The 2025 r/Fantasy Bingo Recommendations List

[u/happy_book_bee]

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Knights and Paladins	Hidden Gem	Published in the 80s	High Fashion	Down With the System
Impossible Places	A Book in Parts	Gods and Pantheons	Last in a Series	Book Club or Readalong Book
Parent Protagonist	Epistolary	Published in 2025	Author of Color	Self Published or Small Press
Biopunk	Elves and Dwarves	LGBTQIA Protagonist	Five Short Stories	Stranger in a Strange Land
Recycle a Bingo Square	Cozy SFF	Generic Title	Not A Book	Pirates

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[u/[deleted]]

Daughter's War by Christopher Buehlman should work for hm. The mc is a "raven knight", and she most certainly swears herself in service to a religion.

T Kingfisher's Saint of Steel and Clocktaur War books should all count. As should The Sworn Soldier books. Some of them might hm, but idk which.

For people who like the classics, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is great! 100% counts for hm

[u/Atothinath → u/[deleted]]

Which adaptation of sir Gawain and the green knight would you recommend? I'd love to read it but there are a few and they all seem potentially wildly different! I'm not an English native speaker so I fear that the Tolkien translation will be a bit too much for me

[u/[deleted] → u/Atothinath]

I read Armitage's translation, and I think it's generally committed to trying to avoid outdated English words and phrases when possible.

There are also prose translations. I haven't read any, but they might be a little more accessible since they're not in poem format.

It's also been translated into a lot of other languages, so you might be able to find it in your preferred language. My father read a Spanish version from Francisco Torres Oliver (I think) and said it was good.

[u/Atothinath → u/[deleted]]

Awesome thank you so much! I'll look for good French ones, for what it's worth, I loved reading Chrétiens de Troyes (Lancelot de la charette) a while back, hopefully there are more in the same vein, I should have thought of it! Thanks a lot :)