| Part of a series | Has been on your TBR for longer than two years | Recommended in a BOTNS episode | Young Adult novel | With a number in the title |
| Longer than 500 pages | Published before 1970 | With a child on the cover | Fantasy | Nonfiction |
| By a small press | 10 short stories | BOTNS BOOK BINGO (free square) | By an author of a different culture | Six words or more in the title |
| A classic that you should have read in school | That you started but never finished | Found in a used bookstore | With only words on the cover | That you saw someone else reading |
| Reread something | Recommended by a librarian or bookseller | An audiobook | Translation | With a one-word title |
| With an animal on the cover | By an author who shares your first name | Found in a used bookstore | Published in 2015 | Translation |
| Longer than 500 pages | A classic that you should have read in school | 10 short stories | Thriller/Suspense | That you think you will dislike |
| Middle-grade book (ages 8-12) | Recommended by a librarian or bookseller | BOTNS BOOK BINGO (free square) | With a number in the title | Borrowed from the library |
| That “ever | That you saw someone else reading | With a child on the cover | A novella | Published before 1970 |
| That you chose because of the cover | With a one-word title | With only words on the cover | Poetry collection | Set in the place where you live |