,
Discover new books on Goodreads
Meet your next favorite book

Books that feature transgender main characters that are by authors who identify as trans. (Or nonfiction books focusing on transgender issues by trans authors.)
1

by
3.92 avg rating — 20,714 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
2

by
4.56 avg rating — 40,232 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
3

by
3.97 avg rating — 42,391 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
4

by
4.27 avg rating — 9,461 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
5

by
3.91 avg rating — 96,872 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
6

by
4.22 avg rating — 5,950 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
7

by
4.09 avg rating — 48,409 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
8

by
4.30 avg rating — 16,893 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
9

by
4.20 avg rating — 67,996 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
10

by
4.11 avg rating — 9,443 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
11

by
4.05 avg rating — 12,194 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
12

by
4.14 avg rating — 56,293 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
13

by
4.10 avg rating — 2,995 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
14

by
3.95 avg rating — 22,614 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
15

by
4.05 avg rating — 2,666 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
16

by
4.31 avg rating — 11,299 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
17

by
4.27 avg rating — 82,443 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
18

by
4.23 avg rating — 113,552 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
19

by
4.23 avg rating — 6,218 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
20

by
3.88 avg rating — 4,622 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
21

by
4.30 avg rating — 2,532 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
22

by
4.13 avg rating — 35,589 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
23

by
4.19 avg rating — 13,103 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
24

by
3.75 avg rating — 3,274 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
25

by
4.85 avg rating — 25 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
26

by
3.97 avg rating — 13,286 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
27

by
4.12 avg rating — 1,967 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
28

by
4.02 avg rating — 2,518 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
29

by
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 38,448 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
30

by
4.03 avg rating — 6,432 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
31

by
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 396 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
32

by
4.23 avg rating — 315 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
33

by
4.16 avg rating — 2,416 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
34

by
4.12 avg rating — 141 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
35

by
4.22 avg rating — 234 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
36

by
4.10 avg rating — 2,171 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
37

by
4.20 avg rating — 4,538 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
38

by
4.01 avg rating — 5,636 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
39

by
4.01 avg rating — 509 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
40

by
4.37 avg rating — 2,561 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
40

by
4.06 avg rating — 7,188 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
42

by
3.95 avg rating — 1,350 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
43

by
3.89 avg rating — 2,392 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
44

by
4.19 avg rating — 1,706 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
45

by
3.81 avg rating — 17,033 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
46

by
4.03 avg rating — 1,321 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
47

by
4.07 avg rating — 37,249 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
48

by
4.14 avg rating — 29 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
48

by
3.47 avg rating — 17,896 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
50

by
4.50 avg rating — 235 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
51

by
3.97 avg rating — 1,021 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
52

by
4.02 avg rating — 42,392 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
53

by
4.03 avg rating — 1,496 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
54

by
4.12 avg rating — 3,431 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
55

by
3.98 avg rating — 246 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
56

by
4.23 avg rating — 44 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
57

by
4.24 avg rating — 2,444 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
58

by
4.52 avg rating — 52 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
59

by
3.87 avg rating — 11,376 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
60

by
4.41 avg rating — 1,193 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
61

by
4.74 avg rating — 2,811 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
62

by
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,183 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
63

by
3.54 avg rating — 837 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
64

by
4.16 avg rating — 709 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
65

by
3.79 avg rating — 986 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
66

by
4.17 avg rating — 396 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
67

by
3.94 avg rating — 1,965 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
68

by
3.89 avg rating — 5,178 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
69

by
4.09 avg rating — 952 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
70

by
3.94 avg rating — 3,680 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
71

by
3.70 avg rating — 20 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
72

by
4.41 avg rating — 857 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
73

by
3.98 avg rating — 1,648 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
74

by
4.38 avg rating — 766 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
75

by
4.25 avg rating — 120 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
76

by
4.12 avg rating — 246 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
77

by
3.89 avg rating — 1,658 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
78

by
3.98 avg rating — 104 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
79

by
3.99 avg rating — 388 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
80

by
4.29 avg rating — 9,846 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
81

by
4.26 avg rating — 2,005 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
82

by
3.78 avg rating — 388 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
82

by
3.69 avg rating — 13,973 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
84

by
3.70 avg rating — 6,095 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
84

by
4.45 avg rating — 6,538 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
86

by
3.53 avg rating — 1,152 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
87

by
4.03 avg rating — 3,113 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
88

by
3.85 avg rating — 416 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
89

by
4.34 avg rating — 94 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
89

by
3.72 avg rating — 79,772 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
91

by
3.83 avg rating — 5,821 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
92

by
4.27 avg rating — 3,585 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
93

by
4.43 avg rating — 22,252 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
94

by
3.71 avg rating — 119 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
95

by
3.90 avg rating — 2,724 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
95

by
4.68 avg rating — 34 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
97

by
3.81 avg rating — 154 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
98

by
4.43 avg rating — 2,714 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
99

by
3.96 avg rating — 299 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
100

by
3.94 avg rating — 1,245 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
615 books · 435 voters · list created September 13th, 2015 by Danika at The Lesbrary (votes) .
474 likes · 
Lists are re-scored approximately every 5 minutes.


Danika at The Lesbrary 3236 books
800 friends
RJ 2387 books
154 friends
Cat 3569 books
13 friends
CaseyTheCanadianLesbrarian 5624 books
1300 friends
Sarah 6162 books
147 friends
Akiva ꙮ 5982 books
95 friends
Everett 530 books
269 friends
Serafim 90 books
0 friends

More voters…


Comments Showing 1-16 of 16 (16 new)

dateUp arrow    newest »

message 1: by RJ (new)

RJ Does Pat Schmatz identify as trans and/or genderqueer? I was looking this book up today and couldn't find any confirmation either way.


Danika at The Lesbrary R.J. wrote: "Does Pat Schmatz identify as trans and/or genderqueer? I was looking this book up today and couldn't find any confirmation either way."

I found it on the #OwnVoices tag on twitter: https://twitter.com/aboredauthor/stat...

But to be honest I can't find any evidence other than that lone tweet that Pat identifies as trans, so I've removed my vote for that one.


message 3: by Akiva ꙮ (new)

Akiva ꙮ Does Leah Raeder identify as trans? I also couldn't tell from the descriptions whether her books on this list had trans characters.


Danika at The Lesbrary Levi wrote: "Does Leah Raeder identify as trans? I also couldn't tell from the descriptions whether her books on this list had trans characters."

According to her twitter, she identifies as nonbinary.


message 5: by Rainbowheart (new)

Rainbowheart Not sure about the others, but I believe Leah Raeder's forthcoming "Bad Boy" will have an FTM main character.


message 6: by Akiva ꙮ (new)

Akiva ꙮ Ah, thanks!


message 7: by Rainbowheart (new)

Rainbowheart YA authors James Dawson and Zac Brewer (formerly Heather Brewer) also recently came out as trans. Not sure if any of their work has transgender characters, though.


message 8: by S.A.A. (new)

S.A.A. Calvert Been cheeky and added my own books. They are all real-world stories (apart from one short SF/Horror and a single horror), fiction, and the central characters are trans.


message 9: by Luke (new)

Luke Question: should Sovereign Erotics: A Collection of Two-Spirit Literature be on or off this list?


message 10: by Rainbowheart (new)

Rainbowheart Seems to fit. Qwo-Li Driskill appears to be on the trans spectrum according to their profile.


message 11: by [deleted user] (new)


message 12: by Rachel (last edited Dec 21, 2019 02:04AM) (new)

Rachel Redhead I'm a trans author and most of my books feature trans characters, but as no one has even heard of them, and I can't add my own books, I fear they'll never appear on this list :(

If anyone out there is kind enough to just add one book of mine - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3... - to this list I'd be deeply grateful :)


message 13: by S.A.A. (new)

S.A.A. Calvert Rachel wrote: "I'm a trans author and most of my books feature trans characters, but as no one has even heard of them, and I can't add my own books, I fear they'll never appear on this list :(

If anyone out ther..."


I feel your need---me too!


message 14: by Gender (new)

Gender Library Not entirely sure how they identify re: transness, but we're buying a few books from Arcadia Missa by authors who use 'they' pronouns or ID as genderqueer (sufficient for inclusion at GCLL, if not on this list): 'Metabolize, If Able' (Clay AD), 'Virus' (Linda Stupart) and 'On Hell' (Johanna Hedva).


message 15: by Julian (new)

Julian I believe that Arlene Stein (Unbound: Transgender Men and the Remaking of Identity) is cis


message 16: by Riz (last edited Sep 17, 2024 08:10AM) (new)

Riz I want to add two of my favorite authors:

By Gabe Cole Novoa:
- The Wicked Bargain (enby transmasc)
- The Diablo's Curse (genderfluid)
- Most Ardently (transmasc)

By Andrew Joseph White:
- Hell Followed With Us (transmasc)
- The Spirit Bares its Teeth (transmasc)
- Compound Fracture (transmasc)

By F. T. Lukens (not sure how they identify specifically, but they use they/them pronouns)
- Spell Bound (enby)
- Otherwordly (enby)


back to top



Related News

Happy Pride Month, fellow Goodreaders! And behold! To mark this annual celebration, we’ve gathered together a collection of brand-new LGBTQ+...

Anyone can add books to this list.