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2024 Bingo Recommendations List (literature.cafe)

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months 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] 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Debut Work:

An author’s first work. HARD MODE: The author is widely regarded as having a profound impact on the genre/topic.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie, with the caveat that her early work is a bit racist. Styles, for example, I recall having an n-word casually dropped into a conversation, along with a couple of antisemitic remarks. If you don't mind reading around that, however, it's a nice little Poirot case.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

I had a similar experience when I was working through some of the early “The Shadow” pulps and was surprised a couple times at just how blatant the racism was.