trans girl suicide museum

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15. The Call-Out

By: Cat Fitzpatrick

4.16

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

A fast-paced, debut tragicomedy of manners written in verse about queer (mostly trans) women that i… read more

Similar categories in Cat Fitzpatrick's The Call-Out book and Hazel Jane Plante's Any Other City

  • lesbian
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
"Then Rod comes up, his glasses glistening. He doesn't remove them. He starts to sway. Is he high? - "Hello. Are you all listening? I'm glad so many of you are here today, Because as of now you're par…"

-Cat Fitzpatrick, The Call-Out

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16. 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

Similar categories in Jeanne Thornton's Summer Fun book and Hazel Jane Plante's Any Other City

  • music
  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • 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

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17. Any Other City

By: Hazel Jane Plante

4.14

Format: 287 pages, Paperback

Any Other City is a two-sided fictional memoir by Tracy St. Cyr, who helms the beloved indie rock b… read more

Similar categories in Hazel Jane Plante's Any Other City book and Hazel Jane Plante's Any Other City

  • music
  • lesbian
  • literary fiction
  • audiobook
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
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18. 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

Similar categories in Emily Zhou's Girlfriends book and Hazel Jane Plante's Any Other City

  • lesbian
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
Cover of Faltas: Letters to Everyone in My Hometown Who Isn’t My Rapist by Cecilia Gentili

19. Faltas: Letters to Everyone in My Hometown Who Isn’t My Rapist

By: Cecilia Gentili

4.69

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

A story of sex, theft, murder, motherhood, and outrageous fashion choices, Cecilia Gentili reinvent… read more

Similar categories in Cecilia Gentili's Faltas: Letters to Everyone in My Hometown Who Isn’t My Rapist book and Hazel Jane Plante's Any Other City

  • lgbt
  • transgender
  • queer
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20. Wild Geese

By: Soula Emmanuel

3.89

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Debut novelist Soula Emmanuel tells the story of Phoebe Forde, an Irish trans woman living in Scand… read more

Similar categories in Soula Emmanuel's Wild Geese book and Hazel Jane Plante's Any Other City

  • lesbian
  • literary fiction
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
"I try to hurry the encounter along in the manner of a French oral exam, stammering through the procedurals of a regulation rendezvous in the hope of disembarking promptly at au revoir."

-Soula Emmanuel, Wild Geese

"Perhaps I am doomed to have sillier and sillier identity crises until I am dead: the one label that accepts no backchat. Paralysis by analysis begetting paralysis the old-fashioned way."

-Soula Emmanuel, Wild Geese

"I am thirty years old and living in postscript already, not on the edge but over it, a happenstance life on a tranquil margin. It is a gatecrasher’s quiet. I cannot explain what a thrill it is just t…"

-Soula Emmanuel, Wild Geese

"Dolly is a ten-year-old bichon frise. Her fur smells like bran flakes and her breath smells like rotting flesh. Most of the time she’s a languid, trip-over dog, a little cat of a dog, though in her u…"

-Soula Emmanuel, Wild Geese

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21. On Community (Field Notes, #8)

By: Casey Plett

4.41

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

ONE OF CBC BOOKS CANADIAN NONFICTION TO READ IN THE FALL We need community to live. But what doe… read more

Similar categories in Casey Plett's On Community (Field Notes, #8) book and Hazel Jane Plante's Any Other City

  • queer
  • transgender
  • lgbt

16 must-read fiction books like Any Other City by Hazel Jane Plante

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A Safe Girl to Love

Casey Plett

4.07

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Boys Weekend

Mattie Lubchansky

4.03

Transform Your Habits

Little Fish

Casey Plett

3.86

Transform Your Habits

Brainwyrms

Alison Rumfitt

3.66

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19 Best fiction books like Summer Fun by Jeanne Thornton

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

Small Beauty

Jia Qing Wilson-Yang

3.68

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Casey Plett

3.86

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