Book Bingo 2025: Gender Bender
Here are some suggestions for your 2025 Book Bingo NW category: Gender Bender. Book Bingo is our annual adult summer reading program presented in partnership with Seattle Arts & Lectures and King County Library System.
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We See Each Other
Nonfiction. Merging memoir and media study, the author spotlights trans narratives, past and current, while reflecting on the ways those stories have crossed their own personal journey of identity. (Library Journal)
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At 30, I Realized I Had No Gender
Nonfiction. At age 30, Shou Arai came to a realization; he had no gender. Now he was faced with a question he'd never really considered: how to age in a society where everything is so strongly segregated between two genders? (Publisher description)
Format: Graphic Novel
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Màgòdiz
Fiction. Calderón’s debut, a fresh take on the classic epic fantasy fetch-quest, takes readers to a world reeling from ecological and informational collapse, and violently controlled by supernaturally evil Enforcers, where merely existing is an act [of] rebellion. (Publishers Weekly)
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Make Sure You Die Screaming
Fiction. A nameless narrator, inspired to drop their old name and gender after the sudden death of their best friend and decade-long advertising partner, steals their abusive ex-boyfriend’s BMW and flees Chicago for Arkansas to visit their mother. (Publishers Weekly)
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The Manor House Governess
Fiction. A genderfluid governess becomes embroiled in a family’s troubled past in this debut novel. (Kirkus)
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Beneath the Burning Wave
Teen Fiction. Kaori and Kairi are the first twins to survive infancy on the ancient island of Mu, where gender is as fluid as the crashing waves. (Publisher description)
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So Many Stars
Nonfiction. So Many Stars knits together the voices of trans, nonbinary, genderqueer, and two-spirit elders of color as they share authentic, intimate accounts of how they created space for themselves and their communities in the world. (Publisher description)
Format: Book
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And Don't F&%k It up
Nonfiction. A retrospective of the first decade of RuPaul’s Drag Race, from the voices of those who made it a standout success. (Kirkus)
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Gender Swapped Fairy Tales
Fiction. Fransman and debut author Plackett reflect a world in which gender roles are not so strictly defined in this charming collection of 12 lightly retold fairy tales. (Publishers Weekly)
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Boy
Fiction. A young actor famed for his female roles in Shakespeare's company, Sander Cooke, and his brilliant friend Joan Buckler are drawn into political intrigue with Francis Bacon, altering their lives and testing their dreams. (NoveList)
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