| A book that goes back and forth between time periods: Alphabetical Diaries by Sheila Heti | A book with a talking animal: Monday Starts on Saturday by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky | A Lambda Literary Award winner: The Call-Out by Cat Fitzpatrick | The first book in a series with at least 3 books: The Three Evangelists by Fred Vargas | The oldest book (by original publication year) you own and haven’t read |
| A book you learned about from someone else’s bingo board (any year) | A book of poetry published in the year 2000 or later: Wrong Norma by Anne Carson | A book set in a country house: Bleak House by Charles Dickens | 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
: The Secret Chord by Geraldine Brooks |
| A book with a moon, a star, or a planet in its title: Evil Under the Sun by Agatha Christie | A book recommended to you by someone at least ten years older or ten years younger than you: Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon | Any book! (Free space): The Bachelors by Muriel Spark | A book involving an old wooden ship: H.M.S. Surprise by Patrick O’Brian | A book on Vulture’s Best Books of 2023 list: The Wager by David Grann |
| A book by a woman of the South Asian diaspora | A book by an author with three or fewer published books: Tracers in the Dark by Andy Greenberg | A play by someone other than Shakespeare: Persians by Aeschylus | Read one of a friend’s favorite books from childhood | A book with a body of water on the cover: Right Ho, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse |
| A history of something: Magus by Anthony Grafton | A book set in a place you want to travel to: Revenge of the Scapegoat by Caren Beilin | A book with a title that is a complete sentence: Cotton Comes to Harlem by Chester Himes | A book with an elderly main character: The Trees by Percival Everett | A book translated from Spanish (or in Spanish): The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño |