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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@literature.cafe 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 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 5 months ago

The gathering, by C.J. Tudor

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[-] JaymesRS@literature.cafe 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Plays With Words:

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

[-] JaymesRS@literature.cafe 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 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 6 months ago* (last edited 6 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 6 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 6 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 6 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 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Bookception:

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

[-] JaymesRS@literature.cafe 1 points 6 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
[-] JaymesRS@literature.cafe 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

It’s About Time:

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

[-] JowlesMcGee@kbin.social 3 points 6 months ago

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@literature.cafe 1 points 6 months ago
  • 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
[-] JaymesRS@literature.cafe 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

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.

[-] JaymesRS@literature.cafe 1 points 6 months ago
  • The Postman by David Brin
  • Contact by Carl Sagan
  • The Boat of a Million Years by Poul Anderson
  • Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
  • Dreamsnake by Vonda N. McIntyre
[-] JaymesRS@literature.cafe 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Mashup:

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

[-] misericordiae@literature.cafe 2 points 6 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
[-] JaymesRS@literature.cafe 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

ALT - A Change in Perspective

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

[-] JaymesRS@literature.cafe 1 points 6 months ago
  • This Is How You Lose the Time War by Max Gladstone, Amal El-Mohtar
  • The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab
  • The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
  • Space Vampire (Choose Your Own Adventure #9) by Edward Packard
[-] JaymesRS@literature.cafe 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

ALT - Same Author, New Work

An author you’ve read before, but a series (or standalone) you haven’t. HARD MODE: Give an author you didn’t like a second chance.

[-] JaymesRS@literature.cafe 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 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 6 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 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

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

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