TransLit Booklist

Different Kinds of Fruit

By: Kyle Lukoff
Narrated by: Cassandra Morris & Kyle Lukoff
Length: 9 hours 10 minutes

In this funny and hugely heartfelt novel from the Newbery Honor-winning author of Too Bright to See, a sixth-grader's life is turned upside down when she learns her dad is trans

Annabelle Blake fully expects this school year to be the same as every other: same teachers, same classmates, same, same, same. So she’s elated to discover there’s a new... Read more

The Autobiography of a Transgender Scientist

By: Ben Barres
Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
Length: 4 hours 47 minutes

Ben Barres was known for his groundbreaking scientific work and for his groundbreaking advocacy for gender equality in science. In this book, completed shortly before his death from pancreatic cancer in December 2017, Barres (born Barbara Barres in 1954) describes a life full of remarkable accomplishments—from his childhood as a precocious math... Read more

Tranny

Confessions of Punk Rock's Most Infamous Anarchist Sellout

By: Laura Jane Grace
Narrated by: Laura Jane Grace
Length: 6 hours 49 minutes

ONE OF BILLBOARD'S "100 GREATEST MUSIC BOOKS OF ALL TIME": The provocative transgender advocate and lead singer of the punk rock band Against Me! provides a searing account of her search for identity and her true self.

It began in a bedroom in Naples, Florida, when a misbehaving punk teenager named Tom Gabel, armed with nothing but an acoustic... Read more

People Change

By: Vivek Shraya
Narrated by: Vivek Shraya
Length: 1 hour 52 minutes

*FINALIST FOR THE CITY OF CALGARY W.O. MITCHELL BOOK PRIZE*

“A deeply generous and honest gift to the world.”
—Elliot Page

The author of I’m Afraid of Men lets readers in on the secrets to a life of reinvention.

Vivek Shraya knows this to be true: people change. We change our haircuts and our outfits and our minds. We change names, titles, labels.... Read more

This Body I Wore

A Memoir

By: Diana Goetsch
Narrated by: Diana Goetsch
Length: 10 hours 50 minutes

Long before Laverne Cox appeared on the cover of Time, far removed from drag and ballroom culture, there were countless trans women living and dying as men, most of whom didn't even know they were trans. Diana Goetsch's This Body I Wore chronicles one woman's long journey to coming out, a path that runs parallel to the emergence of the trans... Read more

Neuroqueer Heresies

Notes on the Neurodiversity Paradigm, Autistic Empowerment, and Postnormal Possibilities

By: Nick Walker
Narrated by: Janet Metzger
Length: 6 hours 16 minutes

The work of queer autistic scholar Nick Walker has played a key role in the evolving discourse on human neurodiversity.



Neuroqueer Heresies collects a decade's worth of Dr. Walker's most influential writings, along with new commentary by the author and new material on her radical conceptualization of Neuroqueer Theory.



This book is essential for... Read more

The Bruising of Qilwa

By: Naseem Jamnia
Narrated by: Fajer Al-Kaisi
Length: 5 hours 4 minutes

In this intricate debut fantasy introducing a queernormative Persian-inspired world, a nonbinary refugee practitioner of blood magic discovers a strange disease that causes political rifts in their new homeland. Persian-American author Naseem Jamnia has crafted a gripping narrative with a moving, nuanced exploration of immigration, gender,... Read more

How We Do Family

From Adoption to Trans Pregnancy, What We Learned about Love and LGBTQ Parenthood

By: Trystan Reese
Narrated by: Trystan Reese
Length: 5 hours 16 minutes

One LGBTQ family's inspiring, heartfelt story of the many alternative paths that lead to a loving family, with lessons for every parent



Trystan and Biff had been dating for just a year when the couple learned that Biff's niece and nephew were about to be removed from their home by Child Protective Services. Immediately, Trystan and Biff took in... Read more

Becoming Eve

My Journey from Ultra-Orthodox Rabbi to Transgender Woman

By: Abby Stein
Narrated by: Abby Stein
Length: 7 hours 53 minutes

The powerful coming-of-age story of an ultra-Orthodox child who was born to become a rabbinic leader and instead became a woman
Abby Stein was raised in a Hasidic Jewish community in Brooklyn, isolated in a culture that lives according to the laws and practices of eighteenth-century Eastern Europe, speaking only Yiddish and Hebrew and shunning... Read more

Please Miss

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Penis

By: Grace Lavery
Narrated by: Grace Lavery, Daniel Lavery & Marc Vietor
Length: 7 hours 5 minutes

“The queer memoir you’ve been waiting for”—Carmen Maria MachadoGrace Lavery is a reformed druggie, an unreformed omnisexual chaos Muppet, and 100 percent, all-natural, synthetic female hormone monster. As soon as she solves her “penis problem,” she begins receiving anonymous letters, seemingly sent by a cult of sinister clowns, and sets out on a... Read more

Trans Mission

My Quest to a Beard

By: Alex Bertie
Narrated by: Alex Bertie
Length: 3 hours 52 minutes

A brave firsthand account of online personality Alex Bertie's life, struggles, and victories as a transgender teen, as well as a groundbreaking guide for transitioning teens.
Long before he became known for his YouTube videos, Alex Bertie was an isolated, often-afraid transgender teenager looking for answers. In this revolutionary memoir and... Read more

Surpassing Certainty

What My Twenties Taught Me

By: Janet Mock
Narrated by: Janet Mock
Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

“A defining chronicle of strength and spirit” (Kirkus Reviews), Surpassing Certainty is a portrait of a young woman searching for her purpose and place in the world—without a road map to guide her. This memoir “should be required reading for your 20s” (Cosmopolitan).

A few months before her twentieth birthday, Janet Mock is adjusting to her days... Read more

Care Of

Letters, Connections, and Cures

By: Ivan Coyote
Narrated by: Ivan Coyote
Length: 6 hours 15 minutes

“What a beauty this book is, and read by Ivan, it's that much better. They are *such* a powerful reader. I had chills from the writing and the reading, over and over again. Whether or not you've read anything by Ivan or know who they are, this is such an excellent introduction to their writing and work. It's maybe 20 exchanges between Ivan and... Read more

Once & Future

By: Cory McCarthy & A. R. Capetta
Narrated by: Lauren Fortgang
Length: 10 hours 55 minutes

“Once & Future is an Own-Voices Young Adult Sci-Fi/Fantasy novel series, which re-tells the King Arthur story in a very refreshing and queer way. The story takes place in the future and starts in a rusty spaceship. The protagonist Ari, a young queer woman from a planet that has been destroyed is the 42nd reincarnation of King Arthur. She is... Read more

You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty

A Novel

By: Akwaeke Emezi
Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
Length: 9 hours 57 minutes

“A fresh voice with depth. Akwaeke is a wordsmith, having me captivated and intrigued, creating a visual delight that brought the pages to life and each character maiking an impact. I didn't want to put it down. Raw, real and hot! 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

Little Fish

A Novel

By: Casey Plett
Narrated by: A. Almeida
Length: 8 hours 10 minutes

WINNER, Amazon Canada First Novel Award; Lambda Literary Award; Firecracker Award for Fiction Finalist, Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award A Globe and Mail Best Book of the Year It's the dead of winter in Winnipeg and Wendy Reimer, a thirty-year-old trans woman, feels like her life is frozen in place. When her Oma passes away Wendy... Read more

The Black Tides of Heaven

Tensorate

By: Neon Yang
Narrated by: Nancy Wu
Length: 5 hours 21 minutes

Mokoya and Akeha, the twin children of the Protector, were sold to the Grand Monastery as infants. While Mokoya developed her strange prophetic gift, Akeha was always the one who could see the strings that moved adults to action. While Mokoya received visions of what would be, Akeha realized what could be. What's more, they saw the sickness at... Read more

Black on Both Sides

A Racial History of Trans Identity

By: C. Riley Snorton
Narrated by: C. Riley Snorton
Length: 8 hours 51 minutes

The story of Christine Jorgensen, America's first prominent transsexual, narrated trans embodiment in the postwar era. Her celebrity, however, has obscured other mid-century trans narratives. Their erasure from trans history masks the ways race has figured prominently in the construction and representation of transgender subjects. In Black on... Read more

Before We Were Trans

A New History of Gender

By: Dr. Kit Heyam
Narrated by: Dr. Kit Heyam
Length: 8 hours 2 minutes

A groundbreaking global history of gender nonconformity  

Today’s narratives about trans people tend to feature individuals with stable gender identities that fit neatly into the categories of male or female. Those stories, while important, fail to account for the complex realities of many trans people’s lives.  
 
Before We Were Trans illuminates... Read more