12 must-read audiobook books like The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes: And the Unwritten History of the Trans Experience by Zoë Playdon

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The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes: And the Unwritten History of the Trans Experience

By: Zoë Playdon

4.07

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The life story of an aristocratic Scottish trans man and the secret 1968 legal case that provides “…

If you liked the audiobook plot in The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes: And the Unwritten History of the Trans Experience by Zoë Playdon , here is a list of 12 books like this:

1. Lou Sullivan: Daring To Be a Man Among Men

By: Brice D. Smith

4.30

Format: 224 pages,

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Similar categories in Brice D. Smith's Lou Sullivan: Daring To Be a Man Among Men book and Zoë Playdon's The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes: And the Unwritten History of the Trans Experience

  • history
  • biography
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • queer

2. The Red Parts

By: Maggie Nelson

4.31

Format: 66 pages,

One day in March 1969, twenty-three- year-old Jane Mixer was on her way home to tell her parents sh… read more

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3. Odd Girl Out: Being Autistic in a Neurotypical World

By: Laura James

3.62

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

From early childhood, Laura James knew she was different, but it wasn't until her mid-forties that … read more

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4. The Long Prison Journey of Leslie Van Houten: Life Beyond the Cult

By: Karlene Faith

4.27

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

At The Age Of Twenty-One, Leslie Van Houten was sentenced to death, along with Charles Manson and h… read more

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5. 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

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6. Where the Dead Wait

By: Ally Wilkes

3.25

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

An eerie, atmospheric Polar Gothic following a Victorian explorer in search of his lost shipmate an… read more

Similar categories in Ally Wilkes's Where the Dead Wait book and Zoë Playdon's The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes: And the Unwritten History of the Trans Experience

  • historical
"Why would I want to die last?"

-Ally Wilkes, Where the Dead Wait

"You make a god of the things you fear or love. What could be more natural than that?"

-Ally Wilkes, Where the Dead Wait

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7. Radical Love

By: Neil Blackmore

4.05

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Welcome to England, 1809. London is a violent, intolerant city, exhausted by years of war, beset by… read more

Similar categories in Neil Blackmore's Radical Love book and Zoë Playdon's The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes: And the Unwritten History of the Trans Experience

  • audiobook
  • historical
  • lgbt
  • queer
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8. Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum

By: Antonia Hylton

4.27

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of  The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, a page-turning 93-year history of Crowns… read more

Similar categories in Antonia Hylton's Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum book and Zoë Playdon's The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes: And the Unwritten History of the Trans Experience

  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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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

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  • history
  • biography
  • 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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10. 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 Zoë Playdon's The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes: And the Unwritten History of the Trans Experience

  • history
  • queer
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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11. Fire Island: A Century in the Life of an American Paradise

By: Jack Parlett

3.78

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

* A Town and Country Must-Read Book of Summer * *A BUZZFEED BEST BOOK OF JUNE* *A Washington Post… read more

Similar categories in Jack Parlett's Fire Island: A Century in the Life of an American Paradise book and Zoë Playdon's The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes: And the Unwritten History of the Trans Experience

  • audiobook
  • history
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • queer
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12. Diary of a Misfit: A Memoir and a Mystery

By: Casey Parks

4.10

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Part memoir, part sweeping journalistic saga: As Casey Parks follows the mystery of a stranger's pa… read more

Similar categories in Casey Parks's Diary of a Misfit: A Memoir and a Mystery book and Zoë Playdon's The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes: And the Unwritten History of the Trans Experience

  • biography
  • queer
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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13. Battle of Ink and Ice: A Sensational Story of News Barons, North Pole Explorers, and the Making of Modern Media

By: Darrell Hartman

3.84

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

"Absolutely gripping… a perfectly splendid read—I highly, highly recommend it” -- Douglas Preston, … read more

Similar categories in Darrell Hartman's Battle of Ink and Ice: A Sensational Story of News Barons, North Pole Explorers, and the Making of Modern Media book and Zoë Playdon's The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes: And the Unwritten History of the Trans Experience

  • history
  • biography
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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14. All the White Spaces

By: Ally Wilkes

3.58

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

In the wake of the First World War, Jonathan Morgan stows away on an Antarctic expedition, determin… read more

Similar categories in Ally Wilkes's All the White Spaces book and Zoë Playdon's The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes: And the Unwritten History of the Trans Experience

  • historical
  • lgbt
  • queer
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15. A Beginner's Guide to Breaking and Entering

By: Andrew Hunter Murray

4.02

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

One perfect house. One dead body. One bad day. There are thousands and thousands of decent homes… read more

Similar categories in Andrew Hunter Murray's A Beginner's Guide to Breaking and Entering book and Zoë Playdon's The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes: And the Unwritten History of the Trans Experience

  • audiobook
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16. Mott Street: A Chinese American Family's Story of Exclusion and Homecoming

By: Ava Chin

3.98

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping narrative history of the Chinese Exclusion Act through an intimate portrayal of one fami… read more

Similar categories in Ava Chin's Mott Street: A Chinese American Family's Story of Exclusion and Homecoming book and Zoë Playdon's The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes: And the Unwritten History of the Trans Experience

  • history
  • biography
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"I am trying to keep it all together -- not lashing out in anger, not bursting into tears, because what is anger, but pain masquerading as bravado?"

-Ava Chin, Mott Street: A Chinese American Family's Story of Exclusion and Homecoming

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17. The Trouble with White Women: A Counterhistory of Feminism

By: Kyla Schuller

4.43

Format: None pages, Audiobook

An incisive history of self-serving white feminists and the inspiring women who’ve continually defi… read more

Similar categories in Kyla Schuller's The Trouble with White Women: A Counterhistory of Feminism book and Zoë Playdon's The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes: And the Unwritten History of the Trans Experience

  • feminism
  • gender
  • history
  • nonfiction
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18. One Hundred Years of Dirt

By: Rick Morton

4.06

Format: 277 pages, Paperback

Social mobility is not a train you get to board after you’ve scraped together enough for the ticket… read more

Similar categories in Rick Morton's One Hundred Years of Dirt book and Zoë Playdon's The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes: And the Unwritten History of the Trans Experience

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • audiobook
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19. Sedating Elaine

By: Dawn Winter

3.29

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Frances was not looking for a relationship when she met Elaine in a bar. She was, in fact, looking … read more

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  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • queer
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20. The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes: And the Unwritten History of the Trans Experience

By: Zoë Playdon

4.07

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The life story of an aristocratic Scottish trans man and the secret 1968 legal case that provides “… read more

Similar categories in Zoë Playdon's The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes: And the Unwritten History of the Trans Experience book and Zoë Playdon's The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes: And the Unwritten History of the Trans Experience

  • audiobook
  • history
  • biography
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • feminism
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • queer
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21. Framed: Astonishing True Stories of Wrongful Convictions

By: John Grisham

4.49

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

In his first work of nonfiction since The Innocent Man, #1 bestselling author John Grisham and Cent… read more

Similar categories in John Grisham's Framed: Astonishing True Stories of Wrongful Convictions book and Zoë Playdon's The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes: And the Unwritten History of the Trans Experience

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook

10 must-read history books like The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes: And the Unwritten History of the Trans Experience by Zoë Playdon

Lou Sullivan: Daring To Be a Man Among Men

Brice D. Smith

4.30

Transform Your Habits

Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum

Antonia Hylton

4.27

Transform Your Habits

We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan

Lou Sullivan

4.76

Transform Your Habits

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

Matt Baume

4.35

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18 best-selling audiobook books like Hi Honey, I'm Homo!: Sitcoms, Specials, and the Queering of American Culture by Matt Baume

Transform Your Habits

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

Transform Your Habits

The House of Hidden Meanings

RuPaul

3.84

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