The Transfeminine Review

Hi all, it’s been a quieter few months for trans literature, coming off the heels of last spring’s historic bumper crop of trans books. As always, I’ve done my best to compile every recent release that’s come out over the last six months! I have no doubt that this list will be missing books, so if there’s anything that should be on here but isn’t, please don’t hesitate to let me know.

If you are a transfeminine author who published a work of literature in the period between 7/1/25 and 12/31/25 and you don’t see your book on this list, please reach out to me and I will add it. Nothing is too obscure to be included here.

THE DISCOVERY READING CHALLENGE: Here’s a fact – there isn’t a single person who will look at this list and recognize every single book and author! I know I certainly didn’t. It might be intimidating to look at such a large booklist, so let me pose you a challenge: pick one book by an author you’ve never even heard of and read it blind. If you don’t want to go in completely blind, then read the summaries until you find one that interests you.

New year, new books – your new favorite author could be waiting on this list for you to discover them! It can be such a challenge for trans authors to rise out of obscurity, so let’s take a moment to support our lesser-known and underground authors too. If you do the challenge, let me know what book you chose and post on social media about the author and how it goes ❤

Anyway, here’s the list!

New Releases

A Mask for the Sun (Kay F. Atkinson, 7/1/25) – Self, Fiction, itch, Linktree

Hot Girls With Balls (Benedict Nguyen, 7/1/25) – Catapult, Fiction, Amazon, Website

Sugar and Spice (Bailey Saxon, 7/4/25) – Self, Fiction, itch, Patreon

The Girl Who Wants to Be a Hero and the Girl Who Ought to Be a Hero (Inori, 7/8/25) – Yen Press, Fiction, Yen Press, Fanbox

Crescendo (Lily Seabrooke and Jacqueline Ramsden, 7/10/25) – Self, Fiction, Amazon, Bluesky

Once Upon a Punk Show (Katelyn Forrest, 7/15/25) – Self, Fiction, Amazon, Website

Wolf Devouring a Wolf Devouring a Wolf (Cassandra Whitaker, 7/15/25) – Jackleg Press, Poetry, Bookshop, nothing

Human Rites (Her Majesty’s Royal Coven #3, Juno Dawson, 7/17/25) – HarperVoyager, Fiction, Penguin, Website

Warhound (Kallidora Rho, 7/21/25) – Self, Fiction, itch, Website

Sideways Selves: Travesti and Jotería Struggles Across the Américas (PJ DiPietro, 7/22/25) – University of Texas Press, Nonfiction, Amazon, Website

The Tears of Other People: A History and Memoir of Displacement in Portsmouth, New Hampshire (Evie Ippolito, 7/27/25) – Irrelevant Press, Nonfiction, Irrelevant, Website

Student Bodies (TT Madden, 7/27/25) – Little Ghosts Books, Fiction, Little Ghosts, Bluesky

Simplicity (Mattie Lubchansky, 7/29/25) – Pantheon, Graphic, Amazon, Website

The Starlight She Becomes (Parker Lee, 7/20/25) – Central Avenue Poetry, Poetry, Amazon, Website

So What If I’m a Puta: Diaries of Transness, Sex Work, Desire (Amara Moira, 8/1/25) – The Feminist Press, Memoir, Amazon, Bluesky

A We Without a State (Yásnaya Elena Aguilar Gil, 8/1/25) – Rupture Press, Nonfiction, Rupture, unsure

Black Flame (Gretchen Felker-Martin, 8/5/25) – Tor Nightfire, Fiction, Macmillan, Twitter

Transgender Intersections (Carey Jean Sojka & Kylan Mattias de Vries, 8/5/25) – Polity, Nonfiction, Amazon, n/a

A Game in Yellow (Hailey Piper, 8/12/25) – Saga Press, Fiction, Amazon, Website

Both/And: Essays by Trans and Gender-Nonconforming Writers of Color (ed. Denne Michele Norris, 8/12/25) – HarperOne, Nonfiction, Amazon, Website

Letters from a Living Utopia: Reclaiming Liberation from Palestine to the World (Yaffa As, 8/12/25) – Common Notions, Nonfiction, Amazon, Linktree

Reverse Tomboy (Auto Anon, 8/14/25) – Self, Fiction, Amazon, Insta

Lessons in Magic and Disaster (Charlie Jane Anders, 8/19/25) – Tor, Fiction, Macmillan, Website

Talk to Me (Munroe Bergdorf, 8/21/25) – Penguin Audio, Audiobook, Amazon, Insta

Tales of Elsinore (Emily Wynne, 8/22/25) – Balance of Seven Press, Fiction, Amazon, Bluesky

angels (May Leitz, 8/24/25) – Self, Fiction, Amazon, Bluesky

Sea, Mother, Swallow, Tongues (Kim De L’Horizon, 8/26/25) – Farrar, Strauss, and Girroux, Fiction, Amazon, n/a

The Other Side of Paradise (Lily Seabrooke, 8/28/25) – Self, Fiction, Amazon, Bluesky

The Anagogic Collection (Sage the Anagogue, 8/31/25) – Self, Shortform, itch, Bluesky

I Saw the Pink Light Glow (D. Moses and Josephine Riesman, 9/1/26) – Self, Essays, Lulu, Website

Moonflow (Bitter Karella, 9/2/25) – Run For It, Fiction, Hatchette, Website

Kijk es naar al dit licht (Alara Adilow, 9/4/25) – De Bezige Bij, Fiction, Bol, it’s all in Dutch

TABOO (Lilac Peril, 9/7/25) – Lilac Peril, Shortform, Website, Bluesky

Gorman’s House (T.T. Madden, 9/9/25) – Mad Axe Media, Fiction, Amazon, Bluesky

Cannon (Lee Lai, 9/9/25) – Drawn and Quarterly, Graphic, Drawn and Quarterly, Website

Leave a Light On For Me (Briar Holloway, 9/12/25) – Self, Fiction, itch, n/a

The Ink Witch (Steph Cherrywell, 9/16/25) – Little Brown Books, Fiction, Amazon, Website

Teenage Girls Can Be Demons (Hailey Piper, 9/16/25) – Titan Books, Fiction, Amazon, Website

Sarah, or ‘I lived my life as a cloud that followed overhead’ (Never Angeline Nørth, 9/17/25) – Inside the Castle, Fiction, nothing yet, Website

Best Woman (Rose Dommu, 9/23/25) – Ballantine Books, Fiction, Penguin, Substack

Perverts (Kay Gabriel, 9/30/25) – Nightboat Books, Poetry, Amazon, Website

Marrow (eri lucia kapling, 10/1/25) – Self, Poetry, Purchase, Website

Uncanny Valley Girls (Zefyr Lisowski, 10/7/25) – Harper Perennial, Nonfiction, Amazon, Website

Herculine (Grace Byron, 10/7/25) – Saga Press, Fiction, Amazon, Substack

Star Sword Nemesis (Christine Love, 10/7/25) – Love Conquers All Games, Fiction, itch, Bluesky

Machines of Consent (Sophia Turner, 10/7/25) – Transistance Press, Fiction, itch, Bluesky

Frankenbutch (Fern V. Bedek, 10/7/25) – Self, Fiction, itch, Bluesky

Femail (Luna C., 10/10/25) – Self, Fiction, itch, Website

Curious Case of the Demon Princess (Rainbow Gay, 10/10/25) – Self, Fiction, itch, Tumblr

The Wolf Bane (Sadhbh Frost, 10/13/25) – Self, Fiction, itch, Bluesky

Keeping the Peace (Tris Husband, 10/16/25) – Self, Fiction, itch, Bluesky

Sex Change and the City (Tuck Woodstock, Nico Stratis, 10/16/25) – Girl Dad Press, Miscellany, Website, Bluesky

It’s The Characters! (Isabel Pabán Freed, 10/20/25) – Self, Fiction, Amazon, Website

Jackson Bright in the Spotlight (Eureka O’Hara and Dan Poblocki, 10/21/25) – Amulet Books, Fiction, Amazon, Insta

sorry i keep crying during sex (Jesse James Rose, 10/21/25) – Abrams Press, Memoir, Amazon, Website

The Most Holy Day of the Transsexual Calendar (Nora Hikari, 10/28/25) – Game Over Books, Poetry, Game Over, n/a

Shadows Over Ravenkirk: The Last Will and Testament of Wilhelmina Bruttenholm Vivian Moira Valentine, 10/31/25) – Self, Fiction, Amazon, Bluesky

Ranked Competitive Breast Growth: The Complete Serial (Talia Bhat & Beth Leigh-Ann, 10/31/25) – Self, Fiction, itch, Website

Desert Magic (Dharma Kelleher, 10/31/25) – Self, Fiction, Amazon, Website

Steam-Powered Battle-Barrels (Amber Lief, 10/31/25) – Self, Fiction, Amazon, n/a

Epistemic Dissonance: The (R)existence of Black Travestis and Trans Women in Brazil (Megg Rayara G. de Oliveira, Letícia Carolina Nascimento, Jaqueline Gomes de Jesus, 11/1/25) – Amefrica Press, Nonfiction, Amazon, n/a

A Hungry Light (Zinnabelle, 11/3/25) – Self, Fiction, itch, Bluesky

Gendertrash From Hell: The First Print Collection of the Zine That Changed Everything (Mirha-Soleil Ross, 11/4/25) – LittlePuss Press, Nonfiction, Amazon, Bluesky

Terry Dactyl (Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, 11/11/25) – Cipher Press, Fiction, Bookshop, Website

When the Candles Burn (JW Sweem, 11/11/25) – Self, Fiction, Amazon, Website

Magica Riot: Full Bloom (Kara Buchanan, 11/15/25) – Self, Fiction, itch.io, Website

Part Time Girl (Adriaan Brae, 11/18/25) – Presses Renaissance Press, Fiction, Amazon, Website

Femmedom Gangbang Erotica (Esmerelda Quick, 11/25/25) – Kith Books, Poetry, Kith, Bluesky

All-New Sloane Lone (SloaneTVBand, 12/5/25) – Self, Fiction, WeChange, Bluesky

Fractures Between (Beatrice Mckinsey, 12/7/25) – Self, Fiction, Amazon, Bluesky

Guitar Concerto in C Flat Major, Op. 12: Lucina (S. Morgan Burbank, 12/12/25) – Self, Fiction, itch, Bluesky

The Neon Revelation (TT Madden, 12/16/25) – Timber Ghost Books, Fiction, Amazon, Linktree

All the Way (Alyson Greaves, 12/18/25) – Self, Fiction, itch, Bluesky

In the Forum of Madness (Isabel Pabán Freed, 12/18/25) – Self, Fiction, Amazon, Website

That Night I Got Married to a Werewolf (Autumn Wolff, 12/31/25) – Self, Fiction, itch, Bluesky

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