YA Book (fiction) by a Trans Author: Read Harder 2024Like this list

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• Felix Ever After

  Callender, Kacen

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  Kacen Callender is an award-winning author with several books out that would all be appropriate for this task. Felix Love, a transgender seventeen-year-old, attempts to get revenge by catfishing his anonymous bully, but lands in a quasi-love…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Always the Almost

  a Novel

  Underhill, Edward

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  This is the first novel by Underhill, but his second is expected out in February, 2024! From his website, "As a queer trans man, he is passionate about representation both on the screen and on the page." Underhill also writes music.

• Transmogrify!

  14 Fantastical Tales of Trans Magic

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  Not only short stories about trans characters but also in the scifi/fantasy genre.

• If I Was Your Girl

  Russo, Meredith

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  "MEREDITH RUSSO was born, raised, and lives in Tennessee. She started living as her true self in late 2013 and never looked back. If I Was Your Girl was partially inspired by her experiences as a trans woman. Like Amanda, Meredith is a gigantic nerd…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Passing Playbook

  Fitzsimons, Isaac,

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  From https://www.isaacfitzbooks.com/about : "Isaac Fitzsimons (Fits-EYE-mons) writes so that every reader can see themselves reflected in literature. His debut novel, The Passing Playbook, received numerous accolades including being named a Junior…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• I Wish You All the Best

  Deaver, Mason

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  "Mason Deaver is a bestselling and award-winning young-adult novelist. Their books have received starred reviews from Booklist and Publisher’s Weekly, have been nominated for the Goodreads Choice Award, and won the Pink News' Best Young Adult Book…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Cemetery Boys

  Thomas, Aiden

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  "Aiden Thomas is a trans, Latinx, New York Times Bestselling Author with an MFA in Creative Writing from Mills College. Originally from Oakland, California, they now make their home in Portland, OR. Aiden is notorious for not being able to guess the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Sasha Masha

  Borinsky, Agnes

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  "Transgender author Agnes Borinsky deftly explores gender identity and queer romance in this heart-wrenching debut novel." "Agnes Borinsky is a writer from Baltimore, now living in Los Angeles. She mostly writes essays and plays, and has…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Between Perfect and Real

  Stoeve, Ray

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  "RAY STOEVE is the author of the young adult novels Between Perfect and Real (2021) and Arden Grey (2022), both Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selections. They also contributed to the young adult anthology Take The Mic: Fictional Stories of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Out of Salem

  Schrieve, Hal

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  "Hal Schrieve is the author of Out of Salem (March 26, 2019), which was selected for the National Book Award Long List for Young People’s Literature in 2019. Hir forthcoming book, How To Get Over the End of the World, will be released in Fall 2023…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Witch King

  Edgmon, H. E.

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  "H.E. Edgmon is an author of queer speculative fiction across genres. Once a stray dog in the rural south, he now makes his home in the Pacific Northwest with a family of his own design. Haunted and hopeful, his work aims to offer levity without…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Shapeshifters

  Hawksong; Snakecharm; Falcondance; Wolfcry; Wyvernhail

  Atwater-Rhodes, Amelia

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  https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/17082.Amelia_Atwater_Rhodes

• When We Were Magic

  Gailey, Sarah

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  "Sarah Gailey Writes Stories. ALL KINDS OF STORIES. TRUE AND FALSE, BIG AND SMALL." https://sarahgailey.com/

• The Disasters

  England, M. K.

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  "M. K. England grew up on the Space Coast of Florida watching shuttle launches from the backyard. These days, they call rural Virginia home, where there are many excellent sheep but a tragic lack of rockets. Between marathon writing sessions, MK can…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Even If We Break

  Nijkamp, Marieke

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  "Marieke’s YA novels include: This Is Where It Ends, which follows four teens during the fifty-four minutes of a school shooting. Before I Let Go, a haunting murder mystery set during a cruel Alaskan winter. Even If We Break, a cabin-in-the-woods…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Wintersong

  Jae-Jones, S.

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  S. Jae-Jones (called JJ) is an artist, an adrenaline junkie, and the New York Times bestselling author of the Wintersong duology and the Guardians of Dawn series. Born and raised in Los Angeles, she now lives on the wrong coast, where she can’t…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Out Now

  Queer We Go Again!

  Mitchell, Saundra • Oshiro, Mark • Roehrig, Caleb • RUSSO, MEREDITH • Schrefer, Eliot • Sim, Tara • Winters, Julian • Jackson, Kosoko • Verdi, Jessica • Kostakis, Will • Benwell, Fox • Boteju, Tanya • Hart, Kate • Lee, C.B. • Locke, Katherine • Monahan, Hillary • Montgomery, Cam

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  A follow-up to the critically acclaimed All Out anthology, Out Now features seventeen new short stories from amazing queer YA authors. Vampires crash prom...aliens run from the government...a president's daughter comes into her own...a true romantic…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• All Out

  The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages

  Mitchell, Saundra • Sharpe, Tess • Scelsa, Kate • Parker, Natalie C. • Farizan, Sara • Magruder, Nilah • Gratton, Tessa • Mejia, Tehlor Kay • Sanchez, Alex • Tracey, Scott • Lo, Malinda • Talley, Robin • Lee, Mackenzi • Keplinger, Kody • Wake, Elliot • McLemore, Anna-Marie • David Hutchinson, Shaun • Adler, Dahlia

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• Pet

  Emezi, Akwaeke

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  AKWAEKE is an artist based in liminal spaces. Born and raised in Nigeria, their work spans literature, music, film, and visual art. https://www.akwaeke.com/biography

• Spy Stuff

  Metzger, Matthew J.

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  Matthew is an asexual, transgender author from the wet and windy British Isles. Matt writes LGBT novels, both adult and young adult, and particularly enjoys digging into the weird and wonderful diversity of people all across the sexuality and…Read moreRead more of this annotation