Book Bingo Round One - Call List

(Print) Use this randomly generated list as your call list when playing the game. There is no need to say the BINGO column name. Place some kind of mark (like an X, a checkmark, a dot, tally mark, etc) on each cell as you announce it, to keep track. You can also cut out each item, place them in a bag and pull words from the bag.

1. Writing a novel takes around 475 hours
2. Diamond Sutra is the first written “book”
3. Over 900k new books are published each year
4. Iceland tops the world in per capita book reading
5. Bibliosmia is the word for loving the smell of old books
6. Up to 50 books can be made from 1 tree
7. There are around 2.6M libraries in the world
8. Over 20k books written about chess
9. Tolkien typed Lord of the Rings trilogy with 2 fingers
10. Most expensive book sold: Codex Leicester
11. Roosevelt read one book a day
12. Largest book: This the Prophet Muhamad
13. The most shoplifted book in the world is the Bible
14. Longest sentence in Les Miserables
15. Smallest book: Teeny Ted from Turnip Town
16. Abibliophobia: fear of running out of reading material
17. Throne of Glass was written by Sarah J. Mass at age 16
18. 5th Ave Barnes & Noble largest sf
19. Harvard library: 4 law books bound in human skin
20. Le Petit Prince: most popular children’s book
21. 1 in 5 adults worldwide cannot read or write
22. Virginia Woolf wrote all her books while standing
23. E is the most common letter used in novels
24. Most prolific author: L. Ron Hubbard