15 Top lgbt books like Beyond Pronouns: The Essential Guide for Parents of Trans Children by Tammy Plunkett

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Beyond Pronouns: The Essential Guide for Parents of Trans Children

By: Tammy Plunkett

4.46

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

If your child or teen recently told you they are transgender, non-binary, or genderfluid, you're bo…

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1. Juliet Takes a Breath

By: Gabby Rivera

4.17

Format: 276 pages, Kindle Edition

Juliet Milagros Palante is leaving the Bronx and headed to Portland, Oregon. She just came out to h… read more

Similar categories in Gabby Rivera's Juliet Takes a Breath book and Tammy Plunkett's Beyond Pronouns: The Essential Guide for Parents of Trans Children

  • queer
  • lgbt
"Read because you’re tired of secrets."

-Gabby Rivera, Juliet Takes a Breath

"But it was August and what does love mean at the end of a summer?"

-Gabby Rivera, Juliet Takes a Breath

"I understood 'microaggressions' to mean 'little bullshit acts of racism."

-Gabby Rivera, Juliet Takes a Breath

"How was I supposed to survive here? These Portlanders were an entirely different breed of white people."

-Gabby Rivera, Juliet Takes a Breath

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2. 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 Tammy Plunkett's Beyond Pronouns: The Essential Guide for Parents of Trans Children

  • nonfiction
  • queer
  • 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

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3. None of the Above

By: I.W. Gregorio

3.85

Format: 328 pages, Hardcover

A groundbreaking story about a teenage girl who discovers she was born intersex... and what happens… read more

Similar categories in I.W. Gregorio's None of the Above book and Tammy Plunkett's Beyond Pronouns: The Essential Guide for Parents of Trans Children

  • queer
  • lgbt
"I could still feel the echo of his hand on mine."

-I.W. Gregorio, None of the Above

"Love isn’t a choice. You fall for the person, not their chromosomes."

-I.W. Gregorio, None of the Above

"The biggest difference between boy and girls is how people treat them"

-I.W. Gregorio, None of the Above

"As long as we had ground under our feet and the wind at our backs, things were going to be okay."

-I.W. Gregorio, None of the Above

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4. Rubyfruit Jungle

By: Rita Mae Brown

3.68

Format: 191 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Bawdy and moving, the ultimate word-of-mouth bestseller, Rubyfruit Jungle is about growing up a les… read more

Similar categories in Rita Mae Brown's Rubyfruit Jungle book and Tammy Plunkett's Beyond Pronouns: The Essential Guide for Parents of Trans Children

  • queer
  • lgbt
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5. Life in Five Senses: How Exploring the Senses Got Me Out of My Head and Into the World

By: Gretchen Rubin

3.72

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Happiness Project discovers a surprising path to a … read more

Similar categories in Gretchen Rubin's Life in Five Senses: How Exploring the Senses Got Me Out of My Head and Into the World book and Tammy Plunkett's Beyond Pronouns: The Essential Guide for Parents of Trans Children

  • nonfiction
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6. 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 Tammy Plunkett's Beyond Pronouns: The Essential Guide for Parents of Trans Children

  • nonfiction
  • queer
  • lgbt
"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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7. Gender Euphoria

By: Laura Kate Dale

4.11

Format: 229 pages, Kindle Edition

GENDER EUPHORIA: a powerful feeling of happiness experienced as a result of moving away from one’s … read more

Similar categories in Laura Kate Dale's Gender Euphoria book and Tammy Plunkett's Beyond Pronouns: The Essential Guide for Parents of Trans Children

  • nonfiction
  • queer
  • transgender
  • lgbt
"My leg hair reminds me of wildflower meadows. My head hair is long pond grass. My armpit hair is a hawthorn bush. My pubic hair is wet moss and lichen on a rock."

-Laura Kate Dale, Gender Euphoria

"If you don’t mind keeping a secret, I can tell you that the reality is that people ask fewer questions about what’s going on in your pants if they’re distracted by what you’ve got drawn on your arms."

-Laura Kate Dale, Gender Euphoria

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8. Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism

By: Amanda Montell

3.85

Format: 309 pages, Hardcover

The author of the widely praised Wordslut analyzes the social science of cult influence: how cultis… read more

Similar categories in Amanda Montell's Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism book and Tammy Plunkett's Beyond Pronouns: The Essential Guide for Parents of Trans Children

  • nonfiction
"Without language, there are no "cults"."

-Amanda Montell, Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism

"Some say people who join cults are “lost."

-Amanda Montell, Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism

"With words, we breathe reality into being."

-Amanda Montell, Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism

"The nimble direct sales industry always finds a way to reinvent itself - the capitalist cockroach that just won't stop reincarnating."

-Amanda Montell, Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism

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9. 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 Tammy Plunkett's Beyond Pronouns: The Essential Guide for Parents of Trans Children

  • nonfiction
  • queer
  • transgender
  • lgbt
"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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10. Summerwater

By: Sarah Moss

3.51

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

No dia mais longo do verão, a chuva cai fortemente sobre uma pequena aldeia rural nas Terras Altas … read more

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11. Butter Honey Pig Bread

By: Francesca Ekwuyasi

4.31

Format: 317 pages, Paperback

Longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize Spanning three continents, Butter Honey Pig Bread tel… read more

Similar categories in Francesca Ekwuyasi's Butter Honey Pig Bread book and Tammy Plunkett's Beyond Pronouns: The Essential Guide for Parents of Trans Children

  • queer
  • lgbt
"Death is only a doorway."

-Francesca Ekwuyasi, Butter Honey Pig Bread

Cover of Ten Bridges I've Burnt: A Memoir in Verse by Brontez Purnell

12. Ten Bridges I've Burnt: A Memoir in Verse

By: Brontez Purnell

4.16

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

"This book is brutal and brutally honest, but still perversely addictive because Brontez Purnell is… read more

Similar categories in Brontez Purnell's Ten Bridges I've Burnt: A Memoir in Verse book and Tammy Plunkett's Beyond Pronouns: The Essential Guide for Parents of Trans Children

  • nonfiction
  • queer
  • lgbt
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13. The Sleeping Car Porter

By: Suzette Mayr

3.46

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

When a mudslide strands a train, Baxter, a queer Black sleeping car porter, must contend with the p… read more

Similar categories in Suzette Mayr's The Sleeping Car Porter book and Tammy Plunkett's Beyond Pronouns: The Essential Guide for Parents of Trans Children

  • queer
  • lgbt
"Desperate feelings can swivel into loathing."

-Suzette Mayr, The Sleeping Car Porter

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14. Beyond the Gender Binary

By: Alok Vaid-Menon

4.49

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

Beyond the Gender Binary, spoken word poet Alok Vaid-Menon challenges the world to see gender not … read more

Similar categories in Alok Vaid-Menon's Beyond the Gender Binary book and Tammy Plunkett's Beyond Pronouns: The Essential Guide for Parents of Trans Children

  • nonfiction
  • queer
  • transgender
  • lgbt
"I learned about gender through shame."

-Alok Vaid-Menon, Beyond the Gender Binary

"Critiquing gender is not the same thing as creating gender."

-Alok Vaid-Menon, Beyond the Gender Binary

"The days that I feel most beautiful are the days that I am most afraid."

-Alok Vaid-Menon, Beyond the Gender Binary

"It's a surreal experience to have your personhood be reduced to a prop."

-Alok Vaid-Menon, Beyond the Gender Binary

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15. What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat

By: Aubrey Gordon

4.41

Format: 197 pages, Hardcover

From the creator of Your Fat Friend, an explosive indictment of the systemic and cultural bias faci… read more

Similar categories in Aubrey Gordon's What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat book and Tammy Plunkett's Beyond Pronouns: The Essential Guide for Parents of Trans Children

  • nonfiction
Cover of Fat Talk: Parenting in the Age of Diet Culture by Virginia Sole-Smith

16. Fat Talk: Parenting in the Age of Diet Culture

By: Virginia Sole-Smith

4.31

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER By the time they reach kindergarten, most kids believe that “fat” is b… read more

Similar categories in Virginia Sole-Smith's Fat Talk: Parenting in the Age of Diet Culture book and Tammy Plunkett's Beyond Pronouns: The Essential Guide for Parents of Trans Children

  • nonfiction
  • parenting
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17. The Name-Bearer (Flowers of Prophecy #1)

By: Natalia Hernandez

4.02

Format: 290 pages, Paperback

For her entire life, the Name-Bearer’s sole purpose has been to receive and deliver the names of th… read more

Similar categories in Natalia Hernandez's The Name-Bearer (Flowers of Prophecy #1) book and Tammy Plunkett's Beyond Pronouns: The Essential Guide for Parents of Trans Children

  • queer
  • lgbt
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18. The Daughter

By: Lucy Dawson

4.01

Format: 286 pages, Kindle Edition

You lost your daughter. You will never forgive yourself. And now someone's determined to make you p… read more

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19. What's the T? The Guide to All Things Trans and/or Nonbinary

By: Juno Dawson

4.34

Format: 226 pages, Paperback

Discover what it means to be a young transgender and/or non-binary person in the twenty-first centu… read more

Similar categories in Juno Dawson's What's the T? The Guide to All Things Trans and/or Nonbinary book and Tammy Plunkett's Beyond Pronouns: The Essential Guide for Parents of Trans Children

  • nonfiction
  • queer
  • transgender
  • lgbt
"That's the thing with kids, isn't it? You're never quite sure what you're going to get. If you don't want an LGBTQ+ child, use a condom!"

-Juno Dawson, What's the T? The Guide to All Things Trans and/or Nonbinary

"Imagine feeling like—on top of being a quirk of nature—you also have to battle your parents. Well, that just makes a tough situation tougher."

-Juno Dawson, What's the T? The Guide to All Things Trans and/or Nonbinary

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20. Growing Up Trans: In Our Own Words

By: Lindsay Herriot

4.33

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

What does it mean to be young and transgender today? Growing Up Trans  shares stories, essays, art … read more

Similar categories in Lindsay Herriot's Growing Up Trans: In Our Own Words book and Tammy Plunkett's Beyond Pronouns: The Essential Guide for Parents of Trans Children

  • nonfiction
  • queer
  • transgender
  • lgbt
Cover of Beyond Pronouns: The Essential Guide for Parents of Trans Children by Tammy Plunkett

21. Beyond Pronouns: The Essential Guide for Parents of Trans Children

By: Tammy Plunkett

4.46

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

If your child or teen recently told you they are transgender, non-binary, or genderfluid, you're bo… read more

Similar categories in Tammy Plunkett's Beyond Pronouns: The Essential Guide for Parents of Trans Children book and Tammy Plunkett's Beyond Pronouns: The Essential Guide for Parents of Trans Children

  • parenting
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • queer

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This Book Is Gay

None , Juno Dawson

3.77

Transform Your Habits

Life in Five Senses: How Exploring the Senses Got Me Out of My Head and Into the World

Gretchen Rubin

3.72

Transform Your Habits

Gender Queer

Maia Kobabe

4.28

Transform Your Habits

Gender Euphoria

Laura Kate Dale

4.11

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Laura Elliot

3.92

Transform Your Habits

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T.M. Logan

3.97

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K.L. Slater

3.88

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Helen Phifer

4.41

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