Book Bingo 2026

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As usual I am joining in with kingstoken book bingo

Non-fiction -

Main character over the age of 30 -

Set in a country other than your own - The Misty Harbour (Georges Simenon)

Author's Debut/First book -

Graphic Novel or Comic -

 

Set at a school/university -

No sex/romance -

Historical (fiction or non-fiction) -

Author you've never read before -

ebook/audiobook -

 

Figures without facial features on the cover -

Crime/Mystery - Sky High (Michael Gilbert)

Free Space -

Short Story/Novella -

Book Older than you are - Payment Deferred (C S Forester) [published 1926]

 

Pet or animal companion -

Female author - Still waters (E C R Lorac)

Book made into a film or TV series -

From you TBR -

Humour -

 

A favourite author blurbed it - An Extremely Unlikely Death (Hannah Hendy) [blurbed by Ian Moore]

First person POV - The Ministry of Time (Kaliane Bradley)

Banned Book -

YA/Children's -

Job/Profession in the title - The Dancer at the Gai-Moulin (Georges Simenon)

Substitution list:

*Over 300 Pages

*Book in Series

*LGBTQ+

*Recommended

*POC Author

*Multiple POVs

*Classic/Retelling

*Sci-fi/Fantasy

*Free Space

*Anthology/Collection

*Biography/Memoir

*Friendship

*Name in the Title

*Movie/TV Tie-in

*With a Woman Protagonist

*From the Library

*Thriller/Suspense

*Set Somewhere You've Been

*Non-Human POV

*Fairy Tale or Fairy Tale Retelling

*Under 100 Pages

*Romance Plot or Sub-plot

*Translated

*With a Blue Cover

*Horror or Paranormal

*Colour in the Title

*Seasonal Read

*Number in title

*Three word title

*Craft, Hobby or Cookbook

*Written by an author from your state or country

*Animal on the cover

*Disability or Mental health

*Read a book from the year you were born

*Mythology

*Title begins with first letter of your name

*Dystopian

*Book mentioned in another book

*Diverse reads

*One word title

*Award Winning/Bestseller

*Disabled Author

*Non-western Setting

*Set in your state/country

*Title is at Least Five Words Long

*Indigenous author

*Has illustrations (but not a comic or graphic novel)

*Re-read