| A book published at least 50 years before you were born: A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf | A book with a season in the title…or the word “season”: Summer by Edith Wharton | A book of just straight up hijinks/hijinks vibes: The Family Fang by Kevin Wilson | A book with multiple narrators or points of view: The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki | An author’s debut novel: Pizza Girl by Jean Kyoung Frazier |
| A short story collection by a woman: No One Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda July | A book a friend wants you to read: The Sundial by Shirley Jackson | An adult book by an author best known for writing for children/YA: Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo | A book by an author you read for the first time in the last two years: Heaven by Mieko Kawakami | A book translated from Russian: The Adolescent by Fyodor Dostoevsky |
| A book that was originally published in installments: Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang | A book with a photograph on the cover: Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin | Any book! (Free space): All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr | A book by an author who has immigrated to America: Severance by Ling Ma | A book about a road trip: Americana by Don DeLillo |
| A book about food: Eat a Peach by David Chang | A book published in 2023: A Man of Two Faces by Viet Thanh Nguyen | A non-fiction book about fiction: Novelist as a Vocation by Haruki Murakami | A book you got for free: The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini | A book with a film or TV adaptation in production: Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann |
| A book that is amongst those you’ve owned for the longest without reading: Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides | A book that’s second or later in a series: Hell Bent by Leigh Bardugo | A book about the natural world: The Overstory by Richard Powers | A book on Vulture’s Best Books of 2022 list: The Employees by Olga Ravn | A book by an author you read in school: Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood |