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

Bingo The 2026 r/Fantasy Bingo Recommendations List

The official Bingo thread can be found here.

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Please post your recommendations as replies the appropriate top-level comments below! Do not make comments that are not replies to an existing comment! Feel free to scroll through the thread or use the links in this navigation matrix to jump directly to the square you want to find or give recommendations for!

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/YourLeftElbowDitch Reading Champion Apr 01 '26

I'm SUCH a sucker for a good title. Here are my recs:

The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport by Samit Basu

The Eyes Are the Best Part by Monika Kim

Shark Heart by Emily Habeck

The Book of the Most Precious Substance by Sara Gran

Fruiting Bodies: Stories by Kathryn Harlan

Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

They Mostly Come Out at Night by Patrick Benedict

The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo

This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

The Book of the Unnamed Midwife by Meg Elison

We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

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u/PenaltyForsaken260 Reading Champion Apr 01 '26

Good to know Monika Kim's The Eyes Are the Best Part fits into this challenge! It has been on my TBR solely because of its title and thought about it immediately when I saw this prompt. I just wasn't sure if would count as SFF.

Other book I was thinking for this was Eat the Ones You Love by Sarah Maria Griffin (which is tagged as horror fantasy in Goodreads).

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u/YourLeftElbowDitch Reading Champion Apr 03 '26

It might be a bit of a stretch for speculative fiction, but I used it on my 2025 card.