You can read more about it here, but essentially, it’s a reading challenge running from April to April where you have to read enough books belonging to those categories to get a Bingo, though most people try for a full card (or several). An author can only be used once, and only one reread is allowed. I’ve been a participant since its inception (in 2015) and I find it one of the most fun reading challenges out there.
This year, I will continue with only one card. I find the 2020 card much easier than the 2019 one, but I want a nice, relaxed challenge. No giving a fuck about hard mode, no double or themed cards.
Greyed out title means a book hasn’t been read yet.
Current status: 8/25 (32%)
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Novel Translated from its Original Language
- Daughter from the Dark by Sergey & Maria Dyachenko
Setting Featuring Snow, Ice, or Cold
- Flesh and Spirit by Carol Berg
Optimistic SFF
- Redemption’s Blade by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Novel Featuring Necromancy
- The Bone Witch by Rin Chupeco
Ace / Aro Spec Fic
- Mindtouch by M.C.A. Hogarth (probably replacing it with something else later, as the rep is not good, even if it does count)
Novel Featuring a Ghost
- A Stranger in Olondria by Sofia Samatar
Novel Featuring Exploration
- The Tropic of Serpents by Marie Brennan
Climate Fiction
- Memory of Water by Emmi Itäranta
Novel with a Colour in the Title
- The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune
Any r/Fantasy Book Club Book of the Month OR r/Fantasy Read-along Book
- The Bone Ships by R.J. Barker
Self-Published SFF Novel
- Legacy of Ghosts by Alicia Wanstall-Burke
Novel with Chapter Epigraphs
- City of Blades by Robert Jackson Bennett
Novel Published in 2020
- The Angel of the Crows by Katherine Addison
Novel Set in a School or University
- The Philosopher’s Flight by Tom Miller
Book About Books
- The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern
A Book that Made You Laugh
- A Conspiracy of Truths by Alexandra Rowland
Five SFF Short Stories
- To Balance the Weight of Khalem by R.B. Lemberg (read here)
- An Explorer’s Cartography of Already Settled Lands by Fran Wilde (read here)
- A Witch’s Guide to Escape: A Practical Compendium of Portal Fantasies by Alix E. Harrow (read here)
- Do Not Look Back, My Lion by Alix E. Harrow (read here)
- So Much Cooking by Naomi Kritzer (read here)
Big Dumb Object
- The Breath of the Sun by Isaac R. Fellman
Feminist Novel
- The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal
Novel by a Canadian Author
- The Heretic’s Guide to Homecoming by Sienna Tristen
Novel with a Number in the Title
- Two Serpents Rise by Max Gladstone
Romantic Fantasy / Paranormal Romance
- The Tiger’s Daughter by K. Arsenault Rivera
Novel with a Magical Pet
- Jhereg by Steven Brust
Format: Graphic Novel
- On a Sunbeam by Tillie Walden (read here)
Novel Featuring Politics
- A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine
