A random collection of over 1994 books and audiobooks authored by or about my transgender, intersex sisters, and gender-nonconforming persons all over the world. I read some of them, and I was inspired by some of them. I met some of the authors and heroines, some of them are my best friends, and I had the pleasure and honor of interviewing some of them. If you know of any transgender biography that I have not covered yet, please let me know.
Original title: "Opowieści różnej treści: Osiemnaście miesięcy z życia Lukrecji" (Stories of different content. Eighteen months from the life of Lucrezia) by Lukrecja Kowalska.
The book Opowieści różnej treści: Osiemnaście miesięcy z życia Lukrecji, written by Lukrecja Kowalska, is a richly illustrated collection of stories that continues the life journey of the protagonist introduced in her earlier autobiography Lukrecja w ciele Krzyśka. The volume spans eighteen months of Lukrecja’s life, offering a deeply personal and intimate look at her daily experiences, reflecting the spectrum of emotions and situations that shape her world. Each story presents a snapshot of ordinary life, yet through Lukrecja’s perspective, the mundane becomes infused with insight, humor, and a subtle poignancy that resonates with readers familiar with the challenges and triumphs of living authentically. The book does more than recount events; it immerses the reader in the nuances of her journey, capturing the inner conflicts, small victories, and ongoing self-discovery of a transgender woman navigating her identity in a world often unprepared for difference.
2016,
Lukrecja Kowalska,
Polish,
Original title: "Lukrecja w ciele Krzyśka" (Lucretia in Krzysiek's body) by Lukrecja Kowalska.
Imagine waking up one day and realizing that the person in the mirror has never truly been you. The reflection looks familiar, it wears your name, it carries your history, but something about it has always felt borrowed, like a costume that does not quite fit. For Lukrecja Kowalska, this quiet dissonance began in childhood, when she slipped into her mother’s lingerie not as a game but as a way to touch, if only for a moment, the truth buried inside her. Decades later, after forty-two years of living as Krzysztof, she would finally give that truth a voice in her book Lukrecja w ciele Krzyśka.
This is not a simple autobiography. It is a journey through silence, fear, discovery, and ultimately liberation. Kowalska takes her readers by the hand and leads them into the hidden corridors of a life divided between expectation and authenticity. She does not write as someone who has neatly closed one chapter and opened another, but as a woman who invites us to witness the messy, painful, yet luminous process of becoming herself. In her story the universal question “Who am I?” transforms into a matter of survival, a question with the power to break marriages, uproot careers, and alter family bonds, but also a question that carries the possibility of rebirth.
2016,
Lukrecja Kowalska,
Polish,
