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Bingo Reading Challenge

2021
2024

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Bingo Reading Challenge 2021

Welcome to the 2021 BINGO Reading Challenge, a fun way to read around the block and broaden your bookish horizons. This is a year-long challenge that can be played in a variety of ways.

Regular: say BINGO! You’ve read books that fit in the 5 categories presented on the bingo card in a vertical, horizontal, or diagonal line.
Blackout: BIGNO! Italian Bingo, you’ve read all the categories of books on the card.
Mix it up: BONIG! Use the card as a way to inspire your reading life. Cross out as many categories of books that you’ve read which interest you.

Here is the interactive Bingo card, where you can actually cross out the books when you’ve read them. Keep in mind each time you click the link a new card is generated. So please take a screenshot of yours and paste into your post.

Here is the list of the categories:

1. Set in a neighboring country
2. Re-read a favorite
3. Set in space
4. A book that your favorite fictional character would read
5. Title starts with J, K, Q, X or Z
6. Contains varying timelines
7. Published the decade you were born
8. Originally published in another language
9. Set in a city you’ve always wanted to visit
10. One-worded title
11. Poetry
12. Based on a true story
13. Listen to an audio book
14. Has been on a banned book list
15. A debut
16. Non-fiction
17. Made into a movie
18. Has a food item in title
19. Has a rural setting
20. Short story
21. Recommended by a friend
22. A non-human narrator
23. A genre you rarely read
24. A cover you like
25. An Award winner

Bingo Reading Challenge 2021
Duration: 1/1/21 -12/31/21
Level: BONIG (Mix it up ~ as many as you want)
BINGO: 3/5/21 (O1-O2-O3-O4-O5)
Progress: 15 of 15
Completed: 4/29/21



B1: Contains varying timelines
My Sister's Grave by Robert Dugoni (1/31/21)
B2: Published the decade you were born
B3: One-worded title
Unspeakable by Laura Griffin (1/3/21)
B4: Title starts with J, K, Q, X or Z
B5: Set in a neighboring country

I1: Has a food item in title
The Lemonade War by Jacqueline Davies (4/29/21)
I2: Set in space
I3: A non-human narrator
Moon Over Soho by Ben Aaronovitch (2/21/21) ~ sorcerer
I4: Has been on a banned book list
I5: A genre you rarely read
We Care For You by Paul Kitcatt (2/6/21) ~ speculative fiction, dystopia

N1: Made into a movie
N2: Non-fiction
N3: Set in a city you’ve always wanted to visit
N4: Based on a true story
N5: Originally published in another language
Beartown by Fredrik Backman (1/16/21)

G1: Poetry
G2: An Award winner
Vanish by Tess Gerritsen (2/26/21)
G3: Recommended by a friend
Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire (1/19/21)
G4: Short story
Memento by Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff (4/6/21)
G5: Listen to an audio book
29 Seconds by T.M. Logan (1/29/21)

O1: A debut
The Chalk Man by C.J. Tudor (1/27/21)
O2: A cover you like
by Gina LaManna (2/14/21)
O3: Re-read a favorite
Stealing Shadows by Kay Hooper (3/5/21)
O4: A book that your favorite fictional character would read
Love You More by Lisa Gardner (3/1/21) ~ Monk would enjoy
O5: Has a rural setting
Night Stalker by Shirlee McCoy (1/14/21)

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2024 Bingo Challenge
Goal: BINGO
Started: 1/1/24
# of Books: 8
Progress: 5 of 5
BINGO: 2/6/24

Bingo Card: https://mfbc.us/m/svefx6z

B1: Set in a city you want to visit
B2: More than 100 years old
B3: Translated from another language
B4: First in a series
B5: One-word title

I1: Number in the title
I2: From the year you were born
I3: Less than 100 pages
I4: Essay/ short-story collection
I5: Graphic novel

N1: Published this year
N2: Re-read
N3: Fantasy/ sci-fi
N4: Supposed to read for school but didn’t
N5: Source for film or TV show you liked

G1: Recom-mendation from a GR user
G2: Set in the future
❌ G3: Award winner - Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz (1/15/24)
❌ G4: Author’s first book - Fireflies in December by Jennifer Erin Valent (1/16/24)
❌ G5: On your TBR for at least 2 years - The Treatment by Suzanne Young (1/3/24) ~ added 4/26/16

❌ O1: Holiday story - Wildfire by Ilona Andrews (1/28/24) ~ set at Christmas time
❌ O2: From an author new to you - A Cold Day for Murder by Dana Stabenow (2/6/24)
❌ O3: More than 500 pages - Inheritance by Christopher Paolini (2/1/24) ~ 800 pages
❌ O4: Mystery/ thriller - Cold Hearted by Toni Anderson (1/2/24) ~ mystery & thriller
❌ O5: YA novel - Orphan of Destiny by Michael P. Spradlin (1/21/24)

Happy reading!






Thank you, Miriam, for this cool Bingo Book format.