| A book published at least 50 years before you were born: The Gilded Age by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner | 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 Love of My Life by Rosie Walsh | An author’s debut novel: For the Wolf by Hannah Whitten |
| A short story collection by a woman | A book a friend wants you to read: Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir | An adult book by an author best known for writing for children/YA: Chosen Ones by Veronica Roth | A book by an author you read for the first time in the last two years: A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab | A book translated from Russian |
| 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: The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford | Any book! (Free space): The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel | A book by an author who has immigrated to America: Babel by R.F. Kuang | A book about a road trip: You, with a View by Jessica Joyce |
| A book about food: Heartburn by Nora Ephron | A book published in 2023: A Sinister Revenge by Deanna Raybourn | A non-fiction book about fiction | A book you got for free: The Answers by Catherine Lacey | A book with a film or TV adaptation in production: The Cabin at the End of the World by Paul Tremblay |
| A book that is amongst those you’ve owned for the longest without reading | A book that’s second or later in a series: The Last Graduate by Naomi Novik | A book about the natural world: On Animals by Susan Orlean | A book on Vulture’s Best Books of 2022 list: The Employees by Olga Ravn | A book by an author you read in school: Animal Farm by George Orwell |