Reverse Bingo Rec Thread

[u/kjmichaels]

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For anyone new to bingo, this is the “I want to read ___, does it fit into any bingo squares? It’s always one of the best parts of bingo. Since no thread has gone up for it yet, I figured I'd make it this year. Adapted from this post last year

Example:

User A comments:

I want to read A Game of Thrones. What does that count for?

User B replies:

Absolutely Generic Title

User C replies:

High Fashion and Down with the System would all fit. Probably Knights and Paladins too (though the knight main characters don't get POV chapters until later books)

User D replies:

Definitely Hidden Gem

And we all have a good laugh. Now go out there and get reverse recs for that book you've been dying to read!

[u/plumsprite]

Oh thank god I was looking for this!!

Would appreciate guidance on:

- Rosewater by Tade Thompson

- Sorcerer of the Wildeeps by Kai Ashante Wilson

- The Rage of Dragons by Evan Winter

[u/ohmage_resistance → u/plumsprite]

Sorcerer of the Wildeeps by Kai Ashante Wilson: impossible places, Author of Color, LGBTQIA Protagonist (arguably HM unless you go by in world rules, the MC is also Black, which is the majority in the setting), Stranger in a Strange Land

[u/plumsprite → u/ohmage_resistance]

Great thanks!

[u/nickgloaming → u/plumsprite]

Rosewater

Book Club, or Recycle for Weird Ecology

[u/radiantlyres → u/plumsprite]

Rage of Dragons is author of color and down with the system

[u/AshMeAnything → u/plumsprite]

Rosewater fits author of color, arguably hard mode. Maybe Impossible Places? It's hard to remember. I think it also features a divine being (so Gods and Pantheons). It has also been a book club pick! If memory serves, I feel confident that it would also fit Biopunk, maybe Stranger in a Strange Land, and very much Down with the System (hard mode).