It was with great excitement that I saw the new post on the Fantasy subreddit giving the new outlines for the 2016 Fantasy Bingo. I spent some time just re-reading it as some of the categories are just plain amazing and then I spent even more time just going through my goodreads ‘to read’ list and popping books into the categories.
This year’s categories are really brilliant, I love some of the more whimsical ones (A Wild Ginger Appeared!) and I’m really pleased that there’s a category for non-western fantasy too.
I thought some people might find it helpful if I said what my plans were, in case they were missing any books in any categories:
Magical Realism
- Master and Margarita by Mighail Bulgakov
- The Buried Giant by Kazuro Ishiguro
- The Antelope Wife by Louise Eritch
Any r/Fantasy Goodreads Group Book Of The Month
- Low Town by Daniel Polansky
- Assassin’s Apprentice by Robin Hobb
- Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson
Romantic Fantasy OR Paranormal Romance
- The Princess Bride by William Goldman
- Angels’ Blood by Nilani Singh
- Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake
Self Published OR Indie Novel
- Monsters (I Bring the Fire Book 2) By C Gockel
- Forging Divinity by Andrew Rowe
A Novel Published In 2016
- City of Blades by Robert Jackson Bennett
- The Wheel of Osheim by Mark Lawrence
Novel By an r/FantasyAMA Author OR Writer of the Day
- The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin
- The Thousand Names by Django Wrexler
- Shades of Milk and Honey by Marie Robinette Kowal
Dark Fantasy OR Grimdark Fantasy
- The Heroes by Joe Abercrombie
- The Art of Forgetting by Joanne Hall
- The Emperor’s Blades by Brian Stavely
A Novel With Fewer Than 3000 Goodreads Ratings
- Blackdog by K V Johansen
- The Violent Century by Lavie Tidhar
- Ack Ack Macaque by Gareth L Powell
A Wild Ginger Appears
- The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan
Female Authored Epic Fantasy
- The Sword of Shadows by J.V. Jones
- The Curse of the Mistwraith by Janny Wurts
- The Heir of Night by Helen Lowe
Science Fantasy OR Sci-Fi
- Dune by Frank Herbert
- Ancilliary Justice by Ann Leckie
- Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe
Five Fantasy Short Stories
- Rogues, edited by George R R Martin
- Beneath Ceaseless Skies
Graphic Novel (At Least One Volume)
- Rat Queens
- Dinosaurs versus Aliens
- Maus by Art Spiegelman
A Novel Published The Decade You Were Born
- Sabriel by Garth Nix
- Colours in the Steel by K.J. Parker
- The Lions of Al-Rassan by Guy Gavriel Kay
A Novel Written By Two Or More Authors
- Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
- The City of Silk and Steel by Linda Carey, M R Carey, and Louise Carey
A Novel Published In The 2000’s
- The Prince of Nothing by R. Scott Bakker
- The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Luiz Zafón
- The Demon King by Cinda Williams Chima
Weird Western
- The Outlaw King by SA Hunt
- Blood Riders by Michael P Spradlin
- Bloodrush by Ben Galley
A Novel Inspired / Influenced By Non-Western Myth Or Folklore
- Grace of Kings by Ken Liu
- A Secret Atlas by Michael Stackpole
- Stormdancer by Jay Kristoff
Military Fantasy
- The Fell Sword by Miles Cameron
- The Crimson Campaign by Brian McClellan
- The Black Company by Glen Cook
Non-Fantasy Novel
- This one’s up for grabs, I’ve currently got quite a few novels in the pile for this.
Award Winning Novel
- The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson
- The City and the City by China Miéville
- The Heir of Night by Helen Lowe
YA Fantasy Novel
- The Knights of the Borrowed Dark by Dave Rudden
- The Young Elites by Marie Lu
- Cinder by Marissa Myer
A Novel Where the Protagonist Flies
- Skyborn by David Dalglish
- Steal the Sky by Megan O Keefe
A Novel Someone Read For 2015 r/FantasyBingo
- The Last Unicorn by Peter Beagle
- Traitor’s Blades by Sebastien de Castell
- The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson
Sword and Sorcery
- A Demon in the Desert by Ashe Armstrong
- The Hammer and the Blade by Paul S Kemp
- Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser
There you have it! All my plans for reading this year! (Well not all of them…) It will be interesting too to see if I have managed to keep up with it. And as a side note; I will see if I can also keep a ratio of at least 50/50 for the gender of the authors as well.