Chris Bohjalian

TRANS-SISTER RADIO, 2000, 344 pp.
What is the relationship between gender and sexuality? How important are your genitalia to your self-image? The author sensitively explores these questions through the lives of four characters.

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David Ebershoff

DANISH GIRL, 2000, 288 pp.
This is loosely based on the life of Danish painter Einar Wegener who, in 1931, became the first man to undergo a sex-change operation. The Danish Girl uses his life as a framework to explore how Wegener's decision to become Lilli affected those arou

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Armistead Maupin

TALES OF THE CITY SERIES, 1978, 371 pp.
This classic series examines the gay, straight and lesbian love lives of the tenants and transsexual proprietor of 28 Barbary Lane. In 1983, it was the earliest published fiction to deal with AIDS.

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Julia Peters

LUNA, 2005, 248 pp.
From as early as she can remember, Reagan O'Neil's life has focused on her brother's transsexuality and the needs associated with it. She has always been protective of Liam/Luna but now for once she would like to work on her own life.

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Julia Willis

REEL TIME, 1998, 345 pp.
Willis' funny and quirky novel, about the problem of serial relationships, is skillfully examines them from both a lesbian and transsexual perspective.

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Christopher Wilson

COTTON, 2005, 314 pp.
Lee Cotton is a bi-racial man who has the gift to hear people's thoughts. He can "pass" in the racist 1950's until he has a run-in with some Klan members. After a car accident where Cotton's penis is removed and he is transformed

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Virginia Woolf

ORLANDO, 1993, 208 pp.
Orlando starts out as a 16-year old boy in Elizabethan England and ends up as a woman giving birth in 1928. This novel is part love-letter to Vita Sackville-West and part biography.

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