10 must-read gender books like The T in LGBT: everything you need to know about being trans by Jamie Raines

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The T in LGBT: everything you need to know about being trans

By: Jamie Raines

4.59

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Hey, I'm Jamie, a 29-year-old trans guy from the UK. I've been transitioning for 12 years now after…

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1. This Book Is Gay

By: None , Juno Dawson

3.77

Format: 273 pages, Paperback

Lesbian. Bisexual. Queer. Transgender. Straight. Curious. This book is for everyone, regardless of … read more

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  • audiobook
  • queer
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • self help
"Living with stress and secrets is both stressful and secretive."

-None, This Book Is Gay

"Who do you want to be? There's only one rule: Always be true to yourself."

-None, This Book Is Gay

"Your sexuality or gender is as natural as your eye color, and you should never be ashamed of it."

-None, This Book Is Gay

"Let me tell you something, boys and girls, you can "straight act" all you want, but if you're sleeping with your own sex, to the rest of the world, you're as gay as John Waters living in a pink tent …"

-None, This Book Is Gay

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2. 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

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  • audiobook
  • biography
  • memoir
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • queer

3. Yours Sincerely, Giraffe

By: Jun Takabatake , Megumi Iwasa

4.11

Format: 274 pages, Hardcover

Giraffe is bored, as usual. He'd love a friend to share things with. So he writes a letter and send… read more

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4. Heartstopper: Volume Five (Heartstopper, #5)

By: Alice Oseman

4.49

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Boy meets boy. Boys become friends. Boys fall in love. The bestselling LGBTQ+ graphic novel about l… read more

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  • lgbt
  • queer
"Una parte de la intimidad consiste en confiar en alguien lo suficiente como para renunciar a una parte de ese control. Y eso, a veces, es muy difícil. Pero es importante que recuerdes que, si Nick y …"

-Alice Oseman, Heartstopper: Volume Five (Heartstopper, #5)

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5. Peter Darling

By: Austin Chant

4.06

Format: 310 pages, ebook

The Lost Boys say that Peter Pan went back to England because of Wendy Darling, but Wendy is just a… read more

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  • lgbt
  • transgender
  • queer
"A bad idea, he reflected, was better than no idea at all."

-Austin Chant, Peter Darling

"What was the point of being himself if he had to be alone?"

-Austin Chant, Peter Darling

"I always thought the only way to grow up was to be… her. I don't know what to do as me."

-Austin Chant, Peter Darling

"Thats the trick of growing up. Nothing stays the same." Hook sounded oddly sympathetic. "You see the faults in everything. Including yourself."

-Austin Chant, Peter Darling

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6. Gender Euphoria

By: Laura Kate Dale

4.11

Format: 229 pages, Kindle Edition

GENDER EUPHORIA: a powerful feeling of happiness experienced as a result of moving away from one’s … read more

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  • memoir
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • queer
"My leg hair reminds me of wildflower meadows. My head hair is long pond grass. My armpit hair is a hawthorn bush. My pubic hair is wet moss and lichen on a rock."

-Laura Kate Dale, Gender Euphoria

"If you don’t mind keeping a secret, I can tell you that the reality is that people ask fewer questions about what’s going on in your pants if they’re distracted by what you’ve got drawn on your arms."

-Laura Kate Dale, Gender Euphoria

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7. Homebody

By: Theo Parish

4.43

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

In their comics debut, Theo Parish masterfully weaves an intimate and defiantly hopeful memoir abou… read more

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  • gender
  • lgbt
  • transgender
  • queer
"Being openly queer can feel intimidating. But every day just by being yourself you inspire the people around you. You don't have to be an influencer to influence!"

-Theo Parish, Homebody

"There is no one way to be transgender, just like there is no one way to be cisgender. We are all just trying to find a place to call our own. We are all deserving of comfort and safety, a place to ca…"

-Theo Parish, Homebody

"Living authentically in a world that takes every opportunity to squeeze you uncomfortably into a box of someone else's design...that is the most radical act of self love. Blossoming in an environment…"

-Theo Parish, Homebody

"Words are important. They allow us to communicate how we think and feel. Words help us to understand and to be understood. So, finally grasping the language you've been reaching for, to explain this …"

-Theo Parish, Homebody

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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

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  • 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. 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
  • 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

Cover of When Religion Hurts You: Healing from Religious Trauma and the Impact of High-Control Religion by Laura E. Anderson

10. When Religion Hurts You: Healing from Religious Trauma and the Impact of High-Control Religion

By: Laura E. Anderson

4.38

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

"Anderson strikes a smart, balanced tone. . . . An exemplary guide to an understudied issue."--Publ… read more

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  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Rebuilding a worldview and identity likely needs to include space for uncertainty."

-Laura E. Anderson, When Religion Hurts You: Healing from Religious Trauma and the Impact of High-Control Religion

"I have lived far too much of my life with the end goal of eternal life in heaven, and so I missed a lot of life on earth."

-Laura E. Anderson, When Religion Hurts You: Healing from Religious Trauma and the Impact of High-Control Religion

"A marker of healing from religious trauma is not simply the process of deconstructing one’s worldview and identity and rebuilding a new one; it is also the willingness to remain open to shifting and …"

-Laura E. Anderson, When Religion Hurts You: Healing from Religious Trauma and the Impact of High-Control Religion

"Religious trauma resides in our bodies and nervous systems in the same way that trauma from war, developmental trauma, or sexualized trauma live inside us. Though the triggers and environment of the …"

-Laura E. Anderson, When Religion Hurts You: Healing from Religious Trauma and the Impact of High-Control Religion

Cover of Welcome to St. Hell: My Trans Teen Misadventure (St. Hell, #1) by Lewis Hancox

11. Welcome to St. Hell: My Trans Teen Misadventure (St. Hell, #1)

By: Lewis Hancox

4.28

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

A groundbreaking memoir about being a trans teen, in the vein of FUN HOME and FLAMER... and at the … read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • queer
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12. The Out Side: Trans & Nonbinary Comics

By: The Kao

4.37

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

In this vibrant and affirming comics anthology, 29 trans & nonbinary comic artists share their pers… read more

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  • memoir
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • queer
Cover of The Ministry of Unladylike Activity 2: The Body in the Blitz by Robin Stevens

13. The Ministry of Unladylike Activity 2: The Body in the Blitz

By: Robin Stevens

4.38

Format: 441 pages, Paperback

The second thrilling and unputdownable mystery starring a new generation of the Detective Society, … read more

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Cover of Escape From St. Hell: My Trans Teen Life Levels Up (St. Hell, #2) by Lewis Hancox

14. Escape From St. Hell: My Trans Teen Life Levels Up (St. Hell, #2)

By: Lewis Hancox

4.48

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

In this sequel to the Indie bestseller WELCOME TO ST. HELL, Lewis Hancox tells the hilarious, inspi… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • queer
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15. Der Bücherdrache (Zamonien, #9)

By: Walter Moers

3.79

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Die Buchlinge sind wieder da! In den Katakomben von Buchhaim erzählt man sich eine alte Geschich… read more

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  • audiobook
"Der Ruhm mag schwinden, aber die Vergessenheit währt ewig."

-Walter Moers, Der Bücherdrache (Zamonien, #9)

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16. Die Zukunft ist nicht binär

By: Lydia Meyer

4.15

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Es gibt nur zwei Geschlechter? Von wegen! Menschen sind mehr als entweder oder. Dennoch sind uns… read more

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  • audiobook
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • queer
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17. Can't Take That Away

By: Steven Salvatore

4.07

Format: 375 pages, Hardcover

A debut novel about a genderqueer teen who finds the courage to stand up and speak out for equality… read more

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  • lgbt
  • transgender
  • queer
"Respect my existence or expect my resistance."

-Steven Salvatore, Can't Take That Away

"If I'm not wearing makeup or something androgynous, they see me as a boy. If I do dress more feminine or androgynous, they see a boy but a boy wearing eyeshadow or nail polish. It's easier for people…"

-Steven Salvatore, Can't Take That Away

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18. The Other Edie Trimmer

By: Jacqueline Wilson

4.18

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

A brilliant new middle-grade novel from the bestselling Jacqueline Wilson!"I seemed to be seeing do… read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of Yes, You Are Trans Enough: My Transition From Self-Loathing To Self-Love by Mia Violet

19. Yes, You Are Trans Enough: My Transition From Self-Loathing To Self-Love

By: Mia Violet

4.42

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

With entertaining anecdotes and thoughtful observations, this memoir depicts the realities of being… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • queer
"Being the funnyt person is an easy part to play when you hate yourself, because it feels like your whole life is a joke written by somebody else."

-Mia Violet, Yes, You Are Trans Enough: My Transition From Self-Loathing To Self-Love

"If you don't know that being trans is even a concept, you're unlikely to realize there's a valid reason why you don't fit in-you just assume the problem is you."

-Mia Violet, Yes, You Are Trans Enough: My Transition From Self-Loathing To Self-Love

"It was like I had grown up with a limiter on my emotions, blocking me from feeling anything too deeply-positive or negative-but finally it had been taken off. I was feeling things profoundly and mean…"

-Mia Violet, Yes, You Are Trans Enough: My Transition From Self-Loathing To Self-Love

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20. Sounds Fake But Okay

By: Sarah Costello

3.65

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Somehow, over time, we forgot that the rituals behind dating and sex were constructs made up by hum… read more

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  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • queer
  • audiobook
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21. Transmogrify!: 14 Fantastical Tales of Trans Magic

By: g. haron davis

3.96

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Perfect for fans of All Out and Cemetery Boys, this anthology claims a seat at the table of fantasy… read more

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  • lgbt
  • queer
  • transgender
  • audiobook
"There is no shortage of people who want to hide the truth, dear Ari, and not a single one of them is of any consequence to me. In a decade, there will be another witch or wizard or magician or mundan…"

-g. haron davis, Transmogrify!: 14 Fantastical Tales of Trans Magic

"She smiled at him a little sadly. 'What do you want, Ronan? Do you want them to suffer? Or do you want them to change? The truth was, he hadn't thought that far ahead 'It's easy to hurt people,' she …"

-g. haron davis, Transmogrify!: 14 Fantastical Tales of Trans Magic

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22. 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

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  • audiobook
  • biography
  • memoir
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • queer
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23. In Their Shoes: Navigating Non-Binary Life

By: Jamie Windust

3.85

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

There is no one way to be non-binary, and that's truthfully one of the best things about it. It's a… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • queer
"Asking us to push away the very walls that are constantly crushing us into small, confined boxes is toxic."

-Jamie Windust, In Their Shoes: Navigating Non-Binary Life

"The current socio-political climate, exacerbated by the media's addiction to falsifying our existence, has meant that being trans/non-binary/gender non-conforming in the twenty-first century feels li…"

-Jamie Windust, In Their Shoes: Navigating Non-Binary Life

Cover of Awakenings (The Chronicles of Nerezia #1) by Claudie Arseneault

24. Awakenings (The Chronicles of Nerezia #1)

By: Claudie Arseneault

4.06

Format: 104 pages, ebook

Innkeep, hunter, blacksmith, nurse—Horace has apprenticed for every clan in the domed city of Trena… read more

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  • queer
  • lgbt
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25. A Trans Man Walks into a Gay Bar

By: Harry Nicholas

4.07

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

‘On the bookshelves, there was plenty of stuff on being gay, and much needed, joyous accounts of wh… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • queer
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26. Den Nya Häxkonsten (Kikis Expressbud #2)

By: Eiko Kadono

4.00

Format: 343 pages, Hardcover

國際安徒生大獎得主 角野榮子代表作 傳遞願望、帶來溫暖…… 任何奇怪的東西都能送到的魔女宅急便! 克里克城第二年的魔女生活中,琪琪接到了更多任務:有小孩要送「握手」給月亮公公、老爺爺請她帶… read more

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27. The T in LGBT: everything you need to know about being trans

By: Jamie Raines

4.59

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Hey, I'm Jamie, a 29-year-old trans guy from the UK. I've been transitioning for 12 years now after… read more

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  • audiobook
  • self help
  • biography
  • memoir
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • health
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • queer
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28. More Me with You

By: Alex Bertie

3.67

Format: None pages, Audiobook

Will is in Bristol for a brand-new start. He’s got his outrageous flatmate, Emma, his job at the bo… read more

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  • lgbt
  • queer
  • audiobook
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29. Baker Thief

By: Claudie Arseneault

3.93

Format: 413 pages, Kindle Edition

Adèle has only one goal: catch the purple-haired thief who broke into her home and stole her exocor… read more

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  • lgbt
  • transgender
  • queer
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30. Das Einhörnchen, das rückwärts leben wollte: Zwanzig zamonische Flabeln

By: Walter Moers

3.54

Format: 176 pages, Kindle Edition

Ein Fest des Humors von SPIEGEL-Bestsellerautor Walter Moers Ein Einhörnchen, das lieber rückwärts … read more

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31. The Little Witch Who Lost Her Broom!

By: Elaine Bickell

3.85

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

The perfect Halloween read-aloud! From the New York Times bestselling duo who brought you The Li… read more

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Trans Mission: My Quest to a Beard

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