June is Pride Month: Trans and Nonbinary Reads

Books not owned by the Scotch Plains Public Library can be delivered from area libraries by placing a "hold." Selection assistance from New York Public Library.

Updated June 1, 2023
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Gender queer : a memoir
Kobabe, Maia
Paper Book
2020 ALA Alex Award Winner 2020 Stonewall -- Israel Fishman Non-fiction Award Honor Book In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would be the last autobiographical comic e would ever write. At the time, it was...
The black tides of Heaven
Yang, JY
Paper Book
"Joyously wild stuff. Highly recommended." --The New York Times One of the 100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time, according to Time Magazine A Finalist for the Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Awards for Best Novella One of...
The house of impossible beauties
Cassara, Joseph
Paper Book
NAMED A RECOMMENDED BOOK OF 2018 BY Buzzfeed * The Wall Street Journal * The Millions * Southern Living * Bustle * Esquire * Entertainment Weekly * Nylon * Mashable * Libary Journal * Thrillist "Cassaras's propulsive and profound first novel, finding one's home in the world-...
Nonbinary : memoirs of gender and identity
Rajunov, Micah
Paper Book
What happens when your gender doesn't fit neatly into the categories of male or female? Even mundane interactions like filling out a form or using a public bathroom can be a struggle when these designations prove inadequate. In this groundbreaking book, thirty authors highlight how our experiences...
Phoenix extravagant
Lee, Yoon Ha
Paper Book
The new blockbuster original fantasy work from Nebula, Hugo and Clarke award nominated author Yoon Ha Lee! Dragons. Art. Revolution. Gyen Jebi isn't a fighter, or a subversive. They just want to paint. One day they're jobless and desperate; the...
Sissy : a coming-of-gender story
Tobia, Jacob
Paper Book
Through revisiting their childhood and calling out the stereotypes that each of us have faced, Jacob Tobia invites us to rethink what we know about gender and offers a blueprint for a world free from gender-based trauma. Sissy takes you on a gender odyssey you won't soon forget. Writing with the...
The thirty names of night : a novel
Joukhadar, Zeyn
Audiobook
This is how it always is
Frankel, Laurie
Paper Book
New York Times Bestseller The Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine Book Club Pick "Every once in a while, I read a book that opens my eyes in a way I never expected." --Reese Witherspoon (Reese's Book Club x Hello Sunshine book pick)
Transforming : the Bible and the lives of transgender Christians
Hartke, Austen
Paper Book
In 2014, Timemagazine announced that America had reached the transgender tipping point, suggesting that transgender issues would become the next civil rights frontier. Years later, many peopleeven many LGBTQ alliesstill lack understanding of gender identity and the transgender experience. Into...
An unkindness of ghosts
Solomon, Rivers
Paper Book
For generations, the Matilda has ferried the last of humanity to a mythical Promised Land. On its way, the ship's leaders have imposed harsh moral restrictions and deep indignities on dark-skinned sharecroppers like Aster, who they consider to be less than human. When the autopsy of Matilda's...

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