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Text reads: All about the 2026 Trans Rights Readathon! How to sign up, participate, dates, & more...

Header: 2026 Readathon Dates Text: Mark your calendars! This year the 4th annual Trans Rights Readathon will be Tuesday, March 17th through Tuesday, March 31st! This year is our longest year yet!

Header: What is the Trans Rights Readathon? Text: The Trans Rights Readathon is an annual decentralized call to action for readers and book lovers in support of Trans Day of Visibility (TDOV) on March 31st.

header: The #TRR isn’t just reading, it’s Action! Text: The Trans Rights Readathon encourages readers to seek out books by and about trans, nonbinary, 2Spirit, and gender noncomforming authors and characters, along with taking action on the mutual, local, and national level! Below are three boxes, saying uplift, amplify, and support (with a dollar sign for the S)

Welcome back to another year of the Trans Rights Readathon!

This year’s readathon will take place from March 17 to March 31. If you want to officially sign up, fill out the form on our 🕸️site to join the fun!

#TransRightsReadathon #trr26 #TransBooks

Glad to see one of my poetry collections, Neo—Dadaist Psyche, on The Trans Literature Database!

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Hi! Trans guy who writes horror and romance here. If you like your Cthulhu Mythos diverse and homoerotic and your gaslamp fantasy extra gothic, you might like my stuff. I have two short stories up with more on the way, including a super m/mmm romance! Take care now!

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I just wrapped this one up this morning. What an absolutely incredible book this one was. It's a slow burn that doesn't bore you and the reveal sneaks up on you. It doesn't beat you in the face with Trans trauma either and that aspect I liked. It allowed it to exist in the background. Great book!

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Guess it was after midnight when I reached the house. Hard to tell, with a broken watch in my coat and broken lights on every corner. Not a car on the streets, not a soul in my sight. Unsurprising. Arkham was safer after dark than New York City, but not by much. The local syndicate kept a curfew and most were smart enough to obey it, but I’d never been smart. I’d never been lucky, either. It wasn’t an old house, by Arkham standards. Not a gable roofed relic nor a sturdy stone monument but a tidy, high-roofed thing, with a front porch and windows on both floors. Once it’d been loved, I’m sure, but like most humans I’ve met, its cheer had faded with age and abuse. Cracks instead of curtains in the windows. An old rotten fence, the gate broken open. The front door, twitching and shaking on its hinges, half open to me already. Somewhere, not too far away, music played, too far away to catch all the notes, but familiar all the same. Nostalgic as childhood sunshine, and just as bittersweet. I sighed. “It’s going to be a bad night, isn’t it?” I said. No one replied

Book cover for Lock the Last Door

He was hired to find a runaway. But Lazarus Core, private eye, finds something far worse waiting for him. Some things don't stay locked up.

🐙 Cthulhu noir
🏳️‍⚧️ Trans man MC
🏚️ Empty house
🫧 Freshwater horrors
🖤 Homoerotic rivals
🎵 Strange music
👑 1st in a series

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Bianca Nieve, only daughter and heiress to the Nieve fortune, finds herself on the wrong side of the law. Taja Soliño, a hardware tech barely scraping by, finds herself helping a member of the family known for oppressing the city for their own gain. Together, they might just be able to free themselves and the city of New Velles. CyberSnow by A.E. Bross coming March 31, 2026. Preorder Now!

Coming March 31, 2026!

👥 dual pov
👩🏻 autistic woman mc
👩🏽 trans woman mc
🤜 anticapitalist
👍 making good trouble
😈 gremlin energy
🍎 Snow White vibes
🩷 ace, no-heat romance
🏳️‍🌈 everybody's queer

Universal Book Link: books2read.com/CyberSnow
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Just found out my spouse is leaving NOW on a work trip for three days on a week my to-do list is already STACKED & I am choosing to channel my anxiety into planning my #TransRightsReadathon TBR, so please give me all your best trans books recs right now!

'A queer scrapbook' assembles incredible visual sources that highlight LGBTIQ+ histories from across the UK and Ireland since 1945.
This illustrative guide will delight any reader interested in queer and trans histories.
Pre-order your copy today!
@lgbthm.bsky.social
#booksky

A cover for a book entitled "Valentines in Bloom" by Thursday Nacht & Thursday Euclid. Along the top is a lavender line that reads, "Cozy Trans Masc Contemporary Romance" The image is done in illustrator featuring a bearded man and a beautiful woman outfitted for the cold. Colors are in pink and purple with the title in Blue

OUT NOW!

Trans masc m/f romance, cozy and sweet with a pesty kitten bringing two people who knew each other in high school together! #booksky #romance #booktok #valentinesdayromance #kindleunlimited #romancelandia #lgbtqbooks #transbooks #transauthor #IndieAuthor

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The cover of the paperback is shown at the left of a bright yellow card bearing the text “One of the most interesting books I read this year”. The quote is from the Guardian’s best book’s summary of 2018.

It’s the middle of LGBT History Month so a good moment to remind everyone that my book, Trans Britain — a modern history fashioned from the observations of generations of contributors — is still going strong in paperback and eBook form in its ninth year. It’s […]

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Book cover image: a large hippopotamus, rigged for riding, and a western-type “man in black” leaning against it RIVER OF TEETH, TASTE OF MARROW, and New Stories AMERICAN HIPPO SARAH GAILEY "A gift of violent, unexpected glee"-KEVIN HEARNE

Apparently it’s #WorldHippoDay

I would like to recommend this terrific book. I don’t like westerns, but I loved this. Hippos instead of horses! Riverboat casinos! Non-binary host/esses! Danger, jeopardy and romance!

Before Gender: Lost Stories from Trans History 1850-1950 Discover the trailblazing lives of thirty trans people who will radically change everything you've been told about transgender history.

Bold and visionary, @elierlick.bsky.social's talk uncovers these lost stories from the depths of the archives to narrate trans lives in a way that has never been attempted before.
The @york.ac.uk LGBT+ History Month Lecture, book a FREE ticket here: www.york.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
@lgbthm.bsky.social

Review: Out Like A Lamb Through The Hole In The Body: Sage’s The Difference Between A Dream & A Hand — fifth wheel press Press Brake has made a point to publish as many western Mass poetry luminaries as he can. Ian Fishman , EIC and mastermind of Northampton’s Press Brake, debuted with James Haug’s My Team Hates Frid...

Robin Arble wrote a review for my poetry chapbook that was published over the summer by Press Brake. I shouted and hollered and wept. To be seen so clearly by a reader, to know a reader—a trans reader—was seen so clearly by these poems, is a gift beyond measure.
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Humble Book Bundle: Charlie Jane Anders & Annalee Newitz by TOR Don’t miss this bundle of novels and story collections from acclaimed authors Charlie Jane Anders and Annalee Newitz! Pay what you want and support charity!

Give yourself a sweet-weird treat this weekend with a fantastic @humblebundle.com deal that includes most of the fiction that @charliejane.bsky.social and I have written. Sales benefit the Miss Major Alexander Lee Black Trans Cultural Center! www.humblebundle.com/books/charli...

Although THE POISONS WE DRINK is about love potions, there's real, complicated, messy love between Venus and Presley. If you like "Black bi and pan enby couple doing crimes" rep for a V-Day book rec, might I recommend my little pink book? ☺️

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Cream and Sugar By Zach Prince The Daydream Quarters are a place of playful decadence, ruled over by Adorian, the God of Love. They are populated by his lovers, admirers, scholars, artists, musicians... ...and Honeysuckle, the head butler of the Daydream Quarters. While Honeysuckle appears to be uptight and businesslike, his heart yearns for Adorian's attention. A single glance, the barest smile, the softest whisper of his name, will send Honeysuckle's heart a-fluttering. But he is simply one of many admirers living in the Daydream Quarters. Hiding his affection under the veneer of respectability, Honeysuckle is content to pine for Adorian from a distance. At least, until one fateful morning over breakfast...

Just wanna take a moment to shout out a lovely romantic erotica short that's still one of my favorites:

Cream and Sugar by @esteemedbastard.bsky.social is a sweet fantasy tale of a satyr who works for, and loves, the trans man God of Love. Go check it out!

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BOOK REVIEW: Donut Summer by Anita Kelly Release Date: 29 July 2025 Rating: 🍩🍩🍩🍩 Page Count: 354 pages Synopsis Anita Kelly delivers their YA debut—a sweet and satisfying queer romance about two teens who fall for each other while trying …

BOOK REVIEW: Donut Summer by Anita Kelly rainbowsandsunshine.home.blog/2026/02/14/b...

Finished this in a stretch! So lovely!
@anitakellywrites.bsky.social
@netgalley.bsky.social

#lgbt #trans #enby #nonbinary #yabooks

Hello trans KU authors. I got a KU membership really cheap during the holidays and I want to give page reads and reviews before it expires mid-March. Drop links to your KU titles below.
Thanks!

#transbooks #transauthors #transwriters

We Need Your Help!!
Why? It's Project For Awesome time! 💜✨ Please VOTE FOR US on the P4A website! projectforawesome.com/videos/queer...

A graphic asking you to vote for QLL, mentioning all the cool stuff we got to do because of P4A 2025, including doubling the size of our collection and buying our first Spanish books! We need your help to keep growing!

#P4A2026 is starting off strong with some semi-explicit banana stuffing? Here for it! (projectforawesome.com/live)

Vote please! projectforawesome.com/videos/queer...

small maroon-colored book: "it's only forever: labyrinth." "a tender and beautiful book tgat reminds us that the things that make ys other are the same that give us power."

back cover with synopsis of book (available on ECW's pop classics site)

inside cover with geometric burgundy labyrinth reminiscent of an 80s PC game

toc: labyrinth and the spectacle of growing up; labyrinth and queer amazement; labyrinth and the romance of failure; goblin mode and liberation; ways of being green; labyrinth and the contradictions of 80s cinema; jim henson's masquerade; nostalgia and labyrinth's afterlives

Just received copies of this lovely book (look at those labyrinthine end papers!) from @ecwpress.bsky.social I hope folks pre-order it and enjoy it, because it’s a queer ride full of goblins, 80s history, fairy tales, and trans joy. Just in time for the 40th anniversary of #labyrinth

A black background with a grey grunge overtop. A teal banner on the top states, "Our February Reading List" In the center of the screen is a book cover, Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender, showing a young black individual with a flower crown on a red background. There are five arrows coming off of the book cover stating: 1. 2021 Stonewall Honor Book 2. Time Magazine's 100 Best YA Novels of All Time (all time underlined) 3. For Ages 14-18 4. Self Discovery, First Love 5. Slide to description

A black background with a grey grunge overtop. A white paper sits in the middle of the page with the title Felix Ever After by Kacen Calender. Below the title, there is a space where the book description sits, "Felix Love has never been in love—and, yes, he’s painfully aware of the irony. He desperately wants to know what it’s like and why it seems so easy for everyone but him to find someone. What’s worse is that, even though he is proud of his identity, Felix also secretly fears that he’s one marginalization too many—Black, queer, and transgender—to ever get his own happily-ever-after. When an anonymous student begins sending him transphobic messages—after publicly posting Felix’s deadname alongside images of him before he transitioned—Felix comes up with a plan for revenge. What he didn’t count on: his catfish scenario landing him in a quasi–love triangle....But as he navigates his complicated feelings, Felix begins a journey of questioning and self-discovery that helps redefine his most important relationship: how he feels about himself. Felix Ever After is an honest and layered story about identity, falling in love, and recognizing the love you deserve." Above the white paper there is an arrow pointing to a Trigger Warning that states, TW: Bullying & Transphobia

In honor of Black History Month, Trans Up Front would like to take the time to share our favorite YA and children's books. Our February reading list will focus on stories pertaining to black trans folk in different age ranges to ensure everyone can find a story they see themselves in!

Hello trans KU authors. I got a KU membership really cheap during the holidays and I want to give page reads and reviews before it expires mid-March. Drop links to your KU titles below.
Thanks!

#transbooks #transauthors #transwriters

Trans Lives Trans Lives, In this book, Raewyn Connell, a world-leading sociologist and gender researcher, gathers the evidence and writes about the lives of trans women and men, hijra, travesti, and other groups around the world. She looks at the forces shaping trans lives, including medicine and its limitations, precarity and poverty, unequal gender relations, the role of sex work, and encounters with the state and the corporate economy. She discusses what is behind anti-trans campaigns, criticizing the simplistic idea that ‘transphobia’ explains these, and suggesting more potent causes. Finally, by exploring the creative ways trans groups have organized, she argues for the contribution they can and should make to solving our shared contemporary crises.

New #book by fellow member Raewyn Connell:

Trans Lives: Social Realities across the Globe

WIP Book 2 page 48 sketch finished and dialogue | The Yuri Canon Get more from The Yuri Canon on Patreon

Book 2 Page 48 of my webcomic, Inside OuT: A Trans Tale, is now up on Patreon for those there to see. I should have more sketch up laters and tomorrow I'll be posting page 47 on webtoons and tapas. I hope people will like them.

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Reforged Flame: A Novel in The Bloodline Chronicles As a former vigilante vampire hunter and powerful pyrom…

my book featuring a trans man main character drops today and I NEED your support! please pick up a copy or put it on your "to read" list!

A trans woman’s memoir told through vignettes and poetry shares painful truths of abuse, resilience, and queer hope in the face of a harsh world. #BookReview #LGBTQBooks #IndieAuthor #QueerReads #ReaderViews buff.ly/gfjxRSD

Hey you should go buy my book. Cyberpunkish trans poetry. People like it. Good chance if you follow me you'll like it. Many different stores. books2read.com/thefailureexperiment

Buy. Read. Love. Eat book. Repeat.

Spring 2026 Writers to Watch: Petra Lord A lifelong fantasy reader, the author began what would become her highly anticipated debut YA novel 'Queen of Faces' (Holt, Feb.) as a side project while studying TV writing.

Bay Area: Petra is reading in Berkeley (2/6) and Los Altos (2/5). I'll be at one of them

While Lord says QoF “is a trans book,” it’s also a “compelling fantasy first and foremost" she hopes will appeal to a wide audience. “I’m especially hoping it clicks with queer edgelord teenagers.”