BOOK RIOT’S 2026 READ HARDER - 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. Genre Book in Translation
2. Romantasy book about BIPOC and/or queer character
3. Gothic novel published in the last ten (10) years
4. Book written by a deaf author
5. Short stories
6. Written by an Intersex author
7. Nonfiction book about AI or social media
8. Written by a librarian
9. Nonfiction Book about Resistance
10. Pick a challenge from any of the previous years’ challenges to repeat!
11. Book about a cult/cults
12. Nonviolent True Crime Book
13. Queer Picture Book
14. Set in Space
15. YA book by a Latine Author
16. Book Recently Adapted for Film/TV/Musical
17. Graphic novel/ comic/ manga
18. A work of magical realism or fabulism
19. Featured on a Best Covers List
20. Sports bookby a woman, trans, or nonbinary writer
21. Microhistory
22. Nonfiction Comic
23. MC who uses they/them pronouns
24. Written by an African Author