20 must-read queer books like Little Fish by Casey Plett

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Little Fish

By: Casey Plett

3.86

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

WINNER, Lambda Literary Award; Firecracker Award for Fiction; $60,000 Amazon Canada First Novel Awa…

"Maybe living through it isn't the only hard part. Maybe being in the world afterward is also the hard part."

-Casey Plett, Little Fish

"Maybe living through it isn't the only hard part. Maybe being in the world afterward is also the hard part."

-Casey Plett, Little Fish

"Wendy knew how to deal with looking cis and she knew how to deal with looking trans, but she would never, ever figure out how to be both. How the world could treat her so differently—within days or hours."

-Casey Plett, Little Fish

"Wendy knew how to deal with looking cis and she knew how to deal with looking trans, but she would never, ever figure out how to be both. How the world could treat her so differently—within days or hours."

-Casey Plett, Little Fish

If you liked the queer plot in Little Fish by Casey Plett , here is a list of 20 books like this:

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1. Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity

By: Julia Serano

4.26

Format: 390 pages, Paperback

A provocative manifesto, Whipping Girl tells the powerful story of Julia Serano, a transsexual woma… read more

Similar categories in Julia Serano's Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity book and Casey Plett's Little Fish

  • gender
  • lgbt
  • transgender
  • queer
"Rather than focusing on “shattering the gender binary,"

-Julia Serano, Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity

"It is offensive that so many people feel that it is okay to publicly refer to transsexuals as being “pre-op"

-Julia Serano, Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity

"[I]magine what would happen if, instead of centering our beliefs about heterosexual sex around the idea that the man “penetrates"

-Julia Serano, Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity

"The most radical thing that any of us can do is to stop projecting our beliefs about gender onto other people's behaviors and bodies"

-Julia Serano, Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity

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2. Infect Your Friends and Loved Ones

By: Torrey Peters

4.12

Format: None pages,

In the future, everyone will be trans. So says Lexi. She's a charismatic trans woman furious with t… read more

Similar categories in Torrey Peters's Infect Your Friends and Loved Ones book and Casey Plett's Little Fish

  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • queer lit
  • fiction
  • queer

3. Small Beauty

By: Jia Qing Wilson-Yang

3.68

Format: None pages, Paperback

Small Beautytells the story of Mei, who in coping with the death of her cousin abandons her life in… read more

Similar categories in Jia Qing Wilson-Yang's Small Beauty book and Casey Plett's Little Fish

  • literary fiction
  • transgender
  • canada
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer

4. Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl’s Confabulous Memoir

By: Kai Cheng Thom

1.75

Format: 134 pages, Paperback

Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl's Confabulous Memoir by Kai Cheng Thom is… read more

Similar categories in Kai Cheng Thom's Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl’s Confabulous Memoir book and Casey Plett's Little Fish

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5. I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World

By: Kai Cheng Thom

4.44

Format: 155 pages, Paperback

What can we hope for at the end of the world? What can we trust in when community has broken our he… read more

Similar categories in Kai Cheng Thom's I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World book and Casey Plett's Little Fish

  • gender
  • lgbt
  • transgender
  • queer
"When you live in a community of queers, anarchists, & activists, crisis is the baseline and stability an outlier."

-Kai Cheng Thom, I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World

"Models of justice that centre punishment do not prevent abuse but only react to it, and they don't offer a pathway toward healing for either perpetrators or survivors. Nor do they acknowledge the dua…"

-Kai Cheng Thom, I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World

"That in a loving place, I am able to hear a friend disagree with me and know that they still care for me. That I can receive their advice and know that I don't have to follow it. That there is enough…"

-Kai Cheng Thom, I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World

"Transition is a fundamental right that all trans people, of all ages, should have access to. But I believe that transition, ideally, should be offered to us as one option of many for bodily autonomy …"

-Kai Cheng Thom, I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World

Cover of Little Fish by Casey Plett

6. Little Fish

By: Casey Plett

3.86

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

WINNER, Lambda Literary Award; Firecracker Award for Fiction; $60,000 Amazon Canada First Novel Awa… read more

Similar categories in Casey Plett's Little Fish book and Casey Plett's Little Fish

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • canada
  • gender
  • queer lit
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"Maybe living through it isn't the only hard part. Maybe being in the world afterward is also the hard part."

-Casey Plett, Little Fish

"Wendy knew how to deal with looking cis and she knew how to deal with looking trans, but she would never, ever figure out how to be both. How the world could treat her so differently—within days or h…"

-Casey Plett, Little Fish

"What kind of world does the core of your brain expect that you, you personally get to live in? Wendy wanted to be loved. However easily she might have abandoned or ruined her prospects, Wendy did sti…"

-Casey Plett, Little Fish

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7. Brainwyrms

By: Alison Rumfitt

3.66

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

From Alison Rumfitt, the author of Tell Me I’m Worthless — “a triumph of transgressive queer horror… read more

Similar categories in Alison Rumfitt's Brainwyrms book and Casey Plett's Little Fish

  • audiobook
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • queer lit
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
Cover of Nevada by Imogen Binnie

8. Nevada

By: Imogen Binnie

3.97

Format: 290 pages, Paperback

A beloved and blistering cult classic and finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Fi… read more

Similar categories in Imogen Binnie's Nevada book and Casey Plett's Little Fish

  • literary fiction
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • gender
  • queer lit
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"James does what anybody would do when they see somebody they'd like to know: he ignores the shit out of her."

-Imogen Binnie, Nevada

"It's like I got drunk all the time not because I'm a total addict but because it was a coping mechanism to deal with being unhappy"

-Imogen Binnie, Nevada

"Oh, Williamsburg. There was a point when you seemed like a scary, tough neighborhood, but now it's obvious that the graffiti on your walls gets put there by art students."

-Imogen Binnie, Nevada

"Eventually you can't help but figure out that, while gender is a construct, so is a traffic light, and if you ignore either of them, you get hit by cars. Which, also, are constructs."

-Imogen Binnie, Nevada

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9. Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl

By: Andrea Lawlor

3.87

Format: 354 pages, Paperback

It’s 1993 and Paul Polydoris tends bar at the only gay club in a university town thrumming with pol… read more

Similar categories in Andrea Lawlor's Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl book and Casey Plett's Little Fish

  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • gender
  • queer lit
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"Inside Paul something tight released: a rusted nut turned finally around its old bolt. White sheets were thrown off moldering couches with a fanfare of dust and sunlight."

-Andrea Lawlor, Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl

"It was June, and like everyone else Paul made himself extremely busy going to queer art openings and queer punk shows and queer spoken word showcases and queer evenings of performance art. He was exh…"

-Andrea Lawlor, Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl

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10. The Fifth Wound

By: Aurora Mattia

4.41

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A baroque work of intimate myth exploring one woman's interdimensional search for beauty and embodi… read more

Similar categories in Aurora Mattia's The Fifth Wound book and Casey Plett's Little Fish

  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • gender
  • queer lit
  • fiction
  • queer
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11. The Pervert

By: Michelle Perez

3.89

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

A surprisingly honest and touching account of a trans girl surviving through sex work in Seattle. W… read more

Similar categories in Michelle Perez's The Pervert book and Casey Plett's Little Fish

  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • gender
  • fiction
  • queer
"Young dudes are probably the most pliable people in the history of people."

-Michelle Perez, The Pervert

Cover of Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters

12. Detransition, Baby

By: Torrey Peters

3.94

Format: 337 pages, Hardcover

A whipsmart debut about three women—transgender and cisgender—whose lives collide after an unexpect… read more

Similar categories in Torrey Peters's Detransition, Baby book and Casey Plett's Little Fish

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • gender
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"The moment elongates like pulled taffy."

-Torrey Peters, Detransition, Baby

"All pain merits care, but not dogmatically egalitarian relativism."

-Torrey Peters, Detransition, Baby

"The days I don't love you... I have to work hard to make those days happen."

-Torrey Peters, Detransition, Baby

"She's the type to turn hardship into hardness, like a shield for people she loves."

-Torrey Peters, Detransition, Baby

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13. A Short History of Trans Misogyny

By: Jules Gill-Peterson

4.47

Format: 182 pages, Hardcover

An accessible, bold new vision for the future of intersectional trans feminism, called "one of the … read more

Similar categories in Jules Gill-Peterson's A Short History of Trans Misogyny book and Casey Plett's Little Fish

  • gender
  • lgbt
  • transgender
  • queer
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14. trans girl suicide museum

By: Hannah Baer

4.48

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Literary Nonfiction. LGBTQIA Studies. Edited by Clare Kelly. one part ketamine spiral, one part con… read more

Similar categories in Hannah Baer's trans girl suicide museum book and Casey Plett's Little Fish

  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • gender
  • queer lit
  • queer
"Another thing about K is it feels so connected to the internet."

-Hannah Baer, trans girl suicide museum

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15. The Call-Out

By: Cat Fitzpatrick

4.16

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

A fast-paced, debut tragicomedy of manners written in verse about queer (mostly trans) women that i… read more

Similar categories in Cat Fitzpatrick's The Call-Out book and Casey Plett's Little Fish

  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • queer lit
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"Then Rod comes up, his glasses glistening. He doesn't remove them. He starts to sway. Is he high? - "Hello. Are you all listening? I'm glad so many of you are here today, Because as of now you're par…"

-Cat Fitzpatrick, The Call-Out

Cover of Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian) by Hazel Jane Plante

16. Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian)

By: Hazel Jane Plante

4.31

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

Fiction. LGBTQIA Studies. The playful and poignant novel LITTLE BLUE ENCYCLOPEDIA (FOR VIVIAN) sift… read more

Similar categories in Hazel Jane Plante's Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian) book and Casey Plett's Little Fish

  • literary fiction
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • canada
  • queer lit
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"Ranjit: I'm sorry, Ian. I still love Captain Alphonse. Ian: But he's a dirty disappearing dog. Ranjit: You may be right. But we love the dog we love, dirt and all."

-Hazel Jane Plante, Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian)

"If you spend hundreds of hours with someone, you have a catalogue of tiny memories. As you live your life, those tiny memories snap and crackle your synapses. It can be overwhelming, like the world i…"

-Hazel Jane Plante, Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian)

"I'd started jotting down my memories of Vivian. There was so much about her that I knew might be forgotten if I didn't try to preserve it. I didn't want her to disappear from this world, unremembered…"

-Hazel Jane Plante, Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian)

"When Vivian died, my world collapsed. I wept for what felt like days, weeks, months. Everything and everyone around me receded. Objects blurred. Colours drained. Sounds muffled. Vivian was my favorit…"

-Hazel Jane Plante, Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian)

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17. Summer Fun

By: Jeanne Thornton

4.14

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

From acclaimed author Jeanne Thornton, an epic, singular look at fandom, creativity, longing, and t… read more

Similar categories in Jeanne Thornton's Summer Fun book and Casey Plett's Little Fish

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • queer lit
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"We are poison women, Diane, because our bodies do all turn what enters them into poison, and we make poison and spread poison, because we are sadness itself. There is no way for us not to be that."

-Jeanne Thornton, Summer Fun

Cover of Any Other City by Hazel Jane Plante

18. Any Other City

By: Hazel Jane Plante

4.14

Format: 287 pages, Paperback

Any Other City is a two-sided fictional memoir by Tracy St. Cyr, who helms the beloved indie rock b… read more

Similar categories in Hazel Jane Plante's Any Other City book and Casey Plett's Little Fish

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
Cover of Girlfriends by Emily Zhou

19. Girlfriends

By: Emily Zhou

4.20

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

In seven light-filled prisms of short stories, Emily Zhou chronicles modern queer life with uncompr… read more

Similar categories in Emily Zhou's Girlfriends book and Casey Plett's Little Fish

  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • queer lit
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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20. Rebent Sinner

By: Ivan E. Coyote

4.58

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Ivan Coyote is one of North America's preeminent storytellers and performers; they are the author, … read more

Similar categories in Ivan E. Coyote's Rebent Sinner book and Casey Plett's Little Fish

  • audiobook
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • canada
  • gender
  • queer
Cover of Side Affects: On Being Trans and Feeling Bad by Hil Malatino

21. Side Affects: On Being Trans and Feeling Bad

By: Hil Malatino

4.32

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

How the “bad feelings” of trans experience inform trans survival and flourishing Some days—or we… read more

Similar categories in Hil Malatino's Side Affects: On Being Trans and Feeling Bad book and Casey Plett's Little Fish

  • gender
  • lgbt
  • transgender
  • queer

6 best-selling audiobook books like Little Fish by Casey Plett

Transform Your Habits

Little Fish

Casey Plett

3.86

Transform Your Habits

Brainwyrms

Alison Rumfitt

3.66

Transform Your Habits

Detransition, Baby

Torrey Peters

3.94

Transform Your Habits

Summer Fun

Jeanne Thornton

4.14

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19 Best fiction books like Summer Fun by Jeanne Thornton

Transform Your Habits

Infect Your Friends and Loved Ones

Torrey Peters

4.12

Transform Your Habits

A Safe Girl to Love

Casey Plett

4.07

Small Beauty

Jia Qing Wilson-Yang

3.68

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Little Fish

Casey Plett

3.86

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