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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

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[–] JaymesRS@literature.cafe 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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.

[–] fievel@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

The gathering, by C.J. Tudor

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[–] JaymesRS@literature.cafe 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Plays With Words:

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

[–] JaymesRS@literature.cafe 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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@literature.cafe 1 points 1 year ago

Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman
The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi
The Mark of Zorro by Johnston McCulley

[–] JaymesRS@literature.cafe 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

There Is Another…:

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

[–] JaymesRS@literature.cafe 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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+.

[–] JaymesRS@literature.cafe 1 points 1 year 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

[–] Frodis_Caper@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[–] JaymesRS@literature.cafe 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The Expanse series by James S A Corey

The Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu

[–] JaymesRS@literature.cafe 1 points 1 year 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

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