2024 Bingo Recommendations List

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, (edited )

It’s About Time:

The passage or manipulation of time is a major theme or plot driver. HARD MODE: Backward in time, not forward.

JaymesRS,
  • The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
  • This Is How You Lose the Time War by Max Gladstone, Amal El-Mohtar
  • 11/22/63 by Stephen King
  • The Man Who Folded Himself by David Gerrold
JowlesMcGee,
JowlesMcGee avatar

Won't fit the hard mode, but Charles Sheffield's Tomorrow and Tomorrow was an interesting read. The first third wasn't really my thing, but after that the book goes way far into the future.

JaymesRS, (edited )

Now a Major Motion Picture:

The work has been adapted into a show or single episode, movie, play, audio drama, or other format. HARD MODE: The adaptation is regarded as better than the original work.

pancake,

The Expanse series by James S A Corey

The Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu

JaymesRS,
  • Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo
  • The Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker
  • The Leftovers by Tom Perrotta
  • Big Fish by Daniel Wallace
  • Nothing Lasts Forever by Roderick Thorp
  • American Gods by Neil Gaiman
  • All Systems Red by Martha Wells
  • Storm Front by Jim Butcher
JaymesRS, (edited )

LGBTQIA+ Lead:

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

JaymesRS, (edited )
  • 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
JowlesMcGee,
JowlesMcGee avatar

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

JaymesRS, (edited )

There Is Another…:

Not the first in a series. HARD MODE: Series has 5 or more entries.

JaymesRS, (edited )

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.

JaymesRS, (edited )

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,
  • 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, (edited )

Eazy, Breazy, Read-zie:

A light, popcorn-worthy read that’s not real deep (see also “beach read” and “airport novel”). HARD MODE: You actually read it while on a vacation/staycation.

JaymesRS,
  • Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman
  • The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi
  • The Mark of Zorro by Johnston McCulley
JaymesRS, (edited )

Disability Representation:

A main character has or gains a disability to which they must adapt. This disability must be grounded in reality: if a 4,000 year old Prince of the Shokan lost an arm, that would count; if he became a werewolf, it would not. HARD MODE: The piece is at least partially from their perspective.

JaymesRS,
  • Feral Creatures by Kira Jane Buxton
  • How to Train Your Dragon by Cressida Cowell
  • Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
JaymesRS, (edited )

Bookception:

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

JaymesRS,
  • 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
JaymesRS, (edited )

Independent Author:

Self-published by the author. Works later published though a conventional publishing house don’t count unless you are reading it before the switch, and it’s republished before April 30th, 2025. HARD MODE: Not published via Amazon Kindle Direct.

JaymesRS,
  • Swordheart by T. Kingfisher
  • Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman
  • This Quest is Broken! by J.P. Valentine
  • Miss Percy’s Pocket Guide to the Care and Feeding of British Dragons by Quenby Olson
  • Orconomics by J. Zachary Pike
  • Unsouled by Will Wight
JaymesRS, (edited )

Plays With Words:

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

Worx,

I asked this question a few months back and had a ton of replies. I’ll leave a link to the thread and highlight my two favourite books so far.

Children of Time - Adrian Tchaikovsky“Evolutionary storytelling”. It tells the story of an entire civilization as it grows and evolves from nothing, whilst simultaneously telling a story that takes place over a much more conventional timescale. Very good book IMO, with two slightly-less-strong sequals

Idaho Winter - Tony BurgessWhat a bizarre book this was. I don’t know if it’s a good book, but it was weird and kept me entertained so that’s good enough for me.

Spoiler for what made it weirdThe author gets dragged into the story at one point and becomes a character in the book by accident

The Post

JaymesRS,
  • 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, (edited )

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,

The gathering, by C.J. Tudor

JaymesRS, (edited )

It Takes Two:

Written by two or more authors. HARD MODE: Written by three or more authors.

JaymesRS,
  • This Is How You Lose the Time War by Max Gladstone, Amal El-Mohta
  • Good Omens by Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman
  • Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey (Corey is a pseudonym for the team of Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck)
JaymesRS, (edited )

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.

JaymesRS,
  • 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
Frodis_Caper,

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

pancake,

Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

JaymesRS, (edited )

What’s Yours Is Mine:

Theft, piracy, fraud, or espionage is a major topic or plot point. HARD MODE: No MacGuffins.

pancake,

Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson

JaymesRS,
  • The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner
  • The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch
  • The Palace Job by Patrick Weekes
  • The Redemption of Althalus by Leigh Eddings & David Eddings
  • Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carré
  • Catch Me If You Can: The True Story of a Real Fake by Frank W. Abagnale with Stan Redding
  • On Stranger Tides by Tim Powers
KammicRelief,

The Recognitions by William Gaddis

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