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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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[–] JaymesRS@literature.cafe 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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.

[–] fievel@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

The gathering, by C.J. Tudor

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[–] JaymesRS@literature.cafe 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Plays With Words:

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

[–] JaymesRS@literature.cafe 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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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[–] JaymesRS@literature.cafe 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Minority Author:

Minority or LGBTQIA+ author. A minority can be any member of a generally underrepresented population where you live. HARD MODE: Minority and LGBTQIA+.

[–] JaymesRS@literature.cafe 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Binti by Nnedi Okorafor
Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Babel: An Arcane History by R.F. Kuang
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab
Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao
The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu
Jade City by Fonda Lee

[–] Frodis_Caper@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Anything by Roxanne Gay and Nikki Giovanni will work for HARD MODE.

[–] JaymesRS@literature.cafe 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

ALT - A Change in Perspective

Written in third-person perspective. HARD MODE: Second-person perspective.

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[–] JaymesRS@literature.cafe 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Questions, Complaints, Whines, General Commentary, Shitposting

[–] misericordiae@literature.cafe 2 points 1 year 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!)

[–] JaymesRS@literature.cafe 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.

[–] KammicRelief@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
Ulysses by James Joyce

[–] JaymesRS@literature.cafe 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

[–] JaymesRS@literature.cafe 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It's a Holiday:

Takes place during a specific holiday, which is significant to the plot. HARD MODE: Not Christmas, a fictional variation of Christmas, or other winter festival.

[–] JaymesRS@literature.cafe 1 points 1 year ago

Hogfather by Terry Pratchett
Hallowe'en Party by Agatha Christie
We Were Liars by E. Lockhart
V for Vendetta by Alan Moore
Walpurgisnacht by Gustav Meyrink, Mike Mitchell
A Night in the Lonesome October by Roger Zelazny

[–] JaymesRS@literature.cafe 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Water, Water Everywhere

The title refers to some form or body of water. HARD MODE: Not liquid water.

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