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

Task 2: Read a YA book by a trans author This task doesn't specify fiction or nonfiction. I've made a list for each. This is the fiction list. * I've linked the text copies here, but many of these books are available in other formats (ebook, audiobook). Click the book title to go to the catalog entry and find additional formats.

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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…
    Book, 2020New York, NY : Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2020] — YA CAL
  • 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.
    Book, 2023New York : Wednesday Books, [2023] — YA UND
  • Transmogrify!

    14 Fantastical Tales of Trans Magic

    Not only short stories about trans characters but also in the scifi/fantasy genre.
    Book, 2023New York, NY : HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2023] — YA TRA
  • "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…
    Book, 2016New York : Flatiron Books, 2016. — YA RUS
  • 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…
    Book, 2021New York : Dial Books, 2021. — YA FIT
  • "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…
    Book, 2019New York, NY : PUSH, 2019. — YA DEA
  • "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…
    Book, 2020New York : Swoon Reads, 2020. — YA THO
  • "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…
    eAudiobook, 2020Tantor Media, Inc, 2020
  • "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…
    Book, 2021New York : Amulet Books, 2021. — YA STO
  • "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…
    eBook, 2019Seven Stories Press/Triangle Square, 2019
  • "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…
    Book, 2021Toronto, Ontario, Canada : Inkyard Press, [2021] — YA EDG
  • The Shapeshifters

    Hawksong; Snakecharm; Falcondance; Wolfcry; Wyvernhail

    Atwater-Rhodes, Amelia
    https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/17082.Amelia_Atwater_Rhodes
    eBook, 2010Random House Children's Books, 2010
  • "Sarah Gailey Writes Stories. ALL KINDS OF STORIES. TRUE AND FALSE, BIG AND SMALL." https://sarahgailey.com/
    Book, 2020New York : Simon Pulse, 2020. — YA GAI
  • "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…
    Book, 2018New York, NY : Harper Teen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2018] — YA ENG
  • "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…
    Book, 2020Naperville, IL : Sourcebooks Fire, [2020] — YA NIJ
  • 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…
    Book, 2017New York : Thomas Dunne Books, St Martin's Press, 2017. — YA JAE
  • 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…
    eBook, 2020Inkyard Press, 2020
  • eBook, 2018Harlequin, 2018
  • 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
    Book, 2019New York : Make Me a World, [2019] — YA EME
  • 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…
    eBook, 2016Queerteen Press, 2016