Trans Rights Readathon - Sapphic SpecFic Rec List
Over 25 books you should totally read
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For several years now, the Trans Rights Readathon has taken place in the last two weeks of March, leading up to the Trans Day of Visibility. It's a book community event dedicated to both reading and direct action and mobilization.
It's decentralized, meaning there are no rules--read as many book as you want, read across as many genres as you want, and donate to as many places as you want. Want to donate $0.05 per page read to a local trans rights organization? Sweet! Want to donate a flat $100 to multiple different GoFundMe's to help trans people cover transition or moving costs? Awesome!
There's no right way or wrong way to participate. You can sign up, read more, and start building your TBR for the event today!
But if you are needing help finding books, I got a few recommendations for you. I've gathered a list of speculative fiction books (science fiction, fantasy, horror) all featuring sapphic relationships (be they romantic or QPR) written by trans and non-binary authors!
The Readathon is still a few weeks away, but I want to make sure you got your TBR ready to go and aren't scrambling last second!
A Lake of Feathers and Moonbeams
A disaster bi forest witch, a distinguished bi princess, and a chaotic mess non-binary princen save a magical forest, but not before making a mess of everything first.
Dax Murray
Kotov Syndrome
Have you ever wanted to just date your android girlfriend in peace but then a world changing crisis breaks out and you get taken away to a parallel universe? And also you're a fucking mess (derogatory).
Woodpusher
The Further adventures of messy lesbian and her android girlfriend as the world keeps breaking.
Unlimited Combat Dolls
In a world populated by killing machines, life is cruel, and there are no good answers - but when combat doll Dragonfly pointlessly loses a lover, she sets out to find understanding, and revenge, at any cost.
A Study on Magic and Crystals
Talita must travel to the fairy city to learn magic and count on the necromancer Marcela, and the fairy Solis for help! Together, they learn a lot about themselves.
1000 Lotuses
A tiger wants to eat gods. How far will the bodhisattva go to shield her from the consequences?
A Third Kind of Madness
Hapless enby somehow ends up dating the girl of their dreams, then discovers that she comes with a LOT of baggage: namely that she leaves a path of destructive, magical obsession in her wake. & one of the obsessed is determined to have her, no matter what.
The Dragon and Her Princess
It's a dream come true for every abused kid everywhere--hot dragon lady rescues you from your father while plotting his downfall and cracking your egg.
The Hades Calculus
Do you like lesbian books that make you deeply unwell yet strangely excited? Haunted mecha and the women who pilot them; desire so consuming it becomes cannibalistic? THE HADES CALCULUS won't fix you.
Magica Riot
From the author: "'Magica Riot' and 'Magica Riot: Full Bloom' definitely include some very wlw relationshipping with my protagonist. Claire gets herself a GF in book one and a second GF in book two."
Trans magical girl punk rock band set in a very realistic Portlan.
Magica Riot: Full Bloom
Yes, yes. Claire has first girlfriend, but what about second girlfriend?
Shadows Over Ravenkirk
Victoria Williams travels to the gothest town in Maine in search of a mysterious inheritance
Also there's an adorable spider and her name is Samantha.
Deoxyribonucleic Enterprise
The year is 2263 and Rayna Nye is working the most personal case of her life, as one of her few friends, Jules McAlistair, has been found brutally murdered on the streets of The Don.
Name Her Holy
Where the weave between worlds thins, a long buried shadow rises from its grave among the stars and seeks vengeance on the Vale.
Cradle of Eternal Night
If you like the world-in-decline of Dark Souls 3 with the lesbian crimes against magic of Marcille/Falin Dungeon Meshi and the big sword bitches of Claymore, you should definitely check out THE CRADLE OF ETERNAL NIGHT.
A Sharper, More Lasting Pain
After their girlfriend's friend is wounded in a monster attack, Simone stumbles across a plot much deeper than they anticipated. As they work to find a cure to their own forming illness & find out the truth, 1 question remains: how was Nadia involved in this?
Jagged Shard
A classic dungeon crawl with dragons, magical radiation, mushroom-headed monsters, & a God in a Box. But also! Butch4butch bearded dwarven lesbians with a friends-with-BDSM-benefits-to-wives arc!
Sundered Moon
Sundered Moon is a space opera with a cast of lesbians who pilot giant robots and do incredible violence to an empire. If you enjoyed G-Witch but wish it was more trans and even gayer, than this book is for you.
Machines of Consent
Two trans allegories twined in technology amongst torrid, untamed transbian spice.
Wonders of Mundus - Reborn on the Shores of Awakening
Meet Deedee, whose eggshell violently shattered after waking up as her Wonders of Mundus MMO avatar, a beautiful foxgirl healer. She and her guild are stuck on Mundus!
The Harem Protagonist Was Turned Into A Girl!! And Doesn't Want to Change Back!!!??
Aliens. Robots. Vampires. Five girls deciding they want to marry him. Kevin’s life is a mess. Now he’s been turned into a girl. It’s just one thing after another… Actually, that last one is proving surprisingly nice.
Warhound
Nothing makes Sartha Thrace feel good the way being saddled up in the cockpit of a huge mech suit does. She’s a hero, after all.
The Revenge of Captain Vessia
It's got vampires! It's got pirates! It's hot gays with swords! AND it's got gratuitous amounts of murder!
They Who Brought the Storm
They Who Brought the Storm (and its sequel, On Wings of Fallen Stars) feature polyamorous lesbian dragons fighting over their lovers while vying for power and control. It also takes place in a trans-normative world, with central transfem characters, and many more side characters.
A Bargain for Sanctuary
A cozy Lesbian Palace Romance about a desperate werewolf who falls into the hands of a powerful Faerie Queen.
Esper and the Witch
A witch whose ritual has failed, a kitsune that is trying to work out what's going on, and the mystery of what is it that connects Esper and Alex - whose world is suddenly changing.
The Scales of Seduction
Well, I asked this hot transfemme basilisk mercenary to steal Perseus' artifacts back from a murderous lesbian Medusa. Surely they would never--oh my.
Bloodbound
Bloodbound is a serial novel that follows Faine Monroe as she escapes from one vampire and falls into the arms of another. It centers on themes of autonomy, identity, and our relationships to one another.
Non-Fiction Bonus Recommendation:
Brown/Trans/Les
'Brown/Trans/Les' explores the construction of a third-world feminist ethos in the face of colonial and local epistemicide.
That's what I have for now. I'll be updating periodically as we get closer to the start of the Readathon! If you know a book that you think belongs on this list--one you have read or one you have written!--please feel free to leave a comment! Let us know the title, where to find it, and a short blurb!
