Book Bingo 2023

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Nicked from kingstoken

I have a blackout — I filled all categories on the card except for one (book from my birth year). OK, you could side-eye my choice of book for the craft/hobby/cookbook category, but Moby Dick does have recipes and how-to’s in it.

Of the substitute categories, I filled all but one, Disabled Author — and I’m pretty sure I covered that category but I didn’t research which authors I read are/were disabled.



Crime or Mystery - Catherine Aird, His Burial Too, Slight Mourning, Parting Breath
Banned book - Huxley, Brave New World
Book made into a film or tv series - Graham, The Killings at Badger’s Drift (the book series was the inspiration for the Midsomer Murders TV series)
Historical (fiction or non-fiction) - Renault, Persian Boy
Number in title - Bogira, Courtroom 302
Female author - Hunter, True Dead
Book from your TBR - Christie, Sleeping Murder (I don’t really have a TBR, but my intention is to get through all the Poirots and Marples, and I finished the Marples this year (*sob*)
Three word title - Carter, Coq au Vin
Craft, Hobby or Cookbook - Melville, Moby Dick
Written by an author from your state or country - Chandler, The Little Sister
Person's name in title - Finlay, Arrowood
Book with a woman protagonist - Andrews, Sweep of the Heart
FREE SPACE - Gornichec, The Witch’s Heart
Animal on the cover - Ackerman, The Bird Way
Sci-fi or Fantasy - Charles, Jackdaw
Author you've never read before - Chomsky, Understanding Power
LGBTQ+ - Sim, Timekeeper
More than 300 pages - Halliday, Otherlands
Disability or Mental health - Thomson, Unthinkable
Recommended -

• Ackerman, The Bird Way
• Allitt, Victorian Britain
• Bogira, Courtroom 302
• Carter, The Strangler Vine; The Infidel Strain; The Devil’s Feast (Avery & Blake #1–3)
• Chomsky, Understanding Power
• Christie, Sleeping Murder
• Delaney, Nova
• Goodman, How to Behave Badly in Elizabethan England
• Gornichec, The Witch’s Heart
• Graham, The Killings at Badger’s Drift
• Harris, The Serpent in Heaven; All the Dead Shall Weep
• Hunter, True Dead
• Hunter, Final Heir
• Losos, The Cat’s Meow
• McKinley, Deerskin
• Melville, Moby Dick
• Michel, The Body Scout
• Mystal, Allow Me to Retort
• Novik, Spinning Silver
• Quammen, Spillover
• Wodehouse, Something Fresh
• Yong, An Immense World

Romance plot or sub-plot - Novik, Spinning Silver
Action or Thriller - Harkaway, Titanium Noir
Read a book from the year you were born Colour in the Title - Pullman, The Amber Spyglass
e-book or Audiobook - all of them (Harris, All the Dead Shall Weep)
Mythology - Crawford, Norse Mythology

You are allowed two substitutions and two wild cards.

Substitution list:
*Title begins with first letter of your name - Carter, The Strangler Vine
*Humour - Wodehouse, Something Fresh
*Under 100 page book - Scalzi, Travel by Bullet
*Dystopian - Michel, The Body Scout
*Horror/Paranormal - Hunter, True Dead
*Book mentioned in another book - Christie, The ABC Murders
*Diverse reads - Carter, Coq au Vin
*One word title - Delaney, Nova
*Movie/TV Tie-in - Green, Half Bad
*Award Winning/Bestseller - McTiernan, The Ruin
*Disabled Author
*Graphic novel/Comic - The Sandman: Preludes & Nocturnes
*POC Author - Mystal, Allow Me to Retort
*Seasonal Read (spring/summer/autumn/winter) - Novik, Spinning Silver
*Non-western Setting - Carter, The Strangler Vine
*Translated Book - Charles, Jackdaw
*Set in your state/country - Perry, The Butcher’s Boy
*Title is at Least Five Words Long - Goodman, How to Behave Badly in Elizabethan England
*Fairy Tale or Fairy Tale Retelling - McKinley, Deerskin
*YA/Childern's - Pullman, The Golden Compass