Congratulations, and thank you for participating in the inaugural Book Bingo for c/Books@Lemmy.World!
If the existence of this bingo is a surprise to you, or you want to revisit the guide, see this link.
If you would like to join us for 2025 bingo, we’ll be posting information on the morning of May 1st, US Central Time (UTC -5)!
There are 2 official ways to submit your card and be recognized:
- Fill out the web form we made using Tally, which will organize the data for us. Completing the form will also give you a Markdown-friendly list to copy and post in this thread if you would like.
- Or, if you would prefer, comment in this thread with your list of completed squares, including the titles/authors you read. Here is a list of squares for reference/copypaste:
2024 Bingo Squares (click to expand)
1A: Older Than You Are - 1B: Water, Water Everywhere - 1C: What’s Yours is Mine - 1D: Family Drama - 1E: It Takes Two - 2A: New Release - 2B: Plays With Words - 2C: Independent Author - 2D: Bookception - 2E: Disability Representation - 3A: Eazy, Breazy, Read-zie - 3B: Stranger in a Strange Land - 3C: One Less - 3D: There is Another… - 3E: LGBTQIA+ Lead - 4A: Now a Major Motion Picture - 4B: It’s About Time - 4C: Award Winner - 4D: Mashup - 4E: Local to You - 5A: Debut Work - 5B: It’s a Holiday - 5C: Institutional - 5D: Minority Author - 5E: Among the Stars -
Alt. Same Author, New Work - She Blinded Me With Science - Pseudonymous Work - Translated - A Change in Perspective -
ADDITIONAL POINTS TO READ BEFORE TURNING IN YOUR CARDS!
Questions? Please ask!
Turn-in Guidance
- Please make an effort to spell titles and author names correctly! For titles with more than one author, please separate author names with a comma. This will help with data compilation for a bingo stats thread coming later!
- If you didn’t do a square, don’t list it. Please leave incomplete squares completely blank on the Tally form.
- You can substitute any square, but please remember: only one substitution per card. On the form, there’s a substitution dropdown for each square. If you accidentally choose a substitution for the wrong square, please de-select the substitution to clear it.
- Please make a note if you did a square on hard mode. On the form, there is a hard mode checkbox for each square.
- Only turn in your card(s) once you have finished with bingo; do not submit a card still in progress. If you’re using the Tally form, there is a review page before submission; please make sure that you click submit after double-checking your entries! You cannot edit your card once submitted, so if you realize you’ve made a mistake, please post in this thread to notify us.
More than one card?
If you did more than one card, and are submitting via Tally, please differentiate your username for each additional card. For example, I would list my first card under “JaymesRS@literature.cafe” and my second under “JaymesRS@literature.cafe - 2”.
Timeline
Submit your finished card(s) by May 1st, 2025! This thread and the Tally submission form will remain open until 12 noon, US Central Time (UTC -5) on May 1st as a courtesy, so please make sure your cards are turned in by then, so they can be counted.
Reward
Any five in a row is considered a win! Your only reward this year (as of the time of posting) is the warm glow of satisfaction and bragging rights. However, our ultimate plan is to recognize bingo participation with a flair-like system when supported by Lemmy in the future, so we plan to calculate completion retroactively whenever that’s available.
In Closing
Again… HERE IS THE LINK TO THE TALLY FORM TO TURN IN YOUR CARD (or you can comment in this thread). The form goes live on April 17th, 2025, and both it and this thread close around noon on May 1st, US Central Time (UTC -5). Be sure to get your card(s) in before then!
Thanks to everyone that participated this year! This was a fun challenge to put together for us. If you are interested in helping to coordinate the bingo challenge or related resources, please reach out to the moderators of !books@lemmy.world and let us know!
I planned out a full card…and then didn’t finish it. Here’s the “C” column books I read to complete my bingo:
1C - What’s Yours is Mine: Alexandra Rowland - Running Close to the Wind
2C - Independent Author: Michelle West - Hunter’s Redoubt
3C - One Less: Baroness Orczy - The Scarlet Pimpernel
4C - Award Winner: Larry Niven - Ringworld
5C - Institutional: Victor LaValle - The Devil in Silver
With a shout out to column “E”, which I almost made it through as well. Thanks so much for putting this together–it was a lot of fun, even if I didn’t meet my goal of reading all the books. I’m looking forward to planning my 2025 card!
Way to go! I’d be interested to see your full card if you’d be willing to share. Did you have any books that really stood out good or bad? Did you have a favorite or least favorite square? Any suggestions for the future?
Of course, here was my planned card, happy to share and hope it’ll be useful for someone else if there are any repeat squares next time. Probably my favorite book from the card was Running Close to the Wind by Alexandra Rowland. I really didn’t expect it to be as funny as it was, but I laughed out loud quite a bit. I ended up recommending it to all my friends afterward. I used the recommended thread, but I tried to pull as many books as possible from my TBR, to make some additional progress there as well, and almost all of these should qualify for hard mode.
1A - Older Than You Are: Hope Mirrlees - Lud-in-the-Mist 1B - Water, Water Everywhere: J.V. Jones - A Cavern of Black Ice 1C - What’s Yours is Mine: Alexandra Rowland - Running Close to the Wind 1D - Family Drama: John Steinbeck - East of Eden 1E - It Takes Two: Stephen King & Owen King - Sleeping Beauties (not hard mode)
2A - New Release: Heather Fawcett - Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands 2B - Plays with Words: Anthony Burgess - A Clockwork Orange 2C - Independent Author: Michelle West - Hunter’s Redoubt 2D - Bookception: Jasper Fforde - The Eyre Affair 2E - Disability Representation: Lois McMaster Bujold - The Curse of Chalion
3A - Easy, Breezy, Read-zie: T.J. Klune - The Lightning-Struck Heart (not hard mode for me, sadly) 3B - Stranger in a Strange Land: Edgar Rice Burroughs - A Princess of Mars 3C - One Less: Baroness Orczy - The Scarlet Pimpernel (hard mode with 1A) 3D - There Is Another: Adrian Tchaikovsky - Salute the Dark 3E - LGBTQIA+ Lead: K.J. Charles - The Magpie Lord
4A - Now a Major Motion Picture: Mario Puzo - The Godfather 4B - It’s About Time: Rob Grant - Backwards 4C - Award Winner: Larry Niven - Ringworld 4D - Mashup: Aliette de Bodard - The House of Shattered Wings 4E - Local to You: Jonathan Lethem - Gun, with Occasional Music
5A - Debut Work: Ralph Ellison - Invisible Man 5B - It’s a Holiday: Ray Bradbury - The Halloween Tree 5C - Institutional: Victor LaValle - The Devil in Silver 5D - Minority Author: Samuel R. Delany - Trouble on Triton 5E - Among the Stars: Christopher Paolini - To Sleep in a Sea of Stars