I was happily surprised to find in my research that there are several picture books inclusive of neopronouns, including this story about a kid trying on new pronouns.

Other picture books to check out: What Are Your Words?: A Book About Pronouns by Katherine Locke and Anne Passchier, The Pronoun Book by Chris Ayala-Kronos and Marco Tirado, Hooray for She, He, Ze, and They!: What Are Your Pronouns Today? by Lindz Amer and Kip Alizadeh, and The Pronoun Book by Cassandra Jules Corrigan and Jem Milton.

This middle grade novel follows two preteens at Camp QUILTBAG, a summer camp for queer and trans kids. Abigail (she/her) is excited to finally be in a place where she belongs and can talk about her crushes on girls. Kai (e/em) would rather have stayed home and hung out with eir friends, but eir parents insisted Kai go to Camp QUILTBAG after the incident that left eir arm in a sling.

The main character of this one uses he/him pronouns, but a major character experiments with pronouns, including neopronouns. This is (I think) the only book I’ve read that has a character try on different pronouns to decide which one suits them best.

Noah runs a blog called Meet Cute Diary, where trans people share their sweet meet cutes—except that he actually makes them all up himself. When his blog begins to lose credibility, he starts a fake relationship to try to bolster it. But real dating turns out to be a little more messy than the neat fictional versions he’s used to.

This cozy YA novel with a dose of magic is one of the most comforting books I’ve ever read, and it stars an agender main character with a genderfluid love interest. When Syd (no pronouns) bakes brownies after a breakup, anyone who eats them ends their romantic relationship. With the help of bike delivery person Harley (he or they, check the pronoun pin), the two of them try to find everyone who ate a brownie and repair the damage.

I hope to see more memoirs by authors who use neopronouns in the future! In this graphic memoir, Kobabe (e/em) reflects on eir adolescence as a nonbinary and asexual person and how e reached the point of understanding emself and coming out.

This is also one of the most banned books in libraries and schools across the U.S. in recent years. It’s such an essential book for nonbinary and asexual young people looking to see themselves represented, and it’s completely backwards that Gender Queer is being banned where it’s needed most.

Ora is a city governed by a panopticon, a network known as the Gleaming. Anima (æ/ær) uses the Gleaming to monitor the city and keep its citizens safe. But when a new person arrives in Ora with stories to tell of life outside, Anima begins to question everything æ thought æ knew about the world. This is a speculative fiction novella that uses several sets of neopronouns, including æ/ær and e/em.

Horace (e/em) has held a range of jobs, but never for long. Now, e is on their last chance in the city of Trenaze, apprenticing as a guard. But before e can complete eir trial, the city’s protective dome is pierced by glowing shards. A strange elf dissipates the shards and then collapses. Horace scoops them up and carries them to safety, ignoring questions from eir fellow guards. When Aliyah (they/them) awakes, they convince Horace to join them on a journey outside the domed city to find the forest Aliyah can’t stop dreaming about.

In this post-apocalyptic novel, the last humans struggle to survive. A spiritual entity named the Madjideye uses Enforcers to keep these survivors in line. In Zhōng yang, Riordan (xe/xir) leads a gang and is on the run from Elite Enforcer H-09761, who want to arrest xir for theft.

Six main characters’ stories collide, including Two-Spirit characters, as they work to reclaim the gifts lost during the forgotten war: storytelling, healing, and firekeeping.

In Meru , humans have been confined to Earth for centuries, a punishment for their rampant destruction. Alloys, a genetically altered post-human species, explore the stars. When an Earth-like planet, Meru, is discovered, the human Jayanthi (she/her) and alloy Vaha (ze/zer) are sent to test its habitability and shape the future for human-alloy relations.

Miris (ney/nir) is a cloudship flier whose life changes when ney and nir companion Seres, a Wind spirit, visit a merchant and find they’re selling lamps with Star spirits trapped inside. This endangers the relationship between people and spirits, so Niris and Seres—with the help of the merchant’s assistant—set off to find the source of the lamps to end this enslavement of spirits before it becomes widespread.