While fantasy stories may send us flying off to realms far different than our own, one concept seems inescapable in even the most distant of lands: gender roles. Traditional fantasy stories are full of characters who defy traditional expectations of their assigned sex (consider the peasant girl to warrior pipeline, for instance) but rarely does a story feature a character who totally turns away from binary concepts as a whole. One would think that in so many expansive worlds, more expansive gender identities would emerge. But alas, while fantasy novels with genderqueer protagonists are sadly harder to find than fated swords of destiny, these 10 best fantasy books featuring non-binary characters still manage to cut through.
