2024 Bingo Recommendations List (literature.cafe)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 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 7 months ago* (last edited 7 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 6 months ago

The gathering, by C.J. Tudor

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[-] JaymesRS@literature.cafe 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Plays With Words:

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

[-] JaymesRS@literature.cafe 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 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 7 months ago* (last edited 7 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 7 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 7 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 7 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 7 months ago* (last edited 7 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 7 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 7 months ago* (last edited 7 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 7 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 7 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 7 months ago* (last edited 7 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 7 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 7 months ago* (last edited 7 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 7 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 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

ALT - A Change in Perspective

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

[-] JaymesRS@literature.cafe 1 points 7 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 7 months ago* (last edited 7 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 7 months ago* (last edited 7 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+.