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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] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Plays With Words:

Written in a stylistically unconventional way. HARD MODE: Fits the definition of Experimental Literature.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
Ella Minnow Pea: A Progressively Lipogrammatic Epistolary Fable by Mark Dunn
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

New Release:

New for 2024/2025 (no reprints or new editions). First translations into your language of choice are allowed. HARD MODE: This is the first work you've read by this author.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

The gathering, by C.J. Tudor

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Questions, Complaints, Whines, General Commentary, Shitposting

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Just a quick note, Jaymes and I seeded the Storygraph challenge they built with literally hundreds of literary and genre fiction books (some of which they've crossposted here), in case you're looking for ideas and prefer a more visual browse. (No account required!)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Award Winner:

Has won a significant literature award. HARD MODE: More than one award.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I would love some suggestions for awards to look up, that you'd consider big for your country or preferred genre. I've looked up lists of awards, but they tend to be pretty US-focused, and it's hard to tell what's actually significant.

I'm familiar with the Hugos (SFF), Nebula (SFF), Bram Stoker (horror), Edgars (mystery), Pulitzer (lit), Booker (lit), and Newbery (kids).

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

There Is Another…:

Not the first in a series. HARD MODE: Series has 5 or more entries.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Institutional:

Set at a non-commercial institution or facility, like a school, science lab, or prison. HARD MODE: Not a school.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

The institute, by Stephen King

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption by Stephen King
Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Any of The Scholomance Series by Naomi Novik

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Now a Major Motion Picture:

The work has been adapted into a show or single episode, movie, play, audio drama, or other format. HARD MODE: The adaptation is regarded as better than the original work.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

The Expanse series by James S A Corey

The Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo
The Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker
The Leftovers by Tom Perrotta
Big Fish by Daniel Wallace
Nothing Lasts Forever by Roderick Thorp
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
All Systems Red by Martha Wells
Storm Front by Jim Butcher

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

ALT - Same Author, New Work

An author you’ve read before, but a series (or standalone) you haven’t. HARD MODE: Give an author you didn’t like a second chance.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

ALT - She Blinded Me With Science

The author has a background and degree in a hard science. HARD MODE: More than one post graduate degree.

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