15 Best nonfiction books like Found in Transition: A Mother’s Evolution During Her Child’s Gender Change by Paria Hassouri

Cover of Found in Transition: A Mother’s Evolution During Her Child’s Gender Change by Paria Hassouri

Found in Transition: A Mother’s Evolution During Her Child’s Gender Change

By: Paria Hassouri

4.60

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

On Thanksgiving morning, Paria Hassouri finds herself furiously praying and negotiating with the un…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Found in Transition: A Mother’s Evolution During Her Child’s Gender Change by Paria Hassouri , here is a list of 15 books like this:

Cover of This Book Is Gay by None, Juno  Dawson

1. This Book Is Gay

By: None , Juno Dawson

3.77

Format: 273 pages, Paperback

Lesbian. Bisexual. Queer. Transgender. Straight. Curious. This book is for everyone, regardless of … read more

Similar categories in None's This Book Is Gay book and Paria Hassouri's Found in Transition: A Mother’s Evolution During Her Child’s Gender Change

  • nonfiction
  • lgbt
"Living with stress and secrets is both stressful and secretive."

-None, This Book Is Gay

"Who do you want to be? There's only one rule: Always be true to yourself."

-None, This Book Is Gay

"Your sexuality or gender is as natural as your eye color, and you should never be ashamed of it."

-None, This Book Is Gay

"Let me tell you something, boys and girls, you can "straight act" all you want, but if you're sleeping with your own sex, to the rest of the world, you're as gay as John Waters living in a pink tent …"

-None, This Book Is Gay

Cover of Trans Mission: My Quest to a Beard by Alex Bertie

2. Trans Mission: My Quest to a Beard

By: Alex Bertie

4.05

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Being a teenager is difficult enough, but having to go through puberty whilst realising you're in t… read more

Similar categories in Alex Bertie's Trans Mission: My Quest to a Beard book and Paria Hassouri's Found in Transition: A Mother’s Evolution During Her Child’s Gender Change

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • transgender
  • lgbt
Cover of The Transgender Teen: A Handbook for Parents and Professionals Supporting Transgender and Non-Binary Teens by None, Lisa Kenney

3. The Transgender Teen: A Handbook for Parents and Professionals Supporting Transgender and Non-Binary Teens

By: None , Lisa Kenney

3.83

Format: None pages,

What do you do when your son announces he is transgender and asks that you call her by a new name? … read more

Similar categories in None's The Transgender Teen: A Handbook for Parents and Professionals Supporting Transgender and Non-Binary Teens book and Paria Hassouri's Found in Transition: A Mother’s Evolution During Her Child’s Gender Change

  • nonfiction
  • parenting
  • transgender
  • lgbt
Cover of Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of an American Family by Amy Ellis Nutt

4. Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of an American Family

By: Amy Ellis Nutt

3.44

Format: 48 pages, Hardcover

The inspiring true story of a transgender girl, her identical twin brother, and an ordinary America… read more

Similar categories in Amy Ellis Nutt's Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of an American Family book and Paria Hassouri's Found in Transition: A Mother’s Evolution During Her Child’s Gender Change

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • lgbt

5. Beneath the Earth

By: John Boyne

4.12

Format: 80 pages, ebook

In this collection of twelve dark, unerring and surprising short stories, John Boyne explores the e… read more

Similar categories in John Boyne's Beneath the Earth book and Paria Hassouri's Found in Transition: A Mother’s Evolution During Her Child’s Gender Change

6. I Promised Not to Tell: Raising a Transgender Child

By: Cheryl B. Evans

3.93

Format: 592 pages, Paperback

What is unique about this story is that it follows one transgender child from birth through age eig… read more

Similar categories in Cheryl B. Evans's I Promised Not to Tell: Raising a Transgender Child book and Paria Hassouri's Found in Transition: A Mother’s Evolution During Her Child’s Gender Change

7. She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders

By: Jennifer Finney Boylan

3.71

Format: 76 pages,

The exuberant memoir of a man named James who became a woman named Jenny. She's Not There is the st… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Finney Boylan's She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders book and Paria Hassouri's Found in Transition: A Mother’s Evolution During Her Child’s Gender Change

Cover of Jaded by Ela Lee

8. Jaded

By: Ela Lee

4.21

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A young lawyer wakes up the morning after a work gala with no memory of how she got home the previo… read more

Similar categories in Ela Lee's Jaded book and Paria Hassouri's Found in Transition: A Mother’s Evolution During Her Child’s Gender Change

"I'd tell her that recovery would be like the temple: built between an enormous boulder and a cliff's edge. The construction would be perilous, with the laying of every stone risking a drop into the a…"

-Ela Lee, Jaded

Cover of Let Us Descend by Jesmyn Ward

9. Let Us Descend

By: Jesmyn Ward

3.70

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From Jesmyn Ward—the two-time National Book Award winner, youngest winner of the Library of Congres… read more

Similar categories in Jesmyn Ward's Let Us Descend book and Paria Hassouri's Found in Transition: A Mother’s Evolution During Her Child’s Gender Change

"You must leap. You must do as your people did. You must sink in order to rise."

-Jesmyn Ward, Let Us Descend

Cover of Ejaculate Responsibly: A Whole New Way to Think About Abortion by Gabrielle Stanley Blair

10. Ejaculate Responsibly: A Whole New Way to Think About Abortion

By: Gabrielle Stanley Blair

4.51

Format: 137 pages, Paperback

In Ejaculate Responsibly, Gabrielle Blair offers a provocative reframing of the abortion issue in p… read more

Similar categories in Gabrielle Stanley Blair's Ejaculate Responsibly: A Whole New Way to Think About Abortion book and Paria Hassouri's Found in Transition: A Mother’s Evolution During Her Child’s Gender Change

  • nonfiction
Cover of The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church by Sarah McCammon

11. The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church

By: Sarah McCammon

4.21

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

The first definitive book that names the massive social movement of people leaving the white evange… read more

Similar categories in Sarah McCammon's The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church book and Paria Hassouri's Found in Transition: A Mother’s Evolution During Her Child’s Gender Change

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Shunned: How I Lost My Religion and Found Myself by Linda A. Curtis

12. Shunned: How I Lost My Religion and Found Myself

By: Linda A. Curtis

3.91

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Linda Curtis was raised as a Jehovah's Witness and is an unquestioning true believer who has knocke… read more

Similar categories in Linda A. Curtis's Shunned: How I Lost My Religion and Found Myself book and Paria Hassouri's Found in Transition: A Mother’s Evolution During Her Child’s Gender Change

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Coming Home by Brittney Griner

13. Coming Home

By: Brittney Griner

4.43

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the nine-time women’s basketball icon and two-time Olympic gold medalist—a raw, revelatory acc… read more

Similar categories in Brittney Griner's Coming Home book and Paria Hassouri's Found in Transition: A Mother’s Evolution During Her Child’s Gender Change

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • lgbt
"When your world is violently upended, you don't just mourn your immediate losses. You also grieve a future that no longer feels possible, the peace that might've been."

-Brittney Griner, Coming Home

Cover of I'm Afraid of Men by Vivek Shraya

14. I'm Afraid of Men

By: Vivek Shraya

4.23

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

A trans artist explores how masculinity was imposed on her as a boy and continues to haunt her as a… read more

Similar categories in Vivek Shraya's I'm Afraid of Men book and Paria Hassouri's Found in Transition: A Mother’s Evolution During Her Child’s Gender Change

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • transgender
  • lgbt
"Queerness is associated with freedom from boundaries."

-Vivek Shraya, I'm Afraid of Men

"Do these parts still exist somewhere inside of me with the capacity to be reactivated?"

-Vivek Shraya, I'm Afraid of Men

"Why is being touch by strangers — strangers who refuse to identify themselves — a form of flattery?"

-Vivek Shraya, I'm Afraid of Men

"My brownness turns out to be a form of queerness in and of itself and makes me too queer for gay men."

-Vivek Shraya, I'm Afraid of Men

Cover of Love Lives Here: A Story of Thriving in a Transgender Family by Rowan Jette Knox

15. Love Lives Here: A Story of Thriving in a Transgender Family

By: Rowan Jette Knox

4.42

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

All Amanda Jetté Knox ever wanted was to enjoy a stable life. She never knew her biological father,… read more

Similar categories in Rowan Jette Knox's Love Lives Here: A Story of Thriving in a Transgender Family book and Paria Hassouri's Found in Transition: A Mother’s Evolution During Her Child’s Gender Change

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • transgender
  • lgbt
Cover of Never a Girl, Always a Boy: A Family Memoir of a Transgender Journey by Jo Ivester

16. Never a Girl, Always a Boy: A Family Memoir of a Transgender Journey

By: Jo Ivester

4.29

Format: None pages, Paperback

Jeremy Ivester is a transgender man. Thirty years ago, his parents welcomed him into the world as w… read more

Similar categories in Jo Ivester's Never a Girl, Always a Boy: A Family Memoir of a Transgender Journey book and Paria Hassouri's Found in Transition: A Mother’s Evolution During Her Child’s Gender Change

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • transgender
  • lgbt
Cover of Consent: A Memoir by Jill Ciment

17. Consent: A Memoir

By: Jill Ciment

3.96

Format: 145 pages, Hardcover

In this unflinching account of the ardent love affair between the author and her painting teacher, … read more

Similar categories in Jill Ciment's Consent: A Memoir book and Paria Hassouri's Found in Transition: A Mother’s Evolution During Her Child’s Gender Change

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Real Men Knit (Real Men Knit, #1) by Kwana Jackson

18. Real Men Knit (Real Men Knit, #1)

By: Kwana Jackson

3.28

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

When their foster-turned-adoptive mother suddenly dies, four brothers struggle to keep open the doo… read more

Similar categories in Kwana Jackson's Real Men Knit (Real Men Knit, #1) book and Paria Hassouri's Found in Transition: A Mother’s Evolution During Her Child’s Gender Change

Cover of A Girlhood: Letter to My Transgender Daughter by Carolyn Hays

19. A Girlhood: Letter to My Transgender Daughter

By: Carolyn Hays

4.22

Format: 282 pages, Hardcover

A parent’s love letter to a daughter who has always known exactly who she is. One ordinary day, … read more

Similar categories in Carolyn Hays's A Girlhood: Letter to My Transgender Daughter book and Paria Hassouri's Found in Transition: A Mother’s Evolution During Her Child’s Gender Change

  • parenting
  • memoir
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
"Each time I offered boyhood, you rejected it. It was simple and easy for you. But for our culture, it was radical. What I was just beginning to understand in a blurry intuitive way, a series of sketc…"

-Carolyn Hays, A Girlhood: Letter to My Transgender Daughter

"At the first trans health conference I ever attended, a parent asked about long-term health risks for people taking hormones. The doctor gave a full assessment of issues that trans men face; many of …"

-Carolyn Hays, A Girlhood: Letter to My Transgender Daughter

Cover of Flip Your Life: How to Find Opportunity in Distress―in Real Estate, Business, and Life by Tarek El Moussa

20. Flip Your Life: How to Find Opportunity in Distress―in Real Estate, Business, and Life

By: Tarek El Moussa

3.75

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

HGTV star real estate investor Tarek El Moussa—known to millions of people worldwide who continue t… read more

Similar categories in Tarek El Moussa's Flip Your Life: How to Find Opportunity in Distress―in Real Estate, Business, and Life book and Paria Hassouri's Found in Transition: A Mother’s Evolution During Her Child’s Gender Change

  • nonfiction
Cover of Found in Transition: A Mother’s Evolution During Her Child’s Gender Change by Paria Hassouri

21. Found in Transition: A Mother’s Evolution During Her Child’s Gender Change

By: Paria Hassouri

4.60

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

On Thanksgiving morning, Paria Hassouri finds herself furiously praying and negotiating with the un… read more

Similar categories in Paria Hassouri's Found in Transition: A Mother’s Evolution During Her Child’s Gender Change book and Paria Hassouri's Found in Transition: A Mother’s Evolution During Her Child’s Gender Change

  • parenting
  • memoir
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction

11 best-selling memoir books like Found in Transition: A Mother’s Evolution During Her Child’s Gender Change by Paria Hassouri

Transform Your Habits

Trans Mission: My Quest to a Beard

Alex Bertie

4.05

Transform Your Habits

Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of an American Family

Amy Ellis Nutt

3.44

Transform Your Habits

The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church

Sarah McCammon

4.21

Transform Your Habits

Shunned: How I Lost My Religion and Found Myself

Linda A. Curtis

3.91

View all the books

22 Best nonfiction books like Never a Girl, Always a Boy: A Family Memoir of a Transgender Journey by Jo Ivester

Transform Your Habits

Balls: It Takes Some to Get Some

Chris Edwards

4.08

Transform Your Habits

Pageboy

Elliot Page

3.75

Transform Your Habits

What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds

Jennifer Ackerman

4.16

Transform Your Habits

Karma: My Autobiography

Boy George

3.62

View all the books

Never miss a story from us, get weekly updates in your inbox.