Hedgehog Harry

The trans rights readathon is coming up from March 17-31, though the reading challenge on Storygraph goes through the end of the year. Below is what I’m hoping to read by the end of the year. My goal is to read three of the picks by the end of the readathon itself.

Official StoryGraph Challenge Prompts

1. Transmasc and Trans Man Representation: An author and/or main character who identifies as a trans man or on the masculine side of the trans experience, which can include people who view their gender along the expansive nonbinary spectrum.

Extra Challenge: This year, we encourage readers to read a transmasc book by a BIPOC author.]

Harry’s Pick: Most Ardently by Gabe Cle Novoa. This one has been on my tbr since it came out. While my physical copy is currently with a friend, I found the audiobook at my library.

2. Transfemme and Trans Woman Representation: An author and/or main character who identifies as a trans woman or on the feminine side of the trans experience, which can include people who view their gender along the expansive nonbinary spectrum.

Extra Challenge: This year, we encourage readers to read a transfemme book with multiple trans characters for this prompt.

Harry’s Pick: Woodworking by Emily St. James was one of my five star reads last year and I decided to make it a reread for the readathon though I’ll be trying it in audiobook format this time around.

3. Nonbinary, Agender, Genderqueer, and Other Gender Expansive Representation: A work by an author and/or featuring a main character who exists outside of the gender binary. This includes nonbinary, agender, genderqueer, genderfluid, and other gender expansive identities. For some people, this may mean identifying as both masculine and feminine; for others, it means being neither masculine nor feminine; and in some cases, this means identifying as a midpoint (or multiple shifting midpoints) between masc and femme.

Extra Challenge: This year, we encourage readers to read a gender expansive rep book with diverse body representation for this prompt.

Harry’s Pick: How to Lose a Goblin in Ten Days by Jessie Sylva just came out in 2026 and I have an advanced reader copy that’s burning a hole in my ereader. I’m hoping I enjoy it and can get a physical copy from my local romance bookstore HEA Book Boutique who had it on display last I checked.

4. Intersectional Trans+ Representation Outside Your Own Experience: A work by an author and/or featuring a main character who falls under the greater trans umbrella, including trans men, trans women, nonbinary, and other gender expansive identities, and who ALSO holds another intersectional identity, such having a different racial or cultural background than your own, or a disability you have not personally experienced.

Harry’s PIck: Cemetery Boys: Espíritu by Aiden Thomas is the follow up to the fantastic Cemetery Boys which I highly recommend!

5. 2Spirit, Indiqueer, and Indigenous Gender Expansive Representation: A work by an author and/or featuring a main character who holds a gender identity or cultural role outside of the gender binary, and which exists outside of Western definitions of transness and/or queerness. Please note that these identities and terms are specific to the culture in which they originate. Examples include two-spirit identities in Native and First Nations cultures, hijra in South Asia, waria in Indonesia, and other indigenous identities that predate Western colonization. For this prompt, we do not require the author or character to self-identify as trans, but we DO require that the author be writing from their own cultural experience (in other words, no white authors telling 2S stories, etc.). Please be mindful of the language you use for each of these books as these identities and concepts do not always map one-to-one with Western LGBTQIA+ labels, and existed long before Westernized ideas of gender and sexuality.

Harry’s Pick: Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi. Ever since finishing The Death of Vivek Oji (also by Emezi) I have been wanting to read another book by the author. I love the cover and it’s what grabbed me over other options by the author.

6. Trans Joy, Love, and/or Resistance: The annual International Trans Day of Visibility is a day to celebrate trans joy, love, and resistance. Please use this prompt to read a work celebrating trans life.

Harry’s Pick: A Gentleman’s Gentleman by TJ Alexander. I read the excellent Triple Sec for book club this year and am excited to see the author’s take on regency era romance.

7. Trans Youth and/or Imagining Trans Futures: A work featuring Trans youth or imagining trans futures. This can be speculative fiction or sci-fi, a Young Adult/Middle Grade/Children’s book, or any work celebrating trans youth and/or the building of a better world for trans people.

Harry’s Pick: The Prospects by KT Hoffman this book comes recommended by Alex at Pucks and Paperbacks who I trust implicitly with sports romance recommendations – and sports books in general.

8. Trans Elders or Trans History: A work by or about trans elders, like a memoir or biography, or a trans history book.

Harry’s Pick: Marsha: The Joy and Defiance of Marsha P. Johnson by Tourmaline. This is another one that I have in print but intend to enjoy in audiobook format thanks to the Queer Liberation Library‘s libby.

9. Recommended by a Friend/Bookseller/Librarian: A book recommended to you by a friend, a bookseller, or a librarian. The Trans Rights Readathon can be your friend! If you’d like one of our recommendations, check out our databases or social media profiles here. If you’d like recommendations from booksellers but don’t know where to start, try these lists from trans-owned bookstores like The Nonbinarian, A Room of One’s Own, Small Trans Library Dublin, or Firestorm Books. If you don’t have a local library, you could use these resources from the Queer Liberation Library, the Ottawa Trans Library,Chicago Public Library, DC Public Library, New York Public Library, QUEERmdb Deutschland, TU Dublin Library, or from any library or librarian you find.

Harry’s Pick: Hijab Butch Blues by Lamya H is yet another book I intend to take in in audiobook format. I started it once but ran out of minutes before I finished listening so am going to start again.

I hope you consider joining the readathon! Happy reading!