24 best-selling lgbt books like When I Was Me by Eve Greenwood

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When I Was Me

By: Eve Greenwood

4.71

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

"Gender euphoria" is the overwhelming feeling of joy a gender-non-conforming person feels when thei…

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Cover of Bitch Planet, Vol. 2: President Bitch by Kelly Sue DeConnick, Valentine De Landro, Taki Soma

1. Bitch Planet, Vol. 2: President Bitch

By: Kelly Sue DeConnick , Valentine De Landro , Taki Soma

4.11

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Eisner Award-nominated writer KELLY SUE DeCONNICK (PRETTY DEADLY, Captain Marvel) and VALENTINE DE … read more

Similar categories in Kelly Sue DeConnick's Bitch Planet, Vol. 2: President Bitch book and Eve Greenwood's When I Was Me

  • graphic novels
  • comics
Cover of Bitch Planet, Vol. 1: Extraordinary Machine by Kelly Sue DeConnick, Robert Wilson IV, Valentine De Landro

2. Bitch Planet, Vol. 1: Extraordinary Machine

By: Kelly Sue DeConnick , Robert Wilson IV , Valentine De Landro

4.42

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

Eisner Award-nominated writer Kelly Sue DeConnick (Pretty Deadly, Captain Marvel) and Valentine De … read more

Similar categories in Kelly Sue DeConnick's Bitch Planet, Vol. 1: Extraordinary Machine book and Eve Greenwood's When I Was Me

  • graphic novels
  • comics

3. Princess Princess Ever After

By: Kay O'Neill

3.65

Format: 276 pages, Hardcover

When the heroic princess Amira rescues the kind-hearted princess Sadie from her tower prison, neith… read more

Similar categories in Kay O'Neill's Princess Princess Ever After book and Eve Greenwood's When I Was Me

  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • queer
  • lgbt
Cover of The Galaxy, and the Ground Within (Wayfarers, #4) by Becky  Chambers

4. The Galaxy, and the Ground Within (Wayfarers, #4)

By: Becky Chambers

4.41

Format: 336 pages, ebook

With no water, no air, and no native life, the planet Gora is unremarkable. The only thing it has g… read more

Similar categories in Becky Chambers's The Galaxy, and the Ground Within (Wayfarers, #4) book and Eve Greenwood's When I Was Me

  • adult
  • queer
  • lgbt
"The gendered expectations of parenting were dissolving, but even though women could be found working in creches now, there was still an enormous difference between the person who produced an egg and …"

-Becky Chambers, The Galaxy, and the Ground Within (Wayfarers, #4)

"In traditional Aeluon culture, a mother was not a parent. Parents were men and shon. Parents went to school for it. Parents were the people who actually raised children, not those who had done the ea…"

-Becky Chambers, The Galaxy, and the Ground Within (Wayfarers, #4)

"Then, what is your reason?' 'I don't know!' Pei rubbed her face in frustration. 'There is no reason why I don't want to do this! I'm healthy! I'm clearly capable! Everybody I know who's ever gone to …"

-Becky Chambers, The Galaxy, and the Ground Within (Wayfarers, #4)

"Just because there’s no one living on a planet does not mean it’s yours for the taking. Do you not see how dangerous that mindset is? Do you not think that treating the galaxy as if it is something t…"

-Becky Chambers, The Galaxy, and the Ground Within (Wayfarers, #4)

Cover of Winter (Seasonal, #2) by Ali Smith

5. Winter (Seasonal, #2)

By: Ali Smith

3.82

Format: 322 pages, Hardcover

The dazzling second novel in Ali Smith’s essential Seasonal Quartet—from the Baileys Prize-winning,… read more

Similar categories in Ali Smith's Winter (Seasonal, #2) book and Eve Greenwood's When I Was Me

"Everywhere’s a here, isn’t it?"

-Ali Smith, Winter (Seasonal, #2)

"Are we at mercy of technology or is technology at mercy of us?"

-Ali Smith, Winter (Seasonal, #2)

"Mind and matter are mysterious and, when they come together, bounteous."

-Ali Smith, Winter (Seasonal, #2)

"You can’t expect to live in the world like the world’s your private myth."

-Ali Smith, Winter (Seasonal, #2)

Cover of A Thief in the Night by K.J. Charles

6. A Thief in the Night

By: K.J. Charles

3.77

Format: 76 pages, ebook

Toby never meant to be a highway robber, but needs must. He didn’t plan to impersonate a top London… read more

Similar categories in K.J. Charles's A Thief in the Night book and Eve Greenwood's When I Was Me

  • queer
  • lgbt
Cover of A Restless Truth (The Last Binding, #2) by Freya Marske

7. A Restless Truth (The Last Binding, #2)

By: Freya Marske

3.91

Format: 388 pages, Hardcover

Magic! Murder! Shipboard romance! Maud Blyth has always longed for adventure. She expected plent… read more

Similar categories in Freya Marske's A Restless Truth (The Last Binding, #2) book and Eve Greenwood's When I Was Me

  • adult
  • queer
  • lgbt
"Hawthorn waved that aside. “My sister…"

-Freya Marske, A Restless Truth (The Last Binding, #2)

"She hadn't anticipated Maud Blyth. She didn't know how anyone ever could."

-Freya Marske, A Restless Truth (The Last Binding, #2)

"Maud, darling," she said, very soft. "You're worth more than this quest. I've told you that all along."

-Freya Marske, A Restless Truth (The Last Binding, #2)

"The head of security for the Lyric had a sturdy figure and a kind face with a reddish moustache that was doing its best to engulf his upper lip, as though he'd inherited it from a larger relative and…"

-Freya Marske, A Restless Truth (The Last Binding, #2)

Cover of To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky  Chambers

8. To Be Taught, If Fortunate

By: Becky Chambers

4.20

Format: 153 pages, Paperback

In her new novella, Sunday Times best-selling author Becky Chambers imagines a future in which, ins… read more

Similar categories in Becky Chambers's To Be Taught, If Fortunate book and Eve Greenwood's When I Was Me

  • adult
  • queer
  • lgbt
"Hope isn't about predicting the future; it's about how you approach it."

-Becky Chambers, To Be Taught, If Fortunate

"Even if nothing ever does go wrong, I have to prepare as though it might."

-Becky Chambers, To Be Taught, If Fortunate

"We were alive on that world. We were kings without enemies, children removed from time."

-Becky Chambers, To Be Taught, If Fortunate

"When the world you know is out of reach, nothing is more welcome than a measurable reminder that it still exists."

-Becky Chambers, To Be Taught, If Fortunate

Cover of The Moth Keeper by Kay O'Neill

9. The Moth Keeper

By: Kay O'Neill

4.08

Format: 257 pages, Paperback

Being a Moth Keeper is a huge responsibility and a great honor, but what happens when the new Moth … read more

Similar categories in Kay O'Neill's The Moth Keeper book and Eve Greenwood's When I Was Me

  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • queer
  • lgbt
Cover of How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures by Sabrina Imbler

10. 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 Eve Greenwood's When I Was Me

  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • queer
"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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11. The Honeys

By: Ryan La Sala

3.81

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

From Ryan La Sala, the wildly popular author of Reverie, comes a twisted and tantalizing horror nov… read more

Similar categories in Ryan La Sala's The Honeys book and Eve Greenwood's When I Was Me

  • queer
  • lgbt
"I will be a ruin to consume."

-Ryan La Sala, The Honeys

"Contentedness is a party I leave early every time."

-Ryan La Sala, The Honeys

"Is everything an act to you?" "Everything is an act to everybody."

-Ryan La Sala, The Honeys

"We came as one and left as many. We came with nothing and left with everything."

-Ryan La Sala, The Honeys

Cover of Look Back by Tatsuki Fujimoto

12. Look Back

By: Tatsuki Fujimoto

4.25

Format: 144 pages, Kindle Edition

The overly confident Fujino and the shut-in Kyomoto couldn’t be more different, but a love of drawi… read more

Similar categories in Tatsuki Fujimoto's Look Back book and Eve Greenwood's When I Was Me

  • graphic novels
  • short stories
  • comics
Cover of Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe

13. 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 Eve Greenwood's When I Was Me

  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • queer
"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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14. Girl Juice

By: Benji Nate

3.95

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

A hilarious slice of twentysomething life in the twenty-first century Welcome to the Girl Juice … read more

Similar categories in Benji Nate's Girl Juice book and Eve Greenwood's When I Was Me

  • lgbt
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • adult
  • queer
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15. 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

Similar categories in Emily Carroll's A Guest in the House book and Eve Greenwood's When I Was Me

  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • adult
  • 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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16. 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 Eve Greenwood's When I Was Me

  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • queer
"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

Cover of The Spirit Bares Its Teeth by Andrew Joseph White

17. The Spirit Bares Its Teeth

By: Andrew Joseph White

4.52

Format: 399 pages, Kindle Edition

Mors vincit omnia. Death conquers all. London, 1883. The Veil between the living and dead has th… read more

Similar categories in Andrew Joseph White's The Spirit Bares Its Teeth book and Eve Greenwood's When I Was Me

  • queer
  • transgender
  • lgbt
"He's...he's doing the same thing I do. His hands are fluttering. Like mine. Oh God, he's like me."

-Andrew Joseph White, The Spirit Bares Its Teeth

"I should not have to keep fixing the damage done to us. It would be so easy to not hurt us and the Speakers can't even do that. It's more work to hurt us. It's more work to be cruel - and yet they co…"

-Andrew Joseph White, The Spirit Bares Its Teeth

"I do not get to savor the masculine cut of my clothes, or the illusion of short hair, or the feeting joy of my skin feeling like mine. Instead, I have to worry if my boyhood is convincing enough to k…"

-Andrew Joseph White, The Spirit Bares Its Teeth

"My name is Daphne.' Daphne? In that moment, it's as if I've peeled the skin away from the chest of a patient, revealing a beating heart. A boy could not say that name as if terrified the syllables wi…"

-Andrew Joseph White, The Spirit Bares Its Teeth

Cover of On a Sunbeam by Tillie Walden

18. On a Sunbeam

By: Tillie Walden

4.30

Format: 533 pages, Paperback

Throughout the deepest reaches of space, a crew rebuilds beautiful and broken-down structures, pain… read more

Similar categories in Tillie Walden's On a Sunbeam book and Eve Greenwood's When I Was Me

  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • queer
  • lgbt
"It's like the older you get the more you forget that you can change things."

-Tillie Walden, On a Sunbeam

"I'm not dating the 12% of you that I understand, I'm dating 100% of you. Including all your secrets that I don't know."

-Tillie Walden, On a Sunbeam

Cover of The Girl from the Sea by Molly Knox Ostertag

19. The Girl from the Sea

By: Molly Knox Ostertag

4.14

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From the author of The Witch Boy trilogy comes a graphic novel about family, romance, and first lov… read more

Similar categories in Molly Knox Ostertag's The Girl from the Sea book and Eve Greenwood's When I Was Me

  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • queer
  • lgbt
"Sometimes plans must change, my love."

-Molly Knox Ostertag, The Girl from the Sea

"*creepy ghost whispers* morgan... THAT'S IT SHE'S DEAD"

-Molly Knox Ostertag, The Girl from the Sea

"Sometimes you have to let your life get messy. That's how you get to the good parts"

-Molly Knox Ostertag, The Girl from the Sea

Cover of Appelez-moi Nathan by Catherine Castro

20. Appelez-moi Nathan

By: Catherine Castro

3.93

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Nathan est né Lila, dans un corps de fille. Un corps qui ne lui a jamais convenu, il décide alors d… read more

Similar categories in Catherine Castro's Appelez-moi Nathan book and Eve Greenwood's When I Was Me

  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • queer
Cover of Patricia Wants to Cuddle by Samantha  Allen

21. Patricia Wants to Cuddle

By: Samantha Allen

3.56

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The contestants of a reality television dating show compete for love—and their lives—in this pulse-… read more

Similar categories in Samantha Allen's Patricia Wants to Cuddle book and Eve Greenwood's When I Was Me

  • adult
  • queer
  • lgbt
Cover of Thieves by Lucie Bryon

22. Thieves

By: Lucie Bryon

4.21

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Ella can’t seem to remember a single thing from the party the night before at a mysterious stranger… read more

Similar categories in Lucie Bryon's Thieves book and Eve Greenwood's When I Was Me

  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • queer
  • lgbt
"I'm not just your friend when everything is going well. I'm your friend through the crappy times too."

-Lucie Bryon, Thieves

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23. Squire

By: Nadia Shammas

4.06

Format: 305 pages, Paperback

Aiza has always dreamt of becoming a Knight. It's the highest military honor in the once-great Bayt… read more

Similar categories in Nadia Shammas's Squire book and Eve Greenwood's When I Was Me

  • graphic novels
  • comics
Cover of Welcome to St. Hell: My Trans Teen Misadventure (St. Hell, #1) by Lewis Hancox

24. 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 Eve Greenwood's When I Was Me

  • memoir
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • queer
Cover of Across a Field of Starlight by Blue Delliquanti

25. Across a Field of Starlight

By: Blue Delliquanti

3.72

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

An epic sci-fi graphic novel romance between two non-binary characters as they find one another thr… read more

Similar categories in Blue Delliquanti's Across a Field of Starlight book and Eve Greenwood's When I Was Me

  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • queer
  • lgbt
Cover of Stars in Their Eyes: A Graphic Novel by Jessica  Walton

26. Stars in Their Eyes: A Graphic Novel

By: Jessica Walton

3.99

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

In this lighthearted YA romance, Maisie and Ollie discover that nothing beats the feeling of fallin… read more

Similar categories in Jessica Walton's Stars in Their Eyes: A Graphic Novel book and Eve Greenwood's When I Was Me

  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • queer
  • lgbt
Cover of Bury Your Gays by Chuck Tingle

27. Bury Your Gays

By: Chuck Tingle

4.29

Format: 295 pages, Hardcover

From Chuck Tingle, author of the USA Today bestselling Camp Damascus, comes a new heart-pounding st… read more

Similar categories in Chuck Tingle's Bury Your Gays book and Eve Greenwood's When I Was Me

  • adult
  • queer
  • lgbt
"The studio might be a ruthless capitalist machine," he opines, "but we're not evil."

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

"Your stories aren't worth your life." My stories are my life, I think, but I don't say this."

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

"I'm honestly kind of surprised. You've got a flair for drama, Misha. I thought you might get hard over some final sacrifice for love, or whatever. I mean, you're the writer, not me, but that's got Em…"

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

"The path I've been led down is one of senseless catastrophe, a classic Hollywood tale of the man who plummets to rock bottom just moments before he would have crested the peak. [...] I'm living out t…"

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

Cover of My Throat an Open Grave by Tori Bovalino

28. My Throat an Open Grave

By: Tori Bovalino

3.84

Format: 301 pages, Hardcover

Labyrinth meets folk horror in this darkly romantic tale of a girl who wishes her baby brother away… read more

Similar categories in Tori Bovalino's My Throat an Open Grave book and Eve Greenwood's When I Was Me

Cover of A frog in the fall (and later on) by Linnea Sterte

29. A frog in the fall (and later on)

By: Linnea Sterte

4.59

Format: 338 pages, ebook

A young frog (hatched this spring) encounters two toads, who have captured the ghost of a Shungiku … read more

Similar categories in Linnea Sterte's A frog in the fall (and later on) book and Eve Greenwood's When I Was Me

  • graphic novels
  • comics
Cover of All the Things They Said We Couldn't Have: Stories of Trans Joy by T. C. Oakes-Monger

30. All the Things They Said We Couldn't Have: Stories of Trans Joy

By: T. C. Oakes-Monger

4.52

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

An uplifting and beautifully crafted collection of stories that celebrate the joy of being trans. W… read more

Similar categories in T. C. Oakes-Monger's All the Things They Said We Couldn't Have: Stories of Trans Joy book and Eve Greenwood's When I Was Me

  • memoir
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • queer
Cover of When I Was Me by Eve Greenwood

31. When I Was Me

By: Eve Greenwood

4.71

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

"Gender euphoria" is the overwhelming feeling of joy a gender-non-conforming person feels when thei… read more

Similar categories in Eve Greenwood's When I Was Me book and Eve Greenwood's When I Was Me

  • memoir
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • graphic novels
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • nonfiction
  • comics
  • adult
  • queer

10 must-read adult books like When I Was Me by Eve Greenwood

Transform Your Habits

The Galaxy, and the Ground Within (Wayfarers, #4)

Becky Chambers

4.41

Transform Your Habits

A Restless Truth (The Last Binding, #2)

Freya Marske

3.91

Transform Your Habits

To Be Taught, If Fortunate

Becky Chambers

4.20

Transform Your Habits

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

Sabrina Imbler

4.12

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17 Top fiction books like Winter (Seasonal, #2) by Ali Smith

Hot Milk

Deborah Levy

3.94

Transform Your Habits

Small Things Like These

Claire Keegan

4.18

Transform Your Habits

Prophet Song

Paul Lynch

4.10

Transform Your Habits

Winter (Seasonal, #2)

Ali Smith

3.82

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