Despite being transgender I have never consumed a piece of media with LGBT representation in my life. Would anyone happen to know of any novels with transgender themes or elements? I'm not sure what to expect and I'm willing to take anything you think is good.
For reference my three favorite novels are Les Miserables, Anna Karenina, and American Psycho.
If you would like any additional information please let me know. I left this request intentionally minimal because I'm open to all kinds of suggestions. Thank you!
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Light from Uncommon Stars is really really good
This is a book aimed at middle schoolers but The Pants Project by Cat Clarke
*Make Room for Love* by Darcy Liao is a contemporary romance with a trans MC
*The Rat-Catcher’s Daughter* by KJ Charles takes place in 19th century London, the MC is a trans woman
Moving over to SFF, which is my usual thing:
T. . Kingfisher’s *Swordheart* is a cozy M/F romance, but features as a major supporting character the nonbinary Rat Priest Zale, Holy Lawyer and Public Defender of the Oppressed
*The Ballad of Perilous Graves* has a trans MC and takes place in both New Orleans and an alternate version of the city powered by jazz magic. It’s hard to summarize, but a great read.
Ngi Vo’s Singing Hills series is about a nonbinary monk, sometimes accompanied by a memory bird, collecting stories, which are queer.
*Full Fathom Five* by Max Gladstone*
A priestess of a murdered religion builds artificial gods as offshore soul havens. Also she’s trans, which is perfectly normal where she comes from and not really a big plot point.
The Necromancer Chronicles by Amanda Downum*
The title character is a cis woman, but only one of the books doesn’t have a trans deuteragonist, one of whom gets her own spinoff (1 or 2 stories, my memory is shaky the now) Necromancer secret agent for a decadent vaguely Mediterranean state. She foments revolution in a rival empire’s colony in the first book, gets involved in royal intrigue at home in the second (the other MC this time is the crown prince’s mistress from a rival house, who is trans and can’t give him an heir, so there’s a political marriage to a foreign princess and even more intrigue. She also stars in *The Poison Court* on her own). Issylt (the Necromancer) takes on a trans femme apprentice, who co-stars in her third book.
Magica Riot- Kara Buchanan
Closeted trans woman becomes a magical girl in modern Portland, OR (on the West Coast of the US for non-Yanks)