LGBTQIA Reading List

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LGBTQIA Books

Being the curious cat (or mouse) that I am, my mind has ingested its fair share of books, ranging from theories of cultural evolutionary psychology to the neuroscience behind 3D depth perception, to the complexities of P=NP and and infinite dimensional vector spaces, to troubled teens questioning their sexuality and their gender. Yes, I am an addict, and YA Queer literature is my drug. Here’s the list of books read so far, or on the radar. (Note: all the links go to Amazon, so you can read the description and reviews.)

Transgender Literature

Gay and Lesbian Literature

Intersex, Crossdressing, Gender-Bending, and other Queer tales

Non-Fiction

Send me your suggestions or others you know about!

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About maddox

maddox blogs about all things LGBTQ - asexuality, transgender, neutrois, and general queerness. Drawing from personal history and external analysis, they hope to understand the world a little bit more.

8 Comments

  1. Ariel
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    I loved Annabel. The focus is on Wayne, and other characters, not so much on Wayne’s condition (he’s a true hermaphrodite), but of course that condition is always part of his story.

  2. ace eccentric
    Reply

    I’ve also got Huntress to read, it’s on my bookshelf. But I told myself I can’t start it until I write my paper due next week :P Did you get to read I Am J yet? Would it be worth buying it? (Since I’ve no idea when my library will process it.)

    I plan to make posts on more of the books I’ve been reading for my YA queer lit survey, but to jump the gun, I looooved James St. James’ Freak Show. It has some triggery content (the main character is beaten into a coma and almost raped) and is yet the single most upbeat book I’ve read for my entire project. Billy (the narrator) is amazingly engaging, charming, and spirited. The book uses some typographical stuff like ALL CAPS, but it never felt gimmicky to me. And it had a happy ending!

    Also, Middlesex made me remember that a while back (I hope that link works) Intersex Unicorn on Tumblr was taking questions about Middlesex and linking to reviews and stuff that said it was awful: that the character’s being intersex was used as a plot device, and that the author did zero research on being intersex and did not talk to anyone in the intersex community. I’ve since seen it referred to as using being intersex as a “cash cow”.

  3. Meike
    Reply

    Don’t forget S. Bear Burgman’s second book, “The Nearest Exit May Be Behind You”. SO good! I have yet to read the first book, though. Also, have you read “I Am J”? I just finished it, and I loved it.

  4. maddox
    Reply

    Thanks for all the suggestions! I’ll be sure to check them out and add them to my list. And maybe make this a sticky post for reference.

    Yep, just finished ‘I Am J’ and will post a review soon. (Along with the 3 other books I finished this week… eek.) In sum: buy it. Or buy a Kindle and buy all of them.

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