T4T: Trans Reading Trans discussion

January 2025

Jan 1



—Tales of the Tea Shoppe by Nik Kirimizi (Fiction, Romance, Fantasy)
—'Time Wars: The Adventures of Zero & One: Issue # 1 - Strange New World'
by Bijhan Agha (Fiction, Science Fiction, Comics & Graphic Novels)

Jan 13



—Lupus in Fabula - Briar Ripley Page (Fiction, Horror, Short Stories)

Jan 14



—Sweet Girls & Bluebirds - Caroline Sophia Hamel (Fiction, Young Adult)
—Dreamover - Dani Diaz (Fiction, Young Adult, Comics & Graphic Novels)
—The In-Between Bookstore - Edward Underhill (Fiction, Science Fiction)

Jan 21



—Trans and Disabled: An Anthology of Identities and Experiences - Alex Iantaffi (Fiction, Nonfiction, Essays, Plays, Poetry, Short Stories)
—Just Like Queen Esther - Kerry M. Olitzky (Fiction, Juvenile)

Jan 23



—Disappoint Me - Nicola Dinan (Fiction)

Jan 24



—Trans/Rad/Fem - Talia Bhatt (Nonfiction, Essays, Trans Studies)

Jan 28



—Ring - Michelle Lerner (Fiction)
—Emergent Genders: Living Otherwise in Tokyo's Pink Economies - Michelle H. S. Ho (Nonfiction, Trans Studies)

Jan 30



—Ice Apprentices - Jacob North (Fiction, Fantasy, Juvenile)

February 2025

Feb 1



—Love in Exile - Shon Faye (Nonfiction, Biography & Autobiography)
—A History of Transgender Medicine in the United States: From Margins to Mainstream - Carolyn Wolf-Gould (Nonfiction, History, Medicine)

Feb 3



—Neo—Dadaist Psyche - Rose Knapp (Nonfiction, Poetry)

Feb 4



—A World Worth Saving - Kyle Lukoff (Fiction, Juvenile)
—Cleavage: Men, Women, and the Space Between Us - Jennifer Finney Boylan (Nonfiction, Biography & Autobiography, Social Science)

Feb 6



—A Fix of Light - Kel Menton (Fiction, Fantasy, Romance, Young Adult)

Feb 11



—Chasers - Mariah Darling (Fiction, Horror)

Feb 13



—Name Her Holy - Aubrey Ennis (Fiction, Fantasy, Science Fiction)

Feb 21



—Lactation for the Rest of Us - Jacob Engelsman (Nonfiction, Health & Fitness)
—Beyond Bananas and Condoms: The LGBTQIA+ Inclusive Sex Education You Never Got at School - Dee Whitnell (Nonfiction, Health & Fitness)

Feb 25



—Trans Technologies - Oliver Haimson (Nonfiction, Technology)

March 2025

Mar 1



—Root Rot - Saskia Nislow (Fiction)

Mar 4



—They Bloom at Night - Trang Thanh Tran (Fiction, Young Adult)
—Strange Bedfellows - Ariel Slamet Ries (Fiction, Young Adult)
—Geraldine - Andrea Thompson (Fiction)
—Who Is Amy Schneider?: Questions on Growing Up, Being Curious, and Winning It Big on Jeopardy! - Amy Schneider (Nonfiction, Juvenile, Biography & Autobiography)
—Woodworking - Emily St. James (Fiction)

Mar 11



—A Gentleman's Gentleman - T.J. Alexander (Fiction, Romance)
—Paper Doll: Notes from a Late Bloomer - Dylan Mulvaney (Nonfiction, Biography & Autobiography)
—Stag Dance - Torrey Peters (Fiction, Short Stories)
—Glitch Girl! - Rainie Oet (Fiction, Juvenile)

Mar 13



—Amped Up! - Opalin Hubay Pickens (Fiction, Fantasy, Romance)
—Her Name Is Alice: My Daughter, Her Transition and Why We Must Remember Her - Caroline Litman (Nonfiction, Biography & Autobiography)

Mar 15



—Tempest, Take Me Home - Charlie Knight (Fiction, Fantasy)

Mar 18



—Beyond Personhood: An Essay in Trans Philosophy - Talia Mae Bettcher (Nonfiction, Philosophy)

Mar 22



—Scream / Queen: Poems - C.D. Eskilson (Nonfiction, Poetry)

Mar 25



—Trauma Plot: A Life - Jamie Hood (Nonfiction, Biography & Autobiography)
—Student Government Dave Justus (Fiction, Comic & Graphic Novels, Young Adult)

Mar 28



—Rounding for Home - Fallon Brown (Fiction, Sports, Romance)

Mar 31



—The Mahele of Our Bodies: Nā Moʻolelo Kūpuna Māhū/LGBTQ - Stephanie Nohelani Teves (Nonfiction, Biography & Autobiography)

April 2025

Apr 1



—Unsex Me Here - Aurora Mattia (Fiction)
—Worthy of the Event: An Essay - Vivian Blaxell (Nonfiction, Biography & Autobiography, Essays)
—Unboxing Libby - Steph Cherrywell (Fiction, Juvenile)
—A/S/L - Jeanne Thornton (Fiction)
—Realistic Fiction - Anton Solomonik (Fiction)
—La traición de mi lengua - Camila Sosa Villada (Nonfiction, Poetry)
—In Your Nature - Estlin McPhee (Fiction, Poetry)

Apr 2



—The Girl That My Mother Is Leaving Me For (Fiction, Science Fiction, Short Stories)

Apr 7



—Trans Biblical: New Approaches to Interpretation and Embodiment in Scripture - Joseph A. Marchal (ed.) (Nonfiction, Religion)

Apr 8



—Ollie in Between - Jess Callans (Fiction, Juvenile)
—Authority: Essays - Andrea Long Chu (Nonfiction, Essays)

Apr 10



—H - R Merey (Fiction)

Apr 14



—I Love Shopping - Lauren Cook (Fiction)

Apr 15



—Family Week - Sarah Moon (Fiction, Juvenile)
—Fixed Up - Aurora Rey (Fiction, Romance)
—When the Harvest Comes - Denne Michele Norris (Fiction)
—a body more tolerable - jaye simpson (Nonfiction, Poetry)
—The Night Menagerie - Kathryne Lentes (Fiction, Fantasy, Paranormal, Romance)
—Dysphoria Mundi: A Diary of Planetary Transition - Paul B. Preciado (Nonfiction, Philosophy, Politics)


Apr 17



—Affirming Imogene - Desiree Moore (Fiction)

Apr 22



—Batcat: Cooking Contest! - Meggie Ramm (Fiction, Juvenile, Comics & Graphic Novels, Fantasy)

Apr 29



—The Lilac People - Milo Todd (Fiction, Historical Fiction)
—Letters to Our Robot Son - Cadance Bell (Fiction, Science Fiction)
—Local Woman - jzl jmz (Nonfiction, Poetry)
—Low Orbit - Kazimir Lee (Fiction, Comics & Graphic Novels, Young Adult)

May 2025

May 1



—Goodbye, Hello - Heather K. O'Malley (Fiction, Romance)

May 6



—The Dad Rock That Made Me a Woman - Niko Stratis (Nonfiction, Biography & Autobiography)
—Beyond They/Them: 20 Influential Nonbinary and Gender-Diverse People You Should Know - Em Dickson (Nonfiction, History, Biography/Autobiography, Comics & Graphic Novels)

May 13



—The Intermediaries: A Weimar Story - Brandy Schillace (Nonfiction, History, Medicine)
—Trans History: A Graphic Novel: From Ancient Times to the Present Day - Alex L. Combs (Nonfiction, Comics & Graphic Novels, History, Young Adult)
—A Sharp Endless Need - Marisa Crane (Fiction)
—This Book Is a Knife: Radical Working-Class Strategies in the Age of Climate Change - L.E. Fox (Nonfiction, Economics, Environmentalism)
—One of the Boys - Victoria Zeller (Fiction, Young Adult)
—To Please Her - Elena Abbott (Fiction, Erotica, Romance)
—So Many Stars: An Oral History of Trans, Nonbinary, Genderqueer, and Two-Spirit People of Color - Caro De Robertis (Nonfiction, Biography & Autobiography, History, Social Science)
—The Einstein of Sex: Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, Visionary of Weimar Berlin - Daniel Brook (Nonfiction, Biography & Autobiography, History, Medicine)
—The Duke Steals Hearts & Other Body Parts - Elias Cold (Fiction, Young Adult, Fantasy, Horror)

May 15



—Sage - Yaffa As (Nonfiction, Poetry)

May 20



—In Case You Read This - Edward Underhill (Fiction, Romance, Young Adult)
—One Day in June: A Story Inspired by the Life and Activism of Marsha P. Johnson (Nonfiction, Juvenile, Picture Books)
—Aggregated Discontent: Confessions of the Last Normal Woman - Harron Walker (Nonfiction, Essays)
—Marsha: The Joy and Defiance of Marsha P. Johnson - Tourmaline (Nonfiction, Biography & Autobiography)

May 25



—Demon Engine - Marten Norr (Fiction, Horror)

May 27



—Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity - Lee Mandelo (Fiction, Science Fiction, Short Stories)
—Going Overboard - Caroline Huntoon (Fiction, Juvenile)
—And They Were Roommates - Page Powars (Fiction, Romance, Young Adult)
—Before Gender: Lost Stories from Trans History, 1850-1950 - Eli Erlick (Nonfiction, Biography & Autobiography, History, Social Science)

May 28



—Maybe This Will Save Me: A Memoir of Art, Addiction and Transformation (Nonfiction, Biography & Autobiography)

May 29



—Do Ask, Do Tell: Queer Life, Love and Culture Laid Bare - Lotte Jeffs, Stuart Oakley (Nonfiction, Social Science)

June 2025

Jun 3



—I Was an Abomination: A Story of Trans Survival in Conservative America - Sheryl Weikal (Nonfiction, Biography & Autobiography)
—Devils Like Us - L.T. Thompson (Fiction, Historical Fiction, Young Adult)

Jun 6



—The Immortal Choir Holds Every Voice - Margaret Killjoy (Fiction, Fantasy)

Jun 10



—Love, Misha: A Graphic Novel - Askel Aden (Fiction, Comics & Graphic Novels, Young Adult)

Jun 17



—Senpai is an Otokonoko: My Crossdressing Classmate 1 - Pom (Fiction, Comics & Graphic Novels, Manga)

Jun 18



—Meet Me at the Ruins - Luna Westish (Fiction, Romance)

Jun 19



—My History, My Gender, Me - Cassandra Jules Corrigan (Nonfiction, History, Juvenile)
—About Bliss: Fighting for My Trans Son's Life, Joy, and Fertility - Cristina Olivetti (Nonfiction, Family & Relationships, Health & Fitness)

Jun 23



—The Magician and the Mechanical Doll, Tales of a Vernian Youth Volume 1 - Gaius J. Augustus (Fiction, Fantasy, Science Fiction)

Jun 24



—Among Ghosts - Rachel Hartman (Fiction, Fantasy, Young Adult)

Jun 30



—Our Simulated Selves - Nikki Null (Fiction, Science Fiction)

July 2025

Jul 1



—Human Rites - Juno Dawson (Fiction, Fantasy)
—Hot Girls with Balls - Benedict Nguyễn (Fiction)
—Burn the Binary!: Vol. 2: Selected Writing on the Politics of Being Trans, Genderqueer, and Nonbinary - Riki Anne Wilchins (Nonfiction, Political Science, Trans Studies)

Jul 15



—Mythweaver - Birch Wiley (Nonfiction, Poetry)

Jul 22



—(So What) If I’m a Puta?: Travesti Diaries - Amara Moira (Nonfiction, Biography & Autobiography)

Jul 25



—Student Bodies - T.T. Madden (Fiction, Horror)

Jul 29



—Simplicity - Mattie Lubchansky (Fiction, Comics & Graphic Novels)

August 2025

Aug 4



—Transgender Intersections: Race and Gender through Identities, Interactions, and Systems of Power - Carey Jean Sojka (Nonfiction, Social Science, Trans Studies)

Aug 5



—Black Flame - Gretchen Felker-Martin (Fiction, Horror)
—San Francisco's Transgender District - Rev. Dr. Megan Rohrer (Nonfiction, History, Photography)

Aug 12



—Both/And: Essays by Trans and Gender-Nonconforming Writers of Color―A Moving Anthology Celebrating Joy, Heartbreak, and Self-Discovery - Denne Michele Norris (Nonfiction, Biography & Autobiography, Essays)
—Dancing With Water - Gwendolyn Wallace (Fiction, Juvenile, Picture Books)
—Lord of Ruin - K.M. Enright (Fiction, Horror, Romance)
—An Extraordinary Passion - Kit Meredith (Fiction, Romance)
—A Game in Yellow - Hailey Piper (Fiction, Horror)

Aug 15



—Anthropological Study - Lauren Miller (Nonfiction, Poetry)

Aug 19



—Lessons in Magic and Disaster - Charlie Jane Anders (Fiction, Fantasy)

September 2025

Sep 2



—Algarabía: The Song of Cenex, Natural Son of the Isle Alarabíyya / La canción de Cenex, hijo natural de la Ínsula Alarabíyya - Roque Raquel Salas Rivera (Nonfiction, Poetry)
—Moonflow - Bitter Karella (Fiction, Horror)
—Come and See: An invitation to a radical encounter with Jesus - Shannon T.L. Kearns (Nonfiction, Religion, Juvenile)

Sep 5



—A Gaze So Longing - River Flynn (Fiction, Historical Fiction, Romance)

Sep 9



—Death of the First Idea: Poems - Rickey Laurentiis (Nonfiction, Poetry)
—You Weren't Meant to Be Human -Andrew Joseph White (Fiction, Horror, Science Fiction)
—The Most Unusual Haunting of Edgar Lovejoy - Roan Parrish (Fiction, Romance)
—Standardizing Sex: A History of Trans Medicine - Ketil Slagstad (Nonfiction, Science, Health & Fitness, History)

Sep 12



—Tech Prince Troubles - Blaine D. Arden (Fiction)

Sep 16



—Fawn's Blood - Hal Schrieve (Fiction, Young Adult)
—The Ink Witch - Steph Cherrywell (Fiction, Juvenile)
—Teenage Girls Can Be Demons - Hailey Piper (Fiction, Horror, Short Stories)

Sep 18



The Methuen Drama Book of Trans Plays Volume 2 - Leanna Keyes (Ed.) (Fiction, Plays, Anthology)

Sep 23



—Best Woman - Rose Dommu (Fiction)

Sep 30




—The Transition - Logan-Ashley Kisner (Fiction, Horror, Young Adult)
—Perverts - Kay Gabriel (Nonfiction, Poetry)
—Post-Man: Essays on Being a Neurodivergent Non-Binary Person - Alex Manley (Nonfiction, Biography & Autobiography, Essays)
—Between the Walls - Caspian Faye (Fiction, Paranormal, Romance, Young Adult)

October 2025

Oct 2



—Shy Trans Banshee - Tony Santorella (Fiction, Fantasy)

Oct 7



—Uncanny Valley Girls: Essays on Horror, Survival, and Love - Zefyr Lisowski (Nonfiction, Biography & Autobiography, Essays)
—Herculine - Grace Byron (Fiction, Horror)
—Call Me Gray - Andrew Larsen (Fiction, Juvenile, Picture Books)
—Queers at the Table: An Illustrated Guide to Queer Food - Alex D. Ketchum (Nonfiction, Comics & Graphic Novels, Cooking)
—An Optimism: Poems - Cameron Awkward-Rich (Nonfiction, Poetry)

Oct 8



—Dove's Eyes - Kienn Nguyen (Fiction, Horror, Thriller / Suspense)

Oct 14



—Sir Callie and the Final Stand - Esme Symes-Smith (Fiction, Juvenile)
—DILF: Did I Leave Feminism? - Jude Ellison S. Doyle (Nonfiction, Biography & Autobiography, Social Science)

Oct 15



—The New Eve - Moussa Ould Ebnou (Fiction, Science Fiction)

Oct 18



—The New Worlds - Jaye C. Watts (Fiction, Science Fiction)

Oct 21



—Crawl: Stories - Max Delsohn (Fiction, Short Stories)
—sorry i keep crying during sex - Jesse James Rose (Nonfiction, Biography & Autobiography)

Oct 26



—Last Wolves of Paris - T.G. Joye (Fiction, Crime, Fantasy, Paranormal)

Oct 29



—Orphanland - Lauren Fischer (Fiction, Juvenile)

Oct 31



—Shadows Over Ravenkirk: The Last Will and Testament of Wilhelmina Bruttenholm - Vivian Moira Valentine (Fiction, Horror)

November 2025

Nov 1



—Terry Dactyl - Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore (Fiction)

Nov 4



—Transtraterrestrial: Dark Matter and Black Divinities - Sage Ni'ja Whitson (Nonfiction, Art & Artists)
—My Gender, My Rules - Andy Passchier (Nonfiction, Juvenile, Picture Books)
—Song of Spores - Bogi Takács (Fiction, Science Fiction, Weird Fiction)
—Chris Makes a Friend - Álex Gino (Fiction, Juvenile)
—Gendertrash From Hell: The First Print Collection of the Zine That Changed Everything - Mirha-Soleil Ross (Nonfiction, Periodicals)
—The Past Is a Grotesque Animal - Tommi Parrish (Fiction, Comics & Graphic Novels, Short Stories)
—And the Dragons Do Come: Raising a Transgender Kid in Rural America - Sim Butler (Nonfiction, Biography & Autobiography)

Nov 14



—If One Continues to Survive : An Anthology of Resistances - Emily Pipkins (Nonfiction, Poetry)

Nov 18



—Seahorses: Trans, Nonbinary, and Gender-Expansive Pregnancy - Simon Knaphus (Nonfiction, Essays, Health & Fitness)

Nov 21



—Queer Minds - Katy Lees (Nonfiction, Health & Fitness)

Nov 27



—Jaw Filler - Maz Murray (Fiction, Mystery)

December 2025

Dec 2



—There's Always Next Year - Leah Johnson (Fiction, Young Adult)

Dec 7



—Fractures Between - Beatrice Mckinsey (Fiction, Romance)

Dec 27



—elegy for lukas - luna rey hall (Nonfiction, Poetry)