When facing a new year filled with so many possibilities for resolutions, sometimes it’s hard to know where to start. Do you want to challenge yourself to read more in the coming year? What about to read more widely? And where’s the motivation to stay on track?
Bingo—that’s where! Welcome to Retreat’s Reading Bingo Challenge 2014. We’ve created a printable bingo card with 24 reading challenges! Join us and challenge yourself to read more, to read more widely and to have fun doing it all!
You can approach the Reading Bingo card however you like: beginners, start by getting one line; if you’re more advanced, try the whole outside box on the card; experts, fill in the whole card!
We would recommend using one book per space, but if you read a book over 500 pages written by someone under 30, who are we to stop you from cover two squares with one read?
This year, for a little extra challenge, we’ve also created the Reading Bingo Card: YA Edition! We’ve come up with 24 challenges related specifically to books geared to teens. But you don’t have to be a teenager to participate!
Books for Reading Bingo
- More than 500 Pages: Through a Glass Darkly--Karleen Koen
- Forgotten Classic: The Professor--Charlotte Bronte
- Became a Movie: The Hundred-Foot Journey--Richard C. Morais
- Published This Year: Lost Lake--Sarah Addison Allen
- Number in the Title: Takedown Twenty--Janet Evanovich
- Written By Someone Under 30: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter--Carson McCullers
- Non-Human Characters: Summer Kittens--Janice Bennett/Valerie King/Martha Kirkland
- Funny Book: Selfish and Perverse--Bob Smith
- Female Author: The Sugar Queen--Sarah Addison Allen
- Book With Mystery: Harlem Redux--Persia Walker
- One-Word Title: Vanished--Karen Robards
- Book of Short Stories: The Early Stories of Louisa May Alcott
- Free Square: Reconstructing Amelia--Kimberly McCreight
- Set on a Different Continent: Rosewater and Soda Bread--Marsha Mehran
- Book of Non-Fiction: Miracles and Grace in an Unlikely Place--Charisse Tyson
- 1st Book by Favorite Author: Mount Vernon Love Story--Mary Higgins Clark
- Book Heard about Online: Tangled--Emma Chase
- Best-Selling Book: Orange is the New Black--Piper Kerman
- Based on a True Story: Heaven is For Real--Todd Burpo
- Bottom of TBR PIle: And Then You Die--Iris Johansen
- Book Your Friend Loves: Gods in Alabama--Joshilyn Jackson
- Book That Scares You: Gone Girl--Gillian Flynn
- Book More Than 10 Years Old: First Snow on Fuji--Yasanuri Kawabata
- 2nd Book in a Series: The Hellion Bride--Catherine Coulter
- Blue Cover: Blueberry Muffin Murder--Joanne Fluke
Books for YA Bingo:
- Female Heroine: Divergent--Veronica Roth
- Set in a High School: Blue Bloods--Melissa de la Cruz
- Last Book in a Trilogy: Allegiant--Veronica Roth
- Book WIth a Color in the Title: Gathering Blue--Lois Lowry
- First Book in a Series: Cinder--Marissa Meyer
- Book Set in the Future: Insurgent--Veronica Roth
- Book With a Breakup: An Abundance of Katherines--John Green
- Book Without a Love Triangle: No Laughter Here--Rita Wiliams-Garcia
- Book That Became a Movie: The Perks of Being a Wallflower--Stephen Chbosky
- Book Set in Paris: Just One Day--Gayle Forman
- Book Set in the Past: Their Eyes Were Watching God-- Zora Neale Hurston
- Book With Magic: The Night Circus--Erin Morgenstern
- Free Square: Fallen--Lauren Kate
- Book Set in the Summer: A Summer to Die--Lois Lowry
- Book with a Dragon: Three Tales of My Father's Dragon--Ruth Stiles Gannett
- Book That Made You Cry: The Fault in Our Stars--John Green
- Graphic Novel: Fullmetal Alchemist (Vol 1-3)--Hiromu Arakawa
- Book Based on a Myth: Of Poseidon--Anna Banks
- A "Classic" YA Book: The Giver--Lois Lowry
- A Lion, a Witch, or a Wardrobe: Witch Season: Summer and Fall--Jeff Mariotte
- Book With an Incredible Fight Scene: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court--Mark Twain
- Book Heard About Online: Will Grayson, Will Grayson--John Green and David Levithan
- Book Set in Another World: A Wrinkle in Time--Madeleine L'Engle
- Book WIth an Epic Love Story: Awakened--P.C. Cast
- Book WIth Music: Number the Stars--Lois Lowry
Oooh these look like fun! I'm going to try to resist additional challenges since I'm already in 19, I believe -- you're weren't kidding when you said you joined a lot as well -- thanks for stopping by my blog the other day :)
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