Books like The Masker by Torrey Peters

ix, 340 pages : 20 cm

Carmen Maria Machado’s debut collection of short stories blends speculative fiction, horror, and sharp cultural commentary, exploring the violence, identity, and politics of womanhood through unsettling, genre‑bending narratives.

Twin African American sisters flee their hometown after their father's murder—one chooses to pass as white while the other stays true to her identity, exploring race, family, and the complexities of self through generations.

What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank is a collection of short stories that examine Jewish identity, Holocaust memory, and contemporary political themes through varied, often ironic narratives.

In *Behind a Mask, or, A Woman's Power*, Louisa May Alcott examines gender, family, and social class through the complex relationship between a governess and the household she serves, offering a quietly powerful commentary on 19th‑century society.

A groundbreaking global history of gender nonconformity  Today’s narratives about trans people tend to feature individuals with stable gender identities that fit neatly into the categories of male or female. Those stories, while important, fail to account for the complex realities of many trans people’s lives. Before We Were Trans  illuminates the stories of people across the globe, from antiquity to the present, whose experiences of gender have defied binary categories. Blending historical analysis with sharp cultural criticism, trans historian and activist Kit Heyam offers a new, radically inclusive trans history, chronicling expressions of trans experience that are often overlooked, like gender-nonconforming fashion and wartime stage performance. Before We Were Trans  transports us from Renaissance Venice to seventeenth-century  Angola, from Edo Japan to early America, and looks to the past to uncover new horizons for possible trans futures.

A trans wizard and a bad boy biker must navigate the world of magic and romance to find true love.

In 1990s San Francisco, a struggling writer heads to Los Angeles amid a drug addiction and a looming doomsday announcement, exploring love, art, and identity as the city's reality blurs with her own narrative.

A poignant return to a February‑29th memory, the narrator retraces a decade‑old, volatile romance that began in grief and burned across continents.