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Adult Book Bingo

Join us for the 2023 Adult Reading Challenge:  Book Bingo

Here’s how it works: 

  1. From now until September 1, 2023, read books in as many of the categories listed below as you’d like. 
  2. Click on the genre title for reading recommendations.
  3. Download a Bingo card and keep track of your reading by writing the title and author in the matching square.
  4. Complete as many horizontal, vertical or diagonal lines as you can! Turn your completed card in at 21 Main Street.  Each completed line enters your name into a raffle to win a $25, $50, or $75 Cape Ann Gift Certificate.
  5. Book titles may be used only once per card and only one entry per person, 18 and older.

Historical Fiction


Gloucester Reads Title


True Crime


Mystery


Fantasy

A Book of Poetry

One Book in a Series


An Author That's New to You


A Book Published in the 2020s

Set South of the Equator


Biography or Memoir


Book in a Genre You Don't Usually Read

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Categories

Need some inspiration for getting started? Check out the book bingo categories below. If you find a book you’d like to read, click on the cover to place a hold and pick it up at the library.

 

Historical Fiction

The Marriage of Opposites : A Novel by Hoffman, Alice
The Lake House : A Novel by Morton, Kate
Hamnet : A Novel of the Plague by O'Farrell, Maggie
Snow : A Novel by Banville, John
The Tuscan Child by Bowen, Rhys
The Night Travelers : A Novel by Correa, Armando Lucas
The Chelsea Girls : A Novel by Davis, Fiona
Haven : A Novel by Donoghue, Emma
Booth : A Novel by Fowler, Karen Joy
Queen Bee : A Novel by Frank, Dorothea Benton
Circling the Sun : A Novel by McLain, Paula
Homecoming : A Novel by Morton, Kate
The Sympathizer : [a Novel] by Nguyen, VIet Thanh
The Marriage Portrait : A Novel by O'Farrell, Maggie
Inland : A Novel by Obreht, Téa
The Eagle's Claw : A Novel of the Battle of Midway by Shaara, Jeff
The Good Left Undone : A Novel by Trigiani, Adriana
All the Ways We Said Goodbye : A Novel of the Ritz Paris by Williams, Beatriz
To Die But Once : A Maisie Dobbs Novel by Winspear, Jacqueline
Black Cloud Rising : A Novel by Wright Faladé, David
A Rising Man by Mukherjee, Abir
The Summer Wives by Williams, Beatriz

 

True Crime

Justice : Crimes, Trials, and Punishments by Dunne, Dominick
I'll Be Gone In the Dark : One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by McNamara, Michelle
Columbine by Cullen, David
Bad Blood : Secrets and Lies In A Silicon Valley Startup by Carreyrou, John
The Blood of Emmett Till by Tyson, Timothy B
Scoundrel : How A Convicted Murderer Persuaded the Women Who Loved Him, the Conservative Establishment, and the Courts to Set Him Free by Weinman, Sarah
Empire of Pain : the Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Keefe, Patrick Radden
Killers of the Flower Moon : the Osage Murders and the Birth of the Fbi by Grann, David
Furious Hours : Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee by Cep, Casey N

 

Mystery

Robert B. Parker's Bye Bye Baby by Atkins, Ace
Wined and Died In New Orleans by Byron, Ellen
Find Me : A Novel by Burke, Alafair
A Relative Murder by Deveraux, Jude
Triple Chocolate Cheesecake Murder by Fluke, Joanne
Listen to Me : A Novel by Gerritsen, Tess
Bleeding Heart Yard by Griffiths, Elly
The Twist of A Knife : A Novel by Horowitz, Anthony
The Family Remains : A Novel by Jewell, Lisa
Metropolis : A Bernie Gunther Novel by Kerr, Philip
The Man With the Silver Saab by McCall Smith, Alexander
Hidden by Michaels, Fern
Murder At An Irish Bakery by O'Connor, Carlene
Lost by Patterson, James
Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone by Stevenson, Benjamin
Broken : Six Short Novels by Winslow, Don
Class Act by Woods, Stuart

 

Fantasy

A Dance With Dragons by Martin, George R. R
Spinning Silver by Novik, Naomi
The Goblin Emperor by Addison, Katherine
The City of Brass by Chakraborty, S. A
The Ocean At the End of the Lane by Gaiman, Neil
The Grace of Kings by Liu, Ken
A Court of Thorns and Roses by Maas, Sarah J
Circe : A Novel by Miller, Madeline
Black Leopard, Red Wolf by James, Marlon

 

Books of Poetry

Leaves of Grass by Whitman, Walt
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson by Dickinson, Emily
Everyday Mojo Songs of Earth : New and Selected Poems, 2001-2021 by Komunyakaa, Yusef
A Thousand Mornings by Oliver, Mary
Devotions : the Selected Poems of Mary Oliver by Oliver, Mary
I'll Fly Away: Poems by Francisco, Rudy
The Sun and Her Flowers by Kaur, Rupi
I Had A Brother Once : A Poem, A Memoir by Mansbach, Adam
Welcome to Sonnetville, New Jersey : Poems by Teicher, Craig Morgan
100 Poems to Break Your Heart by Hirsch, Edward
Playlist for the Apocalypse : Poems by Dove, Rita
American Melancholy : Poems by Oates, Joyce Carol
Dog Songs : Thirty-Five Dog Songs and One Essay by Oliver, Mary
Pilgrim Bell : Poems by Akbar, Kaveh
What Kind of Woman : Poems by Baer, Kate
Such Color : New and Selected Poems by Smith, Tracy K
Wade In the Water : Poems by Smith, Tracy K

 

One Book in a Series

The Thursday Murder Club by Osman, Richard
Still Life by Penny, Louise
A Court of Thorns and Roses by Maas, Sarah J
The Final Empire : Mistborn Series, Book 1 by Sanderson, Brandon

 

Set South of the Equator

Half of A Yellow Sun by Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi
A Long Petal of the Sea : A Novel by Allende, Isabel
The Memory of Love by Forna, Aminatta
Purple Hibiscus by Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi
VIoleta : A Novel by Allende, Isabel
Horse by Brooks, Geraldine
Love In the Time of Cholera by García Márquez, Gabriel
The Thing Around Your Neck by Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi

 

Biography or Memoir

Negroland : A Memoir by Jefferson, Margo
H Is for Hawk by Macdonald, Helen
Just Kids by Smith, Patti
Bossypants by Fey, Tina
Barbarian Days : A Surfing Life by Finnegan, William
Let's Take the Long Way Home : A Memoir of Friendship by Caldwell, Gail
The First Tycoon : the Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt by Stiles, T. J
Men We Reaped : A Memoir by Ward, Jesmyn
All That She Carried : the Journey of Ashley's Sack, A Black Family Keepsake by Miles, Tiya
The Yellow House by Broom, Sarah M
Ted Kennedy : A Life by Farrell, John A
The Dead Are Arising : the Life of Malcolm X by Payne, Les

 

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