| A book published at least 50 years before you were born: carmilla by sheridan le fanu | A book with a season in the title…or the word “season”: dogs of summer by andrea abreu | A book of just straight up hijinks/hijinks vibes: fuccboi by sean thor conroe | A book with multiple narrators or points of view: exalted by anna dorn | An author’s debut novel: how to fake it in hollywood by ava wilder |
| A short story collection by a woman: three masquerades: novellas by rachel ingalls | A book a friend wants you to read: near the bone by christina henry | An adult book by an author best known for writing for children/YA: a history of wild places by shea ernshaw | A book by an author you read for the first time in the last two years: napkin by carta monir | A book translated from Russian: stalking the atomic city by markiyan kamysh |
| A book that was originally published in installments: spoon river anthology by edgar lee masters | A book with a photograph on the cover: panama by thomas mcguane | Any book! (Free space): a spectre, haunting by china miéville | A book by an author who has immigrated to America: you sound like a white girl: the case for rejecting assimilation by julissa arce | A book about a road trip: travels with charley by john steinbeck |
| A book about food: eat & flourish: how food supports emotional well-being by mary beth albright | A book published in 2023: the shards by bret easton ellis | A non-fiction book about fiction: it came from the closet: queer reflections on horror by joe vallese & various authors | A book you got for free: ego homini lupus by gretchen felker-martin | A book with a film or TV adaptation in production: the white house plumbers: the seven weeks that led to watergate and doomed nixon's presidency by egil krogh & matthew krogh |
| A book that is amongst those you’ve owned for the longest without reading: people who eat darkness by richard lloyd parry | A book that’s second or later in a series: fifteen dogs by andré alexis | A book about the natural world: upstream by mary oliver | A book on Vulture’s Best Books of 2022 list: all this could be different by sarah thankam matthews | A book by an author you read in school: the andalite chronicles by k. a. applegate |