LGBTQ+ Fiction

The Left Hand of Darkness

by Ursula K. Le Guin · Hainish Cycle series

On the frozen planet of Winter, where inhabitants shift fluidly between genders, a human envoy must navigate alien politics and his own assumptions about identity and loyalty. Le Guin's groundbreaking novel uses science fiction to interrogate gender, sexuality, and what it means to be human.

Hainish Cycle in reading order

• 1. Rocannon's World — Ursula K. Le Guin / Stefan Rudnicki
• 2. Planet of Exile — Ursula K. Le Guin
• 3. City of Illusions — Ursula K. Le Guin
• 4. The Left Hand of Darkness — Ursula K. Le Guin
• 5. The Dispossessed — Ursula K. Le Guin
• Four Ways to Forgiveness — Ursula K. Le Guin
• The Birthday of the World and Other Stories — Ursula K. Le Guin
• The Telling — Ursula K. Le Guin

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