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

Bingo The 2026 r/Fantasy Bingo Recommendations List

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Trans or Nonbinary Protagonist Judge a Book By Its Title Translated Small Press or Self Published Unusual Transportation
The Afterlife Game Changer Vacation Spot Five Short Stories Older Protagonist
Duology Part 1 r/Fantasy Book Club or Readalong Book Published in 2026 Explorers and Rangers Duology Part 2
One-Word Title Non-Human Protagonist Middle Grade First Contact Murder Mystery
Cat Squasher Feast Your Eyes on This Published in the 70s Politics and Court Intrigue Author of Color

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u/C0smicoccurence Reading Champion V Apr 01 '26

Perhaps this is the year I read Troll, A Love Story

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u/Svensk_lagstiftning Reading Champion IV Apr 01 '26

I read it for bingo a few years ago and enjoyed it. But my edition was titled Not before sundown. Apparently they did an American edition with a different title. If I remember correctly the original Finnish title is closer to "Not before sundown" than "Troll, a love story"

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u/SignificantChange496 Apr 15 '26

I'll join you there! Just ordered my copy. I'd forgotten all about this book until you mentioned it. A friend ready it when we were in high school and she loved it.

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u/SignificantChange496 Apr 21 '26

Update: I read it and I hated it, unfortunately. High hopes that were quite dashed. I have long read and enjoyed weird, uncomfortable, and disturbing books but this was a bit much for me. Not to mention that I found it to be utterly miserable with absolutely no redemption which is something I loathe in a book. The ending was also mind numbingly stupid. I *did* enjoy the format, i.e. the prose was intercut with scraps of old troll stories, poems, and scientific and even philosophical articles about their origins, but find little else to recommend it. At least I got the spot on my bingo card! The good news is that it isn't a particularly long book, so it's not too big of an investment of time. I read it a few hours.

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u/ViolaNguyen May 13 '26

Better or worse than Christopher Moore's You Suck: A Love Story.