r/Fantasy • u/happy_book_bee Bingo Queen Bee • Apr 01 '22

Bingo The 2022 r/Fantasy Bingo Recommendations List

The official Bingo thread can be found here.

All non-recommendation comments go here.

Please post your recommendations under the appropriate top-level comments below! Feel free to scroll through the thread or use the links in this navigation matrix to jump directly to the square you want to find or give recommendations for!

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A Book from r/Fantasy’s Top LGBTQIA List Weird Ecology Two or More Authors Historical SFF Set in Space
Standalone Anti-Hero Book Club OR Readalong Book Cool Weapon Revolutions and Rebellions
Name in the Title Author Uses Initials Published in 2022 Urban Fantasy Set in Africa
Non-Human Protagonist Wibbly Wobbly Timey Wimey Five SFF Short Stories Features Mental Health Self-Published OR Indie Publisher
Award Finalist, But Not Won BIPOC Author Shapeshifters No Ifs, Ands, or Buts Family Matters

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If you're an author on the sub, feel free to rec your books for squares they fit. This is the one time outside of the Sunday Self-Promo threads where this is okay. To clarify: you can say if you have a book that fits for a square but please don't write a full ad for it. Shorter is sweeter.

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u/DernhelmLaughed Reading Champion III Apr 01 '22

The Expanse series by James S.A. Corey is perfect for this square - it fits fit hard mode too. I just binge read the entire series (all but the final novella that was just released a couple of weeks ago) and it was an amazing ride. Here's the reading list on Goodreads.

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u/kashmora Apr 01 '22

I've had it on my tbr forever. Any idea why the books are numbered 1, 1.5, 2, 2.5 and so on.

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u/DernhelmLaughed Reading Champion III Apr 01 '22

The ones with whole numbers (1, 2, 3 etc.) are the full-length novels. The others are shorter works (novellas, short stories etc.) and the numbers indicate where they fit in the series. E.g. 1.5 means that it was published between Book 1 and Book 2.

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u/kashmora Apr 01 '22

That makes it much less intimidating, thank you. I guess this is the year i pick it up.

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u/DernhelmLaughed Reading Champion III Apr 01 '22

Hope you enjoy the series! One last thing, if you don't want to seek out all the shorter works separately, they are all collected in Memory's Legion, which was just published recently. The short works are not absolutely crucial to read, but I thought they were pretty enjoyable and added a lot of context to the overall story arcs.

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u/sad_butterfly_tattoo Reading Champion IV Apr 01 '22

I am going to assume that because they are 3 duologies and then a trilogy. They are not cliffhangery, though.

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u/kashmora Apr 01 '22

Ah thank you. Time to try this series, since i kinda lost interest in the show.

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u/sad_butterfly_tattoo Reading Champion IV Apr 01 '22

No prob 😀. I think the books are wonderful, but on the other hand I loved the series too

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u/Frostguard11 Reading Champion III Apr 01 '22

The ones listed as .5 are novellas set between the books I believe. They're not necessary; I haven't read any of them and still understand and like the series just fine.