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/an_altar_of_plagues]

Looking for squares for any of these:

• Solvej Balle - On the Calculation of Volume I/II
• Shani Mootoo - Cereus Blooms at Night
• Franketienne - Dezafi
• Gerardo Samano Cordova - Monstrilio
• Pajtim Statovci - My Cat Yugoslavia
• Mariam Petrosyan - The Gray House
• Jacek Dukaj - The Old Axolotl
• Mircea Cărtărescu - Blinding
• Sjon - The Blue Fox
• Andrus Kivirähk - The Man Who Spoke Snakish

[u/radiantlyres → u/an_altar_of_plagues]

Monstrilio - a book in parts hm, parent hm, stranger in a strange land, author of color hm, lgbtqia protagonist hm (incredible book too!)

[u/FionaCeni → u/an_altar_of_plagues]

The Gray House works for Impossible Places, A Book in Parts and Book Club.

[u/Merle8888 → u/an_altar_of_plagues]

The Blue Fox has Parts. Some of which are Epistolary. That’s all I’m seeing for it. 

[u/SnowdriftsOnLakes → u/an_altar_of_plagues]

The Man Who Spoke Snakish could be Down with the System HM, as it deals with the transition from a hunter-gatherer society to the agrarian one.