Book of the Week: Carrie Kills a Man by Carrie Marshall
By Damian Barr's Literary Salon
By Damian Barr's Literary Salon
Trans: A Memoir
Juliet Jacques
£10.99 £10.44Jacques documented her transition in a national newspaper column with honesty, dignity and grace, and her memoir describes her attempts to navigate an often very hostile world.
Trans Britain: Our Journey from the Shadows
£9.99 £9.49
Five decades of British trans history as told by the people who were there. An essential read for anyone interested in the truth about trans issues and rights.
Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality
Sarah McBride and Joe Biden
£13.99 £13.29A heartfelt and often very sad memoir by McBride, who became the first transgender person to speak at a national political convention in 2016 at the age of twenty-six.
The Gender Games: The Problem With Men and Women, From Someone Who Has Been Both
Juno Dawson
£10.99 £10.44A fast, funny and insightful guide to gender by someone who’s lived life as a young man and a young woman.
The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice
Shon Faye
£10.99 £10.44Books like this are rare: a book about trans lives and trans rights that’s based on an understanding of both rather than tabloid and social media scaremongering. Utterly essential.
The Appendix: Transmasculine Joy in a Transphobic Culture
Liam Konemann
£7.50 £7.12Originally intended to document the daily transphobia he experienced in the UK, Konemann’s book switches focus to discuss how to find and maintain trans beauty in a transphobic world.
Animal: The Autobiography of a Female Body
Sara Pascoe
£10.99 £10.44Pascoe isn’t trans, but she explicitly includes trans people in her definition of women. Animal is very honest and very funny in an uncontrollable-laughter-on-public-transport way.
Fix the System, Not the Women
LAURA BATES
£12.99 £12.34Bates founded the Everyday Sexism project and this is a horrific but ultimately hopeful analysis of the intersecting issues that mean society is failing women.
Amateur: A Reckoning With Gender, Identity and Masculinity
Thomas Page McBee
£9.99 £9.49A truly astonishing book: McBee, a trans man, trains to box at Madison Square Garden. This, his second, is a powerful and insightful analysis of what it means to be a man.
The End of Innocence: Britain in the Time of AIDS
Simon Garfield
£10.99 £10.44An incredible piece of journalism with terrible echoes today, this is the story of a killer disease made so much worse by prejudice and political incompetence.
Delusions of Gender: The Real Science Behind Sex Differences
Cordelia Fine
£10.99 £10.44Fine is a fierce and funny writer, and her books are entertaining explorations into the junk science around sex and gender as well as the cultural factors that influence us all.
Carrie Kills A Man: A Memoir
Carrie Marshall
£12.99 £12.34If you've enjoyed this list and would like to support the author and the Lit Salon, then grab a copy of Carrie's new book from our shop.