What’s the Beyond Binaries Book Club (formerly the “Non-Binary Book Club”)?
Our focus is on books (and media) about characters with non-binary sexualities, gender identities, or gender expressions. That is, characters who are bi/pansexual/queer-identified, or whose gender expression or identity is not strongly fixed to the gender binary (may include agender, transgender, gender-nonconforming, gendervariant, genderfluid, intersex [as identity], non-binary, genderqueer, et al.). We tend to read speculative fiction novels (as opposed to non-fiction, including autobiographies), but other genre fiction, graphic novels, comics, and short stories may be on our list.
Schedule
Currently reading: The Second Mango by Shira Glassman. Lesbian, queer, gender-nonconforming.
May 2015: Ancillary Justice (Imperial Radch Book 1) by Ann Leckie. Agender, non-binary gender expression, omnisexuality, asexuality .
June 2015: Alanna: The First Adventure (Song of the Lioness Book 1) by Tamora Pierce. Cross-dressing, non-binary gender expression.
July 2015: In the Hand of the Goddess (Song of the Lioness Book 2) by Tamora Pierce. Cross-dressing, non-binary gender expression.
August 2015: The Woman Who Rides Like a Man (Song of the Lioness Book 3) by Tamora Pierce. Non-binary gender expression.
Sept/Oct. 2015: Lioness Rampant (Song of the Lioness Book 4) by Tamora Pierce. Non-binary gender expression.
November 2015: Ancillary Sword (Imperial Radch Book 2) by Ann Leckie. Agender, non-binary gender expression, omnisexuality, asexuality.
Dec 15/January 16: Ancillary Mercy (Imperial Radch Book 3) by Ann Leckie. Agender, non-binary gender expression, omnisexuality, asexuality.
Feb/Mar 2016: The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin. Androgyny, ambigender, bisexuality.
Apr/May 2016: Swordspoint by Ellen Kushner. Bisexuality.
Sept/Oct. 2017: Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire. Ace, queer, trans themes.