2026 Read Harder Challenge - 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. Magical realism or fabulism
2. Genre book in translation
3. YA by Latine author
4. Recipe from cookbook about cuisine you've never tried before
5. Nonfiction comic
6. Sports book by woman /trans / NB author
7. Best Covers List
8. Challenge from previous year(s)
9. NF about AI or social media
10. By an African author
11. Queer picture book
12. Main character uses they / them pronouns
13. Romantasy with queer and / or BIPOC main character
14. Classic from Zero to Well-Read Podcast
15. by d/Deaf author
16. NF book about resistance
17. Set in space
18. Gothic novel published in last 10 years
19. About cult(s)
20. Recently adapted for film, TV, or musical
21. By Intersex author
22. Nonviolent true crime book
23. By a Librarian
24. Microhistory