| A book that goes back and forth between time periods: The Candy House by Jennifer Egan | A book with a talking animal | A Lambda Literary Award winner: Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt | The first book in a series with at least 3 books: Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk | The oldest book (by original publication year) you own and haven’t read: The Meramorphosis by Franz Kafka |
| A book you learned about from someone else’s bingo board (any year) | A book of poetry published in the year 2000 or later | A book set in a country house: The Ladies of Grace Adieu by Susanna Clarke | A book by an author you love but who you haven’t read in over five years : The Plague Dogs by Richard Adams | A book that’s a retelling of a myth/fable/fairytale/legend
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| A book with a moon, a star, or a planet in its title: A Bright Moon for Fools by Jasper Gibson | A book recommended to you by someone at least ten years older or ten years younger than you | Any book! (Free space) | A book involving an old wooden ship: Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell | A book on Vulture’s Best Books of 2023 list: When Crack was King by Donovan X. Ramsey |
| A book by a woman of the South Asian diaspora | A book by an author with three or fewer published books | A play by someone other than Shakespeare: Now We Have Been Here a Long While by Tyler Dorney | Read one of a friend’s favorite books from childhood: From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg | A book with a body of water on the cover |
| A history of something | A book set in a place you want to travel to: No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai | A book with a title that is a complete sentence: The Water Will Come by Jeff Goodell | A book with an elderly main character: The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro | A book translated from Spanish (or in Spanish) |