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2024 Bingo Recommendations List (self.books)
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Have you really enjoyed reading a work that qualifies and want to recommend it to others? This is the prime spot to help people out with those recommendations.

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1 Older Than You Are Water, Water Everywhere What’s Yours is Mine Family Drama It Takes Two
2 New Release Plays With Words Independent Author Bookception Disability Representation
3 Eazy, Breazy, Read-zie Stranger in a Strange Land One Less There is Another... LGBTQIA+ Lead
4 Now a Major Motion Picture It’s About Time Award Winner Mashup Local to You
5 Debut Work It’s a Holiday Institutional Minority Author Among the Stars
Alt. Same Author, New Work She Blinded Me With Science Pseudonymous Work Translated A Change in Perspective

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[–] JaymesRS 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

LGBTQIA+ Lead:

A main character identifies as LGBTQIA+. HARD MODE: Includes a significant romance between characters that identify as LGBTQIA+.

[–] JowlesMcGee@kbin.social 4 points 4 months ago

Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller would fit the hard mode here, for those interested.

[–] JaymesRS 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)
  • The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
  • The Man Who Folded Himself by David Gerrold
  • The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Carmilla by J. Sheridan Le Fanu
[–] JaymesRS 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Plays With Words:

Written in a stylistically unconventional way. HARD MODE: Fits the definition of Experimental Literature.

[–] JaymesRS 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)
  • Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
  • Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
  • Ella Minnow Pea: A Progressively Lipogrammatic Epistolary Fable by Mark Dunn
  • Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
  • Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
  • House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
  • A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
[–] JaymesRS 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

New Release:

New for 2024/2025 (no reprints or new editions). First translations into your language of choice are allowed. HARD MODE: This is the first work you've read by this author.

[–] fievel@lemm.ee 3 points 4 months ago

The gathering, by C.J. Tudor

[–] fievel@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago

Nuclear war: a scenario, by Annie Jacobsen

[–] JaymesRS 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Minority Author:

Minority or LGBTQIA+ author. A minority can be any member of a generally underrepresented population where you live. HARD MODE: Minority and LGBTQIA+.

[–] JaymesRS 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)
  • Binti by Nnedi Okorafor
  • Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
  • The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
  • Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
  • Babel: An Arcane History by R.F. Kuang
  • The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab
  • Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao
  • The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu
  • Jade City by Fonda Lee
[–] Frodis_Caper@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Anything by Roxanne Gay and Nikki Giovanni will work for HARD MODE.

[–] JaymesRS 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (4 children)

Among the Stars:

Features space, astronomy, or stardom. HARD MODE: The title references the theme, too.

[–] Audalin@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

Mr Palomar by Italo Calvino.

Also qualifies for hard mode (the character is named after an observatory).

[–] pancake@sopuli.xyz 3 points 4 months ago

The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal

[–] fievel@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

The Three-Body Problem, by Cixin Liu

[–] JaymesRS 1 points 4 months ago
  • Binti by Nnedi Okorafor
  • Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey
  • 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
  • Who Censored Roger Rabbit? by Gary K. Wolf (movie stars count)
[–] JaymesRS 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Local to You:

The author lives in or writes about a location local to you (city, state, province, territory, etc.). HARD MODE: The author has spent a significant amount of time there, but wasn't born there.

[–] JaymesRS 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Stranger in a Strange Land:

The primary PoV is dropped into a completely unfamiliar situation or location. HARD MODE: Not portal fiction or isekai.

[–] JaymesRS 1 points 4 months ago
  • Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman
  • A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain
  • A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
[–] JaymesRS 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

One Less:

A book that’s been on your TBR list for a long time. HARD MODE: Overlaps with at least one other bingo square theme.

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