I finished the last twenty pages of "A Short History of Trans Misogyny" by Jules Gill-Peterson and listened to the audiobook of "The Risk It Takes to Bloom: On Life and Liberation" by @raquelwillis.com :)
I'm re-reading "Little Fish" by @caseyplett.bsky.social I organize a book club in Atlanta for transfemmes to read transfeminine authors, and I hope everyone loves it as much as I do. More than any other book it made me see the possibility of living as a trans woman
Possibly even the best kind of horror, existential / inexorable. In some ways like Algernon Blackwood or HP Lovecraft, without the racism and appropriation.
I read broken echo on Scribblehub the other day and had a blast. I hadn’t read anything in forever, it felt like I’d derusted my brain after a long burnout.
Guessing you mean 2025?
The first transfemme book I read for the TFR 2025 Awards was "The Dragon and Her Princess" by @vyriadurav.bsky.social;
the first book in the calendar year was @jemma.bsky.social's "A Rotten Girl"
the running list i have is getting longer by now, but it's probably gonna be "magica riot", followed by "magica riot", and then "a quiet universe". others to follow
I just finally read Wrath Goddess Sing a few days ago, so that's the first of the year!
And while not novels, I've been hearing about Unjust Depths for a while so that'll probably be next on the list after I finish Embodied Exegesis (or at least it'll be. soon. eventually. probably.)
Don't know if this is relevant, I finished 2024 reading the Tamir Triad, by Lynn Flewelling. A baby born a girl, transformed into a boy to protect her and raised that way, must figure out how to live her life as the woman and foretold queen she was meant to be. Fantasy.
Just finished Stray Dogs by @freyafaust.bsky.social and definitely enjoyed it. My gosh this one would have gently but resolutely shatters my egg back in the day. And as a Dresden Files fan it scratched my urban fantasy itch in the best possible way!
it was Wrath Goddess Sing. the next will either be Welcome to Dorley Hall or The Fissure King (a 2018 Rachel Pollack novel i hadn’t heard of! hallelujah!).
some friends and i spent the hours leading up to the new year reading in convivial silence; i started – finally, and far later than i should have – to read Welcome to Dorley Hall, which i promptly finished on the next day (and then sought out its continuation)
I’m partway through “The Dragon and Her Princess” and “That Night I Got Dragged Home By A Werewolf”. Unsure which will be the first one I finish this year.
Atm my main goal is getting roughs of all 4 volumes done and sharing the process with Patreons [half way on 3] so I expect volume 1 edited will come out by October this year if not sooner. Then, just a few months between volume releaes, probably.
I've read two already: A Country of Ghosts by Margaret Killjoy and Woodworking by Emily St James (very very interested by what people will think of this one)
Currently I’m in a nonfiction space reading a couple ARCs abt trans women—one, Brandy Schillace’s “The Intermediaries”, about Magnus Hirschfeld & Dora Richter (which I blurbed omg my first blurb ever!), & @nikostratis.com’s “The Dad Rock that Made Me a Woman”, both out in May. Looking fwd to recs!
Welcome to Dorley Hall. Got so sucked in I’m now reading the chapter releases.
Than probably gunna check out Magica Riot since a local trans org has that as the read for their monthly book club that I’ve been considering checking out.
I’ve also got The Hades Calculus, Nexus Alpha, and Name Her Holy on my TBR for this year! (Idk if Aubrey Ennis is transfem, but I know one of the characters in Name Her Holy is!)
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The ones that interested me the most are:
- Tell Me I'm Worthless ☠️
- All the Hearts You Eat 🔪
- Kimmy ☠️
- Fluids 🕊
The first transfemme book I read for the TFR 2025 Awards was "The Dragon and Her Princess" by @vyriadurav.bsky.social;
the first book in the calendar year was @jemma.bsky.social's "A Rotten Girl"
And while not novels, I've been hearing about Unjust Depths for a while so that'll probably be next on the list after I finish Embodied Exegesis (or at least it'll be. soon. eventually. probably.)
Than probably gunna check out Magica Riot since a local trans org has that as the read for their monthly book club that I’ve been considering checking out.
I think tonight I'm gonna sit down to a comfy re-read of @magicariot.com's Magica Riot.