categories
Categories that might appear as the squares on a bingo card:
- That you want to read because of the cover.
- That you want to read in spite of the cover.
- Sub-title on the cover.
- Bird or animal on the cover.
- Person on the cover.
- Blurbed by someone you admire.
- Number in the title.
- One-word title.
- Month or day of the week in the title.
- Title that’s a character’s name.
- Written in the first person.
- Written in the second person.
- Epistolary.
- With an unreliable narrator.
- Told from more than two different points of view.
- Story within a story.
- About a person with a disability.
- Protagonist with a different gender/sexual orientation from your own.
- Protagonist with a different ethnicity from your own.
- Non-human protagonist.
- Set in a different season.
- Set in more than one time period.
- Set in a place you’d like to vacation.
- Set in a place you’d like to know more about.
- Set in the state where you live.
- Set in a country you’ve never visited.
- Non-fiction.
- Non-fiction about science.
- Retelling.
- Alternate history.
- Historical fiction.
- Speculative fiction.
- Set in a different country.
- Magical realism.
- Fantasy.
- Mystery.
- Romance.
- Thriller.
- About travel.
- About politics.
- About religion.
- About nature.
- About a homecoming.
- About art/artist(s).
- About food.
- With recipes, patterns or puzzles.
- More than 500 pages.
- Part of a series.
- Translation.
- Best-seller.
- Classic.
- Classic you “should’ve read”.
- Memoir or autobiography.
- Memoir or autobiography of a US political figure.
- Biography.
- Biography of a royal.
- Biography of a US political figure.
- Collection of essays.
- Collection of poetry.
- Originally published in the 19th century.
- Originally published in the 20th century.
- Originally published in the 21st century.
- Originally published this year.
- Originally published posthumously.
- Originally published within five years of the year you were born.
- Debut.
- Prize winner.
- Prize-winning author (but not a prize-winner).
- Prize runner-up (e.g. short or long list, finalist).
- Banned in the U.S.
- Banned in a country outside the U.S.
- Wanted to read for more than a year.
- Made into a movie.
- Made into a TV series.
- Seen on Gilmore Girls.
- Re-read.
- Outside your comfort zone.
- That you think will make you a better person.
- An author from the state where you live.
- An author from a country you’ve never visited.
- An author of color.
- An author who died last year.
- An author with a disability.
- With more than one author listed on the cover.
- Written under a pseudonym.
- Backlist from an author you read for another square.
- Backlist from an author on your current year favorites list.
- Latest book by an author you love.
- Borrowed.
- Already own.
- Audiobook narrated by the author.
- Audiobook with one narrator.
- Audiobook with multiple narrators.
- Recommended by a family member.
- Recommended by a friend.
- Recommended on a podcast.
- Recommended in Modern Mrs. Darcy’s Summer Reading Guide (any year).
updated May 19, 2019