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Maia Kobabe

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Maia Kobabe is a nonbinary, queer, trans author, a voracious reader, a kpop fan, and a daydreamer. You can learn an astonishing number of intimate details about em in GENDER QUEER: A MEMOIR and in eir short comics and writing published by The New Yorker, The Nib, NPR, Time Magazine, The Washington Post and in many print anthologies. GENDER QUEER won a Stonewall Honor and an Alex Award from the American Library Association in 2020. It was also the number one most challenged book in the United States in 2021, 2022, and 2023. Maia's second book is BREATHE: JOURNEYS TO HEALTHY BINDING written with Dr Sarah Peitzmeier (Dutton, 2024). Eir next book is OPTING OUT, a middle grade graphic novel with Lucky Srikumar (Scholastic Graphix, 2026).

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What generation/part of a generation are you?

Gen Alpha (born 2011-2025)

Young Gen Z (born 2006-2010)

Mid Gen Z (born 2001-2005)

Elder Gen Z aka Zillennial (born 1996-2000)

Young Millennial (born 1991-1995)

Mid Millennial (born 1986-1990)

Elder Millennial (born 1981

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Average rating: 4.26 · 82,228 ratings · 12,033 reviews · 31 distinct works • Similar authors

	Gender Queer: A Memoir 4.27 avg rating — 78,389 ratings — published 2019 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Breathe: Journeys to Healthy Binding by Maia Kobabe (Goodreads Author), Sarah Peitzmeier 4.47 avg rating — 554 ratings — published 2024 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Nonbinary Bunny 4.19 avg rating — 263 ratings — published 2019	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Harry Potter and the Problematic Author 3.79 avg rating — 237 ratings — published 2019	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tom O'Bedlam 3.88 avg rating — 57 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Gender Queer: A Memoir Deluxe Edition by Maia Kobabe (Goodreads Author), Phoebe Kobabe (Goodreads Author) (Illustrator) 4.76 avg rating — 33 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Thief's Tale chapter 1 3.89 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Thief's Tale chapter 2 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Opting Out by Maia Kobabe (Goodreads Author), Lucky Srikumar 3.67 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2025 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Gender Queer: The Annotated Edition by Maia Kobabe (Goodreads Author), Hal Schrieve (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Dr Sandra Cox (Contributor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Tenka starts her first week as a kpop trainee and meets the two other newbies she is paired with: Jiwoo, the talented dancer with a bad attitude she met previously and tiny, cute, shy Minchae who has a gorgeous voice but no dancing skills. Tenka is t ...more
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“Some people are born in the mountains, while others are born by the sea. Some people are happy to live in the place they were born, while others must make a journey to reach the climate in which they can flourish and grow. Between the ocean and the mountains is a wild forest. That is where I want to make my home.”
― Maia Kobabe, Gender Queer: A Memoir

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“Sometimes I feel like my brain is a machine built by someone who lost the instruction manual.”
― Maia Kobabe, Gender Queer: A Memoir

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“I remember when I first realized I never had to have children. It was like walking out of a narrow alley into a wide open field. I never have to get married. I never have to date anyone. I don’t even have to care about sex. These realizations were like gifts that I gave myself.”
― Maia Kobabe, Gender Queer: A Memoir

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Which book should the YA LGBT Books group read as our Dec 2021 Book of the Month?

If This Gets Out

by Sophie Gonzales

19 votes 42.2%

Gender Queer

by Maia Kobabe

11 votes 24.4%

Fifteen Hundred Miles from the Sun

by Jonny Garza Villa

10 votes 22.2%

Can't Take That Away

by Steven Salvatore

5 votes 11.1%

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Ultimate Popsugar...: Post your 2020 reading list!	881	5016	Apr 07, 2021 08:39PM
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“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
― Oscar Wilde

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“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
― C.S. Lewis

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“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

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“Some say life is the thing, but I prefer reading.”
― Ruth Rendell, A Judgement in Stone

tags: books, escapism, life, reading

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“All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.”
― Leo Tolstoy

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