Book Bingo 2026: Queer/Trans Voices
Here are some suggestions for your 2026 Book Bingo NW category: Queer/trans voices, selected by library staff at The Seattle Public Library. 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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Perfume & Pain
Fiction. When she finally gets a chance to resurrect her dying career, controversial queer LA author Astrid Dahl finds her worst vice rearing its ugly head-the Patricia Highsmith, a blend of Adderall, alcohol and cigarettes, resulting in blackouts and a disturbing series of events. (NoveList)
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Fat Swim
Fiction. The protagonists of this glittering story collection from Eisenberg (Housemates) grapple with the messiness of desire and their relationship to their bodies as queer and fat people. (Publishers Weekly)
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Kirby's Lessons for Falling (in Love)
Fiction Graphic Novel. After Kirby Tan breaks her arm at the rock-climbing invitationals she joins the newspaper club, where she meets and falls for astrology-obsessed Bex and then struggles to balance her queer identity with her obligations to family and community. (NoveList)
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Alligator Tears
Nonfiction. This darkly humorous memoir-in-essays explores the challenges of the American Dream and survival in Florida, recounting the author's experiences with poverty, family struggles and resilience as a queer Latinx individual navigating life's path. (NoveList)
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Lucky Seed
Fiction. Succession meets Crazy Rich Asians in this chaotic, darkly funny romp about the lengths a wealthy family will take to ensure the birth of a male heir from the gay black sheep of their clan. (NoveList)
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The Macabre
Fiction. Struggling painter Lewis Dixon is unexpectedly called upon by the British Museum to test whether the fugue-like state he enters when painting portends magical ability that would enable him to enter and destroy a series of paintings created by his own great-grandfather—paintings that are imbued with dark, world-destroying power. (NoveList)
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This Love
Fiction. When Mae and Ari meet outside a crowded gay bar during their final year of university, their connection is instant, sparking a lifetime friendship. Stubborn and no stranger to breaking hearts, Mae needs Ari's bright light to guide her out of her self-centered ways. Reeling from a scandal in New York, vibrant, charming Ari sees Mae as an anchor keeping him grounded. (NoveList)
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Black, Queer, & Untold
Nonfiction. Artist, designer, and writer Key provides a glimpse of the people and objects whose contributions to the graphic arts intersect their queerness and Blackness. (Library Journal)
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Spawning Season: An Experiment In Queer Parenthood
Nonfiction. Biophysicist Osmundson (Virology) blends memoir and science writing in this moving meditation on queer family, the climate crisis, and 21st-century child-rearing. (Publishers Weekly)
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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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