Gay & Lesbian x Transgender Studies

15 books sit in the overlap between Gay & Lesbian and Transgender Studies.

15 shared books5 shared top picks26% top-pick overlap57% reader overlap

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Shared Shelf

These are the books that appear on both source lists. This is the literal overlap, not a synthetic summary.

1. Gender/fucking: the Pleasures and Politics of Living in a Gendered Body
Florence Ashley
Appears #3 on Gay & Lesbian and #3 on Transgender Studies. Shared themes: Queer Literary Criticism and Transgender Studies.
2. Edge of the World
Alden Jones, Andrew Ellis Evans
Appears #1 on Gay & Lesbian and #12 on Transgender Studies. Shared themes: Queer Literary Criticism and Transgender Studies.
3. Perverts
Kay Gabriel
Appears #5 on Gay & Lesbian and #9 on Transgender Studies. Shared themes: Queer Literary Criticism and Transgender Studies.
4. Transland
Mx. Sly
Appears #11 on Gay & Lesbian and #4 on Transgender Studies. Shared themes: Queer Literary Criticism and Transgender Studies.
5. Aggregated Discontent
Harron Walker
Appears #9 on Gay & Lesbian and #7 on Transgender Studies. Shared themes: Queer Literary Criticism and Transgender Studies.
6. The Queer Thing About Sin
Harry Tanner
Appears #6 on Gay & Lesbian and #15 on Transgender Studies. Shared themes: Queer Literary Criticism and Transgender Studies.
7. The Lesbian South
Jaime Harker
Appears #2 on Gay & Lesbian and #20 on Transgender Studies. Shared themes: Queer Literary Criticism and Transgender Studies.
8. It Ain't Over Til the Bisexual Speaks
Lois Shearing, Vaneet Mehta
Appears #14 on Gay & Lesbian and #13 on Transgender Studies. Shared themes: Queer Literary Criticism and Transgender Studies.
9. In a Queer Time and Place
J. Jack Halberstam
Appears #27 on Gay & Lesbian and #2 on Transgender Studies. Shared themes: Queer Literary Criticism and Transgender Studies.
10. Other Women
Beverly Burch
Appears #24 on Gay & Lesbian and #6 on Transgender Studies. Shared themes: Queer Literary Criticism and Transgender Studies.
11. Surviving the Future
Shuli Branson, Raven Hudson
Appears #21 on Gay & Lesbian and #11 on Transgender Studies. Shared themes: Queer Literary Criticism and Transgender Studies.
12. On My Way to Liberation
H. Melt
Appears #31 on Gay & Lesbian and #1 on Transgender Studies. Shared themes: Queer Literary Criticism and Transgender Studies.
13. A Woman Like That
Various, Joan Larkin
Appears #18 on Gay & Lesbian and #21 on Transgender Studies. Shared themes: Queer Literary Criticism and Transgender Studies.
14. Bisexuality in the United States
Paula C. Rodriguez Rust, Paula C. Rodríguez Rust
Appears #20 on Gay & Lesbian and #23 on Transgender Studies. Shared themes: Queer Literary Criticism and Transgender Studies.
15. The Transformative Potential of LGBTQ+ Children's Picture Books
Jennifer Miller
Appears #26 on Gay & Lesbian and #18 on Transgender Studies. Shared themes: Queer Literary Criticism and Transgender Studies.

Source Lists

These are the two public lists the crossover comes from.

How It's Told

Gay & Lesbian Books

34 picks

Gay & Lesbian books gathered from the how it's told shelf as a focused reading list.

Deep Dives

Transgender Studies Books

23 picks

Transgender Studies books gathered from the deep dives shelf as a focused reading list.

Crossover Essay

A longer editorial argument for why these two lists belong together.

Why Gay & Lesbian and Transgender Studies Belong on the Same Shelf builds the longer argument from the same two source lists and the same shared shelf.