| Made into a movie | About religion | That you want to read because of the cover | Mystery | Passes the Bechtel-Wallace test |
| Set in a place you'd like to know more about | Originally published posthumously | Story within a story | Set in a different season | Set in a country you've never visited |
| Thriller | Outside your comfort zone | ANY BOOK (free square) | Speculative fiction | Translation |
| Best-seller | About a person with a disability | Non-fiction | About a homecoming | With an unreliable narrator |
| Collection of essays | Backlist from an author on your current year favorites list | With recipes, patterns or puzzles | Prize winner | With more than one author listed on the cover |
| More than 500 pages | Part of a series | Thriller | Month or day of the week in the title | Originally published in the 21st century |
| Originally published this year | Sub-title on the cover | Set in more than one time period | Audiobook narrated by the author | Written in the first person |
| One-word title | Backlist from an author on your current year favorites list | ANY BOOK (free square) | An author with a disability | Recommended by a friend |
| Banned in the US | Told from more than two different points of view | Collection of essays | About art/artist(s) | Wanted to read for more than a year |
| Already own | Originally published within five years of the year you were born | Recommended by another Book Bingo player | Outside your comfort zone | Epistolary |