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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Nobody Needs to Know
Nonfiction. A prominent intersex activist reflects on how they overcame the lies, secrets, and silences that have surrounded their identity. (Kirkus)
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Stag Dance
Fiction. This collection of one novel and three novellas explores community, desire and the complexities of gender through stories of lumberjacks navigating identity in Stag Dance, a gender apocalypse in Infect Your Friends and Loved Ones, boarding school intrigue in The Chaser and dark choices on the Vegas strip in The Masker. (NoveList)
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Fluid
Nonfiction. Influential designer Harris Reed explores the world of gender-defying fashion in this richly illustrated monograph. (Publisher description)
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Liberated
Teen Nonfiction. Debut creator Rowe chronicles the life of French and Jewish surrealist Claude Cahun (1894–1954)—specifically the gender-fluid artist’s pursuit of autonomy while living in a society where 'identity is formed...by a world of men.' (Publishers Weekly)
Format: Graphic Novel
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Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
Fiction. Yumi comes from a land of gardens, meditation, and spirits, while Painter lives in a world of darkness, technology, and nightmares. When their lives suddenly become intertwined in strange ways, can they put aside their differences and work together to uncover the mysteries of their situation and save each other’s communities from certain disaster? (Publisher description)
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I Heard Her Call My Name
Nonfiction. This memoir charts Sante’s recent transition from male to female in her late 60s. Her commentary alternates between explaining the challenges of her decision and reflecting on earlier moments in a life marked by gender dysphoria. (Kirkus)
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Spellbound
Nonfiction. Som turns the conventional transgender memoir on its head in these witty and inventive diary-style autofiction comics, which reimagine episodes of her life played out by her cisgender quasi-avatar Anjali. (Publishers Weekly)
Format: Graphic Novel
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Manywhere
Fiction. The nine stories in Morgan Thomas’s shimmering debut collection witness Southern queer and genderqueer characters determined to find themselves reflected in the annals of history, whatever the cost. (NoveList)
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Inverse Cowgirl
Nonfiction. An intersex advocate maps a journey from the closet to committed activism. In her first book, the author traces her journey to physical reclamation by telling the stories behind the tattoos inked on her body. (Kirkus)
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