Trans and nonbinary books to read for Pride Month and all year round! Contemporary romance, historical romance, fantasy, horror, and nonfiction recommendations 🏳️⚧️💕
Sections
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Contemporary Romance
Historical Romance
Fantasy
Horror
Nonfiction
Contemporary Romance
MM Romance - a story about the first openly trans minor league baseball player falling in love
The Prospects by K.T. Hoffman
FF Romance - sweet contemporary romance with a solid emotional punch! one of my favorites of the year so far 💕
Make Room for Love by Darcy Liao
FFX Romance - A jaded bartender is wooed by a charmingly quirky couple in this fresh and sizzling polyamorous rom-com
Triple Sec by T.J. Alexander
MM Romance - YA second chance romcom about two roommates who definitely dated, only one doesn't realize
And They Were Roommates by Page Powars
MM Romance - Book 2 of the Dirty Dogs series, high heat and high kink friends to lovers romance
Pretty Dogs by Riley Nash
MX Romance - two best friends go on a nonrefundable honeymoon together and discover that finding happily ever after can be as simple as asking
My Best Friend's Honeymoon by Meryl Wilsner
MF Romance - A fake dating arrangement turns to real love in this deliciously delightful queer rom-com
Chef's Choice (Chef's Kiss, #2) by T.J. Alexander
Historical Romance
MF Romance - Viola faked her own death to reinvent herself as the woman she was always meant to be, only to meet her former best friend who was left devastated at having lost her
A Lady for a Duke by Alexis Hall
MM Romance - historical romance between a lord and his valet
A Gentleman's Gentleman by TJ Alexander
MX Romance - Regency historical with a nonbinary MC and a MC that gets a little Li Shang from Mulan bisexual with it. one of my favorites I’ve read this year 💕
Unmasked by the Marquess by Cat Sebastian
FFM t4t4t historical romance about finding yourself and the people who love you as you are
The Companion by E.E. Ottoman
Fantasy
MM Romance - A standalone fantasy romance (with horror elements) between a trans main character and a cursed merman. Tragic, gruesome, and sexy.
A Bone in His Teeth by Kellen Graves
A classic MM trans romance between a grown up Peter Pan and Captain Hook
Peter Darling by Austin Chant
YA fantasy - a trans boy determined to prove his gender to his traditional Latinx family summons a ghost who refuses to leave
Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas
MM Romance - a fae prince is taken captive by the Orc Chief to prevent a war
The Flowered Blade by Taylor Hubbard
MX Romance - A Fae prince who has finally escaped his cruel mother discovered she has replaced him with a beautiful and tragic human
The Fox and the Dryad by Kellen Graves
Horror
Adult horror - for those with strong stomachs! about identity, survival, and transformation amidst an alien invasion in rural West Virginia
You Weren't Meant to Be Human by Andrew Joseph White
YA horror - A queer Appalachian thriller that pulls no punches—following a trans autistic teen who's drawn into the generational struggle between the rural poor and those who exploit them.
Compound Fracture by Andrew Joseph White
Nonfiction
one of the most banned books in America - a autobiographical comic about the author's own experience of gender
Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe
This is the story of a road trip across the red states of America and the queer people that live in them, those who love their states and communities, those who fight for their voices to be heard even when it seems impossible.
