It's that time of year again! We're bringing back the Adult Winter Reading Bingo Challenge for 2024 with new challenge categories and chances to win prizes. Stack up the books, grab a blanket and warm beverage, and get reading!
How to participate
Sign up online at Beanstack.com starting Sun, Dec 1. Then, play our digital bookish Bingo to earn drawing tickets that can be entered for chances to win gift cards! Log your reading online from Sun, Dec 1 through Sat, Feb 1 to earn tickets. Readers can earn up to seven raffle tickets: one for getting a Bingo, one for filling your card, and five bonus tickets for completing randomly selected reading challenges.
If you want a printable Bingo card, you can print one below - but note that drawing tickets can only be entered online.
Bingo challenges
Each Bingo space has a different topic to guide your reading - from books with blue covers to books made into movies, there are 25 different themes for you to choose from so you won't run out of options. (And yes, there's a Free Space!)
And as librarians, of course we have recommendations to get you started! Here are some suggestions for several of the categories we thought you might like:
- Books with animals on the cover
- Audiobooks or eBooks
- Authors with 20 books published
- Award-winning books
- BIPOC authors
- Blue covers
- Books made into movies or TV shows
- Books under 200 pages
- Books with pictures
- Graphic novels or manga
- Humor
- LGBTQ characters
- Library or bookstore settings
- Mysteries and thrillers
- Nonfiction
- Part of a series
- Published in 2024
- Books with winter or snow in the title
Happy reading!
