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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Gender Euphoria
Nonfiction. Editor Dale collects pieces from noncisgender writers who describe only their joyful trans or nonbinary experiences. None of the essays feature the psychological trauma that can accompany gender dysphoria. (Kirkus)
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Glitter and Concrete
Nonfiction. A comprehensive report on the history of drag. Writer and photographer Goodman vibrantly chronicles the history of “the renegades and rebels” who created and maintained the drag lifestyle since the mid-1800s. (Kirkus)
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Dragged to the Wedding
Fiction. Chicago police officer James Petika, who is not yet out to his family, recruits drag queen Daniel Bonafonte—aka Lala Traviata—to pose as his girlfriend at his sister’s wedding in Montana. (Publishers Weekly)
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Before We Were Trans
Nonfiction. An eye-opening study of the history of gender nonconformity...Heyam, a U.K.–based queer history activist and trans awareness trainer, tells a wide variety of pertinent stories that are often left out of the trans narrative. (Kirkus)
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The Water Outlaws
Fiction. Inspired by a classic of martial arts literature, S. L. Huang's The Water Outlaws are bandits of devastating ruthlessness, unseemly femininity, dangerous philosophies, and ungovernable gender who are ready to make history—or tear it apart. (NoveList)
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Little Foxes Took up Matches
Fiction. Folklore enlivens a queer coming-of-age story set in 1990s Russia. (Kirkus)
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The Forbidden Book
Teen Fiction. It’s the eve of her wedding night when Sorel Kalmans—the 17-year-old daughter of a wealthy Jewish merchant who, along with the Hasidic rebbe, rules her small Russian town of Esrog—heeding the advice of a mystical “shadowy reflection” in her mirror, disguises herself as a boy and flees. (Publishers Weekly)
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If I Were You
Fiction. Chief Bridesmaid Amy and her boyfriend Flynn accidentally swap bodies on the way to her sister’s swanky wedding. (NoveList)
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The Woods All Black
Fiction. Frontier nurse and war veteran Leslie Bruin travels to the isolated, disquieting Appalachian town of Spar Creek, Kentucky, in 1929. He’s been charged with seeing to the mundane medical needs of the community, but he’s also prepared to offer prophylactics and advise queer youth. However, the town is under the control of a fundamentalist pastor, and its residents are suspicious of Leslie even when he works to present as female.(Booklist)
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People Collide
Fiction. Eli, a bumbling, aspiring writer, resides in a small and unhomey apartment in Bulgaria with his much more successful wife, Elizabeth, who holds a temporary teaching position there. One morning he wakes up to find he now inhabits Elizabeth’s body and that Elizabeth, whom Eli presumes is inhabiting his body, has disappeared. (Booklist)
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