16 best-selling queer books like Trans Love by Benson

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Trans Love

By: Benson

4.04

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

Selected as a 2019 LGBT Book of the Year by Dazed and Ms. Magazine A ground-breaking anthology of w…

If you liked the queer plot in Trans Love by Benson , here is a list of 16 books like this:

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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 Benson's Trans Love

  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • feminism
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • 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

2. Trans Like Me: A Journey for All of Us

By: None

3.93

Format: 152 pages,

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Similar categories in None's Trans Like Me: A Journey for All of Us book and Benson's Trans Love

Cover of Bad Gays: A Homosexual History by Huw Lemmey

3. Bad Gays: A Homosexual History

By: Huw Lemmey

3.55

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Too many popular histories seek to establish heroes, pioneers and martyrs but as Huw Lemmey and Ben… read more

Similar categories in Huw Lemmey's Bad Gays: A Homosexual History book and Benson's Trans Love

  • nonfiction
  • queer
  • lgbt
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4. Splinters

By: Leslie Jamison

3.86

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Recovering and The Empathy Exams comes the riveti… read more

Similar categories in Leslie Jamison's Splinters book and Benson's Trans Love

  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • essays
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5. Gender Queer

By: Maia Kobabe

4.28

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would … read more

Similar categories in Maia Kobabe's Gender Queer book and Benson's Trans Love

  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • queer
  • lgbt
"I don't"

-Maia Kobabe, Gender Queer

"My deepest emotional relationships have always been with women. Did that mean I was a lesbian? But my sexual fantasies involved two male partners. Was I a gay boy tapped in a girl's body? The knowled…"

-Maia Kobabe, Gender Queer

"Some people are born in the mountains, while others are born by the sea. Some people are happy to live in the place they were born, while others must make a journey to reach the climate in which they…"

-Maia Kobabe, Gender Queer

"As I pondered a pronoun change, I began to think of gender less as a scale and more as a landscape. Some people are born in the mountains, while others are born by the sea. Some people are happy to l…"

-Maia Kobabe, Gender Queer

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6. Displacement

By: Kiku Hughes

4.29

Format: 283 pages, Paperback

A teenager is pulled back in time to witness her grandmother's experiences in World War II-era Japa… read more

Similar categories in Kiku Hughes's Displacement book and Benson's Trans Love

  • lgbt
"A memory is too powerful a weapon."

-Kiku Hughes, Displacement

"But when a community comes together to demand more, when we do not let trauma stay obscured but bring it up to the surface and remember it together, we can make sure it is not repeated."

-Kiku Hughes, Displacement

Cover of Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender by Kit Heyam

7. 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 Benson's Trans Love

  • 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

Cover of Hi Honey, I'm Homo!: Sitcoms, Specials, and the Queering of American Culture by Matt Baume

8. Hi Honey, I'm Homo!: Sitcoms, Specials, and the Queering of American Culture

By: Matt Baume

4.35

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

There's a secret storyline hidden across some of the most popular sitcoms of the 20th century. F… read more

Similar categories in Matt Baume's Hi Honey, I'm Homo!: Sitcoms, Specials, and the Queering of American Culture book and Benson's Trans Love

  • nonfiction
  • queer
  • lgbt
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9. Fly with Me

By: Andie Burke

3.97

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

A sparkling and steamy opposites-attract romance, Fly with Me by Andie Burke is filled with sharp b… read more

Similar categories in Andie Burke's Fly with Me book and Benson's Trans Love

  • romance
  • queer
  • lgbt
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10. Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity

By: Devon Price

4.44

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A deep dive into the spectrum of Autistic experience and the phenomenon of masked Autism, giving in… read more

Similar categories in Devon Price's Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity book and Benson's Trans Love

  • nonfiction
  • queer
"Therapy that is focused on battling “irrational beliefs,"

-Devon Price, Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity

"Refusing to perform neurotypicality is a revolutionary act of disability justice. It's also a radical act of self-love."

-Devon Price, Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity

"Much of what we call maturity is a silly pantomime of independence and unfeeling, not a real quality of unbreakable strength."

-Devon Price, Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity

"We have to keep other people at arm's length, because letting them see our hyperfixations, meltdowns, obsessions, and outbursts could mean losing their respect. But locking ourselves away means we ca…"

-Devon Price, Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity

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11. Bored Gay Werewolf

By: Tony Santorella

3.53

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Brian, an aimless slacker, works doubles at his shift job, forgets to clean his room and lays about… read more

Similar categories in Tony Santorella's Bored Gay Werewolf book and Benson's Trans Love

  • queer
  • lgbt
Cover of The Out Side: Trans & Nonbinary Comics by The Kao

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

Similar categories in The Kao's The Out Side: Trans & Nonbinary Comics book and Benson's Trans Love

  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • nonfiction
  • queer
Cover of Fine: A Comic About Gender by Rhea Ewing

13. Fine: A Comic About Gender

By: Rhea Ewing

4.28

Format: 319 pages, Paperback

Washington Post • 10 Best Graphic Novels of 2022 A vibrant and informative debut with “great doc… read more

Similar categories in Rhea Ewing's Fine: A Comic About Gender book and Benson's Trans Love

  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • queer
"Gender affects everybody, so whether you're trans or not, gender is fucking you up. -Jac, 2013"

-Rhea Ewing, Fine: A Comic About Gender

Cover of Queer Sex: A Trans and Non-Binary Guide to Intimacy, Pleasure and Relationships by Juno Roche

14. Queer Sex: A Trans and Non-Binary Guide to Intimacy, Pleasure and Relationships

By: Juno Roche

3.92

Format: 176 pages, Kindle Edition

'Queer Sex is simply phenomenal'. - Bitch Media In this frank, funny and poignant book, transgen… read more

Similar categories in Juno Roche's Queer Sex: A Trans and Non-Binary Guide to Intimacy, Pleasure and Relationships book and Benson's Trans Love

  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • queer
Cover of He/She/They: How We Talk About Gender and Why It Matters by Schuyler Bailar

15. 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 Benson's Trans Love

  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • feminism
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • queer
Cover of Our Work Is Everywhere: An Illustrated Oral History of Queer and Trans Resistance by Syan Rose

16. Our Work Is Everywhere: An Illustrated Oral History of Queer and Trans Resistance

By: Syan Rose

4.20

Format: 91 pages, Paperback

Over the past ten years, we have witnessed the rise of queer and trans communities that have defied… read more

Similar categories in Syan Rose's Our Work Is Everywhere: An Illustrated Oral History of Queer and Trans Resistance book and Benson's Trans Love

  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • queer
Cover of Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire by Alice  Wong

17. Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire

By: Alice Wong

4.30

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

The much-anticipated follow up to the groundbreaking anthology Disability Visibility: another revol… read more

Similar categories in Alice Wong's Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire book and Benson's Trans Love

  • nonfiction
  • anthologies
  • essays
Cover of Unlearning Shame: How We Can Reject Self-Blame Culture and Reclaim Our Power by Devon  Price

18. Unlearning Shame: How We Can Reject Self-Blame Culture and Reclaim Our Power

By: Devon Price

4.33

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Learn to identify—and combat—Systemic Shame, the feeling of self-hatred and disempowerment that com… read more

Similar categories in Devon Price's Unlearning Shame: How We Can Reject Self-Blame Culture and Reclaim Our Power book and Benson's Trans Love

  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • queer
Cover of Trans Love by Benson

19. Trans Love

By: Benson

4.04

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

Selected as a 2019 LGBT Book of the Year by Dazed and Ms. Magazine A ground-breaking anthology of w… read more

Similar categories in Benson's Trans Love book and Benson's Trans Love

  • romance
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • feminism
  • gender
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • queer
Cover of Sensory: Life on the Spectrum by Bex Ollerton

20. Sensory: Life on the Spectrum

By: Bex Ollerton

4.27

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

A colorful and eclectic comics anthology exploring a wide range of autistic experiences—from diagno… read more

Similar categories in Bex Ollerton's Sensory: Life on the Spectrum book and Benson's Trans Love

  • nonfiction
  • anthologies
Cover of Transland: Consent, Kink, and Pleasure by Mx. Sly

21. Transland: Consent, Kink, and Pleasure

By: Mx. Sly

4.26

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A memoir of transformation and self-discovery that explores fetish communities from a gender divers… read more

Similar categories in Mx. Sly's Transland: Consent, Kink, and Pleasure book and Benson's Trans Love

  • nonfiction
  • queer
  • transgender
  • lgbt

17 must-read nonfiction books like Trans Love by Benson

Transform Your Habits

Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity

Julia Serano

4.26

Transform Your Habits

Bad Gays: A Homosexual History

Huw Lemmey

3.55

Transform Your Habits

Splinters

Leslie Jamison

3.86

Transform Your Habits

Gender Queer

Maia Kobabe

4.28

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Candy Darling: Dreamer, Icon, Superstar

Cynthia Carr

4.27

Transform Your Habits

Hi Honey, I'm Homo!: Sitcoms, Specials, and the Queering of American Culture

Matt Baume

4.35

Transform Your Habits

Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever

Matt Singer

4.06

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The House of Hidden Meanings

RuPaul

3.84

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