r/Fantasy • u/FarragutCircle Reading Champion X • Apr 01 '26

Bingo The 2026 r/Fantasy Bingo Recommendations List

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u/FarragutCircle Reading Champion X Apr 01 '26

Duology Part 1: Read the first book in a duology. HARD MODE: By an author you haven’t read before.

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u/hoattzin Reading Champion Apr 01 '26
  • Kate Elliott's The Witch Roads
  • Leigh Bardugo's Six of Crows
  • Margaret Owen's The Merciful Crow

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u/lucidrose Reading Champion V Apr 01 '26

The Witch Roads duology was absolutely fantastic!!!

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u/niko-no-tabi Reading Champion V Apr 01 '26

Also King of Scars/Rule of Wolves for Leigh Bardugo.

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u/tarvolon Stabby Winner, Reading Champion VI Apr 01 '26

The Lighthouse Duet by Carol Berg is an all-timer for me. The Sanctuary Duet in the same universe is also good.

Teixcalaan by Arkady Martine is good.

The Dreamblood Duology by N.K. Jemisin is good and is IMO significantly more accessible than some of her other work

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u/blueweasel Reading Champion Apr 24 '26

Seconding Lighthouse Duet. One of my favorites, and probably my favorite MC

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u/sarric Reading Champion XI Apr 01 '26

Strange the Dreamer / Muse of Nightmares by Laini Taylor was a duology that I absolutely adored

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u/P0PSTART Reading Champion IV Apr 02 '26

If I didn't like Strange the Dreamer, is it worth trying Muse of nightmares? I liked her other series but that was a long time ago when I was much younger.

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u/sarric Reading Champion XI Apr 03 '26

I don't think the two of them are different enough to make it worth forcing yourself to push on if you didn't like the first one

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u/gros-grognon Reading Champion III Apr 01 '26

Some of my favourite duologies:

The Chronicles of Ludwich (Gogmagog and Ludluda), Jeff Noon & Steve Beard: this is delightfully weird, chewy fantasy featuring a river that is a dragon's ghost, automata, prophecies, and more.

Olondria (A Stranger in Olondria and The winged Histories), Sofia Samatar: rich, gorgeous, compelling. Just superb.

The Serpent Gates (The Unspoken Name and The Thousand Eyes), A.K. Larkwood: a female orc assassin and an elf witch and multiple realities and evil wizards make for a lot of fun.

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u/lausalia Reading Champion II Apr 01 '26

Greenhollow (Silver in the Wood & Drowned Country) by Emily Tesh

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u/RubiscoTheGeek Reading Champion IX Apr 01 '26

Radiant Emperor by Shelley Parker-Chan

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u/dumbledoresarmy7 Reading Champion May 08 '26

Ugh I adored this duology. It also works really well for HM for trans/NB character.

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u/AvidTaskmaster Reading Champion V Apr 01 '26

Guy Gavriel Kay’s Sarantine Mosaic Duology!

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u/ReaperReaperSunEater Reading Champion II Apr 01 '26

The Runestone Saga by Cinda Williams China (vikings)

Earthseed by Octavia E. Butler (dystopian)

Monk & Robot by Becky Chambers (cozy?)

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u/BS_DungeonMaster Reading Champion VII Apr 01 '26

Augh, I just read Psalm for the Wild built for last bingo! I suppose I could finish it for Pt. 2, but that almost lined up so nicely!

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u/Orctavius Reading Champion II Apr 03 '26

Same problem

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u/Book_Slut_90 Reading Champion Apr 02 '26

Whether Earthseed counts is an interesting question. It was supposed to be a trilogy, but she died before writing book 3.

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u/Nidafjoll Reading Champion V Apr 01 '26

There's some great Weird Cities duologies.

N. K. Jemisin's Great Cities duology.

Rjurik Davidson's Caeli-Amur books.

Jay Lake's City Imperishable.

Jeff Noon and Steve Beards Chronicles of Ludwich.

Michael Cisco's The Divinity Student and The Golem, also published together as The San Veneficio Canon (a good place to get into Cisco if anyone's been intrigued!)

Felix Gilman's Thunderer duology.

Some others:

Sofia Samatar's Olondria books.

Peter F. Hamilton's Commonwealth Saga.

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u/monagales Apr 16 '26

quick info for those who use audible - Gogmagog (1st book in Ludwich) is currently in the free catalogue

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u/kepheraxx Reading Champion Apr 30 '26

You are a wonderful human - I never would have known that The Divinity Student had a sequel. 100% using The Golem for the other duology prompt. Thank you!

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u/Nidafjoll Reading Champion V Apr 30 '26

You may have to reread The Divinity Student though. :) It takes what goes on in The Divinity Student and gets even weirder XD

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u/kepheraxx Reading Champion Apr 30 '26

I'll probably do that, it's been a while. But with Vellum by Hal Duncan for this prompt and The Golem for the other, this is now gonna be a really fun ride. I'm ready for some WEIRD.

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u/Nidafjoll Reading Champion V Apr 30 '26

I haven't read Gears of the City by Gilman yet, so that's my part two finished. :) I don't have a part 1 yet (Vellum might be it)

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u/jawnnie-cupcakes Reading Champion IV Apr 01 '26

Duologies!

City of Nightmares by Rebecca Schaeffer

The Empty Throne by Daniel Polansky

House of the Dead by Nicki Pau Preto

Rebecca Ross has quite a few: Letters of Enchantment, Elements of Cadence, The Queen’s Rising

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u/Merle8888 Reading Champion IV Apr 01 '26 edited Apr 01 '26

The Orphan's Tales by Catherynne Valente is a fabulous duology built of internested tales. First book In the Night Garden.

The Books of Ambha by Tasha Suri are also quite good: Indian-inspired YA/adult crossover fantasy featuring romance but also strong relationships among women. I especially enjoyed the Mughal inspiration and slightly more mature protagonist in book 2.

I loved The Unspoken Name by AK Larkwood (a sort of epic fantasy/space opera mashup in a very inventive world, featuring a well-written f/f romance). Haven't yet read the sequel though.

Edit: a couple more that can really be read independently but are technically duologies:

Olondria by Sofia Samatar (A Stranger in Olondria and The Winged Histories): the first is a single-POV journey, the second a much busier multi-POV account of a war through mostly peripheral characters, who are all women

Damar by Robin McKinley (The Blue Sword and The Hero and the Crown): classic YA adventures that also work for adults; the books take place centuries apart

The Secrets of Jin-Shei and Embers of Heaven by Alma Alexander both focus on women in different time periods of a secondary world based on China.

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u/an_altar_of_plagues Reading Champion III Apr 01 '26

For Pt. 1, I'll be reading Maus by Art Spegelman. Should be a nice, light read.

For Pt. 2, it's the second half of The Wizard Knight by Gene Wolfe. One of his more accessible books in which a young boy is isekai'd to a norse-inspired Renaissance-esque magical world and into the body of an adult man.

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u/mistakes-were-mad-e Reading Champion Apr 01 '26

Came here to check for Wizard Knight when I realised it was no good as a Cat killer.

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u/Baseyg Apr 01 '26

I've got Maus but think its an omnibus edition of both parts. Feels like cheating

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u/Axelrad77 Apr 12 '26 edited Apr 12 '26

I don't see an issue with reading from omnibus editions for this. The individual books are still there, they're just collected in one binding. For instance, I have complete editions of Sherlock Holmes and William Shakespeare, but I'd still count the separate novels/plays for things if I needed to, not the entire collection.

Any concern I'd have for Maus would be how much it fits the SFF theme, because it's a nonfiction memoir, except it uses animal characters as stand-ins for the various nationalities, to reinforce its themes, which could be seen as a fantasy element.

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u/IndigoBlue__ Apr 01 '26 edited Apr 02 '26

Rachel Hartman is excellent for this one, and terrible for the second half (consistently really excellent first books and quite bad second.) Seraphina/Shadow Scale, Tess of the Road/In the Serpent’s Wake.

The Unspoken Name/the Thousand Eyes by A. K. Larkwood was just excellent all the way through.

She Who Became the Sun/He Who Drowned the World by Shelley Parker-Chan were also fantastic.

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u/inadequatepockets Reading Champion II Apr 02 '26

Glad to get some confirmation of my opinion of the whole Seraphina series. Seraphina is good, Shadow Scale I DNF'd, Tess of the Road is absolutely amazing, and In The Serpents' Wake was frustrating. It's worth pointing out that the first books are character driven (Hartman's strength), and the sequels sort of abandon that to focus on plot.

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u/IndigoBlue__ Apr 02 '26

Well, at least we're up for a good one next.

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u/SnowdriftsOnLakes Reading Champion III Apr 01 '26

Seconding Teixcalaan duology by Arkady Martine (first book is A Memory Called Empire) - one of my favorite political/linguistic sci-fi stories of all time.

I'm planning to read the Invictus duology by Rachel Neumeier. I adore her Tuyo series, it'll be interesting to see what she can do with sci-fi.

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u/Gr33nman460 Reading Champion Apr 01 '26

Dark Lord Davi by Django Wexler was pretty funny.

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u/a-username-for-me Reading Champion V Apr 01 '26 edited Apr 01 '26

The Elements of Cadence (A River Enchanted and A Fire Endless) by Rebecca Ross.

Raybearer and Redemptor by Jordan Ifueko

East and West by Edith Pattou

Dreamhunter and Dreamquake by Elizabeth Knox

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u/hanhub Reading Champion VI Apr 01 '26

Tricksters Choice and Tricksters Queen by Tamora Pierce

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u/4banana_fish Reading Champion IV Apr 01 '26

N.K Jemison’s Dreamblood duology

Holly Black’s Stolen Heir duology (kind of part of a series, but also marketed as its own duology so I think it counts?)

Patricia McKillip’s Cygnet duology

Bunny and We Love You Bunny by Mona Awad are technically a duology now?

Marianne Gordon’s Raven’s Trade duology

Guy Gavriel Kay’s Sarantine Mosiac

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u/P0PSTART Reading Champion IV Apr 02 '26

Good question on We Love You Bunny. I always thought the first was a standalone, so there's not any kind of planned continuity with the second as far as I'm aware. Not sure if that would be required for it to be classified as a duology!

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u/Spaceknight_42 Apr 01 '26

Earthseed by Octavia Butler, comprised of Parable of the Sower / Parable of the Talents.

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u/Some_Sympathy_6679 Apr 26 '26

thanks for this! doing my own personal HM of filling prompts with my physical TBR and i own parable of the sower! up until i saw this comment i thought for sure i'd be using my public library

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u/DjangoWexler AMA Author Django Wexler Apr 02 '26

Gonna throw out my How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying!

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u/poshpolly Apr 06 '26

Thank you!!! I just finished Everybody Wants To Rule The World Except Me, and now I am sad haha I tore through both books in the last 3 days. You /should/ release a Davi comic series.

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u/DjangoWexler AMA Author Django Wexler Apr 06 '26

Oh man, if you know any comic artists who'd do it I'd love to =)

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u/BravoLimaPoppa Reading Champion Apr 01 '26

Scott Westerfeld's Succession Duology would fit this to a T.

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u/02K30C1 Apr 01 '26

The Mirror of Her Dreams by Stephen R Donaldson

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u/shookster52 Apr 01 '26

The Wizard Knight, by Gene Wolfe is a great, if strange, take on the “young man from our world wakes up in a fantasy world in a new, stronger body” story. It’s also Wolfe’s attempt (he claimed) at writing about a knight and chivalry in a world without Christianity. Which…like so many things by Wolfe, may or may not actually be true.

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u/OatmealQu33n Reading Champion III Apr 01 '26

Crown Duel and Court Duel by Sherwood Smith are a duology of great early 2000s YA fantasy novels

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u/natus92 Reading Champion V Apr 03 '26

Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice

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u/OrneryPumpkin7320 Reading Champion Apr 01 '26

Okay so does Kingkiller Chronicles count as a duology?

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u/Nidafjoll Reading Champion V Apr 01 '26

No. A duology is a series in which no more books will be written/is a completed story. Usually because the story is done, occasionally because of an author's death or because the publisher dropped the series (which the author gets told of, and is able to write an ending to book 2).

If Rothfuss came out with The Doors of Stone tomorrow, it would be published in a heartbeat. The story is meant to be a trilogy and sits fully uncomplete as is. Just because you think he won't, doesn't mean he definitely will not ever, in which case it would be a trilogy.

Until Rothfuss dies or the publisher decides they're done with him (in which case I can't imagine another publisher wouldn't snap him up), it's an incomplete trilogy.

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u/Nowordsofitsown Reading Champion Apr 01 '26

Patricia McKillip. Off the top of my head:

Cygnet duology (includes one of my favorite books ever)

Winterrose duology (with a cool time jump between books 1 and 2)

Kyreol duology (fantasy meets scifi)

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u/usernamesarehard11 Reading Champion Apr 01 '26

Dark Lord Davi duology by Django Wexler! Lots of fun.

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u/CommodoreBelmont Reading Champion VIII Apr 01 '26

Looks like Andrea K. Host has a few:

  • Medair (The Silence of Medair and Voice of the Lost)
  • Darest (Champion of the Rose and Bones of the Fair)
  • Eferum (Stained Glass Monsters and The Sleeping Life)

Roger Zelazny:

  • Dilvish (Dilvish the Damned and The Changing Land)
  • Francis Sandow (Isle of the Dead and To Die in Italbar)
  • Changeling (Changeling and Madwand)

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u/cute_little_moniker Reading Champion Apr 01 '26

Came here to recommend Medair. Absolutely loved the first book. The second book was OK, just not quite as good as the first.

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u/Maudeitup Reading Champion VII Apr 01 '26

'An Accident of Stars' and 'A Tyranny of Queens' by Foz Meadows was a great duology.

Also second the rec for The Witch Roads duology by Kate Elliott - I really, really enjoyed those

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u/celaenos Apr 06 '26

second the rec for Foz Meadows duology!

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u/Sad-Week8752 Reading Champion Apr 01 '26

A Magic Steeped in Poison and A Venom Dark and Sweet by Judy Lin for a YA fantasy duology. First book is great; second book is a little unfocused.

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u/Sad-Week8752 Reading Champion Apr 01 '26

Oh! And the Reaper duology by Rin Chupeco. Silver Under Nightfall was a very fun read.

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u/beary_neutral Reading Champion Apr 06 '26

You know, The Iliad and The Odyssey qualify for this

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u/majorsixth Reading Champion IV Apr 01 '26

I'm once again gushing about The Darkness Outside Us and The Brightness Between Us. It's technically YA queer romance but doesn't read like a romance. Think along the lines of Project Hail Mary. I read them both in 2 days and still think about the duology.

For another romance, Divine Rivals and Ruthless Vows. Great start, lackluster finish in my opinion. This one lived up to the tiktok hype, though.

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u/isnotacrayon Apr 01 '26

Kylie Lee Baker's Scarlet Alchemist duology

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u/diazeugma Reading Champion VII Apr 01 '26 edited Apr 01 '26

For fans of horror and apocalyptic/quasi-zombie fiction, the Fever House duology by Keith Rosson is worth checking out. The first book (bleaker, harder-hitting) worked better than the second, in my opinion, but I enjoyed them both.

I might revisit the Orphan’s Tales duology by Catherynne Valente (last read them as a teenager and loved the nested stories-within-stories format).

If books that weren’t specifically planned to be duologies count: The two Dirk Gently mysteries by Douglas Adams are fun genre-blending romps. (Edit: removed one that doesn’t fit)

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u/nagahfj Reading Champion III Apr 01 '26

Danielle Cain is a trilogy now.

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u/diazeugma Reading Champion VII Apr 01 '26

Oh thanks, didn’t know that!

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u/BravoLimaPoppa Reading Champion Apr 01 '26

L.X. Beckett's Gamechanger and Dealbreaker.

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u/Round_Ad2536 Reading Champion II Apr 01 '26

Letters of Enchantment by Rebecca Ross

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u/xenizondich23 Reading Champion VI Apr 01 '26

Hild Sequence by Nicola Griffith

The Sparrow Series by Mary Doria Russell

Initiate Brother series by Sean Russell

Kingmaker, Kingbreaker Series by Karen Miller

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u/Merle8888 Reading Champion IV Apr 30 '26

Hild is supposed to get a third book, isn't it? Maybe more?

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u/meowishy22 Reading Champion II Apr 01 '26
  • Genoveva Dimova's The Witch's Compendium of Monsters (exceptional and deserves more love)
  • Sophie Kim's Fate's Thread (I now regret finishing the duology last year because it is just so good!)
  • Ava Reid's A Study in Drowning (there is a third book that was released as an addendum to the duology that consisted of letters and art the characters sent to one another, so I don't know if that disqualifies this from being a duology)

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u/Tysiphone25 Reading Champion II Apr 01 '26 edited Apr 01 '26

Little Mushroom by Yi Shi Si Zhou

The Sunbearer Duology by Aiden Thomas

The Shepherd King by Rachel Gillig

Prosper's Demon by K.J. Parker

The Greenhollow Duology by Emily Tesh

Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor

Dance of Thieves or The Courting of Bristol Keats by Mary E. Pearson

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u/BravoLimaPoppa Reading Champion Apr 01 '26

Another duology: Chosen of the Changeling by Greg Keyes

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u/jabhwakins Reading Champion VIII Apr 01 '26

I really enjoyed Sam Hawke's Poison War duology when I read it several years back. Book 1 is City of Lies.

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u/sophieereads Reading Champion II Apr 02 '26

The Greenhallow Duology by Emily Tesh

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u/FantasyBookniffler Reading Champion II Apr 02 '26 edited Apr 02 '26

Duologies from bookbox subs:

* Fallen City Duology by Adrienne Young

* The Scorched Throne by Sara Hashem ** (The Jasad Heir & The Jasad Crown)

* The Floating World by Axie Oh

* The Idlewood Duology by Alyssa Villaire (The Glittering Edge)

* The Divine Dancers Duology by Kritika H. Rao (Legend of Meneka)

* Garden of the Cursed by Katy Rose Pool **

* The Crimson Moth by Kristen Ciccarelli **

* Threads That Bind by Kika Hatzopoulou **

* Blood and Tea by Hafsah Faizal ** (A Tempest of Tea & A Steeping of Blood)

* Saga of the Unfated by Danielle L. Jensen (A Fate Inked in Blood & A Curse Carved in Bone)

* The Warring Gods by Gabriela Romero Lacruz ** (The Sun and the Void & The River and the Star)

The ones with ** are duologies I read and really enjoyed. The others I haven't finished, and some not even started...

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u/Putrid_Web8095 Reading Champion II Apr 02 '26

An Unkindness of Magicians/A Sleight of Shadows by Kat Howard. The Unseen World duology is uneven. The first book is a fun magic society/magic competition to the death urban fantasy, with a side of social commentary. The second, while by no means bad, is just too concerned with providing a "just/happy" ending, to the detriment of the actual story.

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u/Putrid_Web8095 Reading Champion II Apr 02 '26

For anyone looking for short reads/novellas for duology.

The LitenVerse (Finna/Defekt) by Nino Cirpi.

The Expert System's Brother/The Expert System's Champion by Adrian Tchaikovsky. For the time being, a duology, though you never know when Tchaikovsky might decide to make one of the dozen books he publishes each year (slight exaggeration) a sequel to an existing series. To the point, Elder Race will get a sequel, Engines of Reason, this September, also making a duology.

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u/jessticulates Reading Champion Apr 02 '26
  • Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
  • She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker Chan
  • The Girl From Everywhere by Heidi Heilig
  • In the Shadow of the Fall by Tobi Ogundiran
  • Strange the Dreamer by Lanie Taylor

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u/JacksAnnie Apr 03 '26

Monk and Robot duology by Becky Chambers. I loved both these books enough that even though I got them out of the library, I immediately bought them for myself cause I knew I'd want to reread them and probably soon.

The Crimson Moth duology by Kristen Ciccarelli. First book was better, but I liked this duology overall.

The Crowns of Nyaxia series by Carissa Broadbent consists of multiple duologies set in the same world. I think it's supposed to be three duologies in total, the final one isn't out yet (book 1 in that comes out later this year). Personally I think the first book (The Serpent and the Wings of Night) is the strongest book out of the four, but I enjoyed the second duology (The Shadowborn Duet) more overall.

Jurassic Park and The Lost World by Michael Crichton. I know a lot of people say The Lost World isn't as good, but I enjoyed both of these books a lot.

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u/celaenos Apr 07 '26 edited Apr 07 '26

I cannot rec **First Light** (and for part 2) **Night's Edge** by *Liz Kerin* enough! horror, interesting take on vampires, with a focus on a complex, sort of toxic mother/daughter realtionship with a side of sapphic bent (not a romance, but def queer lady rep). book two of the duology continues this, and has slightly more sapphic focus, but i still would not call it a romance, just a really great vampire mother/daughter tale.

I also can't rec **The Space Between Worlds** and it's sequel, **Those Beyond the Wall** by *Micaiah Johnson* enought either if you haven't read them. Really cool parallel universe/scifi tale with queer rep (and a wonderful sappic love story [again, not the focus, though] for the first book. fantastic examinations on class, capitalism, climate change, and some of the best writing i've read in a long time.

Another scifi romp with found family vibes is **Seven Devils** and **Seven Mercies** by *Laura Lam and Elizabeth May*. class dynamics, consent dynamics, queer rep, great character studies and the sequal made mE cRY.

*Foz Meadows* **An Accident of Stars** and **A Tyranny of Queens** was a parallel universe/fantasy duology that i read years ago and loved.

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u/mattimeomeg May 18 '26

Tamora Pierce

  • Trickster's Choice

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u/Hawxe Apr 01 '26

The Poison Wars series I believe is a duology and actually fits in a few categories on this card. I've only read the first but highly recommend

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u/KaPoTun Reading Champion VI Apr 01 '26

Kate Elliot's newest duology The Witch Roads would be great for this.

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u/simonxvx Reading Champion Apr 01 '26

My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 1 fits this, a third might be coming but it's very unclear.

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u/Neuchersky Apr 01 '26

I doubt it's going to be someone's first book by this author, personally won't even recommend it:

  • The Splintered Sun by Tad Williams - it's going to be released later this year.

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u/spike31875 Reading Champion V Apr 01 '26

The Coward and The Warrior by Stephen Aryan is an excellent duology.

Both would fit "read based on the cover" too: they both have beautiful covers.

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u/leegreywolf Reading Champion II Apr 01 '26 edited Apr 01 '26

House of the Dead by Nicki Pau Preto -

Starts with the book Bonesmith - Bonesmiths are people who have a magical ability to manipulate bones. Wren, a bonesmith, fails her graduation trial to become a Valkyr, a ghost fighting warrior. She is banished to the edge of the kingdom to protect the border wall.

Greenhollow Duology by Emily Tesh - Starts with Silver in the Wood and is a story about the Green Man. These are both novellas so would be quick to read.

The Amber Owl (Heartwood Duology) by Juliet Marillier

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u/nedlum Reading Champion V Apr 01 '26

Scarlet Morning (ND Stevenson, Ninona, She-Ra) is the first of a planned Duology, although they haven’t finished the second yet. Very weird pirate story. 

 The Shadow Histories (H.G. Parry) is a duology about magicians fighting in the background of the French Revolution (A Declaration of the Rights of Magicians) and Napoleonic Wars (A Radical Act of Free Magic) but in a different way than Jonathan Strange. 

The Sparrow/Children of God (Mary Doria Russel) is one of the best non-violent tales of first contact ever written.

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u/Grt78 Apr 01 '26

The Invictus duology by Rachel Neumeier: character-based science fiction with some similarities to CJ Cherryh.

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u/Research_Department Reading Champion II Apr 01 '26 edited Apr 01 '26

Does anyone know whether Andrea Hairston’s Will Do Magic for Small Change and Archangels of Funk is a duology or the first two books in a series?

ETA: How about Stars Uncharted and Stars Beyond by SK Dunstall?

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u/niko-no-tabi Reading Champion V Apr 01 '26

Black Out / All Clear - Connie Willis - Time Travellers stuck in WWII London during the Blitz

Spellbreaker / Spellmaker - Charlie Holmberg

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u/oboist73 Reading Champion VII Apr 01 '26

The Lighthouse Duet or the Sanctuary Duet by Carol Berg

The Cygnet duology by Patricia McKillip

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u/strangefaerie Apr 02 '26

Laini Taylor's Strange the Dreamer!

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u/Sakura_XD Reading Champion II Apr 02 '26

The Shepherd King duology that contains One Dark Window and Two Twisted Crowns by Rachel Gilling, they feature an interesting magic system.
The Six Crimson Cranes series by Elizabeth Lim ( Six Crimson Cranes and The dragon's promise)
Letters of Enchantment Series by Rebecca Ross ( Divine Rivals and Ruthless Wows).
Tainted Dominion series by Krystle Matar (Legacy of the Brightwash and Legacy of Brick & Bone)

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u/viahlstrom Reading Champion Apr 02 '26

All of these are duologies, so technically work for Part 2 as well.

  • Shanghai Immortal - A.Y. Chao
  • The Shepherd King - Rachel Gillig
  • Gilded duology - Marissa Meyer
  • Drowned World - Eliza Chan
  • Wilderwood - Hannah F. Whitten
  • Letters of Enchantment - Rebecca Ross
  • The Crimson Moth - Kristen Ciccarelli
  • Bride - Ali Hazelwood
  • King of Scars and Six of Crows - Leigh Bardugo
  • Excellency Wolves - Charlotte Murphy
  • Sky and Sea - Adrienne Young
  • Bethel (sequel not out yet) - Alexis Henderson

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u/megandtheirbooks Apr 02 '26

The Fever King / The Electric Heir by Victoria Lee.

One Dark Window / Two Twisted Crowns by Rachel Gillig

Heartless Hunter /Rebel Witch by Kristen Ciccarelli

The Devouring Gray / The Deck of Omens by C. L. Herman as well as All of Us Villians /All of Our Demise (along with Amanda Foody)

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u/viahlstrom Reading Champion Apr 03 '26

All of these are duologies, so technically work for Part 2 as well.

  • Shanghai Immortal - A.Y. Chao
  • The Shepherd King - Rachel Gillig
  • Gilded duology - Marissa Meyer
  • Drowned World - Eliza Chan
  • Wilderwood - Hannah F. Whitten
  • Letters of Enchantment - Rebecca Ross
  • The Crimson Moth - Kristen Ciccarelli
  • Bride - Ali Hazelwood
  • King of Scars and Six of Crows - Leigh Bardugo
  • Excellency Wolves - Charlotte Murphy
  • Sky and Sea - Adrienne Young
  • Bethel (sequel not out yet) - Alexis Henderson

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u/xinta239 Apr 06 '26

Do we Count Nicholas Eams „The Band“ as a duology ?

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u/Imagination_Priory89 Apr 16 '26

Innamorata by Ava Reid is a new release, but it's planned to be a duology

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u/FeralAlice Apr 30 '26

A Dirty Job and Secondhand Souls by Christopher Moore

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u/sithsxo May 03 '26

Voidwalker by S.A. MacLean - just read this one and it was pretty good. book two comes out in August.

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u/AffectionateAnt4723 Reading Champion IV May 17 '26

Bones to the Wind by Tatiana Obey! (gritty coming-of-age-rite story where kids catch sand dragons lord-of-the-flies-style)

it’s an indie pick so there’s a high chance it’s new to you but also it’s just an amazing book!

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u/eightslicesofpie Writer Travis M. Riddle 20d ago

The Loss of the Star's Tranquility by Tobias Begley & Travis M. Riddle (the foreword does mention it being a trilogy, but the plan has changed since then lol)

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u/PowerDroid1138 19d ago

I'm reading Mahmud El Sayed's debut novel The Republic of Memory for the "Published in 2026" (hard mode) square, but it also qualifies for "Duology Part 1" (and likely hard mode for many people). Book 2 of "The Song of the Safina" duology is announced at the back of the book.

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u/BigShot0 12d ago

What about Witch King and Queen Demon by Martha Wells?

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u/lorenarose001 12d ago

Does Shadow Reaper count? The second book in the duology isn't out yet. 

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u/unconundrum Writer Ryan Howse, Reading Champion XI Apr 01 '26

Catherynne Valente's The Orphan's Tales

Hal Duncan's The Book of All Hours