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Trans@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish · 9 months ago

Favorite books with trans protagonists?

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Favorite books with trans protagonists?

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Trans@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish · 9 months ago

As the title says, what are your favorite books with trans protagonists?

I just finished Light From Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki and thoroughly enjoyed it. The main character is a runaway trans girl who wants to be a violinist. Without spoiling too much it’s also a sci-fi/fantasy story and has a lesbian side-romance. TW for rape and general transphobia.

What Moves The Dead by T. Kingfisher is another favorite of mine. It has a nonbinary protagonist and is a SFF horror rewrite of The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allen Poe. If you like an alt-history Victorian setting with the undead this is straight up your alley.

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https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30279514-dreadnought

Dreadnaught is about a MtF character that inherited a super power thingie that turned her into her ideal body.

I’m a gay male, but still found a ton of sympathy with the main character dealing with her parents trying to “fix” her.
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  I haven’t heard of this one before, thanks for the recommendation!

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