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2024 Bingo Recommendations List (literature.cafe)
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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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[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

The gathering, by C.J. Tudor

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[–] [email protected] 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.

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

Family Drama:

Family is important, but sometimes it's also the cause of problems. Family dynamics are fundamental to the narrative. HARD MODE: Involves three or more generations of family members.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)
  • Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
  • The Sandman Graphic Novels by Neil Gaiman
  • The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins
  • The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

“100 Years of Solitude” Gabriel García Márquez (this works for HARD MODE)

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

Bookception:

Features a book-related aspect. HARD MODE: Something other than a book, like an author or library.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago
  • The Book Eaters by Sunyi Dean
  • The Golden Enclaves by Naomi Novik
  • Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
  • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
  • The Neverending Story by Michael Ende
[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Award Winner:

Has won a significant literature award. HARD MODE: More than one award.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

I would love some suggestions for awards to look up, that you'd consider big for your country or preferred genre. I've looked up lists of awards, but they tend to be pretty US-focused, and it's hard to tell what's actually significant.

I'm familiar with the Hugos (SFF), Nebula (SFF), Bram Stoker (horror), Edgars (mystery), Pulitzer (lit), Booker (lit), and Newbery (kids).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago
  • Dreamsnake by Vonda N. McIntyre
  • Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
  • Babel: An Arcane History by R.F. Kuang
  • A Master of Djinn by P. Djèlí Clark
  • The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Mashup:

A combination of two or more genres or non-fiction topics. HARD MODE: Unusual combo, like fantasy thriller.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Have read and enjoyed:

  • Iron Truth by S.A. Tholin - space opera with horror elements
  • Leech by Hiron Ennes - gothic sci-fantasy horror, set in some kind of post-apocalypse
  • The Witness for the Dead by Katherine Addison - fantasy of manners mystery
  • The Mister Trophy by Frank Tuttle - fantasy mystery
  • The Monsters We Defy by Leslye Penelope - historical fantasy
  • Ghosts in the Snow by Tamara Siler Jones - fantasy mystery
  • Priest of Bones by Peter McLean - fantasy organized crime
  • When Gravity Fails by George Alec Effinger - cyberpunk mystery
[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

ALT - She Blinded Me With Science

The author has a background and degree in a hard science. HARD MODE: More than one post graduate degree.

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[–] [email protected] 1 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+.

[–] [email protected] 1 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
[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

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

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