11 must-read queer books like We're Still Here: An All-Trans Comics Anthology by Tara Madison Avery

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We're Still Here: An All-Trans Comics Anthology

By: Tara Madison Avery

4.41

Format: 310 pages, Paperback

The first anthology of its kind, We’re Still Here: An All-Trans Comics Anthology offers dozens of n…

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1. Magic for Liars

By: Sarah Gailey

3.62

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

Ivy Gamble has never wanted to be magical. She is perfectly happy with her life. She has an almost-… read more

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  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
"Fucking Mages."

-Sarah Gailey, Magic for Liars

"If you need to hurry...you’re already too late."

-Sarah Gailey, Magic for Liars

"the bags under my eyes were definitely well past the carry-on limit"

-Sarah Gailey, Magic for Liars

"A twenty-five-cent word sprang unbidden into my mind: “noctilucent."

-Sarah Gailey, Magic for Liars

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2. Something New: Tales from a Makeshift Bride

By: Lucy Knisley

3.92

Format: 292 pages, Paperback

When cartoonist Lucy Knisley and her boyfriend John broke up, Lucy wondered if she would ever find … read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics

3. You Are Here: An Owner's Manual for Dangerous Minds

By: Jenny Lawson

4.10

Format: 9 pages, Paperback

A new book from #1 New York Times bestselling author Jenny Lawson, destined to be a classic--part t… read more

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4. Girl in a Band

By: Kim Gordon

3.67

Format: 273 pages, Hardcover

In Girl in a Band, Kim Gordon, founding member of Sonic Youth and role model for a generation of wo… read more

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"All that young-girl idealism is someone else's now."

-Kim Gordon, Girl in a Band

"For me performing has a lot to do with being fearless."

-Kim Gordon, Girl in a Band

"I like being in a weak position, and making it strong."

-Kim Gordon, Girl in a Band

"I give Iggy credit for deconstructing the very idea of entertainment."

-Kim Gordon, Girl in a Band

5. Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses

By: Robin Wall Kimmerer

3.87

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

In this series of linked personal essays, Robin Wall Kimmerer leads general readers and scientists … read more

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6. Relish: My Life in the Kitchen

By: Lucy Knisley

4.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

A vibrant, food-themed memoir from beloved indie cartoonist Lucy Knisley. Lucy Knisley loves food. … read more

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7. Something is Killing the Children, Vol. 1

By: James Tynion IV

4.16

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

When children begin to go missing in the town of Archer’s Peak, all hope seems lost until a mysteri… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fiction
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8. Something is Killing the Children, Vol. 2

By: James Tynion IV

4.26

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Erica Slaughter may have slain the monster terrorizing the small Wisconsin town of Archer’s Peak, b… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fiction
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9. Something is Killing the Children, Vol. 3

By: James Tynion IV

4.29

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

As the House of Slaughter arrives to clean up the situation by any means necessary, Erica will find… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fiction
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10. Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk

By: Kathleen Hanna

4.46

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An electric, searing memoir by the original rebel girl and legendary front woman of Bikini Kill and… read more

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"She was the only woman on the whole record and hearing her gave me the first thought that someday I could be in a band."

-Kathleen Hanna, Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk

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11. Hockey Girl Loves Drama Boy

By: Faith Erin Hicks

3.96

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

New York Times bestseller Faith Erin Hicks is back with Hockey Girl Loves Drama Boy , a young adult… read more

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  • lgbt
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fiction
  • queer
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12. Numb to This: Memoir of a Mass Shooting

By: Kindra Neely

3.99

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

This searing graphic memoir portrays gun violence through a fresh lens, giving it urgency, humanity… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
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13. The Baker and the Bard

By: Fern Haught

3.62

Format: 147 pages, Paperback

Author-artist Fern Haught weaves an enchanting, gentle fantasy tale of friendship, determination, a… read more

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  • lgbt
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fiction
  • queer
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14. Are You Listening?

By: Tillie Walden

3.83

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Bea is on the run. And then, she runs into Lou. This chance encounter sends them on a journey th… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
"Everyone everything has potential for magic. You just gotta be standing somewhere in the world and in the body that lets you see it."

-Tillie Walden, Are You Listening?

"Mom. It's too hot out. Can't we skip today? We could walk twice tomorrow...' 'We have to, Lou. We have to move every day, even when we don't want to."

-Tillie Walden, Are You Listening?

"When something horrible happens, or something amazing...really, anything that's big, it makes you feel like mountains could shatter, or the sky could disappear...you know what I'm talking about? Well…"

-Tillie Walden, Are You Listening?

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15. The Mysteries

By: Bill Watterson

3.76

Format: 72 pages, Hardcover

A New York Times, USA Today, Publishers Weekly, and Indie Bestseller. From Bill Watterson, bests… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fiction
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16. Keeping Two

By: Jordan Crane

3.61

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

20 years in the making, the long-awaited graphic novel masterpiece from acclaimed cartoonist Jordan… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fiction
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17. Doughnuts and Doom

By: Balazs Lorinczi

3.69

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

Being a teenage witch—or rock star—is tougher than it looks! But maybe enemies can become friends…o… read more

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  • lgbt
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fiction
  • queer
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18. A Guest in the House

By: Emily Carroll

4.06

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In this graphic novel by Emily Carroll, a young woman marries a kind dentist only to discover a dar… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fiction
  • lgbt
"I don’t sleep for days after seeing her. And when I finally do, my dreams are tangled, dripping things."

-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House

"I used to dream of dragons. I would find them, panting, pacing. Sung inside damp caverns. When I lived through them they would release their riches in a stinking swell of gore and glittering jewels…a…"

-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House

"At night, every noise could be her. I know she’s here now, right now, even though she won’t show herself to me. (I tried to find her the other night, down by the front door like before, but nothing c…"

-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House

"David tells me the first week they lived here, Crystal had nightmares about the attic, about things dripping down from it at night. She would stop crying until he put a lock on it. There’d been anima…"

-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House

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19. Apple Crush

By: Lucy Knisley

4.06

Format: 198 pages, Hardcover

Jen and Andy are back in the sequel to Stepping Stones, New York Times bestselling author Lucy Knis… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fiction
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20. The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)

By: Nghi Vo

3.95

Format: 119 pages, Kindle Edition

A young royal from the far north is sent south for a political marriage in an empire reminiscent of… read more

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  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
"Angry mothers raise daughters fierce enough to fight wolves."

-Nghi Vo, The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)

"[,,,] if you want to understand people who have gone, that's what you look at, isn't it? Their offal. Their leavings."

-Nghi Vo, The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)

"The abbey at Singing Hills would say that if a record cannot be perfect, it should at least be present. Better for it to exist than for it to be perfect and only in your mind."

-Nghi Vo, The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)

"... He was unimportant, the least of In-yo's spies and couriers, but—" Almost Brilliant fluttered her wings in the dying light. "I understand. I will remember Sukai for you, and so will my children a…"

-Nghi Vo, The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)

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21. Impossible People: A Completely Average Recovery Story

By: Julia Wertz

4.35

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In her keenly observed graphic memoir, Impossible People, celebrated cartoonist Julia Wertz chronic… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
"Go fuck yourself, melted spatula!"

-Julia Wertz, Impossible People: A Completely Average Recovery Story

"Do the stepwork and don't give me any of your excuses. We both know they're bullshit."

-Julia Wertz, Impossible People: A Completely Average Recovery Story

"...you're at a place in your life where you're trying to let people in, so you should have called someone to spend the afternoon with you instead of being a weirdo alone in a theater crying at a come…"

-Julia Wertz, Impossible People: A Completely Average Recovery Story

"It's the fantasy of a life gone wrong. You've been doing the best you can, but it's hard and you're tired. Then something horrible happens and you get to give up and go be sad somewhere. There's some…"

-Julia Wertz, Impossible People: A Completely Average Recovery Story

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22. Upright Women Wanted

By: Sarah Gailey

3.61

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

“That girl’s got more wrong notions than a barn owl’s got mean looks.” Esther is a stowaway. She… read more

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  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
"Just because he needed killing doesn't mean I can sleep easy."

-Sarah Gailey, Upright Women Wanted

"You really believe all that? About how there’s only one end in sight for people like you?"

-Sarah Gailey, Upright Women Wanted

"When there's people around that we don't trust, we let them think we're the kinds of people who are allowed to exist. And the only kind of Librarian that's allowed to exist is one who answers to she."

-Sarah Gailey, Upright Women Wanted

"Good," Esther said back, echoing Cye's words automatically because she didn't know what else to say, because you have a freckle on your bottom lip seemed like the wrong thing to say but it was the on…"

-Sarah Gailey, Upright Women Wanted

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23. Stepping Stones

By: Lucy Knisley

4.03

Format: 224 pages, None

Jen is used to not getting what she wants. So suddenly moving to the country and getting new stepsi… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fiction
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24. Dead Collections

By: Isaac Fellman

3.63

Format: 256 pages, ebook

A whirlwind romance between an eccentric archivist and a grieving widow explores what it means to b… read more

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  • fiction
  • queer
  • transgender
  • lgbt
"...any reasonable person would want to be a librarian."

-Isaac Fellman, Dead Collections

"It's not weird to make your body yours. It's not weird to want a custom body."

-Isaac Fellman, Dead Collections

"It's cold in the archives, and there's nobody there. I belong in the archives. I am cold too."

-Isaac Fellman, Dead Collections

"Those names, Ari and Sol - what is it about Jewish trans men that we all have to reach back to our roots, as if they are the only source of nourishment we have left?"

-Isaac Fellman, Dead Collections

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25. Stone Fruit

By: Lee Lai

4.06

Format: 231 pages, Hardcover

Bron and Ray are a queer couple who enjoy their role as the fun weirdo aunties to Ray’s niece, six-… read more

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  • lgbt
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fiction
  • queer
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26. Buzzing

By: Samuel Sattin

4.18

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

A moving middle grade graphic novel about friendship, belonging, and learning to love yourself desp… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fiction
  • lgbt
Cover of The Out Side: Trans & Nonbinary Comics by The Kao

27. 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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  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • graphic novels
  • anthologies
  • comics
  • queer
Cover of Kid Gloves: Nine Months of Careful Chaos by Lucy Knisley

28. Kid Gloves: Nine Months of Careful Chaos

By: Lucy Knisley

4.38

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

If you work hard enough, if you want it enough, if you’re smart and talented and “good enough,” you… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
"There's plenty of drama and comedy and bodily fluids! And what's a good origin story without all three?"

-Lucy Knisley, Kid Gloves: Nine Months of Careful Chaos

"When we write about our lives, it's a form of time travel. We inhabit the body we were back then, and yet we do so from our safe distance in the future."

-Lucy Knisley, Kid Gloves: Nine Months of Careful Chaos

"For a large part of human history, people didn't really know how a woman's body worked. This is mainly because for much of human history, a woman's body was either too sacred or too sexual to study."

-Lucy Knisley, Kid Gloves: Nine Months of Careful Chaos

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29. Catboy

By: Benji Nate

3.93

Format: 138 pages, Paperback

The adventures of young-adult Olive and her best friend Henry, turned from cat into a real human ca… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fiction
Cover of Fall Through: A Graphic Novel by Nate Powell

30. Fall Through: A Graphic Novel

By: Nate Powell

3.61

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Love and Rockets meets Russian Doll in this all-new graphic novel about an underground punk band ca… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fiction
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31. We're Still Here: An All-Trans Comics Anthology

By: Tara Madison Avery

4.41

Format: 310 pages, Paperback

The first anthology of its kind, We’re Still Here: An All-Trans Comics Anthology offers dozens of n… read more

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  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • graphic novels
  • sequential art
  • anthologies
  • comix
  • queer lit
  • comics
  • fiction
  • queer

21 Top fiction books like We're Still Here: An All-Trans Comics Anthology by Tara Madison Avery

Transform Your Habits

Magic for Liars

Sarah Gailey

3.62

Transform Your Habits

Something is Killing the Children, Vol. 1

James Tynion IV

4.16

Transform Your Habits

Something is Killing the Children, Vol. 2

James Tynion IV

4.26

Transform Your Habits

Something is Killing the Children, Vol. 3

James Tynion IV

4.29

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25 Best fiction books like Fall Through: A Graphic Novel by Nate Powell

Transform Your Habits

Monica

Daniel Clowes

3.95

Transform Your Habits

Something is Killing the Children, Vol. 6

James Tynion IV

4.29

Transform Your Habits

Do a Powerbomb!

Daniel Warren Johnson

4.52

Transform Your Habits

Where the Body Was

Ed Brubaker

4.14

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