Awesome Non-TERF Magic Books

featuring trans, queer, and/or Black and Latinx authors/characters

As mentioned/seen at Courtyard + Cellar Virtual Trivia, September 10, 2020

From trivia questions:

• Molly Ostertag, The Witch Boy

• Leigh Bardugo, Ninth House

• Tomi Adeyemi, Children of Blood and Bone

• V.S. Santoni, I’m a Gay Wizard

• Nnedi Okorafor, Akata Witch

• Charlie Jane Anders, All the Birds in the Sky

• Sarah Gailey, When We Were Magic

  • BONUS MUST READ: Gailey’s adult magic novel, Magic for Liars

• S.A. Hunt, Burn the Dark

• V.E. Schwab, Shades of Magic series (book #1: A Darker Shade of Magic)

  • Book #2-3 are at library; I’ve requested Book #1, but you should too!

• Vivian Shaw, Strange Practice (available at Luther library)

Footnote: Many of these books were suggested on Reading Glasses Podcast, which did an episode on trans/queer magic books in response to recent TERF tweets. They also have done some good episodes on what to do when you discover a series/book you love is written by a “trash-baby.”

Other Great Magic Books (because a professor can never stop book recommendations):

• Aiden Thomas, Cemetery Boys

• Seanan McGuire, Wayward Children series (Book #1: Every Heart a Doorway); and Middlegame

• Jane Yolen, Wizard’s Hall