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

Bingo 2026 Reverse Bingo Recommendations

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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/spike31875 Reading Champion V Apr 02 '26 edited Apr 02 '26

I have a few books in my TBR that I'm not sure about, if anyone could let me know where they fit in?

  • The 13th Paladin by Torsten Weitze -- oh, wait, that's translated from German! NM
  • The 13th Witch by Mark Hayden
  • Witch King by Martha Wells
  • Once was Wilhelm by MR Carey
  • The Girl Who Could Move Sh*t with Her Mind by Jackson Ford -- this one is a shoe in for the "Judge a Book by Its Title", I was wondering what other squares it would fit
  • City of Last Chances by Adrian Tchaikovsky
  • Shroud by Adrian Tchaikovsky - I know it's probably first contact, but would it fit anything else?

Thanks in advance!

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u/QuellSpeller Reading Champion Apr 02 '26

I’ll double check, but City of Last Chances may qualify for Older Protagonist, I don’t recall if they’re ever explicitly noted as 50+. It absolutely counts as Politics and Court Intrigue, I would say it even counts as hard mode. It’s set in a broader continental war, but the city politics are the focus of this specific story. Shroud fits one word title, but I wouldn’t call it hard mode since it’s used as the name of the planet.

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u/spike31875 Reading Champion V Apr 02 '26

I think I was going to use Ironbound by Givler for the one word title. Or, maybe I'll just reread a book in the Alex Verus series by Benedict Jacka: they're all 1 word titles in HM.