Book Bingo 2026 - 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. A book you’ve never read by a favorite author
2. A banned book
3. Read a book in one day
4. A book you think might scare you
5. Independently published
6. A book about a house
7. A secondhand book
8. An author’s debut
9. A book with a wattpad-style cover
10. A book where the title is someone’s name
11. A title with 5 or more words
12. A book you bought at a local bookstore or book sale
13. A recommended book
14. A picture book
15. A cozy book
16. A mystery/thriller that doesn’t start with a murder
17. Dark Academia
18. A short story from a collection
19. A holiday read
20. A book from the Elyria catalog home page lists
21. A classic
22. A nonfiction book
23. A seasonally appropriate book (not holiday)
24. A book published the year you were born
25. A book from a genre outside your comfort zone
26. A book originally published in a language other than English
27. A book you’ve been putting off
28. A book with an LGBTQ+ protagonist
29. A book that was adapted into a movie or TV show
30. A retelling
31. A book by an author you’d never heard of
32. A book you’ve heard of on TV or social media
33. A book from a high school reading list
34. An award-winning book
35. A biography
36. An impulse purchase book
37. A book originally written under a pen name
38. A book of poetry
39. A book with a ghostwriter
40. Read a book with a coworker (Asynchronous)
41. A book with a supernatural character
42. A reread
43. A comedy
44. A (blank) of (blank) and (blank)
45. A book written by an author of color
46. A book about a game
47. A paperback
48. A book with a wedding
49. Dad Lit (Mass market thriller)
50. A book over 500 pages
51. Self-Help book
52. A Historical Fiction
53. A book with a love triangle
54. A book set in a country that is not America
55. Read to someone (furry friends count too!)
56. A book by an Ohio author
57. A graphic novel
58. Celebrity Book Club Pick
59. A series of 3 or more books
60. A book where your favorite character wasn’t the main character
61. An audiobook
62. A domestic thriller
63. Set in the Future (or makes a prediction about the future for Nonfiction)
64. A book written by a female author
65. Has Dinosaurs or Kaiju
66. Main character isn’t a human
67. Read a book with a red cover
68. A book with a pretty cover
69. A book about books or libraries
70. A novella
71. Takes place somewhere that is not Earth