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