Lgbtq+ Book Club Reads: The Fifth Season

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LGBTQ+ Book Club Reads: The Fifth Season

The LGBTQ+ Book Club is a group for LGBTQ+ folks and allies to read queer-themed books and books by queer authors! We aim to have diverse thought-provoking discussions about queer identity, history, and topical issues. All are welcome to join! 
The LGBTQ+ Book Club meets on Zoom on the 4th Saturday of every month, 10:00 -11:30 AM EST. 
Registration is required, register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/fka5Uo6YQxqwCYfRARyOuw#/registration
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About our March book:
The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin
At the end of the world, a woman must hide her secret power and find her kidnapped daughter in this "intricate and extraordinary" Hugo Award winning novel of power, oppression, and revolution. This is the way the world ends. . .for the last time.It starts with the great red rift across the heart of the world's sole continent, spewing ash that blots out the sun. It starts with death, with a murdered son and a missing daughter. It starts with betrayal, and long dormant wounds rising up to fester.This is the Stillness, a land long familiar with catastrophe, where the power of the earth is wielded as a weapon. And where there is no mercy.The first book in the critically acclaimed, three-time Hugo award-winning trilogy by NYT bestselling author N. K. Jemisin.
2026 Book Club Picks: 

JANUARY – Spent by Alison Bechdel  

FEBRUARY – These Heathens by Mia McKenzie

MARCH – The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin

APRIL – Open Throat: A Novel by Henry Hoke

MAY – How to Tell When We Will Die: On Pain, Disability, and Doom by Johanna Hedva

JUNE – Be Gay, Do Crime: Sixteen Stories of Queer Chaos edited by Molly Llewellyn and Kristel Buckley 

JULY – Queer Villains of Myth and Legend: A Revelry of Queer Rogues and Outlaws through the Ages by Dan Jones

AUGUST - I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself: A Novel by Mac Crane

SEPTEMBER – Uncanny Valley Girls: Essays on Horror, Survival, and Love by Zefyr Lisowski

OCTOBER – Anno Dracula by Kim Newman

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