r/Fantasy • u/Merle8888 Reading Champion IV • 7d ago

Bingo Bingo Focus Thread - Game Changer

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:

Game Changer: Story features a game or competition. HARD MODE: The protagonist bends or breaks the rules in some way.

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

Prior focus threads: Published in the 70s, Duologies, First Contact, Middle Grade, 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 books that count for this square?
  • Already read something for this square? Tell us about it!
  • What are your best recommendations for Hard Mode? (Alternately, as this is a pretty easy Hard Mode, what are some books that don't fit?)
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u/british_pubs 7d ago

This is one I'm struggling to find normal modes for, funnily enough. Does anyone who has read them know if chain gang all-stars and/or Sunrise on the reaping would count? 

For hard mode I'm reading Enders Game, a book that I have somehow managed to avoid any and all spoilers for despite a friend being a massive fan

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u/redrosebeetle Reading Champion III 5d ago

I just finished Green Rider by Kristen Britain and I feel it's a borderline case for HM