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

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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 other liberatory masculinity.

Challenge Books

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Afrekete: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Writing by Catherine E. McKinley

Afrekete: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Writing

Catherine E. McKinley

336 pages • paperback • 1995

nonfiction essays lgbtqia+ poetry short stories challenging emotional reflective slow-paced
Boys Like Her: Transfictions by Ivan Coyote, Kate Bornstein, Lyndell Montgomery, Taste This, Zoë Eakle, Anna Camilleri

Boys Like Her: Transfictions

Ivan Coyote, Kate Bornstein, Lyndell Montgomery, Taste This, Zoë Eakle, Anna Camilleri

224 pages • paperback • 1998

fiction lgbtqia+ short stories emotional lighthearted reflective slow-paced
Masculinities Without Men?: Female Masculinity in Twentieth-Century Fictions by Jean Bobby Noble

Masculinities Without Men?: Female Masculinity in Twentieth-Century Fictions

Sexuality Studies

Jean Bobby Noble

222 pages • paperback • 2003

nonfiction lgbtqia+ informative reflective medium-paced
Female Masculinities and the Gender Wars: The Politics of Sex by Finn Mackay

Female Masculinities and the Gender Wars: The Politics of Sex

Finn Mackay

264 pages • paperback • 2021

nonfiction lgbtqia+ sociology challenging informative reflective medium-paced
The Woods All Black by Lee Mandelo

The Woods All Black

Lee Mandelo

150 pages • hardcover • 2024

fiction historical horror lgbtqia+ romance dark mysterious tense fast-paced
Take Me There: Trans and Genderqueer Erotica by Patrick Califia, Andrea Zanin, Sinclair Sexsmith, Tristan Taormino, Gina de Vries, Alicia E. Goranson, Rahne Alexander, Tobi Hill-Meyer, Kiki DeLovely, Ivan Coyote, Kate Bornstein, S. Bear Bergman, Julia Serano, Helen Boyd, Rachel Kramer Bussel, Laura Antoniou, Shawna Virago, Toni Amato, Rachel K. Zall, Julia Serrano

Take Me There: Trans and Genderqueer Erotica

Patrick Califia, Andrea Zanin, Sinclair Sexsmith, Tristan Taormino, Gina de Vries, Alicia E. Goranson, Rahne Alexander, Tobi Hill-Meyer, Kiki DeLovely, Ivan Coyote, Kate Bornstein, S. Bear Bergman, Julia Serano, Helen Boyd, Rachel Kramer Bussel, Laura Antoniou, Shawna Virago, Toni Amato, Rachel K. Zall, Julia Serrano

293 pages • paperback • 2011

fiction erotica gender lgbtqia+ short stories challenging fast-paced
The Intimate Economies of Bangkok: Tomboys, Tycoons, and Avon Ladies in the Global City by Ara Wilson

The Intimate Economies of Bangkok: Tomboys, Tycoons, and Avon Ladies in the Global City

Ara Wilson

272 pages • paperback • 2004

nonfiction feminism challenging informative slow-paced
Tomboys!: Tales of Dyke Derring-Do by Karen Barber, Lynne Yamaguchi Fletcher

Tomboys!: Tales of Dyke Derring-Do

Karen Barber, Lynne Yamaguchi Fletcher

304 pages • 1995

nonfiction feminism lgbtqia+ reflective slow-paced
Self-Made Men: Identity and Embodiment Among Transsexual Men by Henry Rubin

Self-Made Men: Identity and Embodiment Among Transsexual Men

Henry Rubin

224 pages • paperback • 2003

nonfiction gender sociology challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Tommy Boys, Lesbian Men, and Ancestral Wives: Female Same-Sex Practices in Africa by Ruth Morgan, Saskia Wierenga

Tommy Boys, Lesbian Men, and Ancestral Wives: Female Same-Sex Practices in Africa

Ruth Morgan, Saskia Wierenga

335 pages • paperback • 2005

nonfiction challenging informative slow-paced