| A book published at least 50 years before you were born: Persuasion by Jane Austen | A book with a season in the title…or the word “season”: A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakspēr | A book of just straight up hijinks/hijinks vibes: The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford | A book with multiple narrators or points of view: Slow Horses by Mick Herron | An author’s debut novel: A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine |
| A short story collection by a woman: Attrib. by Eley Williams | A book a friend wants you to read: A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik | An adult book by an author best known for writing for children/YA: The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin | A book by an author you read for the first time in the last two years: The Recognitions by William Gaddis | A book translated from Russian: Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
| A book that was originally published in installments: Illness as Metaphor by Susan Sontag | A book with a photograph on the cover: The Two-Penny Bar by Georges Simenon | Any book! (Free space): The Strange Bird by Jeff VanderMeer | A book by an author who has immigrated to America: France before 1789: The Unraveling of an Absolutist Regime by Jon Elster | A book about a road trip: Nevada by Imogen Binnie |
| A book about food: Treatise on Modern Stimulants by Honoré de Balzac | A book published in 2023: Translation State by Ann Leckie | A non-fiction book about fiction: Theory of the Gimmick by Sianne Ngai | A book you got for free: The Gilded Age by Mark Twain & Charles Dudley Warner | A book with a film or TV adaptation in production: My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh |
| 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 Lost Gallows by John Dickson Carr | A book about the natural world: Dead Astronauts by Jeff VanderMeer | A book on Vulture’s Best Books of 2022 list: Pure Colour by Sheila Heti | A book by an author you read in school: Hangsaman by Shirley Jackson |