I really been looking for some good trans books, so i wish i could get some recs on some HAUNTING trans/non binary stories, like, ones that will make my skin actually curl and make me think about it non-stop
I think Light From Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki has skin curling moments mixed with hopeful moments
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Summer Sons! Lee Mandelo is an amazing trans horror writer from Kentucky, and Summer Sons is a queer southern gothic. I’ve enjoyed both of Lee’s other novels too, they’re truly a gem of contemporary spooky trans literature.
If you like more extreme body horror too, i really enjoyed Tell Me I’m Worthless by Alison Rumfitt but PLEASE read all the trigger warnings on that one and take them seriously. It takes haunting to the next level and i ultimately found it incredibly moving.
Terrestrial_Mermaid on
Not exactly transgender but it involves a 3rd gender and a different gender/pronoun system:
*What Moves the Dead* by T. Kingfisher and its sequel
autumnwolfmoon on
The Spirit Bares Its Teeth by Andrew Joseph White.
BetterThanPie on
Torrey Peters’s new short story collection Stag Dance is great place to look—each story is a new genre. A post-apocalyptic story, a private-school story, a story about lumberjacks, a Las Vegas convention story. It’s really virtuosic. A few aren’t explicitly trans stories—or the characters may not understand themselves to be trans (yet?)—but they’re all pushing gender boundaries, and some of the twists are a little haunting.
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I think Light From Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki has skin curling moments mixed with hopeful moments
Summer Sons! Lee Mandelo is an amazing trans horror writer from Kentucky, and Summer Sons is a queer southern gothic. I’ve enjoyed both of Lee’s other novels too, they’re truly a gem of contemporary spooky trans literature.
If you like more extreme body horror too, i really enjoyed Tell Me I’m Worthless by Alison Rumfitt but PLEASE read all the trigger warnings on that one and take them seriously. It takes haunting to the next level and i ultimately found it incredibly moving.
Not exactly transgender but it involves a 3rd gender and a different gender/pronoun system:
*What Moves the Dead* by T. Kingfisher and its sequel
The Spirit Bares Its Teeth by Andrew Joseph White.
Torrey Peters’s new short story collection Stag Dance is great place to look—each story is a new genre. A post-apocalyptic story, a private-school story, a story about lumberjacks, a Las Vegas convention story. It’s really virtuosic. A few aren’t explicitly trans stories—or the characters may not understand themselves to be trans (yet?)—but they’re all pushing gender boundaries, and some of the twists are a little haunting.