2024 Bingo Recommendations List (literature.cafe)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by JaymesRS@literature.cafe to c/books@lemmy.world

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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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	A	B	C	D	E
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@literature.cafe 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

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

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[-] JaymesRS@literature.cafe 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Plays With Words:

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

[-] JaymesRS@literature.cafe 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

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[-] JaymesRS@literature.cafe 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

ALT - A Change in Perspective

Written in third-person perspective. HARD MODE: Second-person perspective.

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[-] JaymesRS@literature.cafe 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

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@sopuli.xyz 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

The Expanse series by James S A Corey

The Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu

[-] JaymesRS@literature.cafe 1 points 4 months ago

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@literature.cafe 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Debut Work:

An author’s first work. HARD MODE: The author is widely regarded as having a profound impact on the genre/topic.

[-] misericordiae@literature.cafe 2 points 4 months ago

The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie, with the caveat that her early work is a bit racist. Styles, for example, I recall having an n-word casually dropped into a conversation, along with a couple of antisemitic remarks. If you don't mind reading around that, however, it's a nice little Poirot case.

[-] JaymesRS@literature.cafe 2 points 4 months ago

I had a similar experience when I was working through some of the early “The Shadow” pulps and was surprised a couple times at just how blatant the racism was.

[-] JaymesRS@literature.cafe 1 points 4 months ago

Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice
Carrie by Stephen King
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Casino Royale by Ian Fleming
Neuromancer by William Gibson

[-] JaymesRS@literature.cafe 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

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@literature.cafe 1 points 4 months ago

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@literature.cafe 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Among the Stars:

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

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

The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal

[-] 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).

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

The Three-Body Problem, by Cixin Liu

[-] JaymesRS@literature.cafe 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@literature.cafe 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.

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