Book list

Books can be a great way to expand knowledge and feel less alone. I have not read all the books listed. Some have been recommended as good resources. 

Places to buy books:

Amazon Barnes & Noble Better World Books Thrift Books Powell's

Books (more clinical / nonfiction) 

A Clinician's Guide to Gender-Affirming Care: Working with Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Clients - Sand C. Chang

Trans Bodies, Trans Selves: A Resource by and for Transgender Communities - Laura Erickson-Schroth

Transgender Teen: A Handbook for Parents and Professionals Supporting Transgender and Non-Binary Teens - Kenney & Brill

The Transgender Child: Revised & Updated Edition: A Handbook for Parents and Professionals Supporting Transgender and Nonbinary Children - Brill & Pepper

Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue - Leslie Feinberg

Transgender Warriors : Making History from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman - Leslie Feinberg

Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity - Judith Butler

Female Masculinity - Jack Halberstam

Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women, and the Rest of Us - Kate Bornstein

Transgender Emergence: Therapeutic Guidelines for Working With Gender-Variant People and Their Families - Arlene Istar Lev

On Being a Therapist - Jeffrey A. Kottler

Letters to a Young Therapist - Mary Pipher

The Gift of Therapy: An Open Letter to a New Generation of Therapists and Their Patients -  Irvin D. Yalom

The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma - Bessel van der Kolk

Reviving Ophelia 25th Anniversary Edition: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls - Mary Pipher

The Tender Cut: Inside the Hidden World of Self-Injury - Patricia Alder

Treating Self-Injury: A Practical Guide - Barent Walsh

Anatomy of Anorexia - Steven Levenkron

Transgender History - Susan Stryker

The Impostor Phenomenon - Pauline Rose Clance

Changing for Good / Changing to Thrive - James Prochaska 

Change: What Really Leads to Lasting Personal Transformation - Jeffrey Kottler

The Therapist in the Real World - Jeffrey Kottler

The Mummy at the Dining Room Table - Jeffrey Kottler



Books (memoir / fiction)

Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia -  Marya Hornbacher

Sane: Mental Illness, Addiction, and the 12 Steps - Marya Hornbacher

Madness: A Bipolar Life - Marya Hornbacher

Stone Butch Blues - Leslie Feinberg (pdf here: https://www.lesliefeinberg.net/  buy here: https://www.lulu.com/

Drag King Dreams - Leslie Feinberg

A Queer and Pleasant Danger: A Memoir - Kate Bornstein

Nonbinary: Memoirs of Gender and Identity -  Micah Rajunov

Adios Barbie - Ophira Edut

Stick Figure - Lori Gottlieb

The Best Little Girl in the World - Steven Levenkron

The Collected Schizophrenias - Esmé Weijun Wang

The Center Cannot Hold - Elyn Saks


Other

Thera-pets: 64 Emotional Support Animal Cards (Self-Esteem, Affirmations, Help with Anxiety, Worry and Stress, and for Fans of You Can Do All Things) - Kate Allan