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2024 Bingo Recommendations List (literature.cafe)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Have you really enjoyed reading a work that qualifies and want to recommend it to others? This is the prime spot to help people out with those recommendations.

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	A	B	C	D	E
1	Older Than You Are	Water, Water Everywhere	What’s Yours is Mine	Family Drama	It Takes Two
2	New Release	Plays With Words	Independent Author	Bookception	Disability Representation
3	Eazy, Breazy, Read-zie	Stranger in a Strange Land	One Less	There is Another...	LGBTQIA+ Lead
4	Now a Major Motion Picture	It’s About Time	Award Winner	Mashup	Local to You
5	Debut Work	It’s a Holiday	Institutional	Minority Author	Among the Stars

Alt.	Same Author, New Work	She Blinded Me With Science	Pseudonymous Work	Translated	A Change in Perspective

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Older Than You Are

Published before your birthdate. HARD MODE: Published before 1924.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
Ulysses by James Joyce

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This category is a bit tougher to recommend because the qualification depends on your age, but these are all over 100 years old and I've enjoyed all of them.

Lud-in-the-Mist by Hope Mirrlees
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain
A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs