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 be cutting back to one card only, no additional restrictions. I may try for Hero Mode (reviewing every book I use) and having books in three languages on my card, but I’m not sweating it much.
Grey italics mean a book is planned, but hasn’t been read yet.
Current status: 20/25 (80%)
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Slice of Life / Small Scale Fantasy
- Sourdough by Robin Sloan
A SFF Novel Featuring a Character With a Disability
- Seven Summer Nights by Harper Fox
SFF Novella
- This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
Self-Published SFF Novel
- Snowspelled by Stephanie Burgis
SFF Novel Featuring Twins
- Tess of the Road by Rachel Hartman
Novel Featuring Vampires
- The Gilda Stories by Jewelle L. Goméz
Format: Graphic Novel (at least 1 vol.) OR Audiobook / Audio drama
- The Wicked + The Divine, Vol. 2: Fandemonium by by Kieron Gillen, Jamie McKelvie, Matt Wilson, Clayton Cowles
SFF Novel by a Local to You Author
- Wicked like a Wildfire by Lana Popović
SFF Novel Featuring an Ocean Setting
- The Imaginary Corpse by Tyler Hayes
Cyberpunk
- Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer
2nd Chance
- The Cloud Roads by Martha Wells
Afrofuturism
- An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon
SFF Novel Published in 2019
- The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow
Middle Grade SFF Novel
- The Trials of Morrigan Crow by Jessica Townsend
A Personal Recommendation from r/Fantasy
- City of Stairs by Robert Jackson Bennett
Any r/Fantasy Book Club Book of the Month OR r/Fantasy Read-along Book
- Daughter of Mystery by Heather Rose Jones
Media Tie-In Novel
- Children of the Nameless by Brandon Sanderson
Novel Featuring an AI Character
- Sea of Rust by C. Robert Cargill
SFF Novel That Has a Title of Four or More Words
- The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon
Retelling!
- Deerskin by Robin McKinley
SFF Novel by an Australian Author
- Legacy of Ghosts by Alicia Wanstall-Burke
The Final Book of a Series
- Children of God by Mary Doria Russell
#OwnVoices
- Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
LitRPG YA
- All the Crooked Saints by Maggie Stiefvater
Five SFF Short Stories
- Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens by Eleanor Arnason
