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