Nina Here Nor There: My Journey Beyond Gender
10 best books like Nina Here Nor There: My Journey Beyond Gender (Nick Krieger): Sissy: A Coming-of-Gender Story, Gideon the Ninth, Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More, Little Fish, I Was Told There'd Be Cake, Conundrum, Transgender Warriors: Making History from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman, Stuck in the Middle With You: A Memoir of Parenting in Three Genders, Tomboy Survival Guide, Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue
Sissy: A Coming-of-Gender Story
A heart-wrenching, eye-opening, and giggle-inducing memoir about what it's like to grow up not sure if you're (a) a boy, (b) a girl, (c) something in between, or (d) all of the above.
From the moment a doctor in Raleigh, North Carolina, put "male" on Jacob Tobia's birth certificate, everything...
| Author | Tamsyn Muir |
| ISBN | 1250313198 |
Gideon the Ninth is the most fun you'll ever have with a skeleton.
The Emperor needs necromancers.
The Ninth Necromancer needs a swordswoman.
Gideon has a sword, some dirty magazines, and no more time for undead bullshit.
Tamsyn Muir's Gideon the Ninth unveils...
Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More
| Author | Janet Mock |
| ISBN | 1476709122 |
In 2011, Marie Claire magazine published a profile of Janet Mock in which she stepped forward for the first time as a trans woman. Those twenty-three hundred words were life-altering for the People.com editor, turning her into an influential and outspoken public figure and a desperately needed voice...
| Author | Casey Plett |
| ISBN | 1551527200 |
WINNER, Lambda Literary Award; Firecracker Award for Fiction; $60,000 Amazon Canada First Novel Award
In this extraordinary debut novel by the author of the Lambda Literary Award-winning story collection A Safe Girl to Love, Wendy Reimer is a thirty-year-old trans woman who comes across...
I Was Told There'd Be Cake
From the author of the novel, The Clasp, hailed by Michael Chabon, Heidi Julavits, and J. Courtney Sullivan. Wry, hilarious, and profoundly genuine, this debut collection of literary essays from Sloane Crosley is a celebration of fallibility and haplessness in all their glory.
From despoiling...
| Author | Jan Morris |
| ISBN | 1590171896 |
The great travel writer Jan Morris was born James Morris. James Morris distinguished himself in the British military, became a successful and physically daring reporter, climbed mountains, crossed deserts, and established a reputation as a historian of the British empire. He was happily married,...
Transgender Warriors: Making History from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman
| Author | Leslie Feinberg |
| ISBN | 0807079413 |
I've read a few reviews of this and a lot seem to bash Feinberg for not presenting a thoroughly academic history of transgender identity. I do think this kind of critique misses the point: quite spectacularly.
It's definitely true that if you want a meticulous, detailed, jargony drudge through...
Stuck in the Middle With You: A Memoir of Parenting in Three Genders
| Author | Jennifer Finney Boylan |
| ISBN | 0767921763 |
New York Times bestseller and acclaimed author Jennifer Finney Boylan returns with a remarkable memoir about gender and parenting, including incredible interviews discussing gender, how families are shaped, and the difficulties and wonders of being human.
A father for ten years, a mother...
| Author | Ivan E. Coyote |
| ISBN | 1551526565 |
Ivan Coyote is a celebrated storyteller and the author of ten previous books, including Gender Failure (with Rae Spoon) and One in Every Crowd, a collection for LGBT youth. Tomboy Survival Guide is a funny and moving memoir told in stories, in which Ivan recounts the pleasures and difficulties of growing...
Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue
| Author | Leslie Feinberg |
| ISBN | 0807079510 |
Those who have heard Leslie Feinberg speak in person know how powerful and inspiring s/he can be. In Trans Liberation, Feinberg has gathered a collection of hir speeches on trans liberation and its essential connection to the liberation of all people. This wonderfully immediate, impassioned, and...
Mrs. Martin’s Incomparable Adventure
Mrs. Bertrice Martin—a widow, some seventy-three years young—has kept her youthful-ish appearance with the most powerful of home remedies: daily doses of spite, regular baths in man-tears, and refusing to give so much as a single damn about her Terrible Nephew.
Then proper, correct...
Buffering: Unshared Tales of a Life Fully Loaded
| Author | Hannah Hart |
| ISBN | 0062457535 |
The wildly popular YouTube personality and author of the New York Times bestseller My Drunk Kitchen is back! This time, she’s stirring up memories and tales from her past.
By combing through the journals that Hannah has kept for much of her life, this collection of narrative essays delivers...
Transition: The Story of How I Became a Man
| Author | Chaz Bono |
| ISBN | 0142429295 |
oh, chaz. oh, there are so many things about this book that irritated me. let me count them!
1. okay, i'm not one of those people who thinks that one must live a truly extraordinary life to write a good memoir. i think that, if one has an eye for detail, a love for the absurd, and the ability to tell a...
How to Tell If Your Cat Is Plotting to Kill You
| Author | Matthew Inman |
| ISBN | 1449410243 |
If your cat is kneading you, that's not a sign of affection. Your cat is actually checking your internal organs for weakness. If your cat brings you a dead animal, this isn't a gift. It's a warning. How to Tell If Your Cat Is Plotting to Kill You is an offering of cat comics, facts, and instructional guides...
| Author | Erin Nations |
| ISBN | 1603094318 |
Discover the pioneering new comic from transgender cartoonist Erin Nations! Called by critics "funny, sincere, and just generally brilliant," Gumballs is a one-man variety show spanning graphic memoir, observational comedy, razor-sharp character studies, and so much more.
Gumballs...
| Author | Charlie Craggs |
| ISBN | 1785923439 |
Lambda Literary Award Finalist - LGBTQ Anthology
Dedicated to trans women everywhere, this inspirational collection of letters written by successful trans women shares the lessons they learnt on their journeys to womanhood, celebrating their achievements and empowering the next...
| Author | Caroline "Tula" Cossey |
| ISBN | 0571162517 |
This book was first published in 1991. That is when I read it. I loaned it to someone and never got it back. Years later I wanted to re-read it and discovered it had become a collectors book. Not too many were for sale and the prices were astronomical. I finally found an unused paper back copy online from a church...
