Between Perfect and Real
By: Ray Stoeve
3.99
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Ray Stoeve’s Between Perfect and Real is a moving YA debut about a trans boy finding his voice—and …
Want to Read $ 1.99"Not that I hate my body. There are just parts of it that aren't what they should be."-Ray Stoeve, Between Perfect and Real
"Not that I hate my body. There are just parts of it that aren't what they should be."-Ray Stoeve, Between Perfect and Real
"Burlesque involves stripping... It's also historically been a way of satirizing or commenting on politics, making people laugh, showing off your sexuality or your body- it's hella queer."-Ray Stoeve, Between Perfect and Real
"Burlesque involves stripping... It's also historically been a way of satirizing or commenting on politics, making people laugh, showing off your sexuality or your body- it's hella queer."-Ray Stoeve, Between Perfect and Real
If you liked the transgender plot in Between Perfect and Real by Ray Stoeve , here is a list of 17 books like this:
1. 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
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- transgender
- lgbt
- young adult
- fiction
- queer
"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
"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
"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
2. I Wish You All the Best (I Wish You All the Best, #1)
By: Mason Deaver
4.16
Format: 329 pages, Hardcover
An alternate cover edition for 9781338306125 can be found here. When Ben De Backer comes out to … read more
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- romance
- audiobook
- transgender
- lgbt
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
"Whatever happens"-Mason Deaver, I Wish You All the Best (I Wish You All the Best, #1)
"The world’s too loud sometimes."-Mason Deaver, I Wish You All the Best (I Wish You All the Best, #1)
"This kid, Nathan, laughs like it's his favourite thing in the world to do."-Mason Deaver, I Wish You All the Best (I Wish You All the Best, #1)
"Bodies are fucking weird, especially when it feels like you don't belong in your own."-Mason Deaver, I Wish You All the Best (I Wish You All the Best, #1)
3. Stay Gold
By: Tobly McSmith
3.84
Format: 361 pages, Kindle Edition
Debut author Tobly McSmith delivers a coming-of-age teen love story about a transgender boy who’s g… read more
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- romance
- audiobook
- young adult contemporary
- transgender
- lgbt
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
"When you’re seen as different, it’s best to go with the flow, pick your battles, and plan the right times to push back."-Tobly McSmith, Stay Gold
4. Act Cool
By: Tobly McSmith
3.79
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Named a Rainbow Book List Title and one of Bank Street Children's Best Books of the Year. A tran… read more
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- romance
- audiobook
- young adult contemporary
- transgender
- lgbt
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
"My reality is that I was born in the wrong body. Their reality is an old book full of rules, and if you follow the rules then you go to heaven. How real is that? More real than me?"-Tobly McSmith, Act Cool
"Love can be good and beautiful, like me and Davina. But sometimes it can be a fever dream running hot and cold, leaving you with art that looks like someone took a poop on a canvas."-Tobly McSmith, Act Cool
"Each trans and nonbinary person is like a unique and beautiful snowflake. Some people are more comfortable in their body and don’t need surgery or hormone therapy, and others do. No one way is right …"-Tobly McSmith, Act Cool
5. Dear Wendy
By: Ann Zhao
4.01
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Dear Wendy's Sophie and Jo, two aromantic and asexual students at Wellesley College, engage in an o… read more
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- romance
- audiobook
- lgbt
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
"Nobody talks about breaking up with your friends. It sucks. Especially when that friend ditches you to be with whoever they think is The One."-Ann Zhao, Dear Wendy
"And still, it's hard to find people like me. The asexual community is small enough as it is; there are fewer aromantic people and even fewer people who are both."-Ann Zhao, Dear Wendy
"And that really made me think for the first time about how this could happen with any friend who's not also aroace. Like, my person, my closest confidant, will probably always have someone else - a r…"-Ann Zhao, Dear Wendy
6. 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
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- romance
- audiobook
- young adult contemporary
- transgender
- lgbt
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
7. Between Perfect and Real
By: Ray Stoeve
3.99
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Ray Stoeve’s Between Perfect and Real is a moving YA debut about a trans boy finding his voice—and … read more
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- romance
- audiobook
- young adult contemporary
- transgender
- lgbt
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
"Not that I hate my body. There are just parts of it that aren't what they should be."-Ray Stoeve, Between Perfect and Real
"Burlesque involves stripping... It's also historically been a way of satirizing or commenting on politics, making people laugh, showing off your sexuality or your body- it's hella queer."-Ray Stoeve, Between Perfect and Real
8. 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
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- romance
- audiobook
- transgender
- lgbt
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
9. The Ghosts We Keep
By: Mason Deaver
4.01
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Perfect for fans of Adam Silvera and Becky Albertalli, this book will rip your heart out before sho… read more
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- romance
- audiobook
- transgender
- lgbt
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
"Fingers finding lost bodies- floating along the surface, despaired drowned, dead. Keeping secrets lost on pale blue lips- For this is the place the dead things go- This is the home of the ghosts we k…"-Mason Deaver, The Ghosts We Keep
10. Okay, Cupid
By: Mason Deaver
3.71
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of I WISH YOU ALL THE BEST, the story of a cupid who thinks they know e… read more
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- romance
- audiobook
- transgender
- lgbt
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
11. The Sky Blues
By: Robbie Couch
4.12
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
Sky’s small town turns absolutely claustrophobic when his secret promposal plans get leaked to the … read more
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- romance
- audiobook
- young adult contemporary
- lgbt
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
"A part of me knows that someday soon I'll miss moments like these."-Robbie Couch, The Sky Blues
12. The Feeling of Falling in Love
By: Mason Deaver
3.80
Format: 343 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of I Wish You All the Best, comes a new kind of love story, about the b… read more
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- romance
- audiobook
- young adult contemporary
- transgender
- lgbt
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
"But in my experience, I've learned that the things worth doing are what scare us the most."-Mason Deaver, The Feeling of Falling in Love
"I don’t deserve anything but loneliness because all I do is hurt people. It’s what I’m good at. I learned from the best."-Mason Deaver, The Feeling of Falling in Love
13. 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
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- romance
- transgender
- lgbt
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
14. The Passing Playbook
By: Isaac Fitzsimons
4.13
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Fifteen-year-old Spencer Harris is a proud nerd, an awesome big brother and a Messi-in-training. He… read more
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- romance
- audiobook
- transgender
- lgbt
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
"As if Spencer's thoughts were sending out a homing beacon, Justice looked over in his direction, making eye contact, and Spencer understood what Gimli saw when he gazed upon Galadriel. But, no. Just …"-Isaac Fitzsimons, The Passing Playbook
15. Self-Made Boys: A Great Gatsby Remix
By: Anna-Marie McLemore
4.09
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
New York City, 1922. Nicolás Caraveo, a 17-year-old transgender boy from Minnesota, has no interest… read more
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- romance
- audiobook
- transgender
- lgbt
- young adult
- fiction
- queer
"We were boys who had created ourselves. We had formed our own bodies, our own lives, from the ribs of the girls we were once assumed to be."-Anna-Marie McLemore, Self-Made Boys: A Great Gatsby Remix
"Gatsby and I may have been nothing to men like Tom Buchanan, but men like that did not know we were as divine as the heavens. We were boys who had created ourselves. We had formed our own bodies, our…"-Anna-Marie McLemore, Self-Made Boys: A Great Gatsby Remix
"There's no use denying that I fell a little bit in love with Jay, at least as much in love as I've ever been with any body. You see, Nicky, boys are always falling in love with me, but I don't fall m…"-Anna-Marie McLemore, Self-Made Boys: A Great Gatsby Remix
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16. The [Un]Popular Vote
By: Jasper Sanchez
3.97
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Vaseline on the teeth makes a smile shine. It’s a cheap stunt, but Mark Adams knows it’s optics tha… read more
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- romance
- audiobook
- young adult contemporary
- transgender
- lgbt
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
"They smile at me, their dimples like divots at the corners of his mouth. Something clenches tight in my chest, and I'm pretty sure men have gone to war for this."-Jasper Sanchez, The [Un]Popular Vote
17. Under Shifting Stars
By: Alexandra Latos
3.97
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
This novel follows twins Audrey and Clare as they grapple with their brother's death and their chan… read more
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- romance
- lgbt
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
"Whenever something scary happens or I want to comment on something, like Joyce and Hopper’s constant bickering, which is getting annoying, I glance toward Adam’s side of the couch. And each and every…"-Alexandra Latos, Under Shifting Stars
18. The Language of Seabirds
By: Will Taylor
4.22
Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition
A sweet, tender middle-grade story of two boys finding first love with each other over a seaside su… read more
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- romance
- audiobook
- lgbt
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
19. Transmogrify!: 14 Fantastical Tales of Trans Magic
By: g. haron davis
3.96
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Perfect for fans of All Out and Cemetery Boys, this anthology claims a seat at the table of fantasy… read more
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- romance
- audiobook
- transgender
- lgbt
- young adult
- fiction
- queer
"There is no shortage of people who want to hide the truth, dear Ari, and not a single one of them is of any consequence to me. In a decade, there will be another witch or wizard or magician or mundan…"-g. haron davis, Transmogrify!: 14 Fantastical Tales of Trans Magic
"She smiled at him a little sadly. 'What do you want, Ronan? Do you want them to suffer? Or do you want them to change? The truth was, he hadn't thought that far ahead 'It's easy to hurt people,' she …"-g. haron davis, Transmogrify!: 14 Fantastical Tales of Trans Magic
20. The Borrow a Boyfriend Club
By: Page Powars
4.13
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A feel-good, coming-of-age rom-com from debut author Page Powars that follows a trans teen who join… read more
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- romance
- audiobook
- young adult contemporary
- transgender
- lgbt
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
21. If I Can Give You That
By: Michael Gray Bulla
4.07
Format: 315 pages, Hardcover
For fans of Kacen Callender and Mason Deaver comes a heart-tugging coming-of-age YA debut that take… read more
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- romance
- transgender
- lgbt
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
