A young girl discovers a portal to a land filled with centaurs and unicorns in Seanan McGuire’s Across the Green Grass Fields, a standalone tale in the Hugo and Nebula Award-wining Wayward Children series.
“Welcome to the Hooflands. We’re happy to have you, even if you being here means something’s coming.”
Regan loves, and is loved, though her school-friend situation has become complicated, of late.
When she suddenly finds herself thrust through a doorway that asks her to “Be Sure” before swallowing her whole, Regan must learn to live in a world filled with centaurs, kelpies, and other magical equines―a world that expects its human visitors to step up and be heroes.
But after embracing her time with the herd, Regan discovers that not all forms of heroism are equal, and not all quests are as they seem…
Representation Includes
- Intersex protagonist (Regan)
Content Warnings
bullying, kidnapping, captivity, intersexphobia, minor injuries and bloodReviews
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Set in a near-future world where the British Empire was preserved, not by the cost of blood and theft but by effort of repatriation and promises kept, That Inevitable Victorian Thing is a novel of love, duty, and the small moments that can change people and the world.
Victoria-Margaret is the crown princess of the empire, a direct descendant of Victoria I, the queen who changed the course of history two centuries earlier. The imperial practice of genetically arranged matchmaking will soon guide Margaret into a politically advantageous marriage like her mother before her, but before she does her duty, she’ll have one summer incognito in a far corner of empire. In Toronto, she meets Helena Marcus, daughter of one of the empire’s greatest placement geneticists, and August Callaghan, the heir apparent to a powerful shipping firm currently besieged by American pirates. In a summer of high-society debutante balls, politically charged tea parties, and romantic country dances, Margaret, Helena, and August discover they share an unusual bond and maybe a one in a million chance to have what they want and to change the world in the process —just like the first Queen Victoria.
Representation Includes
- WLW, mixed-race main character
- Bisexual, intersex main character
- Chinese-Canadian main character
Content Warnings
Clumsy handling of race and eugenics; major character who is initially shocked at learning she’s intersex; cheating in romantic relationshipEnding notes
Ending with f/f/m polyamoryReviews
- Lambda Literary’s review
- Acqua’s review
- Utopia State of Mind’s review
- Danika at the Lesbrary’s review
- Gretchen’s review
- Delucienne Maekerr’s review
- Elise’s review
- Kend’s review
- クリ’s review
- Reviews from intersex and First Nations reviewers needed
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- Published October 3rd 2017 by Dutton Books for Young Readers
- ISBN13: 9781101994979
Stop me. Please.
Three words scrawled in bloodred wine. A note furtively passed into the hand of a handsome stranger. Only death can free Mio from his mother’s political schemes. He’s put his trust in the enigmatic Rhodry—an immortal moon soul with the power of the bear spirit—to put an end to it all.
But Rhodry cannot bring himself to kill Mio, whose spellbinding voice has the power to expose secrets from the darkest recesses of the heart and mind. Nor can he deny his attraction to the fair young sorcerer. So he spirits Mio away to his home, the only place he can keep him safe—if the curse that besieges the estate doesn’t destroy them both first.
In a world teeming with mages, ghosts and dark secrets, love blooms between the unlikely pair. But if they are to be strong enough to overcome the evil that draws ever nearer, Mio and Rhodry must first accept a happiness neither ever expected to find.
Representation Includes
- Non-binary, intersex protagonist (Mio)
Content Warnings
Violence, mind control, blood and mild (fantasy) gore, past infidelity, homophobia and anti-effeminacyReviews
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- Published September 2nd 2019 by Carina Press
- Ebook ISBN13: 9781488055102
How do you fight for who you are, when the government controls what you are?
Andi knows being born an intersex “Transgressor” and then choosing to stay that way, can have lethal consequences. After all, surgical assignment is mandated by law. But she ain’t going to spend her life hiding from the Society, hooked on Flow, and wanking tourists just to make a few bucks. She’s a member of the Trans Liberty Riot Brigade, an underground faction of Transgressors resisting the government’s war on their illegal genitalia.
But it’s not enough to tag their messages on shithouse walls and sniff down the next high. The government has found their headquarters, decimated their ranks, and they’re crushing the resistance. Though Andi might be nothing but a junktard, she embarks on a desperate dash to stay alive and send a call for help before they’re all killed—or worse, surgically assigned.
Andi, together with Brigade leader Elenbar, must get beyond the communications block preventing all radio transmission, which means crossing the seaboard Wall barricading the United Free States borders. It’s designed to keep enemies out and the citizens in, but amid increasing earthquakes and deadly pursuit, Andi will discover there’s a far more dangerous secret hidden deep within the Wall itself.
Representation Includes
- Intersex protagonist
Content Warnings
Drug addiction, violence, scene where protagonist is touched without consent, mental abuseReviews
- Sara Codair’s review
- Matt Doyle’s review
- Avery Delany’s review
- Brooklyn Ray’s review
- Trans Books’ review
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- Published July 17th 2017 by NineStar Press
- Paperback ISBN13: 9781947139336
- Ebook isbn13: 9781370845347
In a land of lost wonders, the past is stirring once more . . .Gene’s life resembles a debutante’s dream. Yet she hides a secret that would see her shunned by the nobility. Gene is both male and female. Then she displays unwanted magical abilities – last seen in mysterious beings from an almost-forgotten age. Matters escalate further when her parents plan a devastating betrayal, so she flees home, dressed as a boy.
The city beyond contains glowing glass relics from a lost civilization. They call to her, but she wants freedom not mysteries. So, reinvented as ‘Micah Grey’, Gene joins the circus. As an aerialist, she discovers the joy of flight – but the circus has a dark side. She’s also plagued by visions foretelling danger. A storm is howling in from the past, but will she heed its roar?
Representation Includes
- Bisexual, nonbinary, intersex protagonist
Content Warnings
More content warnings neededAwards
- Won the Bisexual Book Award
- Nominated for the British Fantasy Award for Best Newcomer
Reviews
- Cheryl Morgan’s review
- Morgan Doherty’s review
- Nicole Field’s review
- Reviews by intersex readers needed
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- Published November 17th 2016 by Tor (first published February 5th 2013)
- Paperback ISBN13: 9781509807772
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.
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.
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.
Representation Includes
- Black, intersex neurodivergent nonbinary woman protagonist
- Nonbinary trans woman representation (supporting character — see author’s twitter thread)
- Aro ace representation (supporting character)
Content Warnings
Sexual assault, graphic violence, suicide, slavery, racism, loss of parent, loss of child, body horror, sexism, homophobia, systemic violence, references to self harm, death of mentally ill character,
Awards
- Nominated for the Gaylactic Spectrum Award, the Stonewall Book Award, the Lambda Literary Award
- Included on the Otherwise Award honor list
Reviews
- Bogi Takács’ review
- Cynthia’s review
- Black Lesbian literary Collective’s review
- Amal El-Mohtar’s review
- M. Milks’ review
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- Published October 3rd 2017 by Akashic Books
- Paperback (ISBN13: 9781617755880)