Adult Winter Reading Bingo runs from January 1 to February 29. You can download your card here.
Not sure what to read? Try these librarian recommended titles. Additional categories for each book have been noted where applicable:
From the 300s in the Dewey Decimal System
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
Radium Girls by Kate Moore (also Prize Winner)
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman
I’ll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara
Dreamland by Sam Quinones
Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe
Ghettoside by Jill Leovy
Freakonomics by Steven Levitt
Author from a Different Continent
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez (also Prize Winner)
Kintu by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi (also Prize Winner)
The Husband’s Secret by Liane Moriarity
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse (also Translated from Another Language)
Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin (also Translated from Another Language)
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami (also Translated from Another Language)
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe (also YA Novel)
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon (also Translated from Another Language)
Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings by Jorge Luis Borges (also Translated from Another Language)
The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa (also Translated from Another Language)
Chasing the King of Hearts by Hanna Krall (also Prize Winner and Translated from Another Language)
Golden Secrets of Lettering by Martina Flor (also Teaches You a New Skill and Translated from Another Language)
In Other Words by Jhumpa Lahiri (also Translated from Another Language)
Astonishments: Selected poems of Anna Kamienska by Anna Kamienska (also Poetry and Translated from Another Language)
The Electric State by Simon Stålenhag (also Graphic Novel and Translated from Another Language)
The Winter Quarters by Anna Veriani (also Author’s Debut, Seasonal or Holiday Theme, and LGBTQ Author)
Author’s Debut
There There by Tommy Orange
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
Burial Rites by Hannah Kent
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
Infidel by Pornsak Pichetshote, et al. (also Graphic Novel)
The Winter Quarters by Anna Veriani (also Seasonal or Holiday Theme, Author from a Different Continent, and LGBTQ Author)
Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (PEN/Jean Stein Book Award) (also Local Author, Collection of Short Stories, Author’s Debut, Prize Winner, and Genre You Don’t Usually Read)
Local Author
Gringos and Other Stories by Michael Rumaker (also Short Story Collection and LGBTQ Author)
Ask Again,Yes by Mary Beth Keane
Bibsy by Brenda Ross
Instructions for a Funeral by David Means
Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (also Collection of Short Stories, Author’s Debut, Prize Winner, and Genre You Don’t Usually Read)
About Current Affairs
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson (also From the 300s in the Dewey Decimal System)
Dopesick: dealers, doctors, and the drug company that addicted America by Beth Macy (also From the 300s in the Dewey Decimal System)
The Devil’s Highway: a true story by Luis Alberto Urrea (also From the 300s in the Dewey Decimal System)
Prize Winner
Beloved by Toni Morrison (Pulitzer Winner and more)
An American Marriage by Tayari Jones (NAACP Image Award Winner)
American Pastoral by Philip Roth (Pulitzer Prize)
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders (Man Booker Prize)–also a debut novel
Chasing the King of Hearts by Hanna Krall (2018 PEN Translation Prize winner) (also Author from a Diff. Continent and Translated from Another Language))
Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (PEN/Jean Stein Book Award) (also Local Author, Collection of Short Stories, Author’s Debut, and Genre You Don’t Usually Read)
Collection of Short Stories
Florida by Lauren Groff
This is How You Lose Her by Junot Díaz
How the Dukes Stole Christmas by Tessa Dare, Sarah MacLean, Sophie Jordan, and Joanna Shupe (also Seasonal or Holiday Theme)
Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (PEN/Jean Stein Book Award) (also Local Author, Author’s Debut, Prize Winner, and Genre You Don’t Usually Read)
Teaches You a New Skill
Every Body Yoga by Jessamyn Stanley
Woodworking 101 for Women by Marilyn MacEwen 684.0808 Mac
Cook Like a Pro by Ina Garten 641.5 Garte
Pilates Bible by Lynne Robinson Exp 613.7192 Rob
You Can Knit That by Amy Herzog 746.432 Herz
Golden Secrets of Lettering by Martina Flor 745.6 Flor (also Author from a Diff. Continent and Translated from Another Language)
Seasonal or Holiday Theme
Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding
Christmas Revelation by Anne Perry
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
The Trouble with Christmas by Amy Andrews
The Winter Quarters by Anna Veriani (also Author’s Debut, Author from a Different Continent, and LGBTQ Author)
How the Dukes Stole Christmas by Tessa Dare, Sarah MacLean, Sophie Jordan, and Joanna Shupe (also Collection of Short Stories)
Young Adult Novel
Dante and Aristotle Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz (also LGBTQ Author and Prize Winner)
Genre You Don’t Usually Read
Dark Matter by Blake Crouch (SF)
Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie (SF) (also Prize Winner)
Wanderers by Chuck Wendig (SF)
Doomsday Book by Connie Willis (SF)
Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (PEN/Jean Stein Book Award) (also Local Author, Collection of Short Stories, Author’s Debut, and Prize Winner) (SF/F)
The Bride Test by Helen Hoang (Romance)
Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff (Horror)
The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss (Fantasy)
Translated from Another Language
The Vegetarian by Han Kang (also Prize Winner and Author from a Different Continent)
Beartown by Frederik Backman (also Author from a Different Continent)
The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu (also Prize Winner and Author from a Different Continent)
Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse (also Author from a Different Continent)
Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin (also Author from a Different Continent)
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami (also Author from a Different Continent)
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon (also Author from a Different Continent)
Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings by Jorge Luis Borges (also Author from a Different Continent)
Chasing the King of Hearts by Hanna Krall (also Author from a Different Continent and Prize Winner)
Golden Secrets of Lettering by Martina Flor (also Teaches You a New Skill and Author from a Different Continent)
The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa (also Author from a Different Continent)
In Other Words by Jhumpa Lahiri (also Author from a Different Continent)
Astonishments: Selected poems of Anna Kamienska by Anna Kamienska (also Author from a Diff. Continent and Poetry)
The Electric State by Simon Stålenhag (also Author from a Diff. Continent and Graphic Novel)
Graphic Novel
March (trilogy) by John Lewis
Nimona by Noelle Stevenson (also Young Adult)
The Electric State by Simon Stålenhag (also Author from a Diff. Continent and Translated from Another Language)
Abbott by Saladin Ahmed, et al.
Infidel by Pornsak Pichetshote, et al. (also Author’s Debut)
Poetry
Crush by Richard Siken (also LGBTQ Author)
Astonishments: Selected poems of Anna Kamienska by Anna Kamienska (also Author from a Diff. Continent and Translated from Another Language)
LGBTQ Author
Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay
Fun Home by Alison Bechdel (also Graphic Novel and Prize Winner)
Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta
Fire & Ice by Rachel Spangler
Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
The Lady’s Guide to Celestial Mechanics by Olivia Waite
The Winter Quarters by Anna Veriani (also Author’s Debut, Author from a Different Continent, and Seasonal or Holiday Theme)