18 must-read lgbt books like Top to Bottom: A Memoir and Personal Guide Through Phalloplasty by Finlay Games

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Top to Bottom: A Memoir and Personal Guide Through Phalloplasty

By: Finlay Games

4.50

Format: 239 pages, Paperback

"Part memoir, part self-help guide, this book explores the physical and emotional journey of having…

If you liked the lgbt plot in Top to Bottom: A Memoir and Personal Guide Through Phalloplasty by Finlay Games , here is a list of 18 books like this:

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1. The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities

By: Dossie Easton , Catherine A. Liszt

3.93

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

The essential guide for singles and couples who want to explore polyamory in ways that are ethicall… read more

Similar categories in Dossie Easton's The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities book and Finlay Games's Top to Bottom: A Memoir and Personal Guide Through Phalloplasty

  • nonfiction
  • queer
  • lgbt
"Nymphomaniac: a woamn that has more sex than you."

-Dossie Easton, The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities

"When you respect your limits, other will learn to respect them too."

-Dossie Easton, The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities

"A ring around the finger does not cause a nerve block to the genitals."

-Dossie Easton, The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities

"Fighting is the ultimate act of intimacy. (...) Intimacy is based on shared vulnerability."

-Dossie Easton, The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities

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2. Women, Race & Class

By: Angela Y. Davis

4.58

Format: 271 pages, Paperback

From one of our most important scholars and civil rights activist icon, a powerful study of the wom… read more

Similar categories in Angela Y. Davis's Women, Race & Class book and Finlay Games's Top to Bottom: A Memoir and Personal Guide Through Phalloplasty

  • nonfiction
"White women—feminists included—have revealed a historical reluctance to acknowledge the struggles of household workers. They have rarely been involved in the Sisyphean task of ameliorating the condit…"

-Angela Y. Davis, Women, Race & Class

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3. 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 Finlay Games's Top to Bottom: A Memoir and Personal Guide Through Phalloplasty

  • memoir
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • queer
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4. 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 Finlay Games's Top to Bottom: A Memoir and Personal Guide Through Phalloplasty

  • memoir
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • queer

5. Are Prisons Obsolete?

By: Angela Y. Davis

4.15

Format: None pages,

With her characteristic brilliance, grace and radical audacity, Angela Y. Davis has put the case fo… read more

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6. Permagel

By: Eva Baltasar

3.85

Format: 187 pages, Paperback

Permagel és aquella part de la terra que no es desglaça mai i és la membrana que revesteix l’heroïn… read more

Similar categories in Eva Baltasar's Permagel book and Finlay Games's Top to Bottom: A Memoir and Personal Guide Through Phalloplasty

  • queer
  • lgbt
"Do you remember that movie we saw when we were little?"

-Eva Baltasar, Permagel

"Al cap d’un temps acabes descobrint que el límit es deixa viure, vertical com mai, a frec del no-res, i que no només és possible habitar-hi sinó que també s’hi pot créixer de maneres diferents. Si de…"

-Eva Baltasar, Permagel

"«¿Recuerdas aquella película de cuando éramos pequeñas? —empiezo—. Se titulaba La gran evasión. La vimos con papá al menos siete u ocho veces. Iba de unos aviadores americanos reclusos en un campo de…"

-Eva Baltasar, Permagel

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7. How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures

By: Sabrina Imbler

4.12

Format: 263 pages, Hardcover

A queer, mixed race writer working in a largely white, male field, science and conservation journal… read more

Similar categories in Sabrina Imbler's How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures book and Finlay Games's Top to Bottom: A Memoir and Personal Guide Through Phalloplasty

  • queer
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • lgbt
"But when I think about ponds infested with gallon-big goldfish, I feel a kind of triumph. I see something that no one expected to live not just alive but impossibly flourishing, and no longer alone. …"

-Sabrina Imbler, How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures

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8. Hijab Butch Blues

By: Lamya H.

4.48

Format: 284 pages, Hardcover

A queer hijabi Muslim immigrant survives her coming-of-age by drawing strength and hope from storie… read more

Similar categories in Lamya H.'s Hijab Butch Blues book and Finlay Games's Top to Bottom: A Memoir and Personal Guide Through Phalloplasty

  • queer
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • lgbt
"Sort of?"

-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues

"Queer indispensability?"

-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues

"I feel tired. Or reckless. Or maybe brave."

-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues

"I want to figure her out, this girl, and I want to know everything about her."

-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues

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9. 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

Similar categories in Lou Sullivan's We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan book and Finlay Games's Top to Bottom: A Memoir and Personal Guide Through Phalloplasty

  • memoir
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • 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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10. 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 Finlay Games's Top to Bottom: A Memoir and Personal Guide Through Phalloplasty

  • 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

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11. 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 Finlay Games's Top to Bottom: A Memoir and Personal Guide Through Phalloplasty

  • nonfiction
  • queer
  • transgender
  • lgbt
"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

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12. 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 Finlay Games's Top to Bottom: A Memoir and Personal Guide Through Phalloplasty

  • 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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13. Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex

By: Angela Chen

4.36

Format: 210 pages, Hardcover

An engaging exploration of what it means to be asexual in a world that's obsessed with sexual attra… read more

Similar categories in Angela Chen's Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex book and Finlay Games's Top to Bottom: A Memoir and Personal Guide Through Phalloplasty

  • queer
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • lgbt
"Representation not only reflects, but actually changes reality."

-Angela Chen, Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex

"Loving another person should never mean forfeiting bodily autonomy."

-Angela Chen, Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex

"It is a failure of society if anyone needs to say “I have a partner"

-Angela Chen, Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex

"Aces aren't a puzzle with a missing piece. Everyone is their own full puzzle."

-Angela Chen, Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex

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14. Bi: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality

By: Julia Shaw

4.14

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Despite all the welcome changes that have happened in our culture and laws over the past few decade… read more

Similar categories in Julia Shaw's Bi: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality book and Finlay Games's Top to Bottom: A Memoir and Personal Guide Through Phalloplasty

  • nonfiction
  • queer
  • lgbt
"Rather than being 'this not that' I am this *and* that... I've felt like a blossoming flower. As I become more fully me and as I'm more comfortable with each petal of my identity, I open myself up an…"

-Julia Shaw, Bi: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality

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15. Burgerz

By: Travis Alabanza

4.56

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

Hurled words. Thrown objects. Dodged burgers. After someone threw a burger at them and shouted a… read more

Similar categories in Travis Alabanza's Burgerz book and Finlay Games's Top to Bottom: A Memoir and Personal Guide Through Phalloplasty

  • memoir
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • queer
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16. Chef's Choice (Chef's Kiss, #2)

By: T.J. Alexander

4.04

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

“Urgent and intimate.” — The New York Times Book Review A fake dating arrangement turns to real … read more

Similar categories in T.J. Alexander's Chef's Choice (Chef's Kiss, #2) book and Finlay Games's Top to Bottom: A Memoir and Personal Guide Through Phalloplasty

  • queer
  • transgender
  • lgbt
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17. The Passing Playbook

By: Isaac Fitzsimons

4.13

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Fifteen-year-old Spencer Harris is a proud nerd, an awesome big brother and a Messi-in-training. He… read more

Similar categories in Isaac Fitzsimons's The Passing Playbook book and Finlay Games's Top to Bottom: A Memoir and Personal Guide Through Phalloplasty

  • queer
  • transgender
  • lgbt
"As if Spencer's thoughts were sending out a homing beacon, Justice looked over in his direction, making eye contact, and Spencer understood what Gimli saw when he gazed upon Galadriel. But, no. Just …"

-Isaac Fitzsimons, The Passing Playbook

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18. 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

Similar categories in Harry Nicholas's A Trans Man Walks into a Gay Bar book and Finlay Games's Top to Bottom: A Memoir and Personal Guide Through Phalloplasty

  • memoir
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • queer
Cover of The Queer and Transgender Resilience Workbook: Skills for Navigating Sexual Orientation and Gender Expression (New Harbinger Self-Help Workbook) by Anneliese A. Singh

19. The Queer and Transgender Resilience Workbook: Skills for Navigating Sexual Orientation and Gender Expression (New Harbinger Self-Help Workbook)

By: Anneliese A. Singh

4.27

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

How can you build unshakable confidence and resilience in a world still filled with ignorance, ineq… read more

Similar categories in Anneliese A. Singh's The Queer and Transgender Resilience Workbook: Skills for Navigating Sexual Orientation and Gender Expression (New Harbinger Self-Help Workbook) book and Finlay Games's Top to Bottom: A Memoir and Personal Guide Through Phalloplasty

  • nonfiction
  • queer
  • transgender
  • lgbt
Cover of The T in LGBT: everything you need to know about being trans by Jamie  Raines

20. 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 Finlay Games's Top to Bottom: A Memoir and Personal Guide Through Phalloplasty

  • memoir
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • queer
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21. Top to Bottom: A Memoir and Personal Guide Through Phalloplasty

By: Finlay Games

4.50

Format: 239 pages, Paperback

"Part memoir, part self-help guide, this book explores the physical and emotional journey of having… read more

Similar categories in Finlay Games's Top to Bottom: A Memoir and Personal Guide Through Phalloplasty book and Finlay Games's Top to Bottom: A Memoir and Personal Guide Through Phalloplasty

  • memoir
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • queer

17 Best nonfiction books like Top to Bottom: A Memoir and Personal Guide Through Phalloplasty by Finlay Games

Transform Your Habits

The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities

Dossie Easton , Catherine A. Liszt

3.93

Transform Your Habits

Women, Race & Class

Angela Y. Davis

4.58

Transform Your Habits

Hung Jury: Testimonies of Genital Surgery by Transsexual Men

Trystan T. Cotten

5.00

Transform Your Habits

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

Thomas Page McBee

3.91

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14 Best audiobook books like Bi: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality by Julia Shaw

Transform Your Habits

None of the Above: Reflections on Life Beyond the Binary

Travis Alabanza

4.38

Transform Your Habits

Pageboy

Elliot Page

3.75

Transform Your Habits

Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender

Kit Heyam

4.30

Transform Your Habits

The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice

Shon Faye

4.55

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