2022 BOTY Lists - Call List

(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.

1. 80% PRH titles
2. "best of the year lists DO matter"
3. US publications using the UK cover
4. "best of the year lists DON'T matter"
5. "a tumultuous year in publishing"
6. already stressed about 2023 most anticipated lists
7. ctrl+f [your title]: "results not found" (FREE)
8. happy tweets about BOTY lists
9. books you will buy but never read
10. "you've reached your monthly article limit"
11. increasingly specific subcategories
12. another celebrity memoir
13. surprising debut that actually deserves the praise
14. amazon links
15. no mention of international literature beyond annie ernaux
16. mediocre bestseller included bc of sales
17. exactly one poetry or short story collection
18. the same 5 books top every list
19. "cancelled" author still makes the cut
20. "best books of the year (according to amazon)"
21. angry tweets about BOTY lists
22. largehearted boy's list of lists
23. ads that take up 90% of the page
24. "timely" political nonfiction
25. not sure if the guardian counts for US media