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. As for the last few years, 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, HM indicates hard mode.
Current status: 5/25 (20%)
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Five SFF Short Stories
- From a Certain Point of View: The Empire Strikes Back anthology (HM)
Set in Asia
- She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan (HM)
A to Z Genre Guide
- The Midnight Bargain by C.L. Polk (HM)
Found Family
- The Serpent Sea by Martha Wells (HM?)
1st Person POV
- The Philosopher’s Flight by Tom Miller
r/Fantasy Book Club OR r/Fantasy Read-along Book
- A Conspiracy of Truths by Alexandra Rowland
Author You’ve Never Read Before
- Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer
Gothic Fantasy
- Down Comes the Night by Allison Saft (HM)
Backlist Book
- Lifelode by Jo Walton
Revenge-Seeking Character
- The Tyrant Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson (HM)
Mystery Plot
- The Conductors by Nicole Glover
Comfort Read
- leaving this one open
Published 2021
- leaving this one open
Cat Squasher
- Hollow Empire by Sam Hawke
SFF-Related Nonfiction Non-Fantasy (2016)
- some history shit
Latinx / Latin American Author
- Kalpa Imperial by Angelica Gorodischer
Self-Published
- Briarley by Aster Glenn Gray
Forest Setting
- The Wolf and the Woodsman by Ava Reid
Genre Mashup
- Vermilion by Molly Tanzer
Chapter Titles
- Triggernometry by Stark Holborn (HM)
Title: __ of __
- Mask of Mirrors by M.A. Carrick
First Contact
- A Woman of the Iron People by Eleanor Arnason
Trans of Nonbinary Character
- When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain by Nghi Vo (HM)
Debut
- The First Sister by Linden A. Lewis (HM)
Witches
- The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow (HM)
