| Nonfiction | Written for adult, but with illustrations | Set in Europe | By an author born the same year as you | Reread a favorite book. |
| That your parents didn't/wouldn't have let you read as a kid | Has water on the cover | With a happy ending | With a protagonist/narrator over the age of 50 | With a number in the title |
| Set before 1800 | Borrowed from a friend | BOTNS BOOK BINGO (free square) | By an author of a different culture | With a mythological creature on the cover |
| Travel writing | Western | An author’s debut | Reread something | A classic that you should have read in school |
| That you think you will dislike | An audiobook | A literary magazine or journal (of any genre) | About a subject that challenges you | An academic/campus novel |