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New Releases in Transgender Lit

Celebrate the International Transgender Day of Visibility on March 31 with our most recent selection in the exploding genre of transgender literature.

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  • "A coven of trans witches battles an evil AI in the magical coming-of-middle-age romp about love, loss, drag shows, and late capitalism."
    Book, 2025New York : Grand Central, 2025. — SFIC OSWO
  • "As teens, Lilith, Sash, and Abraxa make a video game, meeting only online through its creation, but as they grow up and grow apart, the game doesn't get finished. Nearly 20 years later, they are still unknown to each other, even as they are all…
    Book, 2025New York, NY : Soho, [2025] — FIC THOR
  • Stag Dance

    a Novel & Stories

    Peters, Torrey
    "In this electrifying collection of three stories and a novella from Peters (Detransition Baby), trans characters explore desire, identity, and love." Including a dystopian fantasy, an erotic horror, an "illicit affair between roommates," and a…
    Book, 2025New York : Random House, [2025] — FIC PETE
  • "A brilliant addition to the growing genre of trans horror, Byron's debut is narrated by an unnamed trans woman struggling to make it as a writer in New York City. Her emotional demons stem from a stint in conversion therapy and a soul-sucking…
    Book, 2025New York : Saga Press, 2025. — FIC BYRO
  • "Max is thirty, a published poet and grossly overpaid legal counsel for a tech company. With a lifetime of dysphoria and fuccbois rattling around in her head, Max is plagued with a deep dissatisfaction during what should be the best years of her…
    Book, 2025New York : The Dial Press, [2025] — FIC DINA
  • Amplitudes

    Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity

    "A speculative fiction anthology exploring queer and trans lives across imaginative futures--from dystopian cities to galactic nightclubs. Blending protest, desire, and whimsy, the collection reclaims sci-fi as a space for queer liberation,…
    Book, 2025New York, NY : Erewhon, an imprint of Kensington Publishing Corp., [2025] — SHORT STORIES SFIC AMPL
  • "Terry Dactyl has lived many lives. Raised by boisterous lesbian mothers in Seattle, she comes of age as a trans girl in the 1980s in a world of dancing queens and late-night house parties just as the AIDS crisis ravages their world... In…
    Book, 2025Minneapolis : Coffee House Press, 2025. — FIC SYCA
  • "In 1932 Berlin, Bertie, a trans man, and his friends spend carefree nights at the Eldorado Club, the epicenter of Berlin's thriving queer community. An employee of the renowned Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld at the Institute of Sexual Science, Bertie works…
    Book, 2025California : Counterpoint, 2025. — FIC TODD
  • "A dryly humorous and poignant collection featuring an eclectic cast of characters navigating trans life in 2010s Seattle."
    Book, 2025Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, 2025. — 813.6000
  • "Trapped in a working-class Madrid slum in the 1980s, a trans woman navigates the local party scene involving heroin and disco while searching for belonging in a potentially violent world where every choice can be fatal."
    Book, 2025New York, NY : HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2025. — FIC PORT
  • "Stomach-churning gore pairs with quieter but equally disturbing moments of psychological horror" in this supernatural novel following an autistic trans man fighting for bodily autonomy.
    Book, 2025New York : Saga Press, 2025. — FIC WHIT
  • "A whimsical and healing novel about a trans man in New York who--almost 30, laid off, broke--moves back to his small Illinois hometown, walks into the bookstore he worked at in high school... and slips through time to come face-to-face with his…
    Book, 2025New York, NY : Avon, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2025] — FIC UNDE
  • In this lesbian rom-com, "a trans woman returns to Florida for her brother's wedding and finds more drama than she bargained for."
    Book, 2025New York : Ballantine Books, [2025] — FIC DOMM
  • "In this contemporary romance, Mexican American Rafie is fuming at his parents for making the family relocate to San Antonio. After the passing of his beloved grandfather (the man who introduced him to guitars and mariachi), Rafie is determined to…
    Book, 2024New York : Wednesday Books, 2024. — YA FIC VILL
  • "A cathartic revenge story crackling with rage against systemic discrimination, set in a contemporary fantasy dystopia with an extensive and inventive magic system."
    Book, 2025New York : Random House, 2025. — YA FIC NOVO
  • "Grace Woodhouse has left a lot behind. She used to have a great friend group, an amazing girlfriend, and a right foot set to earn her a Division I football scholarship-before she came out as trans. As senior year begins, Grace is struggling to find…
    Book, 2025Montclair : Levine Querido, 2025. — YA FIC ZELL
  • So Many Stars

    An Oral History of Trans, Nonbinary, Genderqueer, and Two-spirit People of Color

    De Robertis, Caro,
    "From the acclaimed novelist, a first-of-its-kind, deeply personal, and moving oral history of a generation of trans and gender nonconforming elders of color--from leading activists to artists to ordinary citizens--who tell their own stories of…
    Book, 2025New York, NY : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill/Little, Brown and Company, 2025. — 306.768092 D43S
  • Before Gender

    Lost Stories From Trans History, 1850-1950

    Erlick, Eli,
    "These narratives chronicle the grit, joy, and survival of trans people long before gender became an everyday term."
    Book, 2025Boston, Massachusetts : Beacon Press, [2025] — 306.768092 E69B