| A book that goes back and forth between time periods: yours for the taking by gabrielle korn | A book with a talking animal: organ meats by k-ming chang | A Lambda Literary Award winner: misssettl by kamden ishmael hilliard | The first book in a series with at least 3 books: king of battle and blood by scarlett st clair | 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): meeting in positano by goliarda sapienza | A book of poetry published in the year 2000 or later: black movie by danez smith | A book set in a country house: bluebeard's castle by anna biller | A book by an author you love but who you haven’t read in over five years : impossible people by julia wertz | 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: girlfriend on mars by deborah willis | A book recommended to you by someone at least ten years older or ten years younger than you | Any book! (Free space): boy parts by eliza clark | A book involving an old wooden ship: endurance: shackleton's incredible voyage by alfred lansing | A book on Vulture’s Best Books of 2023 list: i am homeless if this is not my home by lorrie moore |
| A book by a woman of the South Asian diaspora: roman stories by jhumpa lahiri | A book by an author with three or fewer published books: land of milk and honey by c pam zhang | A play by someone other than Shakespeare: mr. burns, a post-electric play by anne washburn | Read one of a friend’s favorite books from childhood | A book with a body of water on the cover: the fury by alex michealides |
| A history of something: the hundred years' war on palestine: a history of settler colonialism and resistance, 1917–2017 by rashid khalidi | A book set in a place you want to travel to: mexico city blues by jack kerouac | A book with a title that is a complete sentence: I fear my pain interests you by stephanie lacava | A book with an elderly main character: the vulnerables by sigrid nunez | A book translated from Spanish (or in Spanish): you dreamed of empires by álvaro enrigue |