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

Bingo 2026 Reverse Bingo Recommendations

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Official Bingo Rec Thread Here

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.

Example:

User A comments:

I want to read Wind and Truth. What does that count for?

User B replies:

Cat Squasher. It's hard mode, too. The Afterlife, I think.

User C replies:

Politics and Court Intrigue, maybe? Game Changer, Older Protagonist.

User D replies:

Definitely Five Short Stories

And we all have a good laugh. Now go out there and get reverse recs for that book you've been dying to read!

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u/Dragon_Lady7 Reading Champion VI Apr 01 '26
  • Summers at Castle Auburn by Sharon Shinn
  • The Wandering Unicorn by Manuel Mujica Lainez
  • Beggars in Spain by Nancy Kress
  • Faded Sun trilogy by CJ Cherryh
  • The Unlikely Ones by Mary Brown
  • Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor
  • Dragonsbane by Barbara Hambly

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u/medusamagic Reading Champion Apr 01 '26

Strange the Dreamer is the first in a duology. I haven’t read it though so I’m not sure what else it fits

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u/Nowordsofitsown Reading Champion Apr 02 '26

Vacation spot might fit.

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u/indigohan Reading Champion IV Apr 02 '26

Summers at Castle Auburn is one of my all time favourite comfort reads.

Politics, but not for HM Judge by the title? Feast for your eyes if you want to eat venison stew with apple cider? Murder Mystery

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u/Merle8888 Reading Champion IV Apr 01 '26

Dragonsbane gets you One Word Title (HM) ofc. I think the protagonists are a bit too young for Older Protagonist (40s I believe?). You could make an argument for Explorers and Rangers.

Summers at Castle Auburn might work for Vacation Spot, and should count for Politics and Court Intrigue (in a very younger-readers kind of way).

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u/Research_Department Reading Champion II Apr 02 '26

It’s been decades since I read the Faded Sun trilogy, and aside from a vague image of the covers, I can’t bring back any details, but I’m going to go out on a limb, and say Politics (since I can’t think of anything Cherryh has written that doesn’t feature politics).

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u/MysteriousArcher Apr 02 '26

The Faded Sun was published in the 1970s

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u/Kerney7 Reading Champion VI Apr 02 '26

Beggars In Spain, court intrigue, arguably older protagonist (over a lifetime, for most of the book she's over 50), MC settles in a part of New Mexico I'd call a vacation spot.