Book Bingo: Monsters
Here are some suggestions for your 2025 Book Bingo NW category: Monsters. Book Bingo is our annual adult summer reading program presented in partnership with Seattle Arts & Lectures and King County Library System.
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Masters of Make-up Effects
Nonfiction. Journalist Julius and Oscar-winning makeup artist Berger have assembled a loving, photo-filled tribute to the people who created special effects movie makeup spanning from 1922's Nosferatu to 2022's Evil Dead Rise. (Library Journal)
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Cursed Bunny
Fiction. Cursed Bunny is unique and imaginative, blending horror, sci-fi, fairy tales, and speculative fiction into stories that defy categorization. By turns thought-provoking and stomach-turning, here monsters take the shapes of furry woodland creatures and danger lurks in unexpected corners of everyday apartment buildings. (Publisher description)
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Feast While You Can
Fiction. A young queer woman who's lived her whole life in the dead-end mountain village of Cadenze finds herself violently possessed by an ancient, malevolent, memory-eating entity that inhabits the caves bordering her home. (Kirkus)
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Queer as Folklore
Nonfiction. Historian Coward surveys centuries of folklore, arguing that these tales, with their focus on transformation, deviance, nonconformity, and otherness, have always been fundamentally queer, which is why creatures like fairies, mermaids, and unicorns have come to serve a significant symbolic role for the LGBTQ movement. (Publishers Weekly)
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Freaky Folklore
Nonfiction. Discover over 100 fearsome mythological beasts with Freaky Folklore. Complete with wicked illustrations throughout, this collection includes horrifying yet entertaining tales of both modern and ancient mythological creatures. (Publisher description)
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Humans
Nonfiction. Science historian Dr. Surekha Davies reveals how people have defined the human in relation to everything from apes to zombies, and how they invented race, gender, and nations along the way. With rich, evocative storytelling that braids together ancient gods and generative AI, Frankenstein's monster and ET, Humans: A Monstrous History shows how monster-making is about control: it defines who gets to count as normal. (Publisher description)
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Monsters
Nonfiction. What’s a fan to do when they love the art, but hate the artist? asks book critic and essayist Dederer in this nuanced and incisive inquiry...There are no easy answers, but Dederer’s candid appraisal of her own relationship with troubling artists and the lucidity with which she explores what it means to love their work open fresh ways of thinking about problematic artists. (Publishers Weekly)
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The Keeper
Fiction. This timely horror fantasy…unfurls a tale of survival and sacrifice set in an unassuming Detroit apartment building. Fans of smart horror will snap up this fresh, sharp take on the haunted house trope. (Publishers Weekly)
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The Dangers of Smoking in Bed
Fiction. Written against the backdrop of contemporary Argentina, and with resounding tenderness towards those in pain, in fear, and in limbo, the stories in this collection are as terrifying as they are socially conscious, and press into being the unspoken -- fetish, illness, the female body, the darkness of human history -- with unsettling urgency. (Publisher description)
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My Favorite Thing Is Monsters
Fiction. In the much-anticipated conclusion to Ferris's dazzling 2017 debut, readers are invited deeper into the mind of Karen Reyes, a 10-year-old girl in 1960s Chicago who sees the world through a kaleidoscope of fine art, classic movie and pulp fiction monsters, and mystery. (Publishers Weekly)
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