Book Bingo 2021
Directed by Magdalen and Lisa.
A book a friend read in 2020 that they recommend | A book written in the first person: The White Album by Joan Didion | A book by an author with the same astrological sign as you: The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton | A book with a female protagonist: Middlemarch by George Eliot | Two books by the same author: Erasure and God’s Country by Percival Everett |
A mystery or detective novel: The Searcher by Tana French | A book by an author with the same initials as you | A book by an author you've never read before: Tyll by Daniel Kehlmann | A book you enjoyed in school | A play or anthology of plays: Romeo and Juliet by Billy Wagstaff |
A book published in the 1970s: The Dialectic of Sex by Shulamith Firestone | A book that takes place in the future: Neuromancer by William Gibson | Any book! (Free space): Telex from Cuba by Rachel Kushner | A book on Vulture’s Best Books of 2020 list: Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell | A book that's been adapted into a movie: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carré |
A book by a BIPOC author: Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley | A book with a number in the title: Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies by Reyner Banham | A book published posthumously | A fantasy novel with a setting not based on Europe | A book borrowed from the library: Dark Towers by David Enrich |
A book with a title that is five words or more: Your Duck is My Duck by Deborah Eisenberg | A romance novel: The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith | A non-fiction book about something you love: Lying for Money by Dan Davies | A short story collection: The Unrest-cure and Other Stories by Saki | A book by any Pushcart Prize winner over the past five years |