Book Bingo 2020
Directed by Magdalen and Lisa.
See also 2019.
A book with at least 400 pages: A Place of Greater Safety by Hilary Mantel | A book borrowed from someone: The Winged Histories by Sofia Samatar | A book with a one word title: Weather by Jenny Offill | A book that takes place where you live | A book written by a trans or gender non-conforming author |
A graphic novel | A book with a yellow spine: Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead by Sara Gran | A book or anthology of poetry: Hear Oars by Zachary Schomburg | A sequel or prequel to a book you’ve read: Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel | A book translated from another language: Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripedes, tr. Anne Carson |
A romance or young adult book: Little Women by Louisa May Alcott | A book that's been adapted into a film/TV show: Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie | Any book! (Free space): the Thirty Years War by C.V. Wedgwood | A book a friend wants you to read: Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones | A book published over 100 years ago: The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky, tr. Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky |
A book written in the first person: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald | Non-fiction: The Deadly Life of Logistics by Deborah Cowen | An author’s first book: Two Serious Ladies by Jane Bowles | A book you bought used for $3 or less | A book published this year: The Process Genre: Cinema and the Aesthetic of Labor by Salomé Aguilera Skvirsky |
A book written by a non-white woman: My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite | A book with titled chapters: The Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel | A book set in the future | A book whose main character is a person of color: Beloved by Toni Morrison | An essay collection |