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