It is time for a freebie Top Ten Tuesday (as always hosted byThat Artsy Reader Girl) today. I went back and forth on what to do for today but I decided on sharing a list of a few books and series by trans and non-binary authors. It is a mixture of books I’ve read and books I still have on my TBR.
An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon
Odd-mannered, obsessive, withdrawn, Aster has little to offer folks in the way of rebuttal when they call her ogre and freak. She’s used to the names; she only wishes there was more truth to them. If she were truly a monster, as they accuse, she’d be powerful enough to tear down the walls around her until nothing remained of her world, save for stories told around the cookfire.
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Aster lives in the low-deck slums of the HSS Matilda, a space vessel organized much like the antebellum South. For generations, the Matilda has ferried the last of humanity to a mythical Promised Land. On its way, the ship’s leaders have imposed harsh moral restrictions and deep indignities on dark-skinned sharecroppers like Aster, who they consider to be less than human.
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When the autopsy of Matilda‘s sovereign reveals a surprising link between his death and her mother’s suicide some quarter-century before, Aster retraces her mother’s footsteps. Embroiled in a grudge with a brutal overseer and sowing the seeds of civil war, Aster learns there may be a way off the ship if she’s willing to fight for it.
The Tensorate Series by JY Yang
Book 1 Synopsis
Mokoya and Akeha, the twin children of the Protector, were sold to the Grand Monastery as children. While Mokoya developed her strange prophetic gift, Akeha was always the one who could see the strings that moved adults to action. While his sister received visions of what would be, Akeha realized what could be. What’s more, he saw the sickness at the heart of his mother’s Protectorate.
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A rebellion is growing. The Machinists discover new levers to move the world every day, while the Tensors fight to put them down and preserve the power of the state. Unwilling to continue to play a pawn in his mother’s twisted schemes, Akeha leaves the Tensorate behind and falls in with the rebels. But every step Akeha takes towards the Machinists is a step away from his sister Mokoya. Can Akeha find peace without shattering the bond he shares with his twin sister?
The Feverwake duology by Victoria Lee
Synopsis book 1
In the former United States, sixteen-year-old Noam Álvaro wakes up in a hospital bed, the sole survivor of the viral magic that killed his family and made him a technopath. His ability to control technology attracts the attention of the minister of defense and thrusts him into the magical elite of the nation of Carolinia.
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The son of undocumented immigrants, Noam has spent his life fighting for the rights of refugees fleeing magical outbreaks—refugees Carolinia routinely deports with vicious efficiency. Sensing a way to make change, Noam accepts the minister’s offer to teach him the science behind his magic, secretly planning to use it against the government. But then he meets the minister’s son—cruel, dangerous, and achingly beautiful—and the way forward becomes less clear.
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Caught between his purpose and his heart, Noam must decide who he can trust and how far he’s willing to go in pursuit of the greater good
When the Moon Was Ours by Anne-Marie McLemore
To everyone who knows them, best friends Miel and Sam are as strange as they are inseparable. Roses grow out of Miel’s wrist, and rumors say that she spilled out of a water tower when she was five. Sam is known for the moons he paints and hangs in the trees, and for how little anyone knows about his life before he and his mother moved to town. But as odd as everyone considers Miel and Sam, even they stay away from the Bonner girls, four beautiful sisters rumored to be witches. Now they want the roses that grow from Miel’s skin, convinced that their scent can make anyone fall in love. And they’re willing to use every secret Miel has fought to protect to make sure she gives them up.
Cemetery Boys by Aidan Thomas
When his traditional Latinx family has problems accepting his gender, Yadriel becomes determined to prove himself a real brujo. With the help of his cousin and best friend Maritza, he performs the ritual himself, and then sets out to find the ghost of his murdered cousin and set it free.
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However, the ghost he summons is actually Julian Diaz, the school’s resident bad boy, and Julian is not about to go quietly into death. He’s determined to find out what happened and tie up some loose ends before he leaves. Left with no choice, Yadriel agrees to help Julian, so that they can both get what they want. But the longer Yadriel spends with Julian, the less he wants to let him leave.
Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee
Captain Kel Cheris of the hexarchate is disgraced for using unconventional methods in a battle against heretics. Kel Command gives her the opportunity to redeem herself by retaking the Fortress of Scattered Needles, a star fortress that has recently been captured by heretics. Cheris’s career isn’t the only thing at stake. If the fortress falls, the hexarchate itself might be next.
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Cheris’s best hope is to ally with the undead tactician Shuos Jedao. The good news is that Jedao has never lost a battle, and he may be the only one who can figure out how to successfully besiege the fortress.
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The bad news is that Jedao went mad in his first life and massacred two armies, one of them his own. As the siege wears on, Cheris must decide how far she can trust Jedao–because she might be his next victim.
Danielle Cain by Margaret Killjoy
Synopsis book 1
Danielle Cain is a queer punk rock traveller, jaded from a decade on the road. Searching for clues about her best friend’s mysterious and sudden suicide, she ventures to the squatter, utopian town of Freedom, Iowa. All is not well in Freedom, however: things went awry after the town’s residents summoned a protector spirit to serve as their judge and executioner.
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Danielle shows up in time to witness the spirit—a blood-red, three-antlered deer—begin to turn on its summoners. Danielle and her new friends have to act fast if they’re going to save the town—or get out alive.
Queen of the Conquered by Kacen Callendar
Sigourney Rose is the only surviving daughter of a noble lineage on the islands of Hans Lollik. When she was a child, her family was murdered by the islands’ colonizers, who have massacred and enslaved generations of her people—and now, Sigourney is ready to exact her revenge.
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When the childless king of the islands declares that he will choose his successor from amongst eligible noble families, Sigourney uses her ability to read and control minds to manipulate her way onto the royal island and into the ranks of the ruling colonizers. But when she arrives, prepared to fight for control of all the islands, Sigourney finds herself the target of a dangerous, unknown magic.
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Someone is killing off the ruling families to clear a path to the throne. As the bodies pile up and all eyes regard her with suspicion, Sigourney must find allies among her prey and the murderer among her peers… lest she become the next victim.
Hallo, Hallo Annemieke,
You might enjoy the collective works of an author friend of mine: E. Chris Garrison (whose an #ownvoices writer who has developed a Steampunk novella series with a transgender lead character) – I have hosted her during @SatBookChat and I’m in the process this year to finally get reviews on behalf of her audiobooks on my blog – the series I’m referencing today is “Trans-Continental: Girl in the Gears” being the first story. “Mississippi Queen” is the sequel – however its her quirky Tipsy Fairy Tales (a trilogy) of Urban Fantasy which turnt me onto her writings and her sense of humour.
Great list! I need to see if I can find any which would suit me as a reader.
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Thank you for the rec. I’ll be looking ino them 🙂
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Thanks for sharing this list! It’s the first I’ve seen like it.
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We need more 🙂
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This is a wonderful resource! Thanks for putting that together for your TTT.
Here is my TTT: https://ichlese.blog/2020/07/28/top-ten-tuesday-my-favorite-seasonal-book-movie-sustenance-pairings/.
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You are welcome 🙂
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Great list! I’m hoping to pick up Queen of the Conquered next. I’ve heard so many good things about Ninefox Gambit and The Fever King, and I can’t wait for Cemetery Boys. 🙂
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The Fever King is so much fun. And I really do need to get on board with Ninefox Gambit. Only a few more weeks for Cemetery Boys 😀
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So many things on here that sound like I’d enjoy them. Thanks for putting this list together 🙂
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I hope you’ll find a new favorite!
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I haven’t read An Unkindness of Ghosts yet, but I read The Deep by Rivers Solomon last weekend and it was amazing, harrowing, and beautifully told.
Dragon Pearl by Yoon Ha Lee is also great fun, a MG novel with a fox spirit in space.
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Oh The Deep is also one I really want to read. I’ve heard such great things. I have Yoon Ha Lee’s newest release to read and it will be my first but I honestly have my eye on everything they’ve published.
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I love this idea for a post! I’m saving your list for future reference.
My TTT .
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You’re welcome 🙂
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A really fascinating list! Thank you for sharing 😀 I will definitely be keeping my eye out for some of these.
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I hope you find a new favorite 🙂
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I’ve not read any of these, I’ll have to check them out and see what interests me.
My TTT: https://jjbookblog.wordpress.com/2020/07/28/top-ten-tuesday-274/
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I hope you find something you like 🙂
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Thanks!
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Great idea for a list, and I see many on here that are already on my TBR😁
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This does not surprise me haha.
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I loved The Fever King – I can’t wait to read the sequel!
Lauren @ Always Me
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The sequel was great! I hope you’ll love it too.
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Great list! I’ve read Rivers Solomon’s The Deep and enjoyed that one, but haven’t read any of their other work yet. And I recently finished the Tensorate series and really enjoyed it! I loved the setting for that series.
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I’ve heard such great things about The Deep so I’d like to get to that at some point. And I really need to get the rest of the Tensorate series to read.
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I enjoyed The Deep but personally I liked the Tensorate series better. I liked the magic system better in that world. They were both enjoyable reads, though! I hope you like The Deep and the rest of the Tensorate series when you get to them.
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Ninefox Gambit has such a great title.
Here is our Top Ten Tuesday.
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It does!
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When the Moon was Ours…so, so good. I loved it.
Have a good week.
My Top Ten favorite books by month
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It is a great book!
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Cemetery Boys is definitely on my TBR and I loved When the Moon Was Ours!
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I can’t wait for Cemetery Boys to come out
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Some new authors to try. I’m especially interested in the Victoria Lee book- that one sounds fun.
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I think you could really like The Fever King Greg 🙂
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The Fever King and Cemetery Boys are series I’m really interested in starting! Thanks for sharing this list!
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The Fever duology is great!
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I need to read Cemetery Boys. It sounds awesome. I recently read the poetry collection Don’t Call Us Dead. I think the author is non-binary. It’s really good, if you’re into poetry.
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I’ll look into it! Poetry is a bit of a hit or miss for me often.
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I cannot wait to read Cemetery Boys. I also really want to pick up Queen of the Conquered. Great list!
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I’m so excited!
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I’ll throw in M.K. England and Juno Dawson! I’m finding more trans and non-binary authors this year, I love it.
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Ah great! I’ll have to look up M.K. England!
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These are such great recs! I haven’t read many books by trans or non-binary authors (or I have and I wasn’t aware) and I want to be more inclusive with the authors I read, so this is very handy 🙂
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Yes me too. Its good to be more aware.
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Great list! Some already on my TBR but some great new additions- thanks!
My TTT https://tooshorttoread.wordpress.com/2020/07/28/top-ten-tuesday-diverse-reads-on-my-tbr/
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I hope you’ll like some of them 😀
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I love the look of Black Tides of Heaven, it has such an exquisite cover, I really want to read it!
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It is good and so different! Definitely give it a go.
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Wow! What a great topic and list of books! Happy reading! 🙂
My Top Ten Tuesday!
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Thank you!
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This is such a great list! I’m so excited for Cemetery Boys! I also really loved Felix Ever After by Kacen Callendar, so looking forward to Queen of the Conquered. And I really want to read some Anna-Marie McLemore and Victoria Lee books!
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I’ve heard many rave about Felix Ever After! A little out of my comfort zone though but I am glad that they write different things.
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Thanks for the list! It will come in handy next year for reading challenges. 👍✨
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