2021 Book Review & Challenge‪!‬ Gender Journeys

El and Josie chat about all the queer books El read in 2021!

Check out the Gender Journeys Storygraph Challenges:

Fiction Challenge

Nonfiction Challenge

While you’re there, follow El’s Storygraph at OutToExist!



Queer Books El Read in 2021:

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Thirty Names of Night by Zeyn Joukhadar

Raising Them by Kyl Myers

What’s Your Pronoun?: Beyond He and She by Dennis Baron

Memoir of a Race Traitor by Mab Segrest

The Song of Achilles by Madelline Miller

The Deep by Rivers Solomon

Beyond the Gender Binary by Alok Vaid-Menon

The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle by Lillian Faderman

The Empress of Salt and Fortune by Nghi Vo

The Stonewall Reader edited by The New York Public Library

Glitter+Ashes: Queer Tales of a World That Wouldn’t Die edited by dave ring

All Boys Aren’t Blue by George M. Johnson

Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard by Rick Riordan

Transgender History by Susan Stryker

Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown

Trap Door: Trans Cultural Production and the Politics of Visibility

Captive Genders by Eric A Stanley

A Low Life In High Heels by Holly Woodlawn and Jeffrey Copeland

In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado

When The Tiger Came Down the Mountain by Nghi Vo

Cemetery Boys by Aiden ThomasWhen The Tiger Comes Down the Mountain

How To Survive a Plague by David France

Detransition Baby by Torey Peters

All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens Throughout the Ages edited by Saundra Mitchell

No Man of Woman Born by Ana Mardoll

Boy Erased: A Memoir of Identity, Faith, and Family by Garrard Conley

Normal Life by Dean Spade

Tomorrow Will Be Different by Sarah McBride

Boyfriend Material by Alexis Hall

Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo

Razorblade Tears by S.A. Crosby

Pheonix Extravagant by Yoon Ha Lee

Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi

One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston

Cosmoknights by Hannah Templer

Once & Future by Cori McCarthy and A.R. Capetta

The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman

Between Perfect and Real by Roy Stoeve

The Ghosts We Keep by Mason Deaver

Nonbinary Lives edited by Jos Twist, Ben Vincent, Meg-John Barker and Kat Gupta

Winterkeep by Kristin Cashore

The House In the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune

The Queer Art of Failure by Jack Halberstam

Real Queer America by Samantha Allen

When the Moon Was Ours by Anna-Marie McLemore

The Nobleman’s Guide to Scandal and Shipwrecks by Mackenzie Lee



Music for Gender Journeys Composed by Sonia Bourdaghs

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