Friends, I'm looking for book recommendations! I'd like to hear some stories you enjoyed that had well-written trans male main/POV characters Preferably fantasy/contemporary without too much sex (but I'm flexible as long as I know it's coming). Open to short stories, but would prefer novel! - ThreadSky

lxreads.fun • 44 days ago

Friends, I'm looking for book recommendations!
I'd like to hear some stories you enjoyed that had well-written trans male main/POV characters

Preferably fantasy/contemporary without too much sex (but I'm flexible as long as I know it's coming). Open to short stories, but would prefer novel!

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leiyansedai.bsky.social•24 days ago

The Raven Tower by Ann Leckie. Absolutely fantastic, much of it is written in second person so YMMV on that, but I really liked the book. I love everything by Ann Leckie. In the second person PoV "you" is Eolo, the trans man character.

charlieedmunds.bsky.social•44 days ago

Under The Mistletoe With You by Lizzie Huxley-Jones
(it's a Christmas romcom, nonzero sex but not loads)

lxreads.fun•44 days ago

That sounds fun!
Sex in a romcom is allowed 😁 thanks for the heads up!

lxreads.fun•44 days ago

(also, if I phrased any of this poorly, please gently let me know. I'm trying to learn)

lxreads.fun•44 days ago

Alright, I'm gonna collect the suggestions so far all into the main thread, for scrollability

lxreads.fun•44 days ago

From @dinzmeria.bsky.social:

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From @jandersoncoats.bsky.social:

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From @readingthepattern.bsky.social:

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From @readerreborn.bsky.social:

zorpisuttle.bsky.social•44 days ago

The Wayward Children series by Seanan McGuire has a trans male character but we haven’t got his full story yet (the author is proceeding extremely carefully to make sure her audience trusts her to do the long version respectfully.) They are contemporary portal fantasy and very good!

zorpisuttle.bsky.social•44 days ago

Andrew Joseph White also writes contemporary and/or fantasy YA with trans male protagonists and characters: Hell Follows With Us is a near-contemporary post-apocalyptic fantasy horror story. I liked it ok but I think I would have liked it better if it wasn’t YA.

zorpisuttle.bsky.social•44 days ago

It also focuses on evangelical Christian religious & political/scientific trauma, so depending on how you cope with that stuff happening IRL it might be either a ‘yes please’ or a ‘hell no’ right now.

zorpisuttle.bsky.social•44 days ago

She Who Became The Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan, first in a duology, retelling of the rise to power of the Ming Dynasty’s founder with a magic element. It’s a really interesting look at masculinity & transness in a historical milieu and also just a great story.

lxreads.fun•44 days ago

Oh, that sounds *fascinating*, thank you!!

zorpisuttle.bsky.social•44 days ago

I really enjoyed it and the sequel has similar themes but for femininity in those times & places & cultures. If you ever want to get hit with the ‘gender is a social construct and it has real effects socially & psychologically but it also isn’t everything about everyone’ hammer it’s so good for that

lxreads.fun•44 days ago

Oh, the sequel sounds like something I'd like as well!

zorpisuttle.bsky.social•44 days ago

It’s all very yin and yang (kinda literally) and the protagonists of each novel are foils for each other (also they have a not-so-secret shared foil in a self-hating gay eunuch with immense political power who needs therapy in the absolute worst way and has neither access nor interest in it)

zorpisuttle.bsky.social•44 days ago

(I enjoy characters where you’re like ‘in theory someone could fix you but in your reality and under your own power that is literally the opposite of what will happen & everyone and yourself will probably make you worse’. …Yes, I am a well-known Tuon Enjoyer, weird how that happened)

mrb10170.bsky.social•44 days ago

Here's a novel available for preorder that fits your request perfectly, by a member of the WoT community, @princekaedyn.bsky.social . https://www.transfaerieprince.com/charleys-song-trilogy

lxreads.fun•44 days ago

Oh awesome, thanks!

dinzmeria.bsky.social•44 days ago

I'll be lurking here for the recs

eilonwymerrilin.bsky.social•44 days ago

Likewise.

dinzmeria.bsky.social•44 days ago

Cemetery Boys - Aiden Thomas

readingthepattern.bsky.social•44 days ago

The only one that comes to mind immediately is not a POV character but still an important character who has a romance with one of the POV characters, is the King of Scars duology by Leigh Bardugo. Be aware that it is part of the Grishaverse world and I don’t now how it would be to start with it.

eilonwymerrilin.bsky.social•44 days ago

Oh, yes! I binge read this whole series and promptly forgot the details, but I remember enjoying King of Scars & the sequel really well.

readingthepattern.bsky.social•44 days ago

I thought they were really good too. And the Six of Crows duology that came before it. The first trilogy was just OK for me and if anything I could see skipping that one.

eilonwymerrilin.bsky.social•44 days ago

Agreed.

readerreborn.bsky.social•44 days ago

TJ Kingfisher’s Sworn Soldier books come to mind. The first is a homage to the Fall of the House of Usher.

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