| A book that goes back and forth between time periods: Gallery of Clouds by Rachel Eisendrath | A book with a talking animal: Monday Starts on Saturday by Arkady & Boris Strugatsky | A Lambda Literary Award winner | The first book in a series with at least 3 books: Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou, Vol. 1 by Hitoshi Ashinano | The oldest book (by original publication year) you own and haven’t read: Van Gogh by W. Uhde |
| A book you learned about from someone else’s bingo board (any year): The Verifiers by Jane Pek | A book of poetry published in the year 2000 or later: Life on Mars by Tracy K. Smith | A book set in a country house: What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher | A book by an author you love but who you haven’t read in over five years | A book that’s a retelling of a myth/fable/fairytale/legend
: White Cat, Black Dog by Kelly Link |
| A book with a moon, a star, or a planet in its title: The Ink Dark Moon by Jane Hirshfield with Mariko Aratani | A book recommended to you by someone at least ten years older or ten years younger than you: Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett | Any book! (Free space): The Premonition by Banana Yoshimoto | A book involving an old wooden ship: The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe by Kij Johnson | A book on Vulture’s Best Books of 2023 list: August Blue by Deborah Levy |
| A book by a woman of the South Asian diaspora: Oceanic by Aimee Nezhukumatathil | A book by an author with three or fewer published books: Finna by Nino Cipri | A play by someone other than Shakespeare: The Moors by Jen Silverman | Read one of a friend’s favorite books from childhood: The Forbidden Door by Marilee Heyer | A book with a body of water on the cover: Kiki’s Delivery Service by Eiko Kadono |
| A history of something: Queer by Meg-John Barker & Julia Scheele | A book set in a place you want to travel to: The Nakano Thrift Shop by Hiromi Kawakami | A book with a title that is a complete sentence: This Is Real and You Are Completely Unprepared by Rabbi Alan Lew | A book with an elderly main character: Life Ceremony by Sayaka Murata | A book translated from Spanish (or in Spanish): The Divorce by César Aira |