Recs if you like Boy Island...

Reading suggestions for the Trans Rights Readathon! (Any year of course). Books with trans characters of any label (or any non-cis gender identity) by trans/non-cis authors. I have not read all the books in this list. Feel free to name your fave books by trans authors in the comments!

Fiction reads with trans masc characters and/or by trans masc authors

See my trans Rights readathon suggestions masterlist for more trans reads! 🏳️‍⚧️

(Under construction 🏗 🚧 many more books to be added! Suggestions welcome!)

LGBT*+ graphic novels / comics / manga +

Fluff to smut, including 18+ etc aka not exclusive to anything specific other than being queer content (queer & queer-rep inclusive stories). I have read a good handful of the ones now at the bottom of the list. Includes intended middle-grade-ish-level youth content to adult audience content.

In progress / updated over time

(recs highly welcome) Attempting a highly exhaustive list.

Graphic Medicine is… (an actual term) graphic novels, manga, comics, and visual representation engaging with health and healthcare - from health diagrams visual pamphlets to a graphic novel including health story or rep.

Mostly adult, YA, MG, and some other youth/ all ages titles

In-progress / updated over time Reccomendations welcome

& now you're having some complicated feelings about gender. Books full of characters who come to terms with themselves. Recs welcome, per usual.

Exploration on /Challenging whats considered: natural, normal, beautiful, perverse, disgusting, sexual, taboo More ideally (but not limited to) authors relating the topics to themselves/their experiences Hoping to include plenty of intersectionalities (disability, race, etc)/

RECOMMENDATIONS WELCOME / ENCOURAGED 🙏🏻 ✨ Currently Hoping to stick to Adult-Audience Titles (Fiction, Nonfiction (auto)biographical, poetry, maybe graphic novels [on that i haven't decided]) :)

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General warning for gender dysphoria 🫡

Weird, unusual or trippy queer graphic novels. Most of these also have unique illustrations

queer graphic novels set in a fantasy/non-contemporary world that i'd recommend to everyone ✨

Graphic novels & comics featuring trans (including non-binary) characters!

Recommendations welcome!

✦ I have not read all of these books - if you notice anything that seems to be mis-labeled/mis-placed on this list, please let me know! ✦

Queerness + Water

Queer stories that have scenes with water, water as a theme, etc.

The intimacy of nude swimming, water encasing the body, the way a river flows and connects to other bodies of water, the life that lives in its depths, the fact we have not descovered much of the ocean which holds secrets we cannot reach…water is a queer thing, and a theme found continually in queer stories both minutely and wholly encompassing

Adult-audience fiction mostly, some mature YA

Recs welcome!

lgbt+ graphic novels, comics & manga

Weird queer titles including (but not limited to one or all): nature components, body horror, horror and/or fantasy. General / adult fiction mostly

I have read most of these titles

In progress/ updated over time Recommendations welcome!!

Fantasy books that feature a main character who is trans. I have not read all books on list so feel free to inform me if I've miscategorized or suggest books I should add.

books that make you feel like you’re on drugs, while also feeling like you should be taking drugs to properaly appreciate the book or the “wtf is going on” books

Books with similar themes to the Fallout series: critiquing rampant American consumerism and greed; deconstructing 1950s-era conservatism; post-apocalyptic road trip; man vs. God; long-term effects of authoritarianism; morally gray choices or “morally gray” choices; being locked inside underground (or in space) indefinitely; retro-futuristic technology; nuclear weapons and fallout; cosmic horror; or, ultimately, being the baddest motherfucker with a baseball bat.