Further Reading
Image: Trans activist and author Lou Sullivan with a copy of his book Female to Male: The Life of Jack Bee Garland
Interested in learning more about masculine-leaning gender diversity? This is a non-exhaustive list of further reading you may be interested in, as recommended by the TMS community.
If you have any suggestions, please use the contact form to get in touch. Big thank you to anyone who has contributed so far!
Reading List
Memoirs / Diaries
Something That May Shock and Discredit You (2020) by Daniel M. Lavery
Set My Hand Upon the Plough (1946) by E. M. Barraud
We Both Laughed in Pleasure (2019) edited by Ellis Martin and Zack Ozma
The Aul' Days (1984) by Ewan Forbes
I Know My Own Heart: The Diaries of Anne Lister 1791-1840 (1992) edited by Helena Whitbread
History of the Dancers of Don (1989) by Ewan Forbes
Pageboy (2023) by Elliot Page
Frighten the Horses: A Memoir (2024) by Oliver Radclyffe
A Trans Man Walks Into a Gay Bar: A Journey of Self (and Sexual) Discovery (2023) by Harry Nicholas
Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man (2018) by Thomas Page McBee
Cactus Country: A Boyhood Memoir (2024) by Zoë Bossiere
Pretty (2024) by KB Brookins
Hijab Butch Blues (2023) by Lamya H
S/He (1995) by Minnie Bruce Pratt
The Natural Mother of the Child: A Memoir of Nonbinary Parenthood (2021) by Krys Malcolm Belc
Becoming a Visible Man (2004) by Jamison Green
Out of the Ordinary: A Life of Gender and Spiritual Transitions (2016) by Michael Dillon/Lobzang Jivaka
Emergence: A Transsexual Autobiography (1977) by Mario Martino
The Testosterone Files: My Hormonal and Social Transformation from Female to Male (2006) by Max Wolf Valerio
All the Things They Said We Couldn't Have: Stories of Trans Joy (2023) by T. C. Oakes-Monger
A Pros and Cons List for Strong Feelings: A Graphic Memoir (2022) by Will Betke-Brunswick
Biographies
Trials of Radclyffe Hall (1999) by Diana Souhami
Scanty Particulars (2002) by Rachel Holmes
James Miranda Barry (2011) by Patricia Dunker
The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes (2021) by Zoë Playdon
Master Joe Petersen (1994) by Frank Wappat
Mary Diana Dods: A Gentleman and a Scholar (1991) by Betty T. Bennett
Suits Me: The Double Life of Billy Tipton (2005) by Diane Wood Middlebrook
From Female to Male: The Life of Jack Bee Garland (1990) by Lou Sullivan
Other Non-Fiction
Trans*: A Quick and Quirky Account of Gender Variability (2018) by Jack Halberstam
Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity (2017) by C. Riley Snorton
Before We Were Trans (2022) by Kit Heyam
Before Gender: Lost Stories from Trans History (2025) by Eli Erlick
The Other Olympians: A True Story of Gender, Fascism and the Making of Modern Sport by (2024) Michael Waters
Her Husband Was a Woman (2013) by Alison Oram
The Phallus Palace (2002) by Dean Kotula
Who's Afraid of Gender (2024) by Judith Butler
Transgender Warriors: Making History from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman (1997) by Leslie Feinberg
Transgender Liberation: A Movement Whose Time Has Come (1992) by Leslie Feinberg
Vantage Points: On Media as Trans Memoir (2024) by Chase Joynt
Persistence: All Ways Butch and Femme (2011) edited by Ivan E. Coyote and Zena Sharman
How We Make Each Other: Trans Life at the Edge of the University (2025) by Perry Zurn
Female Husbands: A Trans History (2020) by Jen Manion
DILF: Did I Leave Feminism? (2025) by Jude Ellison S. Doyle
Can the Monster Speak? A Report to an Academy of Psychoanalysts (2020) by Paul B. Preciado
Testojunkie: Sex, Drugs, and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic Era (2008) by Paul B. Preciado
Female Masculinity (1996) by Jack Halberstam
Transmen and FTMs: Identities, Bodies, Genders and Sexualities (1999) by Jason Cromwell
Trans Philosophy (2024) edited by Perry Zurn, Andrea J. Pitts, Talia Mae Bettcher and P.J. DiPietro
Fiction
Gaudy Bauble (2017) by Isabel Waidner [experimental/avant-garde]
Stone Butch Blues (1993) by Leslie Feinberg
Drag King Dreams (2006) by Leslie Feinberg
Trumpet (1998) by Jackie Kay
Albert Nobbs (1918) by George Moore [classics]
The Pagoda (1998) by Patricia Powell [historical fiction]
The Well of Lonliness (1928) by Radclyffe Hall [classics]
The Lilac People (2025) by Milo Todd
The Thirty Names of Night (2021) by Zeyn Joukhadar
A Gentleman's Gentleman (2025) by TJ Alexander [romance]
Self Made Boys (2022) by Anna Marie McLemore [remixed classics]
The Companion (2023) by EE Ottoman [historical romance]
Idlewild (2023) by James Frankie Thomas
The Prospects (2024) by KT Hoffman [romance]
Dead Collections (2022) by Isaac Fellman [fantasy]
All the White Spaces (2022) by Ally Wilkes [historical horror]
Summer Sons (2021) by Lee Mandelo [horror]
The Church of the Mountain of Flesh (2024) by Kyle Wakefield [horror]
Peter Darling (2017) by Austin Chant [fantasy romance]
The Gods of Tango (2015) by Caro de Robertis [historical]
Confessions of the Fox (2018) by Jordy Rosenberg [historical]
She Who Became The Sun (2021) by Shelley Parker-Chan [historical fantasy]
Curious Toys (2019) by Elizabeth Hand [historical thriller]
Failure to Comply (2024) by Cavar [sci-fi]
Jaw Filler (2025) by Maz Murray and Charlie Markbreiter [pulp neo-noir]
Most Ardently (2024) by Gabe Cole Novoa [remixed classics]
My Heart is Human (2023) by Reese Hogan [sci-fi AI dystopia]
To Weild the Darkest Night (2024) by Beau Van Dalen [fantasy romance]
The Spirit Bares Its Teeth (2023) by Andrew Joseph White [historical fantasy horror]
The Roger Crenshaw series (2021-) by Taylor Titmouse
Future Feeling (2021) by Joss Lake [fantasy]
The Woods All Black (2024) by Lee Mandelo [historical horror]
Some Strange Music Draws Me In (2014) by Griffin Hansbury
Ponyboy (2023) by Eliot Duncan
Cemetery Boys (2020) by Aiden Thomas [fantasy]
Coffee Boy (2016) by Austin Chant [romance]
The Vanishing Half (2020) by Brit Bennett [historical]
Rules for Ghosting (2024) by Shelly Jay Shore [fantasy romance]
Ninefox Gambit (2016) by Yoon Ha Lee [sci-fi]
The Pairing (2024) by Casey McQuiston [romance]
The Cure for Drowning (2024) by Loghan Paylor [historical]
Valerin the Fair (2022) by Rien Gray [fantasy romance]
You Weren't Meant to Be Human (2025) by Andrew Joseph White [sci-fi horror]
The Story of Silence (2020) by Alex Myers [historical fantasy]
Monstrous Regiment (2003) by Terry Prachett
The Raven Tower (2019) by Ann Leckie [fantasy]
Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl (2017) by Andrea Lawlor
Between Perfect and Real (2021) by Ray Stoeve [YA]
The Sunbearer Trials (2022) by Aiden Thomas [YA fantasy]
The Witch King (2021) by H. E. Edgmon [YA fantasy]
Compound Fracture (2024) by Andrew Joseph White [YA horror]
When the Moon Was Ours (2016) by Anna-Marie McLemore [YA magical romance]
Manhunt (2022) by Gretchen Felker-Martin [horror]
Notes from a Regicide (2025) by Isaac Fellman [sci-fi]
Never Was (2023) by H. Gareth Gavin
Felix Ever After (2020) by Kacen Callender [YA romance]
Hell Followed With Us (2022) by Andrew Joseph White [YA horror]
She Rises (2013) by Kate Worsley [historical roamnce]
Coup de Grâce (2024) by Sofia Ajram [horror]
A Language of Limbs (2024) by Dylin Hardcastle
Freshwater (2018) by Akwaeke Emezi [magical realism]
The Build-a-Boyfriend Project (2025) by Mason Deaver [romance]
The Feeling of Falling in Love (2022) by Mason Deaver [romance]
Girl, Woman, Other (2019) by Bernardine Evaristo
Margaret and the Mystery of the Missing Body (2021) by Megan Milks [YA]
Lakelore (2022) by Anna-Marie McLemore [YA fantasy]
Man o' War (2022) by Cory McCarthy
The Pairing (2024) by Casey McQuiston [romance]
The Earl Meets His Match (2025) by T.J. Alexander [historical romance]
Second Chances in New Port Stephen (2023) by T.J. Alexander [romance]
Chef's Choice (2023) by T.J. Alexander [romance]
I Was Born For This (2018) by Alice Oseman [YA]
A Shore Thing (2024) by Joanna Lowell [historical romance]
Listen Closely (2025) by Leon Egan [YA romance]
To Be Taught, If Fortunate (2019) by Becky Chambers [sci-fi]
Poetry
You Better Be Lighting (2021) by Andrea Gibson
Divisible by Itself and One (2023) by Kae Tempest
coal (2025) by Remi Graves
Ghost Box (2014) by Emerson Whitney
Butch Geography (2013) by Stacey Waite
rock flight (2025) by Hasib Hourani
Chasers (2022) by Stephen Ira
Fan Fiction
It Had To Be You, Beautiful You (2026) by bannerthyme [hollanov]
Short Stories / Anthology
Crawl: Stories (2025) by Max Delsohn
A Natural History of Transition (2021) by Callum Angus
Graphic Novels / Comics
Boy Island (2024) by Leo Fox
Call Me Nathan: A Graphic Novel (2018) by Catherine Castro and Quentin Zuttion
A Pros and Cons List for Strong Feelings: A Graphic Memoir (2022) by Will Betke-Brunswick
I Shall Never Fall in Love (2024) by Hari Conner [historical romance]
Non-English
Ich bin Linus. Wie ich der Mann wurde, der ich schon immer war (2020) by Linus Giese [German, non fiction]
