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.

  • Ark-5
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    34 months ago

    I have a really hard time seriously recommending it, but The Spirit Bares it’s Teeth is a very good book, though I must give a massive content and trigger warning with it. It holds nothing back and even comes with a lengthy content warning at the beginning I suggest you read and take some time to consider continuing. As a trans and autistic person, I find the main character to be written so well, and the book does not at all feel like an author cashing in on trauma porn. Instead the book feels very honest to the experience people like the main character would have had during the time period and to some extent even today.