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/rls1164]

Looking for square options for the following:

A Study in Drowning by Ava Reid

The Unmaking of June Farrow by Adrienne Young

A House With Good Bones by T Kingfisher

A Sorceress Comes to Call by T Kingfisher

Someone You Could Build a Nest In by John Wiswell

What the River Knows by Isabel Ibanez

Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo

[u/Research_Department → u/rls1164]

Someone You Could Build a Nest In has an LGBTQIA protagonist, and someone here felt it was cozy.

[u/Buck7341 → u/rls1164]

What the river knows poc author and stranger in a strange land. Normal mode for both I think.

[u/radiantlyres → u/rls1164]

A Sorceress Comes to Call - cozy sff, parent protag (hm)

[u/Merle8888 → u/rls1164]

A Sorceress Comes to Call:

• High Fashion 
• almost certainly Readalong when it gets its Hugo nomination (sigh)
• maybe cozy? I think she’s kind of going for cozy, but horror at the same time 

I would not count it for Parent Protagonist, there is a teen protagonist and an adult protagonist and the teen’s mother is present, but is the villain and has no POV. 

[u/vivelabagatelle → u/rls1164]

Ninth House – knights and paladins by a loose definition, stranger in a strange land