The Left Hand of Darkness

I first read this book in college, and I'm really glad that book club gave me a chance to re-read it as a more developed person. At nineteen, this was an interesting book but very new to me. At 35 having been a working woman in a society that has real trouble dealing with non-gender conformity and “aliens”, the relevancy and intelligence of this book is just so much more striking. Passages like how differently society works when anyone can be struck by pregnancy any given kemmer are a bit saddening when I look back into my own world. I think this is a book that everyone should read and if you read it as young as I did, you should probably read it again. It just gets better.