10 best-selling transgender books like Wild Geese by Soula Emmanuel

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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…

"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

"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

"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

If you liked the transgender plot in Wild Geese by Soula Emmanuel , here is a list of 10 books like this:

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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

Similar categories in Casey Plett's A Safe Girl to Love book and Soula Emmanuel's Wild Geese

  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer

2. Johnny Would You Love Me If My Dick Were Bigger

By: Brontez Purnell

3.69

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

"Brontez is a raw tongue of flame blazing through all the blatant fakery and insincere bullshit of … read more

Similar categories in Brontez Purnell's Johnny Would You Love Me If My Dick Were Bigger book and Soula Emmanuel's Wild Geese

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3. Evenings and Weekends

By: Oisín McKenna

3.96

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Sally Rooney and Torrey Peters, a taut and profoundly moving debut that follows a cast … read more

Similar categories in Oisín McKenna's Evenings and Weekends book and Soula Emmanuel's Wild Geese

  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • ireland
  • queer
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4. Rosewater

By: Liv Little

3.67

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Queenie and Such a Fun Age comes a deliciously gritty and strikingly bold debut novel a… read more

Similar categories in Liv Little's Rosewater book and Soula Emmanuel's Wild Geese

  • lesbian
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
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5. A Good Happy Girl

By: Marissa Higgins

3.01

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A poignant, surprising, and immersive read about a young professional woman pursuing an emotionally… read more

Similar categories in Marissa Higgins's A Good Happy Girl book and Soula Emmanuel's Wild Geese

  • lesbian
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • queer lit
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
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6. 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

Similar categories in Nicola Dinan's Bellies book and Soula Emmanuel's Wild Geese

  • literary fiction
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
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7. 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 Soula Emmanuel's Wild Geese

  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • queer lit
  • fiction
  • adult
  • queer
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8. Mrs. S

By: K. Patrick

3.63

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

A sublime and sensual debut novel exploring the nature of queer love and attraction, the transforma… read more

Similar categories in K. Patrick's Mrs. S book and Soula Emmanuel's Wild Geese

  • lesbian
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • queer lit
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
"I live in hope it is her, I live in fear it is her, it is never her."

-K. Patrick, Mrs. S

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9. 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 Soula Emmanuel's Wild Geese

  • 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

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10. 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 Soula Emmanuel's Wild Geese

  • 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)

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11. 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 Soula Emmanuel's Wild Geese

  • 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

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12. Housemates

By: Emma Copley Eisenberg

3.66

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Two young housemates embark on a road trip to discover themselves in a fractured America in this sp… read more

Similar categories in Emma Copley Eisenberg's Housemates book and Soula Emmanuel's Wild Geese

  • lesbian
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
"Teaching? When it’s good? A marvel. A fucking miracle. They live, and then they turn to you to tell you about it."

-Emma Copley Eisenberg, Housemates

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13. Your Love Is Not Good

By: Johanna Hedva

3.58

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An artist of color becomes obsessed with a white model in a novel with the glamor of Clarice Lispec… read more

Similar categories in Johanna Hedva's Your Love Is Not Good book and Soula Emmanuel's Wild Geese

  • lesbian
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
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14. 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 Soula Emmanuel's Wild Geese

  • lesbian
  • literary fiction
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
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15. 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 Soula Emmanuel's Wild Geese

  • lesbian
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • queer lit
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
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16. 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 Soula Emmanuel's Wild Geese

  • lesbian
  • literary fiction
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • queer lit
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • ireland
  • 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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17. 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

Similar categories in Eliot Duncan's Ponyboy book and Soula Emmanuel's Wild Geese

  • literary fiction
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • queer lit
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
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18. Slant

By: Katherine O'Donnell

4.24

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

'A heartfelt celebration of all kinds of queer love' ― Alice Linehan, Gay Community News A ground-… read more

Similar categories in Katherine O'Donnell's Slant book and Soula Emmanuel's Wild Geese

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • ireland
  • queer
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19. Scaffolding

By: Lauren Elkin

3.86

Format: 388 pages, Kindle Edition

The story of two couples who live in the same apartment in north-east Paris almost fifty years apar… read more

Similar categories in Lauren Elkin's Scaffolding book and Soula Emmanuel's Wild Geese

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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20. The Coin

By: Yasmin Zaher

3.55

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A bold and unabashed novel about a young Palestinian woman's unraveling, far from home, as she gets… read more

Similar categories in Yasmin Zaher's The Coin book and Soula Emmanuel's Wild Geese

  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
"And the poet, he asked, who was it again? Aisha didn't know him, neither did Matthew. But, of course, Gregory did. He asked if he was the 9/11 denier. No, definitely not a denier, but very vocal when…"

-Yasmin Zaher, The Coin

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21. The Palace of Eros

By: Caro De Robertis

3.70

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Young, headstrong Psyche has captured the eyes of every suitor in town and far beyond with her temp… read more

Similar categories in Caro De Robertis's The Palace of Eros book and Soula Emmanuel's Wild Geese

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • queer

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Infect Your Friends and Loved Ones

Torrey Peters

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Jia Qing Wilson-Yang

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