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  • Bibliography:
    18 Books
  • First Book:
    December 2003
  • Latest Book:
    April 2025
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Book List in Order: 18 titles





  • Rent Girl is the illustrated saga of one broke baby dyke trying to make a buck in the surreal world of the sex industry. Avoiding the stereotypes of prostitute as victim or superhero, Tea instead explores the complicated occupation in all its nuances...



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    Fourteen-year-old Trisha Driscoll is a gender-blurring, self-described loner whose family expects nothing of her. While her mother lies on the couch in a hypochondriac haze and her sister aspires to be on The Real World, Trisha struggles to find her ...



  • Michelle Tea, a favorite on the spoken-word scene and beloved in literary circles for books such as Valencia, Chelsea Whistle and most recently Rose of No Man's Land, has gathered new work by twenty-two of the most outstanding emerging voices in quee...



  • The critically acclaimed adventures of an ex-Goth, ex-straight-girl, ex-lesbian, ex-Catholic schoolgirl on the road in 1990s America.

    Published by Semiotext(e) to critical acclaim in 1998, Michelle Tea's debut novel The Passionate Mis...



  • Valencia is the fast-paced account of one girl's search for love and high times in the drama-filled dyke world of San Francisco's Mission District. Michelle Tea records a year lived in a world of girls: there's knife-wielding Marta, who introduces Mi...



  • A collection of writing and artwork from the irreverent, flagrantly queer, hilariously feminist, tough-talking, genre-busting ruffians who have toured with the legendary Sister Spit. Co-founded in 1997 by award-winning writer Michelle Tea, Sister ...



  • Sophie Swankowski is the hero from the stories she's been hearing all her life: she's the girl who will save the world. Or so she's been told. Now she and her unlikely guardian -- the gruff, filthy mermaid Syrena -- must travel the pitch-black seas f...



  • This metaliterary end-of-the-world novel is “scary, funny and genre-bending . . . wonderfully strange . . . yet completely universal and true” (Jill Soloway, creator of Transparent).   Desperate to quell her add...






  • When Sophie Swankowski surfaces from the freezing waters, she finds herself in an ancient castle in Poland -- and in the center of an ages-old battle. Even with her magic powers, the strength and wisdom she learns from her companions in Warsaw, and ...



  • One of the first-ever books about astrology for kids, Astro Baby is for babies who like to gaze at bright colors, toddlers who are fascinated by images of babies and animals, older children who like learning about their zodiac signs, and grown-ups...



  • The first episode in Michelle Tea’s emotionally wise Astro Pals series features Libra and a lesson about how friends can help you when you’re stuck.

    Trick or treat! Scorpio’s planning a Halloween party, and the Astro Pals can’t wait....



  • Dealing with jealousy and competitiveness plays out in a funny and perceptive Astro Pals take on being a Scorpio.

    Scorpio’s been holding a grudge ever since Aquarius called them “too intense.” Now, not only are they competing in the sa...



  • Tabitha and Magoo love to play dress up in their room. Tabitha uses her brother’s shirts to make superhero capes, and Magoo uses his sister’s frilly skirts to fashion a gown. They’re disappointed they can’t go outside in their new outfits,...



  • The up-for-anything Gemini twins are always on the lookout for their next great adventure, so when Sagittarius asks them to hang out and shoot some arrows, they're all in! But then spacey Aquarius gives them two extra tickets to a laser light show......



  • Compassionate Cancer loves to lend a crabby claw to friends in need! That's why he scuttles in to save the day whenever he sees the Astro Pals could use his help. But what happens when the Astro Pals get help they didn't ask for―and Cancer ends up ...





  • An exploration of the Witch, as radical archetype, in ancient and contemporary life.An adult woman haunted by her childhood muses on the foster system, institutions, and the medieval tale of a girl given to a witch. A genderqueer Brooklynite learns o...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Michelle Tea has published 18 books.

The next book by Michelle Tea, WITCH, will be published in April 2025.

The first book by Michelle Tea, The Beautiful, was published in December 2003.

No. Michelle Tea does not write books in series.