| A book that goes back and forth between time periods: The Obelisk Gate by N.K. Jemisin | A book with a talking animal: The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver | A Lambda Literary Award winner: Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris | The first book in a series with at least 3 books: The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin | The oldest book (by original publication year) you own and haven’t read: The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett |
| A book you learned about from someone else’s bingo board (any year): Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan | A book of poetry published in the year 2000 or later: Winter Recipes from the Collective by Louise Glück | A book set in a country house | A book by an author you love but who you haven’t read in over five years : Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut | A book that’s a retelling of a myth/fable/fairytale/legend
: Circe by Madeline Miller |
| A book with a moon, a star, or a planet in its title: The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector | A book recommended to you by someone at least ten years older or ten years younger than you: The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler | Any book! (Free space): The Stone Sky by N.K. Jemisin | A book involving an old wooden ship | A book on Vulture’s Best Books of 2023 list: Biography of X by Catherine Lacey |
| A book by a woman of the South Asian diaspora: A Burning by Megha Majumdar | A book by an author with three or fewer published books: Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory by Raphael Bob-Waksberg | A play by someone other than Shakespeare | Read one of a friend’s favorite books from childhood: A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin | A book with a body of water on the cover: Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri |
| A history of something: Columbine by Dave Cullen | A book set in a place you want to travel to: Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami | A book with a title that is a complete sentence: Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion | A book with an elderly main character: The Door by Magda Szabó | A book translated from Spanish (or in Spanish): By Night in Chile by Roberto Bolaño |