| 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 book of just straight up hijinks/hijinks vibes: Tatami Galaxy by Tomihiko Morimi | A book with multiple narrators or points of view: This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone | An author’s debut novel: A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine |
| A short story collection by a woman: Stranger Things Happen by Kelly Link | A book a friend wants you to read: The Prime of Ms. Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark | 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: A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik | A book translated from Russian: Monday Starts On Saturday by Boris and Arkady Strugatsky |
| A book that was originally published in installments | A book with a photograph on the cover | Any book! (Free space): Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K Le Guin | A book by an author who has immigrated to America | A book about a road trip |
| A book about food: Perfectly Good Food by Margaret Li | A book published in 2023: Translation State by Ann Leckie | A non-fiction book about fiction | A book you got for free | A book with a film or TV adaptation in production: Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner |
| 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 Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K Le Guin | A book about the natural world | A book on Vulture’s Best Books of 2022 list | A book by an author you read in school |