A note on this blog's organization

Since I first started this blog, I've read well over 600 books. I decided to organize them by sections, so to navigate to specific blog entries, review the sections below. To look for a specific book, try typing the book title or author's name in the search bar at the top left of this blog.

Book Bingo #2 - 2019

Book Bingo #2 - 2019 - My own creation (31 books in total, 12 overlaps with '101 and Beyond' - overlaps indicated with an asterisk)

I don't have exact dates for this one, but it definitely overlaps with some books I blogged on in 2019, so I'm putting it in that general range. I had gotten excited about the concept of book bingos and made my own board for the first time. As you can see, even on a board of my own creation I was tempted to add write-ins. ;) Again, I'll list them left to right, top to bottom below, in case you can't read my chicken scratch.



Category: By a local author
    • A coming-of- age crime caper that explores the timeless and ever-confusing realities of male adolescence. Jason Rekulak’s hilarious debut novel offers a nostalgic celebration of old-school computer programming, 1980s pop culture, and the last great days of life before the internet.
Category: By a woman
    • This is the story of Rahel and Estha, twins growing up among the banana vats and peppercorns of their blind grandmother’s factory, and amid scenes of political turbulence in Kerala. Armed only with the innocence of youth, they fashion a childhood in the shade of the wreck that is their family: their lonely, lovely mother, their beloved Uncle Chacko (pickle baron, radical Marxist, bottom-pincher) and their sworn enemy, Baby Kochamma (ex-nun, incumbent grand-aunt).Arundhati Roy’s Booker Prize-winning novel was the literary sensation of the 1990s: a story anchored to anguish but fuelled by wit and magic. [Click here to see my blog on this book.]
Category: Chose a book by its cover

Category: By an Indigenous author

Category: Book by a Latinx (I now know the term Latine) author

Category: Poetry
  • Nature Poem - Tommy Pico

Category: Banned book
  • Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe*

Category: Adapted into a movie
  • Doctor Zhivago - Boris Pasternak*

Category: Book you've been meaning to read
  • So You Want to Talk About Race - Ijeoma Oluo

Category: By a woman of color
  • The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison*

Category: Set in another country
  • Ivanhoe - Sir Walter Scott*

Category: Memoir
  • Hunger - Roxane Gay

Category: Gothic novel
  • The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson*

Category: Coming of age novel
  • A Separate Peace - John Knowles*

Category: Author's first published book
  • Edinburgh - Alexander Chee

Category: Autobiography
  • I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou*

Category: Response to another book
  • Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys*

Category: Based on true events
  • In Cold Blood - Truman Capote*

Category: Short story collection
  • Everyday People: The Color of Life - Edited by Jennifer Baker

Category: Read in one day
  • We Have Always Lived in the Castle - Shirley Jackson

Category: By a queer author
  • Inside/Out - Joseph Osmundson

Category: Translated from another language
  • The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami*

Category: By a trans author
  • If I Was Your Girl - Meredith Russo

Category: Science fiction
  • The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K. LeGuin*

Category: Published in the year you were born
  • An Artist of the Floating World - Kazuo Ishiguro
Write-Ins
  • The Idiot - Elif Batuman
  • A Study in Charlotte - Brittany Cavallaro
  • The Moon and Sixpence - W. Somerset Maugham
  • No One is Coming to Save Us - Stephanie Powell Watts
  • Love, Hate, & Other Filters - Samira Ahmed
  • Mrs. McGinty's Dead - Agatha Christie

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