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