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International Transgender Day of Visibility

March 31st is International Transgender Day of Visibility. That makes it a particularly great day to check out new fiction written by transgender and nonbinary authors!

A/S/L

by Jeanne Thornton

A transformational, transformative story about video games, three queer friends, and the code(s) they learn to survive, from the winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Trans Fiction 1998. This new book by Jeanne Thornton, one of trans America's brightest literary stars, queers our notion of nostalgia as it expertly blends literature with technology.

Awakened : a novel

by A. E. Osworth

A coven of trans witches battles an evil AI in the magical coming-of-middle-age romp about love, loss, drag shows, and late capitalism. Awakened is an exhilarating, hilarious and thought-provoking reflection on the ways that we are responsible for creating our own realities , a story of finding community, and a meditation on what it means to have a body (and if it might be far worse never to have had one at all).

Cuckoo

by Gretchen Felker-Martin

In 1995, seven queer teens abandoned at a desert conversion camp face an ancient evil that haunts them for years, forcing them to reunite to stop it before it consumes the world. 

A gentleman's gentleman

by T. J. Alexander

Eccentric Lord Christopher Eden must navigate London's Season to secure a wife or risk losing his fortune, but his plans unravel when his handsome new valet, James, stirs a slow-burn romance that defies tradition and hides deeper secrets. 

Hammajang luck : a novel

by Makana Yamamoto

Fresh out of prison after eight years, Edie is lured back into one last heist by Angel, the woman who betrayed her, to take down the same trillionaire tech mogul they failed to target before. 

The in-between bookstore : a novel

by Edward Underhill

When Darby, a nearly 30-year-old trans man, returns to his Illinois hometown after losing his job, he steps into his old high school bookstore and slips back in time, coming face-to-face with his pre-transition teenage self, offering him a chance to change the past and confront old wounds.

The lilac people : a novel

by Milo Todd

Trans man Bertie and his girlfriend Sofie flee Nazi persecution in 1930s Berlin to live in hiding, later risking everything to protect a young trans Holocaust survivor from Allied arrest in a tale of resilience and the fight for queer survival.

Little rot

by Akwaeke Emezi

Aima and Kalu are a long-time couple who have just split. When Kalu, reeling from his loss, visits a sex party hosted by his best friend Ahmed, he makes a decision that will plunge them all into chaos, brutally upending their lives. Ola and Souraya, two Nigerian sex workers visiting from Kuala Lumpur, intersect with the three old friends as everything goes to hell. Sucked into the city's corrupt underworld, they're all looking for a way out of the trouble they've instigated, driven by loss and fueled by a desperate need to escape the dangerous threat that looms over them. Little Rot tests how far these five will go to save each other--or themselves--when confronted by evil, culminating in a shattering denouement.

Model home

by Rivers Solomon

Turns the haunted-house story on its head, unearthing the dark legacies of segregation and racism in the suburban American South.

Notes from a regicide

by Isaac R. Fellman

 In Notes from a Regicide, a trans family saga set in a far-off, familiar future, Isaac Fellman goes beyond the concept of found family to examine how deeply we can be healed and hurt by those we choose to love.

The pairing : a novel

by Casey McQuiston

When they accidentally book the same European food and wine tour, estranged exes Theo and Kit, trapped with each other for three weeks in the most romantic cities of France, Spain and Italy, challenge each other to a hookup competition to prove they're over each other. 

Single player : a novel

by Tara Tai

Cat Li lands her dream job writing love storylines for the next big thing in games, only after boss Andi Zhang, who hates happily-ever-afters, grudgingly gives Cat a chance, but when Cat discovers a plot to destroy Andi's career, they must find a way to work together before it's game over.

Stag dance : a novel & stories

by Torrey Peters

This collection of one novel and three novellas explores community, desire and the complexities of gender through stories of lumberjacks navigating identity in Stag Dance, a gender apocalypse in Infect Your Friends and Loved Ones, boarding school intrigue in The Chaser and dark choices on the Vegas strip in The Masker.

These fragile graces, this fugitive heart

by Izzy Wasserstein

When her ex-girlfriend Kay is murdered and everyone in her old commune is a suspect, Dora, while investigating, discovers Kay's death is one of several terrible incidents and is drawn into a twisted conspiracy while trying to stop a potential war between two nefarious companies. 

Woodworking

by Emily St. James

In small-town South Dakota, newly divorced Erica, a closeted trans teacher, forms an unlikely bond with Abigail, a bold trans student navigating senior year, as their friendship withstands community scrutiny as it shapes their journeys toward self-acceptance and authenticity.