(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.
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has a boat in it
set at least 100 years in the future
Author has your first or last name
second book in a series
Mark will pick a book for you, but pay no attention to whether he thinks you will like it
you found the protagonist relatable
written by someone you follow on Twitter
book that feels like an accomplishment to finish
features a NB/GNC character
unlikable protagonist
book you loved as a kid/young teen
history book focused on a queer person/people
made you laugh out loud
author lives in a state you've never been to
title starts with "The"
fiction with a real famous person in it
cover has a photograph on it
urban fantasy
about a culture or place from which you have ancestors
graphic novel
POC-focused history book
nonlinear/nonchronological plot structure (fiction OR non-fiction)
set in a country you want to visit
biography or autobiography
written by a journalist
inspired you to learn more about its topic
caught your eye based on title alone
book you didn't really get the first time you read it
amazing plot twist
politics outside the US
a book you own but haven't read yet
a house plays an important role
has fewer than 100 ratings on Goodreads
recommended by a family member
Shakespeare play you've never read
reread of a book you haven't read in the past decade
was banned at some point (forex http://www.ala.org/advocacy/bbooks/frequentlychallengedbooks/classics)
has a lawyer in it
historical
read-along (with a friend, book club, etc.)
a category you want to read again from your 2019/2018 bingo card
written the year your grandparent was born
author is a WOC
a category you didn't get to from your 2019/2018 bingo card (or, if you finished your bingo, a category from the 2019/2018 list)
scifi written by a non CHWM
cool cover
has a train in it
has sold at least 10 million copies (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_books#List_of_best-selling_individual_books)
recommended by a friend
talking animal
on the 2019 NPR book concierge
Essay collection
book someone else loved during 2019 bingo
won a Lambda Literary Award
modern day
based on a myth or fairy tale
fiction set in a place you would like to visit someday
recommended by Ralli
a book that shows up when you select at least three filters from a NPR Concierge list (forex, Staff Picks + Biography & Memoir + Eye-Opening Reads = The Personality Brokers in the 2018 list)
Won a Printz award
dystopian/post-apocalyptic
Short story collection
bought second hand or acquired at a book swap
self help
farcical comedy
takes place in a city you or a family member has lived in or currently resides
Sci-fi written pre-2000 about (roughly) the present day
you wish you could take a vacation inside this book
made into a Broadway play or musical
horror novel written by a woman
Memoir by a politician
ask someone doing book bingo for a recommendation
scifi romance
learned at least one cool science fact from it
published in 2010
Poetry collection
provides historical or scientific context for another book on your card
How to...
From https://socialjusticebooks.org/booklists/ or the the NNSTOY Social Justice Book List
has a magic forest in it
nonfiction predicting something that ended up happening
Native, Indigenous, or First Nations author
nonfiction about something you'd like to learn to do/learn to do better
Written by a podcaster
Co-authored
made you cry
translated from another language
recommended by someone you haven't talked to for a while
found on a BookRiot (https://bookriot.com/) list
about someone you want to emulate
good descriptions of food
plot loosely inspired by Shakespeare
someone has a job you wanted growing up
author shares your initials
Book of collected comic strips
published posthumously
published the year you graduated high school
a book you haven't read by an author you loved as a kid
book about a complicated friendship
changed your mind about something
recommended by your librarian
by or about someone who is neurodiverse
a physical library book
popular science
has a sport in it
written by a comedian
queer romance novel
spies
involves necromancy
mass market paperback bestseller
author is younger than you
set in a state you've never visited
setting as character
movie novelization
Published in 2020
would NOT recommend to someone else
author has/had a Tumblr
made into a TV show
Experimental fiction
by an author who has won a Man Booker or Pulitzer but not the award-winning book
