2026 Yearly Bingo
Active: January 1 - December 31, 2026
Last year we reimagined ITV reading challenges, and this year we are following suit! Formerly, bingos were a quarterly challenge.. but we’ve shifted to full board bingos spanning the entire calendar year.
Our yearly Bingo Board has 25 prompts designed to challenge your reading process in the best way possible! With one free space for any book of your choice OR this year's bonus prompt, the board offers a mix of categories that keep the spirit of our previous quarterly bingo reading challenges alive.
Grab your TBR and check off those prompts!
Each vertical row contains a different difficulty:
B ✩ Easy
I ✩✩ Medium
N ✩✩✩ Hard
G ✩✩✩✩ Diabolical
O ✩✩✩✩✩ Nearly Impossible
Links:
Instagram Announcement Post
StoryGraph Challenge
Full Challenge Prompt Details:
ROW 1:
✩ TBR Lingerer
✩✩ Cosmic Horror
✩✩✩ A Horror book published before 1960 -This includes titles published in 1959 and prior.
✩✩✩✩ A translated book from a country new to you - Can be any genre, but bonus points if it is horror.
✩✩✩✩✩ Reread Redemption - Reread a book you didn't love on the first reread, but may end up enjoying on the second time around.
ROW 2:
✩ A book in your favorite horror subgenre
✩✩ Translated short story collection
✩✩✩ A book with cursed object horror
✩✩✩✩ A horror book by an author you share the same first initial with
✩✩✩✩✩ The oldest book on your TBR - The oldest book you've physically owned or digitally owned. This is the oldest owned book, not the oldest pub date on your tbr.
ROW 3:
✩ A new to you author
✩✩ A religious horror book
✩✩✩ BONUS: Free space or any Stephen King published 2000 or later - Use this space as a free space OR read a book by Stephen King that was published in 2000 or newer.
✩✩✩✩ A nonfiction with darker themes
✩✩✩✩✩ A book set before the 1800s
ROW 4:
✩ A book written by a queer author
✩✩A cover with pink text
✩✩✩An indigenous horror book not written by SGJ - Read any horror title by an indigenous author that is not Stephen Graham Jones.
✩✩✩✩ A book published on or before 1926 - This book can be in any genre.
✩✩✩✩✩ A book over 750 pages
ROW 5:
✩ A book published from an indie press
✩✩ A book from a past bookclub author - Past Authors as of Jan 2026: Michael McDowell, Scott Thomas, T. Chris Martindale, Josh Malerman, Adam Nevill, Grady Hendrix, Monica Ojeda, Nat Cassidy, Richard Matheson, Chad Lutzke, Scott Smith, Tiffany D. Jackson, Johanna van Veen, Paul Tremblay, Sarah Pinsker, Robert McCammon, Yoko Ogawa, Brian McAuley, Arden Powell
✩✩✩ A book that won an award
✩✩✩✩ A mass market paperback with a rating lower than a 3.5 Stars - Use whichever review site you would like to verify that rating.
✩✩✩✩✩ A book no one you know has read - and cannot be a buddy read! - This is your solo mission. This will be a book that no one you know/are connected with on socials has read. This also cannot be a buddy read. At the end of the year we will have mega amounts of new recommendations!!
