| Audiobook with multiple narrators | Blurbed by someone you admire | Recommended by a friend | An author from the state where you live | Written in the second person |
| Originally published this year | Person on the cover | Audiobook with one narrator | With an unreliable narrator | Told from more than two different points of view |
| About politics | Set in a different season | ANY BOOK (free square) | Non-fiction | An author from a country you've never visited |
| Speculative fiction | About nature | Re-read | About religion | Prize winner |
| Non-human protagonist | Memoir or autobiography of a US political figure | About food | Backlist from an author you read for another square | Thriller |
| Memoir or autobiography | Part of a series | Classic you "should've read" | About travel | Set in a country you've never visited |
| Originally published within five years of the year you were born | Audiobook with one narrator | Originally published in the 19th century | Banned in the US | Set in a different country |
| An author who died last year | Banned in a country outside the US | ANY BOOK (free square) | Translation | Number in the title |
| Made into a TV series | Prize-winning author (but not a prize-winner) | Backlist from an author you read for another square | More than 500 pages | That you think will make you a better person |
| Seen on Gilmore Girls | Bird or animal on the cover | Outside your comfort zone | Thriller | Recommended on a podcast |