Older Queer Works Book Bracket: Round 4
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ALTChoose a book:
The Color Purple (1982) by Alice Walker
The Left Hand of Darkness (1969) by Ursula K. Le Guin
See ResultsBook summaries below:
The Color Purple (1982) by Alice Walker
Life wasn’t easy for Celie. But she knew how to survive, needing little to get by.
Then her husband’s lover, a flamboyant blues singer, barreled into her world and gave Celie the courage to ask for more - to laugh, to play, and finally - to love.
Classics, literary fiction, historical fiction, epistolary, adult
The Left Hand of Darkness (1969) by Ursula K. Le Guin
A groundbreaking work of science fiction, The Left Hand of Darkness tells the story of a lone human emissary to Winter, an alien world whose inhabitants spend most of their time without a gender. His goal is to facilitate Winter’s inclusion in a growing intergalactic civilization. But to do so he must bridge the gulf between his own views and those of the completely dissimilar culture that he encounters.
Embracing the aspects of psychology, society, and human emotion on an alien world, The Left Hand of Darkness stands as a landmark achievement in the annals of intellectual science fiction.
Science fiction, classics, speculative fiction, anthropological science fiction, distant future, adult
