| A book published at least 50 years before you were born | A book with a season in the title…or the word “season”: Five Tuesdays in Winter by Lily King | A book of just straight up hijinks/hijinks vibes | A book with multiple narrators or points of view: The Expatriates by Janice YK Lee | An author’s debut novel: The Border of Paradise by Esmé Weijun Wang |
| A short story collection by a woman: Half in Love by Maile Meloy | A book a friend wants you to read | 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: Priestdaddy by Patricia Lockwood | A book translated from Russian: Day of the Oprichnik by Vladimir Sorokin |
| A book that was originally published in installments: after the quake by Haruki Murakami | A book with a photograph on the cover: Outline by Rachel Cusk | Any book! (Free space) | A book by an author who has immigrated to America: The Night in Lisbon by Erich Maria Remarque | A book about a road trip: Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler |
| A book about food: Search by Michelle Huneven | A book published in 2023: Berlin by Bea Setton | A non-fiction book about fiction: Novelist as a Vocation by Haruki Murakami | A book you got for free: Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami | A book with a film or TV adaptation in production: The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen |
| A book that is amongst those you’ve owned for the longest without reading: Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy | A book that’s second or later in a series | 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: Cathedral by Raymond Carver |