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