My favourite trans books

Miles Nelson, a Teesside graduate in games design and founder of BookWyrm's shares some of his favourite trans books (and they're all available through their website!).

Snapdragon by Kat Leyh
This is Miles' favourite book. Cozy, spooky, and full of heart, Snapdragon is all about nature and finding joy and friendship where you least expect it. It's about a young girl, Snapdragon, who discovers that the old witch living in her town may not be quite as scary as she seems...

Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters
This is Chris Larmouth's favourite book. A gripping trans-centric soap opera about a de-transitioned trans woman who accidentally gets his boss pregnant! Not wanting to address the masculinity he feels is inherent to parenthood, he goes crawling back to his ex to set up a messy coparenting scheme...

Hell Followed With Us by Andrew Joseph White
A young adult horror about a young trans boy escaping from the cult that raised him in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. While on the run, he meets up with a ragtag group of queer teens who were stuck in an LGBTQ+ youth centre at the end of the world.

Dear Mothman By Robin Gow
This beautiful children's book features a 10-year-old trans boy who recently lost his best friend in a tragic accident. To process his grief, he begins writing letters to his best friend's favourite cryptid, Mothman. Written in verse, and through Noah's letters and school work, it is an experience as much as a book, and has had both Bookwyrms in tears behind the counter.

The Sunbearer Trials by Aiden Thomas
Trans Mexican Hunger games with a godly twist! This gorgeous book features the trans son of the Goddess of Birds, who is chosen to compete in the Sunbearer Trials . . . a brutal game in which the loser will be sacrificed.

My Life in Sea Creatures by Sabrina Imbler
A series of essays by a nonbinary marine biologist which explores the beautiful and terrifying world of deep-sea life. Sabrina compares the experiences of marginalised communities, being nonbinary and mixed race themselves, with the endangered species they have studied.

And finally: Miles Nelson, BookWyrm's own author-in-residence, has explored his trans and autistic identity throughout his novels, but especially in his sci-fi series, Riftmaster and Renegade. In Riftmaster, college Student Bailey Jones is whisked away from Earth by a mysterious and unpredictable force called the Rift, and must team up with the enigmatic Riftmaster in order to survive. These works explore identity and humanity through an escapist, spacefaring adventure and beautiful alien worlds.

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