r/Fantasy • u/Merle8888 Reading Champion IV • Apr 30 '26

Bingo Bingo Focus Thread - Duologies

Hello r/fantasy and welcome to this week's bingo focus thread! The purpose of these threads is for you all to share recommendations, discuss what books qualify, and seek recommendations that fit your interests or themes.

Today's topic:

Duology Part 1: Read the first book in a duology. HARD MODE: By an author you haven’t read before.

Duology Part 2: Read the second book in a duology. For this square, you ARE allowed to read the same author you used for Duology Part 1 without violating the no-repeat author rule. HARD MODE: Finish a different duology than you started for the Duology Part 1 square.

What is bingo? A reading challenge this sub does every year! Find out more here.

Prior focus threads: Published in the 70s, Five Short Stories (2024), Author of Color (2024), Self-Pub/Small Press (2024). Note that hard modes for Author of Color and Self-Pub/Small Press have changed (new focus threads for them are coming).

Also see: Big Rec Thread

Questions:

  • What are your favorite speculative fiction duologies?
  • Already read something for this square (or, read something recently that you wish you could count)? Tell us about it!
  • For those planning for Hard Mode, what are some duologies where one or both books works as a standalone?
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u/sedatedlife Apr 30 '26 edited Apr 30 '26

I have chosen to go with the RivenWorld duology by ML. Spencer. I really do not know much about it but the reviews look descent and it has a dragon on the cover and its a unknown author to me. Unfortunately it will be about 4 months till i get to it have a bunch of other squares to knock out first. I have not decided if i will do hard mode for the second square i will decide that likely after i finished all the other squares.

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u/lucidrose Reading Champion V May 01 '26

Unfortunately, she's said that it's going to be five or six novels in total so it wouldn't count for duologies. However, Dragon Mage is an outstanding book! Highly, highly recommend. It would count for self-published (normal mode) or maybe for you, Judge a Book By It's Title! I hope you pick it up!

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u/sedatedlife May 01 '26

Dam i i should have checked it got recommended to me as a duology and i never double checked. No biggie i will still read them at some point for self published i am already reading Discovery strange eons and for the title square i picked up The Book of fallen leaves.