Anthologies#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| How Beautiful the Ordinary: Twelve Stories of Identity |
2008 |
Buy |
| Truth and Dare: 20 Tales of Heartbreak and Happiness |
2011 |
Buy |
| The Bitch Is Back |
2016 |
Buy |
Falcon Quinn Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Falcon Quinn and the Black Mirror |
2009 |
Buy |
| Falcon Quinn and the Crimson Vapor |
2011 |
Buy |
| Falcon Quinn and the Bullies of Greenblud |
2016 |
Buy |
Non-Fiction#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| She’s Not There |
2003 |
Buy |
| I’m Looking Through You |
2008 |
Buy |
| Stuck in the Middle with You |
2013 |
Buy |
| Cleavage: Men, Women, and the Space Between Us |
2025 |
Buy |
Short Stories/Novellas#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| I’ll Give You Something to Cry Aboutla |
2014 |
Buy |
Standalone Novels#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Getting in |
1998 |
Buy |
| Long Black Veil |
2017 |
Buy |
| Good Boy |
2020 |
Buy |
| Mad Honey |
2022 |
Buy |
Jennifer Finney Boylan is an American author and professor at Barnard College whose work covers memoir, literary fiction, and middle grade fantasy. She came to wide public attention with She’s Not There: A Life in Two Genders, published in 2003, which documented her transition and became one of the earliest transgender memoirs to reach mainstream literary audiences. The book is still in print and is often assigned in university courses on gender studies and autobiography.
Her nonfiction continued with I’m Looking Through You (2008), which revisited her childhood through the lens of the haunted Pennsylvania house she grew up in, and Stuck in the Middle with You (2013), a book about parenting that features conversations with other writers about gender and family. Cleavage: Men, Women, and the Space Between Us, published in 2025, is her most recent memoir. Alongside her nonfiction, Boylan has written literary fiction including Long Black Veil (2017), a mystery set partly in 1980s Maine, and Good Boy (2020), a memoir-novel about her dog and her family. Mad Honey (2022), co-written with Jodi Picoult, is a dual-perspective YA novel about two teenagers and a death in a small New Hampshire town.
She also wrote the Falcon Quinn middle grade series, three fantasy novels published between 2009 and 2016 about a boy who discovers he is a monster attending a school full of others like him. Boylan has been a public advocate for transgender rights for more than two decades and writes regularly on gender and culture for outlets including The New York Times.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many books has Jennifer Finney Boylan written?
Jennifer Finney Boylan has written fifteen books across five series.
What was Jennifer Finney Boylan's first book?
Jennifer Finney Boylan’s first book is Getting in, published in 1998.
Is Jennifer Finney Boylan primarily known as a fiction or nonfiction writer?
She is known for both. She’s Not There (2003), her memoir about her gender transition, is her most widely read book and is frequently cited as one of the first mainstream transgender memoirs to reach a broad audience. She has also published literary fiction, including Long Black Veil and the co-written Mad Honey, as well as the middle grade Falcon Quinn fantasy series.