Hey #Bookstodon
Any recommendations for books with nonbinary or transmen main characters? Feeling like I could really use the representation, but all I'm finding are transwomen, and that's... not me. As long as it's fiction, any genre is okay. @bookstodon
@CrescentSays@bookstodon Although they're absent for a lot of the book, one of the key characters in Kemi Ashing-Giwa's Splinter in the Sky is ungendered throughout, and it's a great book in general.
@CrescentSays@bookstodon Jay Northcote (who is trans) has at least 2 romance novels with transmen leads: Second Chance and Starting From Scratch.
TJ Klune has a bigender protagonist in one of his romance novels: Why We Fight (he also wrote some blog posts about his writing it and how he got feedback since he's a cis white man and the character is very much not). I can probably dig up some more (also probably romance, I used to read a lot of queer romance) if you give me a little more time.
@SRLevine I'd be interested in that blog post if you have a link 🙏🏾 I'm in a similar boat as a writer and I'd like some additional hints to possible blind spots
Thinking on stuff I've read recently, the Singing Hills Cycle (Nghi Vo) has a nonbinary main character, while Zen Cho's The Order of the Pale Moon Reflected In Water has a trans man as a major character. A friend of mine has also recommended The Angel of the Crows (Katherine Addison) for tranmasc rep, though I've not read that one yet.
Raven Tower by Ann Leckie comes to mind, if you want fantasy.
The protagonist of Witch King by Martha Wells is technically a demon who is gifted a human body but their female body is killed and they have to switch to a male in the book. Also fantasy.
Would you start out with all systems red? Then get to witch king? I just wonder how you would do it if you could pick order. I did read both your posts. See I read Holly Black’s elf-hame (sp)and started out with lost heir. Which was the reason I read the rest of them and loved them.
Witch King is not part of a series at all so read it anytime, if you think you will like it (I did).
If you want to read the Murderbot series (also fits the original question as the MC insists that they are an "it") then the first Book, All Systems Red, is a good starting point. If you would rather read a short story first before deciding about the books there is Compulsive, which is also the earliest story in the internal timeline of Murderbot.
@CrescentSays@bookstodon Becky Chambers' "Monk and Robot" series has a nonbinary main character alongside a genderless robot! It might be up your alley.
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