9 must-read biography books like To Be A Trans Man by Ezra Woodger

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To Be A Trans Man

By: Ezra Woodger

4.08

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Men in all stages of transition have come and gone from my life, and each one has been entirely dif…

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1. Rewriting the Rules: An Integrative Guide to Love, Sex and Relationships

By: Meg Barker

4.29

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

We live in a time of great uncertainty about relationships. We search for "The One," but find ourse… read more

Similar categories in Meg Barker's Rewriting the Rules: An Integrative Guide to Love, Sex and Relationships book and Ezra Woodger's To Be A Trans Man

  • nonfiction
  • queer
Cover of Man Enough To Be Woman: The Autobiography of Jayne County by Rupert Smith, Jayne County

2. Man Enough To Be Woman: The Autobiography of Jayne County

By: Rupert Smith , Jayne County

4.12

Format: 428 pages, Paperback

Life story of the queen of shock 'n roll--the world's first punk transsexual. read more

Similar categories in Rupert Smith's Man Enough To Be Woman: The Autobiography of Jayne County book and Ezra Woodger's To Be A Trans Man

  • biography
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • queer
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3. Peter Darling

By: Austin Chant

4.06

Format: 310 pages, ebook

The Lost Boys say that Peter Pan went back to England because of Wendy Darling, but Wendy is just a… read more

Similar categories in Austin Chant's Peter Darling book and Ezra Woodger's To Be A Trans Man

  • queer
  • transgender
  • lgbt
"A bad idea, he reflected, was better than no idea at all."

-Austin Chant, Peter Darling

"What was the point of being himself if he had to be alone?"

-Austin Chant, Peter Darling

"I always thought the only way to grow up was to be… her. I don't know what to do as me."

-Austin Chant, Peter Darling

"Thats the trick of growing up. Nothing stays the same." Hook sounded oddly sympathetic. "You see the faults in everything. Including yourself."

-Austin Chant, Peter Darling

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4. None of the Above: Reflections on Life Beyond the Binary

By: Travis Alabanza

4.38

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

‘When you are someone that falls outside of categories in so many ways, a lot of things are said to… read more

Similar categories in Travis Alabanza's None of the Above: Reflections on Life Beyond the Binary book and Ezra Woodger's To Be A Trans Man

  • biography
  • memoir
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • queer
Cover of How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures by Sabrina Imbler

5. 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 Ezra Woodger's To Be A Trans Man

  • 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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6. Hell Followed With Us

By: Andrew Joseph White

4.13

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Prepare to die. His kingdom is near. Sixteen-year-old trans boy Benji is on the run from the cu… read more

Similar categories in Andrew Joseph White's Hell Followed With Us book and Ezra Woodger's To Be A Trans Man

  • queer
  • transgender
  • lgbt
"Do you believe in God? I do, please stop, there's so much blood"

-Andrew Joseph White, Hell Followed With Us

"I think it hits us all at the same time that maybe we'll live long enough to grow up."

-Andrew Joseph White, Hell Followed With Us

"I'm done begging for a scrap of respect-I am done with those who enact suffering, and I am done with the sons of bitches who stand back and let it happen."

-Andrew Joseph White, Hell Followed With Us

"Bein transgender is who you are, and the pain is what the outside does to you. The pain is what happens when you and the world go at each other's throats."

-Andrew Joseph White, Hell Followed With Us

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7. 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 Ezra Woodger's To Be A Trans Man

  • biography
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • 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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8. 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 Ezra Woodger's To Be A Trans Man

  • memoir
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • anthologies
  • nonfiction
  • queer
"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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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 Ezra Woodger's To Be A Trans Man

  • biography
  • 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 Ezra Woodger's To Be A Trans Man

  • biography
  • 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 Ezra Woodger's To Be A Trans Man

  • 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. Meet Cute Diary

By: Emery Lee

3.25

Format: 391 pages, Hardcover

Felix Ever After meets Becky Albertalli in this swoon-worthy, heartfelt rom-com about how a transge… read more

Similar categories in Emery Lee's Meet Cute Diary book and Ezra Woodger's To Be A Trans Man

  • queer
  • transgender
  • lgbt
Cover of It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror by Joe Vallese

13. It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror

By: Joe Vallese

4.18

Format: 298 pages, Paperback

Through the lens of horror—from "Halloween" to "Hereditary"—queer and trans writers consider the fi… read more

Similar categories in Joe Vallese's It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror book and Ezra Woodger's To Be A Trans Man

  • nonfiction
  • queer
  • anthologies
  • lgbt
"Androgyny doesn't look a certain way, though gender is ingrained in society such that liberal readings are applied to everyone, sprinkling gender on everything from haircuts to careers to alcoholic b…"

-Joe Vallese, It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror

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14. May the Best Man Win

By: Z.R. Ellor

3.23

Format: 380 pages, Hardcover

A trans boy enters a throw-down battle for the title of Homecoming King with the boy he dumped last… read more

Similar categories in Z.R. Ellor's May the Best Man Win book and Ezra Woodger's To Be A Trans Man

  • queer
  • transgender
  • lgbt
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15. Bloom

By: Delilah S. Dawson

3.90

Format: 203 pages, Hardcover

A sweet sapphic romance takes a deadly dark turn in this sharp-as-a-knife novella from the New York… read more

Similar categories in Delilah S. Dawson's Bloom book and Ezra Woodger's To Be A Trans Man

  • queer
  • lgbt
Cover of Something Fabulous (Something Fabulous, #1) by Alexis  Hall

16. Something Fabulous (Something Fabulous, #1)

By: Alexis Hall

3.59

Format: 363 pages, Kindle Edition

From the acclaimed author of Boyfriend Material comes a delightfully witty romance featuring a rese… read more

Similar categories in Alexis Hall's Something Fabulous (Something Fabulous, #1) book and Ezra Woodger's To Be A Trans Man

  • queer
  • lgbt
"Three months ago Valentine would have said no because it was easy to be gracious when you were largely indifferent. When manner were just another mask. Three weeks ago, he would have said yes because…"

-Alexis Hall, Something Fabulous (Something Fabulous, #1)

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17. Dead Collections

By: Isaac Fellman

3.63

Format: 256 pages, ebook

A whirlwind romance between an eccentric archivist and a grieving widow explores what it means to b… read more

Similar categories in Isaac Fellman's Dead Collections book and Ezra Woodger's To Be A Trans Man

  • queer
  • transgender
  • lgbt
"...any reasonable person would want to be a librarian."

-Isaac Fellman, Dead Collections

"It's not weird to make your body yours. It's not weird to want a custom body."

-Isaac Fellman, Dead Collections

"It's cold in the archives, and there's nobody there. I belong in the archives. I am cold too."

-Isaac Fellman, Dead Collections

"Those names, Ari and Sol - what is it about Jewish trans men that we all have to reach back to our roots, as if they are the only source of nourishment we have left?"

-Isaac Fellman, Dead Collections

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18. Heart, Haunt, Havoc (The Gideon Testaments, #1)

By: Freydís Moon

3.74

Format: 156 pages, Kindle Edition

Laced with romance, gothic imagery, Catholic mysticism, diaspora, and horror… When lonely transg… read more

Similar categories in Freydís Moon's Heart, Haunt, Havoc (The Gideon Testaments, #1) book and Ezra Woodger's To Be A Trans Man

  • queer
  • transgender
  • lgbt
"Abandonment. Unfinished business. There was always something or someone that caused a house to want, to ache, to make itself known. There was always a reason for anger and lust and becoming lonesome"

-Freydís Moon, Heart, Haunt, Havoc (The Gideon Testaments, #1)

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

19. 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 Ezra Woodger's To Be A Trans Man

  • 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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20. Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man

By: Thomas Page McBee

4.22

Format: 205 pages, Hardcover

Thomas McBee, a trans man, sets out to uncover what makes a man—and what being a “good” man even me… read more

Similar categories in Thomas Page McBee's Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man book and Ezra Woodger's To Be A Trans Man

  • biography
  • memoir
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • queer
"Most of us experience gender conditioning so young—research shows it begins in infancy—that we misunderstand the relationship between nature and nurture, culture and biology, fitting in and being one…"

-Thomas Page McBee, Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man

"Boxing breaks many of the binaries that men are conditioned to believe about our bodies, our genders, ourselves. With its cover of 'realness' and violence, it provides room for what so many men lack:…"

-Thomas Page McBee, Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man

"I thought about the advantages thrown at me for an aesthetic that looked like a birthright. I thought about passing, and how it erased a part of me, and how hormones responded to context, and how rac…"

-Thomas Page McBee, Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man

"Millennial guys seemed, to the sociologists and anthropologists who studied them, to have attitudes toward women that portended a new era of equity—especially at work. But the reality was, indeed, fa…"

-Thomas Page McBee, Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man

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21. Female Husbands: A Trans History

By: Jen Manion

4.01

Format: 350 pages, Hardcover

Long before people identified as transgender or lesbian, there were female husbands and the women w… read more

Similar categories in Jen Manion's Female Husbands: A Trans History book and Ezra Woodger's To Be A Trans Man

  • nonfiction
  • queer
  • transgender
  • lgbt
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22. Idlewild

By: James Frankie Thomas

4.14

Format: 389 pages, Hardcover

James Frankie Thomas’s Idlewild is a darkly funny story of two adults looking back on their intense… read more

Similar categories in James Frankie Thomas's Idlewild book and Ezra Woodger's To Be A Trans Man

  • queer
  • transgender
  • lgbt
"What we mean to say, but what Ms Spider is not equipped to understand, is that Iago is gay in the way that all the best fictional murderers are gay. Norman Bates, Tom Ripely, The titular Third Man, a…"

-James Frankie Thomas, Idlewild

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23. Always the Almost

By: Edward Underhill

4.05

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A trans pianist makes a New Year's resolution on a frozen Wisconsin night to win regionals and win … read more

Similar categories in Edward Underhill's Always the Almost book and Ezra Woodger's To Be A Trans Man

  • queer
  • transgender
  • lgbt
Cover of The Appendix: Transmasculine Joy in a Transphobic Culture (Inklings, #3) by Liam Konemann

24. The Appendix: Transmasculine Joy in a Transphobic Culture (Inklings, #3)

By: Liam Konemann

4.35

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

In 2019, Liam Konemann began collating what he called ‘The Appendix’, a simple record of ongoing tr… read more

Similar categories in Liam Konemann's The Appendix: Transmasculine Joy in a Transphobic Culture (Inklings, #3) book and Ezra Woodger's To Be A Trans Man

  • memoir
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • queer
Cover of A Trans Man Walks into a Gay Bar by Harry  Nicholas

25. 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 Ezra Woodger's To Be A Trans Man

  • biography
  • memoir
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • queer
Cover of All the Things They Said We Couldn't Have: Stories of Trans Joy by T. C. Oakes-Monger

26. 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 Ezra Woodger's To Be A Trans Man

  • memoir
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • anthologies
  • nonfiction
  • queer
Cover of Nothing to Hide: Voices of Trans and Gender Diverse Australia by Sam Elkin

27. Nothing to Hide: Voices of Trans and Gender Diverse Australia

By: Sam Elkin

4.37

Format: 228 pages, Paperback

Nothing to Hide is Australia's first mainstream anthology of trans and gender-diverse writing, a po… read more

Similar categories in Sam Elkin's Nothing to Hide: Voices of Trans and Gender Diverse Australia book and Ezra Woodger's To Be A Trans Man

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

28. 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 Ezra Woodger's To Be A Trans Man

  • biography
  • memoir
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • queer
Cover of The Love That Dares: Letters of LGBTQ+ Love & Friendship Through History by Rachel Smith

29. The Love That Dares: Letters of LGBTQ+ Love & Friendship Through History

By: Rachel Smith

4.16

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

An intimate and inspiring collection of letters revealing some of the greatest queer love stories i… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Smith's The Love That Dares: Letters of LGBTQ+ Love & Friendship Through History book and Ezra Woodger's To Be A Trans Man

  • nonfiction
  • queer
  • lgbt
Cover of Rewriting the Rules: An Anti Self-Help Guide to Love, Sex and Relationships by Meg-John Barker

30. Rewriting the Rules: An Anti Self-Help Guide to Love, Sex and Relationships

By: Meg-John Barker

4.42

Format: 402 pages, Paperback

We live in a time of uncertainty about relationships. We search for The One but find ourselves stay… read more

Similar categories in Meg-John Barker's Rewriting the Rules: An Anti Self-Help Guide to Love, Sex and Relationships book and Ezra Woodger's To Be A Trans Man

  • nonfiction
  • queer
  • lgbt
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31. To Be A Trans Man

By: Ezra Woodger

4.08

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Men in all stages of transition have come and gone from my life, and each one has been entirely dif… read more

Similar categories in Ezra Woodger's To Be A Trans Man book and Ezra Woodger's To Be A Trans Man

  • biography
  • memoir
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • anthologies
  • nonfiction
  • queer

31 best-selling queer books like To Be A Trans Man by Ezra Woodger

Transform Your Habits

Rewriting the Rules: An Integrative Guide to Love, Sex and Relationships

Meg Barker

4.29

Transform Your Habits

Man Enough To Be Woman: The Autobiography of Jayne County

Rupert Smith , Jayne County

4.12

Transform Your Habits

Peter Darling

Austin Chant

4.06

Transform Your Habits

None of the Above: Reflections on Life Beyond the Binary

Travis Alabanza

4.38

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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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