Left Hand of Darkness: 50th Anniversary Edition Le Guin, Ursula K.

Recommended by: Cate O’Connell-Richards 

“Le Guin’s essential sci-fi novel breaks binaries for me. It is in the beautiful and compassionate way she writes about character relationships that can be read easily as queer, a character group that is neither male nor female but both, and the way that this novel can operate for the reader. Is it a work of escapist fiction? A tool for praxis? Maybe both.“