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