A Year of Queer, Trans, Butch, and Female Masculinities

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12 participants (92 books)

07 Jan 2025—07 Jan 2026

Overview

Twelve months for you to read books about lesbian, queer, trans, or female masculinities. Manhood optional, but possible. Books about butches, mascs, bois, men by choice, trans men,  female men, and liberating cis masculinity.

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An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon

An Unkindness of Ghosts

Rivers Solomon

349 pages • 2017 • 19 editions

fiction lgbtqia+ literary science fiction challenging dark emotional medium-paced
Self-Made Boys: A Great Gatsby Remix by Anna-Marie McLemore

Remixed Classics #5

Self-Made Boys: A Great Gatsby Remix

Anna-Marie McLemore

336 pages • 2022 • 8 editions

fiction historical lgbtqia+ young adult emotional reflective medium-paced
When the Moon Was Ours by Anna-Marie McLemore

When the Moon Was Ours

Anna-Marie McLemore

288 pages • 2016 • 13 editions

fiction fantasy lgbtqia+ magical realism young adult emotional lighthearted reflective medium-paced
Girl Mans Up by M-E Girard

Girl Mans Up

M-E Girard

400 pages • 2016 • 12 editions

fiction contemporary lgbtqia+ young adult emotional medium-paced
We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan by Lou Sullivan

We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan

Lou Sullivan

440 pages • 2019 • 6 editions

nonfiction history lgbtqia+ memoir emotional informative reflective slow-paced
Manning Up: Transsexual Men Finding Brotherhood, Family and Themselves by

Manning Up: Transsexual Men Finding Brotherhood, Family and Themselves

277 pages • 1 edition

nonfiction autobiography biography lgbtqia+ literary
Trans Homo... GASP!: Gay FTM and Cis Men on Sex and Love by Pete Bailey, Avi Ben-Zeev

Trans Homo... GASP!: Gay FTM and Cis Men on Sex and Love

Pete Bailey, Avi Ben-Zeev

216 pages • 2017 • 2 editions

nonfiction lgbtqia+ challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Below the Belt: Genital Talk by Men of Trans Experience by Trystan T. Cotten

Below the Belt: Genital Talk by Men of Trans Experience

Trystan T. Cotten

226 pages • 2016 • 1 edition

nonfiction lgbtqia+ reflective sad medium-paced
Invisible Men: Inside India's Transmasculine Network by Nandini Krishnan

Invisible Men: Inside India's Transmasculine Network

Nandini Krishnan

548 pages • 2018 • 1 edition

nonfiction gender lgbtqia+ challenging emotional informative slow-paced
The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes: The Transgender Trial that Threatened to Upend the British Establishment by Zoë Playdon

The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes: The Transgender Trial that Threatened to Upend the British Establishment

Zoë Playdon

416 pages • 2021 • 9 editions

nonfiction gender history lgbtqia+ challenging emotional informative medium-paced