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Sam Elkin, Alex Gallagher, Yves Rees, Bobuq Sayed (eds)
Nothing to Hide is Australia’s first mainstream anthology of trans and gender diverse writing, a powerful contribution to Australian letters.
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Cadance Bell
The unforgettable memoir that redefines ‘she’ll be right’.
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Rae White
A defiant, unflinching exploration of gender identity, gender discrimination, and gender euphoria.
Shane Jenek
Caught in the Act is about our journey towards understanding gender, sexuality and identity. It’s an often hilarious and at times heartbreaking memoir from a beloved drag and entertainment icon.
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AJ Clementine
Real-world life lessons about acknowledging and celebrating all the things that make you unique, from TikTok sensation, model and LGBTQI+ advocate, AJ Clementine.
Anita Kelly
A hilarious and heart-warming queer rom-com about the first openly non-binary contestant on a cooking show who becomes distracted by their beautiful, clumsy competitor.
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S. Qiouyi Lu
This masterful work positions Lu among the vanguard of contemporary futurism and speculative fiction.
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Kacen Callender
From award-winning author Kacen Callender comes a revelatory YA novel about a transgender teen grappling with identity and self-discovery while falling in love for the first time.
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Megan Milks
A queer coming-of-age novel about a girlhood interrupted by an eating disorder, only to twist into a genre-bending excavation of gender, identity, and literary mystery.
Torrey Peters
A uniquely trans take on love, motherhood, and those exes who you just can’t quit.
Lauren John Joseph
A story of first love and last rites, conjured against a vivid backdrop of London, San Francisco and New York.
Carefully considered, successful instances of experimental fiction disrupt gender, genre, and queer identity in this deranged, otherworldly collection (Literary Hub).
Nevo Zisin
We find ourselves at an exciting moment in history. For the first time, trans and gender diverse people are being seen and heard. Thanks to tireless activism, and an increased…
Sarah Gailey
Sarah Gailey’s debut novel Magic for Liars paints a captivating mystery set in a magical high school where a female detective without magical abilities must solve a baffling murder.
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Akwaeke Emezi
A raw exploration of identity that shatters boundaries and explodes the way we think about the idea of the self.
Kaya Wilson
When Kaya Wilson came out to his parents as transgender, a year after a near-death surfing accident and just weeks before his father’s death, he was met with a startling…
Yves Rees
A timely and thought-provoking memoir about the trans experience.
Emerson Whitney
What follows is that mess-electrifying, gorgeous, defiant.
At Heaven’s centre, Whitney seeks to understand their relationship to their mother and grandmother, those first windows into womanhood and all its consequences…
The astonishing new novel from the author of Freshwater - Longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction and the Wellcome Book Prize.
Mannie Murphy
In this graphic novel, what begins as an affectionate reminiscence of the author’s 1990s teenage infatuation with the late actor River Phoenix morphs into a remarkable, sprawling account of the…
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Calvin Kasulke
It’s working from home as you’ve never seen it before, as Gerald finds himself at ones and zeros inside his company’s Slack chat in this hilarious debut novel.
Lee Lai
An exhilarating and tender debut graphic novel that is an ode to the love and connection shared among three women and the child they all adore.
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Joss Lake
An embittered dog walker obsessed with a social media influencer inadvertently puts a curse on a young man-and must adventure into mysterious dimension in order to save him-in this wildly…
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Eileen Myles
In this third Why I Write volume, Eileen Myles addresses the social, political, and aesthetic conditions that shape their work
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Andrea Lawlor
Transposing Virginia Woolf’s Orlando to 90s San Francisco, this novel of transgender metamorphosis is a wild, sexy, funny and moving story of living on the edge.
Ellen van Neerven
Throat is the explosive second poetry collection from award-winning Mununjali Yugambeh writer Ellen van Neerven.
Daniel Mallory Ortberg
A New York Times bestselling author’s sparkling memoir of changing genders whilst remaining a feminist.
Casey McQuiston
What happens when America’s First Son falls in love with the Prince of Wales?
Meet Nevo: girl, boy, he, she, him, her, they, them, daughter, son, teacher, student, friend, gay, bi, lesbian, trans, homo, Jew, dyke, masculine, feminine, androgynous, queer.
In their riveting and timely young adult debut, acclaimed novelist Akwaeke Emezi asks difficult questions about what choices a young person can make when the adults around them are in…
Winner of the 2017 Thomas Shapcott Prize for Poetry.
Tom Cho
This is a collection of stories about transformation, with the storyteller and his family shifting through identities drawn from comics, video games, daytime TV, porn flicks and movies, in fantasies…
Kai Cheng Thom
Essays on love, mercy, and forgiveness as political values in these polarizing times, by the acclaimed trans poet and prose writer.
Tommi Parrish
A friendship fumbles and falls apart after an uncertain encounter in this graphic novel from a remarkable new voice.
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Alison Evans
Highway Bodies is a unique zombie apocalypse story featuring a range of queer and gender non-conforming teens who have lost their families and friends and can only rely upon each…
C.S. Pacat
From global phenomenon C.S. Pacat comes the compelling first adventure in her critically acclaimed trilogy.
