14 best-selling memoir books like Not Just a Tomboy by Caspar Baldwin

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Not Just a Tomboy

By: Caspar Baldwin

4.01

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

LONGLISTED FOR THE POLARI FIRST BOOK PRIZE 2019 'Strong, powerful and a valuable resource' - Fox Fi…

If you liked the memoir plot in Not Just a Tomboy by Caspar Baldwin , here is a list of 14 books like this:

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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 Caspar Baldwin's Not Just a Tomboy

  • memoir
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • gender
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • queer
Cover of Hung Jury: Testimonies of Genital Surgery by Transsexual Men by Trystan T. Cotten

2. Hung Jury: Testimonies of Genital Surgery by Transsexual Men

By: Trystan T. Cotten

5.00

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Hung Jury is the first book of personal testimonies focusing exclusively on FTM genital surgery and… read more

Similar categories in Trystan T. Cotten's Hung Jury: Testimonies of Genital Surgery by Transsexual Men book and Caspar Baldwin's Not Just a Tomboy

  • memoir
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • queer
Cover of Balls: It Takes Some to Get Some by Chris Edwards

3. Balls: It Takes Some to Get Some

By: Chris Edwards

4.08

Format: 88 pages, Hardcover

2016 SHELF AWARENESS BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR IN NONFICTION AMAZON BEST SELLER IN LGBT, TRANSGENDER, A… read more

Similar categories in Chris Edwards's Balls: It Takes Some to Get Some book and Caspar Baldwin's Not Just a Tomboy

  • memoir
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • queer
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4. Orlando

By: Virginia Woolf , Sandra M Gilbert

3.87

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Virginia Woolf's Orlando 'The longest and most charming love letter in literature', playfully const… read more

Similar categories in Virginia Woolf's Orlando book and Caspar Baldwin's Not Just a Tomboy

  • queer
  • lgbt
"Life and a lover"

-Virginia Woolf, Orlando

"Thoughts are divine."

-Virginia Woolf, Orlando

"Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence."

-Virginia Woolf, Orlando

"All extremes of feeling are allied with madness."

-Virginia Woolf, Orlando

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5. Stone Butch Blues

By: Leslie Feinberg

4.43

Format: 230 pages, Hardcover

Woman or man? This internationally acclaimed novel looks at the world through the eyes of Jess Gold… read more

Similar categories in Leslie Feinberg's Stone Butch Blues book and Caspar Baldwin's Not Just a Tomboy

  • gender
  • queer
  • lgbt
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6. Man Alive: A True Story of Violence, Forgiveness and Becoming a Man

By: Thomas Page McBee

3.91

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

In Man Alive, McBee asks, "What does it really mean to be a man?" by focusing on two of the most im… read more

Similar categories in Thomas Page McBee's Man Alive: A True Story of Violence, Forgiveness and Becoming a Man book and Caspar Baldwin's Not Just a Tomboy

  • memoir
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • queer
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7. The Enormous Crocodile

By: Roald Dahl , Quentin Blake

3.78

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

The Enormous Crocodile is incredibly hungry-and incredibly greedy. His favorite meal is a plump, ju… read more

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8. Other Voices, Other Rooms

By: Truman Capote

3.77

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

Published when Truman Capote was only twenty-three years old, Other Voices, Other Rooms is a litera… read more

Similar categories in Truman Capote's Other Voices, Other Rooms book and Caspar Baldwin's Not Just a Tomboy

  • queer
  • lgbt
"Only."

-Truman Capote, Other Voices, Other Rooms

"Are the dead as lonesome as the living?"

-Truman Capote, Other Voices, Other Rooms

"Все возможно, небо везде одно, только то, что под ним, разное."

-Truman Capote, Other Voices, Other Rooms

"And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came."

-Truman Capote, Other Voices, Other Rooms

9. Transgender History

By: Susan Stryker

3.96

Format: 236 pages, Paperback

Covering American transgender history from the mid-twentieth century to today, Transgender Historyt… read more

Similar categories in Susan Stryker's Transgender History book and Caspar Baldwin's Not Just a Tomboy

10. The Black Dahlia (L.A. Quartet, #1)

By: James Ellroy

4.10

Format: 338 pages, Paperback

On January 15, 1947, the tortured body of a beautiful young woman was found in a vacant lot in Holl… read more

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11. 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 Caspar Baldwin's Not Just a Tomboy

  • memoir
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • queer
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12. 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

Similar categories in Theo Parish's Homebody book and Caspar Baldwin's Not Just a Tomboy

  • gender
  • queer
  • transgender
  • lgbt
"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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13. 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

Similar categories in Elliot Page's Pageboy book and Caspar Baldwin's Not Just a Tomboy

  • memoir
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • autobiography
  • 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

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14. 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

Similar categories in George M. Johnson's All Boys Aren’t Blue book and Caspar Baldwin's Not Just a Tomboy

  • queer
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • lgbt
"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

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15. They Hate Each Other

By: Amanda Woody

4.24

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Jonah and Dylan get along like oil and water. Until a fake dating ploy gives them new perspective, … read more

Similar categories in Amanda Woody's They Hate Each Other book and Caspar Baldwin's Not Just a Tomboy

  • queer
  • lgbt
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16. Opinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticism, and Minding Other People's Business

By: Roxane Gay

4.01

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From beloved and bestselling author Roxane Gay, “a strikingly fresh cultural critic” (Washington Po… read more

Similar categories in Roxane Gay's Opinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticism, and Minding Other People's Business book and Caspar Baldwin's Not Just a Tomboy

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • lgbt
Cover of Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House by Michael  Wolff

17. Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House

By: Michael Wolff

3.44

Format: 322 pages, Hardcover

With extraordinary access to the West Wing, Michael Wolff reveals what happened behind-the-scenes i… read more

Similar categories in Michael Wolff's Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House book and Caspar Baldwin's Not Just a Tomboy

  • nonfiction
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18. Friday I'm in Love

By: Camryn Garrett

3.84

Format: 288 pages, Library Binding

It's too late for a Sweet Sixteen but what if Mahalia had a Coming Out Party? A love letter to roma… read more

Similar categories in Camryn Garrett's Friday I'm in Love book and Caspar Baldwin's Not Just a Tomboy

  • queer
  • lgbt
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19. 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

Similar categories in Lewis Hancox's Welcome to St. Hell: My Trans Teen Misadventure (St. Hell, #1) book and Caspar Baldwin's Not Just a Tomboy

  • memoir
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • queer
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20. Not My Problem

By: Ciara Smyth

4.13

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Aideen has plenty of problems she can’t fix. Her best (and only) friend is pulling away. Her mother… read more

Similar categories in Ciara Smyth's Not My Problem book and Caspar Baldwin's Not Just a Tomboy

  • queer
  • lgbt
"I dug deep down into my empathy store and found a dried-up old raisin."

-Ciara Smyth, Not My Problem

"She really did look relieved. Like the stick up her her ass had decreased in width or length."

-Ciara Smyth, Not My Problem

"I'd never met someone I hated more. Would it have been wrong to burn her house down to get out?"

-Ciara Smyth, Not My Problem

"It's all a load of bolloxology, but I'm not going to let that get in the way of making fun of you, am I?"

-Ciara Smyth, Not My Problem

Cover of Kiki's Delivery Service (Kiki's Delivery Service, #1) by Eiko Kadono

21. Kiki's Delivery Service (Kiki's Delivery Service, #1)

By: Eiko Kadono

4.15

Format: 193 pages, Hardcover

Nostalgic fans of the Miyazaki film and newcomers alike--soar into the modern classic about a young… read more

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22. Bad Influence

By: Tamsin Winter

3.99

Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition

A powerfully real and funny new story from the rising queen of teen, about first kisses, learning t… read more

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23. Girlcrush

By: Florence Given

2.80

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

GIRLCRUSH is a dark feminist comedy by bestselling author Florence Given. In Given's debut novel… read more

Similar categories in Florence Given's Girlcrush book and Caspar Baldwin's Not Just a Tomboy

  • queer
  • lgbt
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24. If You Still Recognise Me

By: Cynthia So

4.05

Format: 409 pages, Paperback

Elsie has a crush on Ada, the only person in the world who truly understands her. Unfortunately, th… read more

Similar categories in Cynthia So's If You Still Recognise Me book and Caspar Baldwin's Not Just a Tomboy

  • queer
  • lgbt
"I wonder if Ada would be able to feel the sapphic vibes if she could see the things she and I wrote to each other through the eyes of someone who was an outsider to our friendship."

-Cynthia So, If You Still Recognise Me

"And I lie down and look at the ceiling, and I wonder how adults learn to love with this feeling that the past is always growing bigger, that you're always losing mroe of yourself to it."

-Cynthia So, If You Still Recognise Me

"I didn't truly believe it back then. That I deserved to be seen. I do now, though. I do. And being seen requires being open about myself. Joan looks at me, soft, patient. I want to be seen."

-Cynthia So, If You Still Recognise Me

"There's nothing like meeting someone and feeling comfortable with them instantly. That to me is the closest thing we have to magic in the world. The inexplicable connection that we just feel, right a…"

-Cynthia So, If You Still Recognise Me

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25. 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 Caspar Baldwin's Not Just a Tomboy

  • memoir
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • gender
  • 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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26. When Katie Met Cassidy

By: Camille Perri

3.10

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of The Assistants comes another gutsy book about the importance of women … read more

Similar categories in Camille Perri's When Katie Met Cassidy book and Caspar Baldwin's Not Just a Tomboy

  • queer
  • lgbt
"Do you like girls? Is. That. A. Thing. You. Do?"

-Camille Perri, When Katie Met Cassidy

"in such a setting a female body in a tuxedo- a tuxedo without a plunging neckline or cropped bottoms paired with stiletto heels, but a proper men’s tux- confused the hell out of people"

-Camille Perri, When Katie Met Cassidy

"this larger than life space was in fact just a room like any other. It struck Katie then how much it was about the people who filled a space with drama and personality, with love and grudges and out-…"

-Camille Perri, When Katie Met Cassidy

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27. What's the T? The Guide to All Things Trans and/or Nonbinary

By: Juno Dawson

4.34

Format: 226 pages, Paperback

Discover what it means to be a young transgender and/or non-binary person in the twenty-first centu… read more

Similar categories in Juno Dawson's What's the T? The Guide to All Things Trans and/or Nonbinary book and Caspar Baldwin's Not Just a Tomboy

  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • queer
"That's the thing with kids, isn't it? You're never quite sure what you're going to get. If you don't want an LGBTQ+ child, use a condom!"

-Juno Dawson, What's the T? The Guide to All Things Trans and/or Nonbinary

"Imagine feeling like—on top of being a quirk of nature—you also have to battle your parents. Well, that just makes a tough situation tougher."

-Juno Dawson, What's the T? The Guide to All Things Trans and/or Nonbinary

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28. 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

Similar categories in Jamie Raines's The T in LGBT: everything you need to know about being trans book and Caspar Baldwin's Not Just a Tomboy

  • memoir
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • queer
Cover of Not Just a Tomboy by Caspar Baldwin

29. Not Just a Tomboy

By: Caspar Baldwin

4.01

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

LONGLISTED FOR THE POLARI FIRST BOOK PRIZE 2019 'Strong, powerful and a valuable resource' - Fox Fi… read more

Similar categories in Caspar Baldwin's Not Just a Tomboy book and Caspar Baldwin's Not Just a Tomboy

  • memoir
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • gender
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • queer
Cover of Perfectly Queer: Facing Big Fears, Living Hard Truths, and Loving Myself Fully Out of the Closet by Jillian Abby

30. Perfectly Queer: Facing Big Fears, Living Hard Truths, and Loving Myself Fully Out of the Closet

By: Jillian Abby

4.54

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

This humorous, heartwarming memoir follows a wife and mother's journey of self-discovery and accept… read more

Similar categories in Jillian Abby's Perfectly Queer: Facing Big Fears, Living Hard Truths, and Loving Myself Fully Out of the Closet book and Caspar Baldwin's Not Just a Tomboy

  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • queer
Cover of How to Be a Girl: A Mother’s Memoir of Raising Her Transgender Daughter by Marlo Mack

31. How to Be a Girl: A Mother’s Memoir of Raising Her Transgender Daughter

By: Marlo Mack

4.50

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

A poignant narrative of one mom’s  journey  to support her transgender daughter—showing how any par… read more

Similar categories in Marlo Mack's How to Be a Girl: A Mother’s Memoir of Raising Her Transgender Daughter book and Caspar Baldwin's Not Just a Tomboy

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

16 Top nonfiction books like Not Just a Tomboy by Caspar Baldwin

Transform Your Habits

Trans Mission: My Quest to a Beard

Alex Bertie

4.05

Transform Your Habits

Hung Jury: Testimonies of Genital Surgery by Transsexual Men

Trystan T. Cotten

5.00

Transform Your Habits

Balls: It Takes Some to Get Some

Chris Edwards

4.08

Transform Your Habits

Man Alive: A True Story of Violence, Forgiveness and Becoming a Man

Thomas Page McBee

3.91

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18 best-selling young adult books like Bad Influence by Tamsin Winter

Transform Your Habits

The Final Year

Matt Goodfellow

4.71

Transform Your Habits

Crossing the Line

Tia Fisher

4.28

Transform Your Habits

Steady For This

Nathanael Lessore

3.90

Transform Your Habits

Safiyyah's War

Hiba Noor Khan

4.32

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