| A book published at least 50 years before you were born | A book with a season in the title…or the word “season” | A book of just straight up hijinks/hijinks vibes | A book with multiple narrators or points of view: Search History by Eugene Lim | An author’s debut novel: The School for Good Mothers by Jessamine Chan |
| A short story collection by a woman | A book a friend wants you to read: The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man by Paul Newman | An adult book by an author best known for writing for children/YA | A book by an author you read for the first time in the last two years: The Membranes by Chi Ta-Wei, Ari Larissa Heinrich | A book translated from Russian |
| A book that was originally published in installments | A book with a photograph on the cover: How To Kill A City by P.E. Moskowitz | Any book! (Free space): Hangsaman by Shirley Jackson | A book by an author who has immigrated to America | A book about a road trip |
| A book about food: Blood, Bones, and Butter by Gabrielle Hamilton | A book published in 2023: The Sense of Wonder by Matthew Salesses | A non-fiction book about fiction | A book you got for free: Y/N by Esther Yi | A book with a film or TV adaptation in production |
| A book that is amongst those you’ve owned for the longest without reading | A book that’s second or later in a series | A book about the natural world | A book on Vulture’s Best Books of 2022 list: All This Could Be Different by Sarah Thankam Mathew’s | A book by an author you read in school |