Books like Loose End by Ivan E. Coyote

A groundbreaking memoir that blends personal narrative with rigorous theory, charting Maggie Nelson’s queer romance, pregnancy, and the politics of love and family.

A collection of short stories that celebrate identity and belonging, featuring LGBTQ+ teens and the author’s own Canadian and urban experiences.

A seventeenth‑year college girl falls in love with a female graduate‑student teacher, discovering a deeper connection than she expected.

Rich attorney Sydney Van Allen and devoted professor Faith Fitzgerald, engaged in a complex love triangle, discover a passionate romance that challenges their careers and personal lives.

Mara Tagarelli, a leading AIDS foundation executive and martial artist, must rebuild her life after a debilitating illness turns her world upside down, confronting broken relationships, systemic neglect, and the fight to protect the new community she forms.

Ivan Coyote is a celebrated storyteller and the author of ten previous books, including Gender Failure (with Rae Spoon) and One in Every Crowd, a collection for LGBT youth. Tomboy Survival Guide is a funny and moving memoir told in stories, in which Ivan recounts the pleasures and difficulties of growing up a tomboy in Canada’s Yukon, and how they learned to embrace their tomboy past while carving out a space for those of us who don’t fit neatly into boxes or identities or labels. Ivan writes movingly about many firsts: the first time they were mistaken for a boy; the first time they purposely discarded their bikini top so they could join the boys at the local swimming pool; and the first time they were chastised for using the women’s washroom. Ivan also explores their years as a young butch, dealing with new infatuations and old baggage, and life as a gender-box-defying adult, in which they offer advice to young people while seeking guidance from others. (And for tomboys in training, there are even directions on building your very own unicorn trap.) Tomboy Survival Guide warmly recounts Ivan’s adventures and mishaps as a diffident yet free-spirited tomboy, and maps their journey through treacherous gender landscapes and a maze of labels that don’t quite stick, to a place of self-acceptance and an authentic and personal strength. These heartfelt, funny, and moving stories are about the culture of difference—a “guide” to being true to one’s self.

An anthology of essays and stories that chart the ever‑shifting meanings of butch and femme, written by Ivan E. Coyote, Zena Sharman, and a diverse array of queer voices.

A dark, erotic novel set in France, exploring themes of identity, sexuality, and storytelling.

A werewolf and vampire team up to hunt vampires, solve crimes, and protect the non-human species from humans and rogue predators.