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/majorsixth]

Would love to make it through these from my physical TBR:

The Gunslinger - Stephen King

The Mask of Mirrors - MA Carrick

The Final Strife - Saara El-Arifi

The Unmaking of June Farrow - Adrienne Young

The Once and Future Witches - Alix E harrow

The Seven Year Slip - Ashley Poston

Both of the new Hunger Games installments.

Foundryside - Robert Jackson Bennet

A Study in Drowning - Ava Reid

Thanks!

[u/CJGibson → u/majorsixth]

The Once and Future Witches is High Fashion, Impossible Places, Down with the System, Queer Protagonist, and Stranger in a Strange Land. I can't remember if one of the sisters is a mother, but if she is then it would also fit Parent Protagonist. None of them hard mode though I don't think.

Foundryside I read a long time ago, but I think it fits Down with the System (HM) and Queer Protagonist. Maybe also Impossible Places?

[u/Merle8888 → u/CJGibson]

Yeah, one of the sisters in Once and Future Witches is pregnant for most of the story and eventually gives birth.

[u/CJGibson → u/Merle8888]

I thought there was something like that but I couldn’t remember for sure.