Transgender Awareness Week Booklist
November 13-19 is Transgender Awareness Week! We've compiled a booklist for all ages to help share transgender stories.
Transgender Awareness Week is observed each year during the month of November and aims to raise awareness of the transgender community.
Click on a title to find it in our catalog. And be sure to check out the TRANS* BOOKS CURATED BY A TRANS* LIBRARIAN at librarycat.org/lib/jagraham684.
Children's Picture Books
Call Me Max by Kyle Lukoff
Ho'onani: Hula Warrior by Heather Gale
I Am Jazz by Jessica Herthel
My Rainbow by Trinity Neal
Pink is for Boys by Robb Pearlman
Sparkle Boy by Lesléa Newman
When Aiden Became a Brother by Kyle Lukoff
Children's and Preteen Chapter Books
Ana on the Edge by AJ Sass
George by Alex Gino
Gracefully Grayson by Amy Polonski
Melissa by Alex Gino
The Other Boy by MG Hennessey
Too Bright to See by Kyle Lukoff
Teen and Young Adult Fiction
Between Perfect & Real by Ray Stoeve
Birthday by Meredith Russo
Both Sides Now by Peyton Thomas
Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas
Dark and Deepest Red by Anna-Marie McLemore
Dreadnought by April Daniels
Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender
The Ghosts We Keep by Mason Deaver
Hell Followed with Us by Andrew Joseph White
I Wish You All the Best by Mason Deaver
If I Was Your Girl by Meredith Russo
Lark & Kasim Start a Revolution by Kacen Callender
May the Best Man Win by ZR Ellor
The Passing Playbook by Isaac Fitzsimons
Pet by Akwaeke Emezi
Stay Gold by Tobly McSmith
Victories Greater Than Death by Charlie Jane Anders
When the Moon Was Ours by Anna-Marie McLemore
The Witch King by HE Edgmon
Adult Fiction
The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi
Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters
Everyone on the Moon is Essential Personnel by Julian Jarboe
Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars by Kai Cheng Thom
Finna by Nino Cipri
The First Sister by Linden A Lewis
Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi
Light From Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki
Little Fish by Casey Plett
Long Black Veil by Jennifer Finney Boylan
Phoenix Extravagant by Yoon Ha Lee
She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan
The Seep by Chana Porter
Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon
An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon
Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey
Adult Nonfiction
Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man by Thomas Page McBee
Being Jazz: My Life as a Transgender Teen by Jazz Jennings
Darling Days by iO Tillet Wright
Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir by Akwaeke Emezi
Fairest by Meredith Talusan
Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe
Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love, & So Much More by Janet Mock
Rethinking Normal: A Memoir in Transition by Katie Rain Hill
Sissy: A Coming-of-Age Gender Story by Jacob Tobia
Some Assembly Required: The Not-So-Secret Life of a Transgender Teen by Arin Andrews
Something That May Shock and Discredit You by Daniel Mallory Ortberg
The Stonewall Reader edited by New York Public Library
Surpassing Certainty: What My Twenties Taught Me by Janet Mock
Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality by Sarah McBride