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Here's a list of our favorite indie transgender books.

Are you in need of some cosy queer books to warm you up in these freezing 2022 winter days? Look no further.

Penfield R. Henderson, dog-walker with a trust fund and closeted-celebrity-fucker, has problems: a bitter parasocial obsession with transmasculine influencer Aiden Chase, a cramped dirty apartment in Bushwick he shares with the Witch and the Stoner-Hacker, and a deep-seated sense of inadequacy about his own awkward transition to manhood. After a bad run-in with Aiden, Penfield decides to cast a hex on him to send him back to the Shadowlands (the desaturated and miserable portion of transition w...

This week, the staff of ‘The Paris Review’ revels in the chaos of Joss Lake’s ‘Future Feeling,’ praises Akwaeke Emezi’s latest, and considers the amateur.

Zakiya Dalila Harris makes a thrilling debut with The Other Black Girl, journalist Mike Rothschild takes on QAnon, New Yorker writer Sheldon Pearce assembles a Tupac oral history, and more books to read in June.

(Penguin Random House/Vintage 978-0-593-08115-0, $17, 272pp, formats: trade paperback, ebook, audio, June 1, 2021) Fantasy novel, inspired in part on the paintings of Hieronymus Bosch, about mercenaries transporting a sacred oracle in 16th-century Netherlands. With lush, erudite prose and a large cast of darkly eccentric humans and monsters, this spellbinding slipstream novel from Catling (the Vorrh trilogy) feels like stepping into one of Hieronymus Bosch’s playfully macabre paintings—work...