This is a list of fictional books featuring transgender persons in either a peripheral or central role.
Sacred Country by Rose Tremain published in 1992 is a prizewinning novel about Mary Ward, who at the age of six decides she should be a boy. The novel concerns her struggle to change gender.
Cock and Bull is a 1992 novel by Will Self in which a man and a woman who develop sexual organs of the opposite sex.
Stone Butch Blues (1993) by Leslie Feinberg tells the story of the life of a butch named Jess Goldberg and the trials and tribulations she faces growing up in the pre-Stonewall era. Published in 1993, the novel became an underground hit before surfacing into mainstream literature. It is generally regarded as a groundbreaking work on the subject of gender and is one of the best known pieces of LGBT literature. While the focus of the novel is on butch and femme culture during the late 1960s, the novel also deals with trans issues such as women taking testosterone to pass as men.
Breakfast on Pluto (1998) is a Booker prize shortlisted novel by Patrick McCabe. It tells of the transwoman Patrick "Pussy" Braden's escape from the fictional Irish town of Tyreelin and a drunk foster mother, to find herself and the biological mother who gave her away.
The Danish Girl (2000) by American author David Ebershoff is a fictionalized account of the life of Lili Elbe, the first person to undergo sex reassignment surgery.
Middlesex is a bestselling Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Jeffrey Eugenides published in 2002. Narrator and protagonist Cal Stephanides (initially called "Callie") is an intersexed man of Greek descent with a condition known as 5-alpha-reductase deficiency, which causes him to have certain feminine traits.
Inside Out: A Mystery (ISBN 978-0-31-228582-1, Elise Title, 2003) is a mystery, part of a serial featuring Natalie Price, a corrections officer operating in Boston. In this installment, Price investigates the assault of a post-operative transsexual ex-convict, Dr. Lynn Ingram.[1]
Luna (ISBN 978-0-31-673369-4, Julie Anne Peters, 2004), a young adult novel, is the story of male-to-female transsexual Luna (born Liam) O'Neill as told through the perspective of her sister, Regan. Peters has stated in an interview that she decided to tell the story of Luna through her sister because she is not transsexual herself, and she felt the authenticity of the story would be compromised.[2] The novel has won several awards and was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in the Children’s/Young Adult category.[3]
Choir Boy (ISBN 978-1-93-236081-3, Charlie Anders, 2005) is a coming of age story of twelve-year-old Berry, a boy who seeks out antiandrogens in order to suppress his testosterone and prevent voice change from affecting his ability to sing in the choir. The novel won the Lambda Literary Award in the Transgender/GenderQueer category.[3]
Bye-Bye, Black Sheep: A Mommy-track Mystery (ISBN 978-0-42-521018-5, Ayelet Waldman, 2006) is a mystery, part of a serial featuring Juliet Appelbaum, a stay-at-home mom and former public defender. In this installment, Appelbaum is approached by Heavenly, a transsexual woman who asks her to investigate the murder of her sister, Violetta, a prostitute and drug addict.[4]
Parrotfish (ISBN 978-1416916222, Ellen Wittlinger, 2007) is a young adult novel that describes the coming out story of a transgendered teenage boy named Grady. The title refers to the fact that parrotfish can change their gender.[5]
10000 Dresses by Marcus Ewert is a children's picture book about a young transgendered girl named Bailey whose family does not agree with her want to wear dresses. During the course of the book she meets an older girl who needs dress ideas and whom does not disagree with Bailey's gender identity.
The Butterfly and the Flame by Dana De Young is dystopian novel released May 4, 2011 [6] The story is set in the year 2404 A.D. in a time where technology and society have relapsed and a corrupt and repressive theocracy known as the Dominion of Divinity rules most of what was once the United States. The main protagonist is a male to female transgender teenager by the name of Emily La Rouche who has been living in stealth since the age of six, but is unwittingly forced into an arranged marriage to the son of her land lord when she turns sixteen years old. Much of the story is a backdrop for the American culture wars and incorporates issues such as separation of church and state, GLBT rights, unreasonable search and seizure, invasion of privacy, as well as enhanced interrogation techniques.
Almost Perfect by Brian Katcher tells the story of an adolescent closeted transgender girl named Sage. Sage moves to a new high school in Missouri where she meets and becomes good friends with the protagonist Logan. When she confides her secret in Logan, he must choose between his friendship with and attraction to Sage and his inner feelings of homophobia and transphobia. Katcher's novel is geared towards young adults and won the Stonewall Book Award from the American Library Association in 2011.[7]
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