| A book published at least 50 years before you were born: The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde | A book with a season in the title…or the word “season”: The Hot Summer of 1968 by Viliam Klimacek | A book of just straight up hijinks/hijinks vibes: Garth Marenghi’s TerrorTome by Matthew Holness | A book with multiple narrators or points of view: The Glass Hotel by Emily St John Mandel | An author’s debut novel: No-No Boy by John Okada |
| A short story collection by a woman: Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird by Agustina Bazterrica | A book a friend wants you to read: The Overstory by Richard Powers | An adult book by an author best known for writing for children/YA: The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin | A book by an author you read for the first time in the last two years: Black Swan Green by David Mitchell | A book translated from Russian: The Master & Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov |
| A book that was originally published in installments: Mermaid Saga by Rumiko Takahashi | A book with a photograph on the cover: Foe by Iain Reid | Any book! (Free space): Election by Tom Perrotta | A book by an author who has immigrated to America: Babel by R. F. Kuang | A book about a road trip: The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt |
| A book about food: Raw Dog by Jamie Loftus | A book published in 2023: For You and Only You by Caroline Kepnes | A non-fiction book about fiction: Burn it Down by Maureen Ryan | A book you got for free: Dark Money by Jane Mayer | A book with a film or TV adaptation in production: Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow by Tom King |
| A book that is amongst those you’ve owned for the longest without reading: Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov | A book that’s second or later in a series: The Hollow Boy by Jonathan Stroud | A book about the natural world: Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy | A book on Vulture’s Best Books of 2022 list: Manhunt by Gretchen Felker-Martin | A book by an author you read in school: Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck |