Being Trans is Lit

Making Love with the Land

Essays

By: Joshua Whitehead
Narrated by: Joshua Whitehead
Length: 6 hours 3 minutes

A moving and deeply personal excavation of Indigenous beauty and passion in a suffering world



In prose that is evocative and sensual, unabashedly queer and visceral, raw and autobiographical, Joshua Whitehead writes of an Indigenous body in pain, coping with trauma. Deeply rooted within, he reaches across the anguish to create a new form of... Read more

Jonny Appleseed

A Novel

By: Joshua Whitehead
Narrated by: Joshua Whitehead
Length: 5 hours 41 minutes

WINNER, Lambda Literary Award; Georges Bugnet Award for Fiction Finalist, Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction; Amazon Canada First Novel Award; Indigenous Voices Award; Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award; Firecracker Award for Fiction Longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize A Globe and Mail Best Book of the Year A... Read more

A Minor Chorus

A Novel

By: Billy-Ray Belcourt
Narrated by: Jesse Nobess
Length: 4 hours 13 minutes

*WINNER OF THE 2023 BC AND YUKON ETHEL WILSON PRIZE*
*LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE*
NATIONAL BESTSELLER

An urgent first novel about breaching the prisons we live inside from one of Canada’s most daring literary talents.

An unnamed narrator abandons his unfinished thesis and returns to northern Alberta in search of what eludes him:... Read more

Light From Uncommon Stars

By: Ryka Aoki
Narrated by: Cindy Kay
Length: 13 hours 13 minutes

“A violin teacher who has sold her soul to the devil, a transgender girl on the run from her abusive family, and an alien refugee of an intergalactic war who has recently purchased a donut shop— Light From Uncommon Stars begins with distant threads and weaves them delightfully together into a tale of found family and the power of music to heal... Read more

The Sunbearer Trials

The Sunbearer Duology: Book #1

By: Aiden Thomas
Narrated by: André Santana
Length: 13 hours 44 minutes

“Thrilling fantasy with deities, semideities (demigods) and humans. It is great to read, that being trans* is normalized in this society, there is even a solemn gender affirmation ceremony for trans* people and there is a beautifully narrated gender-euphoric moment for the main trans* character. But he is also othered by his comrades-in-arms and... Read more

Brainwyrms

By: Alison Rumfitt
Narrated by: Nicky Endres
Length: 7 hours 33 minutes

“I finished Brainwryms by Alison Rumfitt in a frantic haze when I couldn’t sleep, and I had to write my review for it immediately. Otherwise, my brain would take that whole story, put it in a box labeled 'traumatic content', and shove it to the back of my memory closet. Heck, I’ve never read a book with a content warning placed right in the... Read more

The Prospects

A Novel

By: KT Hoffman
Narrated by: Shaan Dasani & KT Hoffman
Length: 11 hours 34 minutes

“A joyful, heartfelt debut! Gene loves baseball and his team, even in the minors. It’s enough to be the first openly trans player. When a face from the past joins his team, it upsets the life Gene’s made for himself. Can he restore the balance? Read more

Wild Geese

By: Soula Emmanuel
Narrated by: Clara Harte
Length: 7 hours 10 minutes

Phoebe Forde has a new home and new name and is newly thirty. An Irish transplant and PhD candidate, she’s overeducated and underpaid, but she's finally settling into her new life in Copenhagen. Almost three years into her gender transition, Phoebe has learned to move through the world carefully, savoring small moments of joy. After all, a woman... Read more

Little Rot

A Novel

By: Akwaeke Emezi
Narrated by: Adepero Oduye & Chukwudi Iwuji
Length: 9 hours 9 minutes

“A masterwork…mesmerizing…We come away troubled, unsettled — and in some subtle way changed.”–The New York Times

"The perfect steamy read for those hot summer nights." –People

A thrilling new novel from the bestselling, award-winning, visionary Akwaeke Emezi
 
One weekend.
The elite underbelly of a Nigerian city.
A party that goes awry.
A... Read more

Chef's Kiss

A Novel

By: TJ Alexander
Narrated by: Em Grosland
Length: 9 hours 38 minutes

“Like a dish of comfort food you’ll want to devour.” —The Washington Post
“It’s hard to say which aspect of TJ Alexander’s novel is sweeter: the slow-burn romance or the drool-worthy desserts.” —Time

A high-strung pastry chef’s professional goals are interrupted by an unexpected career transition and the introduction of her wildly attractive... Read more

Chef's Choice

A Novel

Chef's Kiss

By: TJ Alexander
Narrated by: Nicky Endres
Length: 12 hours 2 minutes

“While this romance employs a number of typical tropes such as, fake dating, forced proximity and millionaires, this book is anything but typical! The two swoon-worthy leads are trans! This may be one of the first times I've seen a beautifully depicted T4T romance in print. (Bravo, TJ Alexander! More please!) This book made me laugh, stoked my... Read more

Compound Fracture

By: Andrew Joseph White
Narrated by: Dani Martineck
Length: 9 hours 42 minutes

“Gripping and visceral, this is a coming-of-age thriller that keeps its promises and doesn’t pull any punches. Read more

The Sapling Cage

Daughters of the Empty Throne: Book #1

By: Margaret Killjoy
Narrated by: Jackie Meloche
Length: 9 hours 8 minutes

“The Sapling Cage is a beautiful fantasy narrative with cohesive world building, an intriguing magic system, and the most real depiction of the transfem experience I have ever read, or at least the closest to my experience. Wrapped in a story about the epic battle for the survival of a kingdom, is the story of a girl struggling to find her way in... Read more

Metal from Heaven

By: August Clarke
Narrated by: Vico Ortiz
Length: 14 hours 51 minutes

“WHEN MY VIOLENCE SUBSIDES, WE WILL HAVE NOTHING, AND BE CHAMPIONS.”

Ichorite is progress. More durable and malleable than steel, ichorite is the lifeblood of a dawning industrial revolution. Yann I. Chauncey owns the sole means of manufacturing this valuable metal, but his workers are on strike. They demand Chauncey
research the hallucinatory... Read more