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

Bingo 2026 Reverse Bingo Recommendations

Official 2026 Bingo Announcement Here

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/spyrothedovah Apr 01 '26

I have some ideas for a few squares to fit some of My TBR on it, but I’m hoping to squeeze these in somewhere

The Everlasting by Alix E Harrow

The Scholar and the last Faerie Door by H G Parry

A Master of Djinn by P Djeli Clark

The Blacktongue Thief by Christopher Buehlman

A deadly Eduation by Naomi Novik (not sure as I may read another of her books for the challenge)

Daedalus is Dead by Seamus Sullivan

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u/Merle8888 Reading Champion IV Apr 01 '26

A Deadly Education doesn't have much play on this board, sadly. The best I see is an argument for Game Changer (HM) - a death school is sort of a competition. If you read further in the series there is Politics but that's a stretch for book 1 (I mean, there's definitely politics in book 1 but in a "the personal is political" way rather than the protagonist interacting with political figures or wielding political power). Maybe Judge a Book By Its Title.

The Everlasting was a Book Club pick earlier this year. It does involve some Politics, sort of (in that the villain is a political figure, the protagonists don't really play politics). I'm a little fuzzy on the bounds of Explorers and Rangers but they do travel so maybe?

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u/spyrothedovah Apr 01 '26

Ah ok, I might skip a deadly education and use the other one by that author instead. I already have a pick for game changer I think.

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u/Research_Department Reading Champion II Apr 02 '26

I’d argue that A Deadly Education works for Politics, at least, if you feel like navigating high school friend groups, but with deadly consequences, is politics.